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This beautifully illustrated volume looks at the spaces created by and for Jews in areas under the political or religious control of Muslims. Covering regions as diverse as Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, it asks how the architecture of synagogues responded to contextual issues and traditions.

The first book to offer a detailed exploration of the condition of public debate in Russia, this pioneering volume presents a truly interdisciplinary perspective on Russian language and society making it essential reading for advanced students and specialist.

Bridging a half-century of student protest from 1929 to 1983, this source reader contains more than sixty texts from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica, including editorials, speeches, manifestos, letters, and pamphlets.

Bridging a half-century of student protest from 1929 to 1983, this source reader contains more than sixty texts from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica, including editorials, speeches, manifestos, letters, and pamphlets.

'In 1960 Kirk Douglas' Spartacus was directed toward the liberal values of its middle class audience. The contributors to this volume ably show in their analyses how half a century later both producers and viewers of STARZ Spartacus have become significantly more disparate in their aspirations, whether political or sexual.' Arthur J. Pomeroy, Victoria University of Wellington Gladiator, rebel slave leader, revolutionary: the figure of Spartacus often serves as an icon of resistance against oppression in modern political movements, while his legend has inspired numerous receptions over the centuries in many different popular media. This new essay collection brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the four seasons of the acclaimed and highly successful premium cable television series STARZ Spartacus (2010-13), with contributions from experts in the fields of Classics, History, Gender, Film and Media Studies, and Classical Reception. STARZ Spartacus uncovers a fascinating range of topics and themes within the series such as slavery, society, politics, spectacle, material culture, sexuality, aesthetics and fan reception. As the first volume of essays published on the entirety of the STARZ Spartacus series, this book is a valuable resource for both students and scholars eager to confront a new Spartacus, as the hero of the slave revolt is recast for a twenty-first-century audience. Antony Augoustakis is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Monica S. Cyrino is Professor of Classics at the University of New Mexico. Cover image: Donald MacKenzie Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0784-7 Barcode

The essays in this collection examine Conrad's engagement with specific lexical sets and terminology - maritime language, the language of terror, and abstract language; issues of linguistic communication - speech, hearing, and writing; and his relationship to specific languages.

Reproduces the Cogito debate: the central articles written by Foucault and Derrida, and the correspondence between Jean-Marie Beyssade and Foucault. In the second part of the book, 10 essays by well-known contemporary continental philosophers address the intersections and divergences between Foucault and Derrida.

Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault are two of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Both share a similar motivation to challenge our fundamental structures of meaning. Between Foucault and Derrida explores the notorious Cogito debate, an argument between the two thinkers about the idea of madness in Descartes' Meditations.

Explores how knowledge of French helped shape Russian identities and their views on the Russian language. This explores the profound impact of the French language and culture on Russian high society and consciousness in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It contributes to knowledge of the development of national self consciousness in Russia.

This book addresses the idea that art and literature deal in the subject of everyday reality and discusses the subject of the familiar and the trivial in the work of canonical writers and artists.

This book offers an extensive investigation of the life and multi-faceted career of Florence Marryat (1837-1899) the much feted Victorian novelist, editor, actress and public orator.

This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry.

This collection of essays seeks to explore Agamben's work from philosophical and literary perspectives, thereby underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy.

Two of James Hogg's pastoral dramas with songs, presented here with full explanatory notes and glossary.

This book aims to challenge the current orthodoxy concerning how Deleuze's work is viewed, whilst also bringing illumination to bear on areas of his work that too often seem obscure, even impenetrable.

A contemporary and lively introduction to the study of popular culture through one central case study.

A comprehensive study of the media in Scotland.

An innovative insight to the everyday lives of Muslims in Britain, focusing on the intersection of race, place and identities. It gathers a range of reflections on how Muslims in Britain negotiate their everyday lives, manage experiences of racism and exclusion, and develop local networks and global connections.

A series of studies on small national (or sub-national) cinemas

The only available editions of these two works by Scott, presented with full explanatory notes and glossary.

This book provides a stimulating discussion of, and introduction to, just war theory.

This new edition prints together, for the first time, the surviving pre-1807 versions of poems included in The Mountain Bard, the full 1807 collection, and the complete 1821 version.

A wide-ranging introduction to film history, this anthology covers the history of film from 1895 to the present day.