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The first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies. The Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area.

Ethnosymbolism offers a distinct and innovative approach to the study of nations and nationalism. It focuses on the role of ethnic myths, historical memories, symbols and traditions in the creation and maintenance of the collective identity of modern nations.

Japanese Horror Cinema is a much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years and provides an insightful examination of the tradition's most significant trends and themes.

Deleuze and Music is the first volume to explore Deleuze's ideas from the perspective of music and sound.

An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent programmes and explores their influential position within the television industry.

Luce Irigaray presents international, intercultural, intergenerational dialogues around her work in this collection of essays on Irigaray's work by an intergenerational, international range of contributors. Each paper is followed by questions from Irigaray and then a response by the author of the paper.

This book introduces students to the complex and foreign world of Roman religion and to major trends in its study.

Introducing students to current controversies over the nature of the ancient economy, this volume brings together twelve influential studies by leading experts in the field.

This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French.

This is the fascinating social history of a remote chiefdom in Zimbabwe.

The book provides extensive and varied exemplars and guidance on writing workshops.

Lucas Siorvanes takes the reader through Proclus' metaphysics and theory of knowledge with original research examining all aspects of Proclus' work

This is a special issue of the journal Paragraph.

This is a special issue of the journal Paragraph.

This book explores the many ways in which a military Scottish identity was reinvented and forged overseas amongst Scotland's diaspora from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It provides case studies from North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

The first ever book-length attempt to strip away the myths and write the real history of Scotland's slavery past. Written to appeal to a wide audience, it contains many original, surprising and uncomfortable conclusions.

Shows how the 'world culture' presented to Soviet citizens, a component of an educated and cultured person's identity, was distorted and manipulated through censorship. This book views Soviet censorship through the lens of contemporary Western theories. It features detailed case studies drawn from two major journals, and more.

The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is the first piece of scholarship to assess the director's complete works. This collection's unique contribution is to show how Angelopoulos created singularly intricate forms whose aesthetic contours invite us to think critically about modern history.

This exciting new vision for legal theory combines analytical tools drawn from Latour's actor-network theory developed in Science in Action, Reassembling the Social and The Making of Law with the philosophical anthropology of the Moderns in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence to blaze a new trail in legal epistemology.

Empathy is a cognitive and affective structure of feeling, a bridge across interpersonal distance. Coined in 1909 to combine English 'sympathy' and German 'Einfuhlung,' 'empathy' is a specifically 20th-century concept of fellow feeling. This book shows how fin de siecle conceptions of empathy are woven into the fabric of literary modernism.

There has long been a view that the farming communities to be found in the Highlands prior to the Clearances were archaic forms. This study confronts this conflict over the question of continuity/discontinuity debate through an analysis of the cultural landscape.

After the referendum - what now? A Wealthier, Fairer Scotland looks at how devolved Scotland's powers could be used to make the country the best it can be: both economically successful and socially just for all citizens.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays asks how Scotland can create a brighter economic and social future, given the range of powers available, economic constraints, institutions and public support. Looking at economic policy, taxation and welfare, it realistically analyses the opportunities and constraints.

As the first comprehensive study of Daves's career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent, conventional and even naive studio man.

This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy develops different aspects of the interface between continental thinking and Shakespeare's plays.

The book provides a chronological account of Sicilian history, interwoven with a series of discussions of Sicilian identity: to show Sicily as a centre of affairs from the Iron Age to the Augustan Empire within the context of a fundamentally regional ancient world.

The cultural value of poetry is critically examined in this book, from anthologies and academia to film and the internet.

Drawing on theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Carl Schmitt, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio this collection makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society and culture.

Examines how contemporary Spanish cinema functions as a mode of mourning and witnessing the traumatic past.