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Quentin Meillassoux - described as the fastest-rising French philosopher since Derrida - is one of the most exciting philosophers writing today. Suitable for philosophers just starting with Meillassoux, this dictionary defines all of the major terms of his work. It defines Meillassoux's 75 most important concepts and themes.

Fully cross-referenced A-Z entries define French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux's 75 most important concepts and the key figures who have influenced him.

Examines the functions of French in various spheres, domains and genres. This volume explores the 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.

Examines the ideas central to Muhammad Iqbal's thought and life: religion, science, and nationalism. This volume brings together a range of prominent voices within American and European Islamic studies to share the developments on Iqbal's thought. It shows connections between Iqbal and his European philosophers, including Bergson, and more.

Looks at the processes and realities of Muslim participation in local and national politics in a range of Eastern and Western European countries: voting patterns in local and national assemblies, membership of elected councils and national parliaments, and the tensions between ethnic, political and religious identities.

In this book leading cultural historians come together to examine how the daily activities of Scottish people reflected a constant re-construction of culture, religion, ideology and identity between 1900 and 2000.

Gender in Scottish History offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700, viewing some of the main themes with a gendered perspective.

This is a history of the trees, woodlands and forests of Scotland and of the people who used them.

Written by a group of international scholars, the essays in this collection investigate how Kant helps us think about issues related to the interplay among the state and global governance, peace and human rights enforcement, migrant crisis management, European federalisation, global educational reforms and a cosmopolitan culture.

Reading a century of American poetry through the prism of short form, this book analyses the centrality of an aesthetic of brevity to American modernist verse.

Provides a guide to directions in literary criticism. This book offer chapters that introduce the modes of 'hybrid' criticism which have emerged in the 21st century.

Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Ranciere and the recent Speculative Realism movement.

Addressing an under researched area of modernist studies, reconsidering modernist attitudes towards feeling in the light of the humanities' turn to affect, this book presents essays by international scholars exploring the relationships between modernism and affect. It offers multi and interdisciplinary approach to modernist studies.

Provides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuriesBringing together sixty-five newly commissioned original chapters by literary specialists and musicologists, this book presents the most recent interdisciplinary research into literature and music. In five parts, the chapters cover the Middle Ages to the present.The volume introduction and methodology chapters define key concepts for investigating the interdependence of these two art forms and a concluding chapter looks to the future of this interdisciplinary field. An editorial introduction to each historical part explains the main features of the relationships between literature and music in the period and outlines recent developments in scholarship. Contributions represent a multiplicity of approaches: theoretical, contextual and close reading. Case studies reach beyond literature and music to engage with related fields including philosophy, history of science, theatre, broadcast media and popular culture.This trailblazing companion charts and extends the work in this expanding interdisciplinary field and is an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media.Delia da Sousa Correa is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University.

This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field-the history of letters and letter writing-is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature.

This book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. The volume explores homoerotic narratives in the crusade films of the 1940s, the commodification of bodies in the late Franco period, and the so-called destape period that followed the abolition of censorship during the democratic transition.

This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting.

This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture - its repressed memories, its panics and anxieties, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. This collection offers discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, photography, and video games.

This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Offers an introductory essay drawing on important new developments in New Zealand literary criticism, advances in historiography of the period and legal history, notably Judith Binney's Te Urewera: Encircled Lands (2009), Richard Boast's Buying the Land, Selling the Land (2008) and the Waitangi Tribunal Reports.

Representations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to 20th-century literature and film.

The concept of the state plays a central role in international relations, particularly in realist and neo realist approaches. Yet, the meaning of the state is taken to be self evident by both its advocates and its critics. This volume counters this trend.

Presents a critical analysis of the films and career of George Cukor. This title covers his work in theatre and his early films as well as his later work and emphasis on Cukor and performance. It features essays by leading film scholars.

Explores the aesthetic dimensions of the Arab Spring and the worldwide protest movements that followed. This book also explores the central role the aesthetic played in energising the massive mobilisations of young people, the disaffected, the middle classes and the apolitical silent majority.

Explores the central role the aesthetic played in energising the massive mobilisations of young people, the disaffected, the middle classes and the apolitical silent majority in the North African and Middle Eastern uprisings with protest movements such as Occupy.

Debates on religion and politics have often focused on contrasts between Europe and other parts of the world, because modernity and secularism seem to go together in Europe. This volume discusses the growing Islamic presence in Europe - a reminder that religious pluralism still remains - and Christian-motivated extremism and religious nationalism.

Offers a comprehensive study of films made in and about one of the world's most breathtaking landscapes - the Arctic. This book addresses vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic presents the region as one of great and previously overlooked cinematic diversity.

Re-examines notions of East and West in contemporary European cinema. This book presents a comprehensive investigation of Central European cinema in the early 21st century.

Presents case studies focusing on major aspects of post 1990 documentary practices and styles. This title provides detailed insights into contemporary independent documentary makers and their varied works, practices and uses. It offers a variety of perspectives and interpretations of under studied subject matters.