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This special issue of Paragraph brings together new essays on the work of Jacques Ranciere by thinkers from a range of disciplines and critical perspectives.

This book brings together twenty-five papers by A. M. Snodgrass covering four decades of work on pre-Classical and Classical Greece.

This book presents both the first and fifth edition of the poem.

This is the first publication of Reliquiae Trotcosienses.

In this, the first Reader of Geoffrey Hartman's work, significant essays reflect his abiding interest in English and American poetry, focusing not only on Romanticism but also on the transition from early modern to modern and including reflections on the radical elements in artistic representation.

In this, the first Reader of Geoffrey Hartman's work, significant essays reflect his abiding interest in English and American poetry, focusing not only on Romanticism but also on the transition from early modern to modern and including reflections on the radical elements in artistic representation.

This volume presents global perspectives on Asian American literature by accomplished scholars from Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the US. It covers a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across a wide spectrum of ethnic groups.

This Reader collects together for the first time extracts of Virilio's work from the entire range of his career. Virilio has produced important 'theory at the speed of light' that can uncannily illuminate the impact of new information and communications technologies in a world which collapses time and distance as never before.

This Reader collects together for the first time extracts of Virilio's work from the entire range of his career. Virilio has produced important 'theory at the speed of light' that can uncannily illuminate the impact of new information and communications technologies in a world which collapses time and distance as never before.

This, the first reader of Miller's work in English, is an indispensable overview and introduction to one of the most original and challenging critical voices to have emerged since the inception of the teaching of English and American literature in universities in the English-speaking world

This Reader covers a wide area of political sociology and social and political theory, and offers a selection of extracts incorporating both primary and secondary readings.

An introduction to Islam, today the faith of more than a billion people, set in the context of world history and of religious studies.

This book considers themes such as race, class, gender, power, sexuality and authority and presents innovative and challenging analyses of texts from the post-war period. Key questions are raised about the significance of youth within American culture.

Discusses the origins of diverging views on the interpretation of kalala, drawing on early poetry, the works of lexicographers and grammarians, Hadith, Qur'anic commentary, and numerous works of jurisprudence.

Altrive Tales was carefully prepared by Hogg in 1832 as the opening volume in a planned twelve-volume collected prose fiction series, intended as the culmination of his career as a storyteller.

Valuable reading for anyone who wants to understand Islamic banking and its formal and informal societal and political relationships.

Valuable reading for anyone who wants to understand Islamic banking and its formal and informal societal and political relationships.

The history of the house of lords in the modern period (and earlier) has been neglected too long.

This volume follows the young Boswell in his eventful travels from the end of his legal studies in Holland until the time of his departure for Italy and Corsica.

Introduces students to key figures in critical theory, with individual chapters on: Lacan; Althusser; Barthes; Derrida; Levinas; Kristeva; Irigaray; Cixous; Foucault; Lyotard; Deleuze; Baudrillard; and Guattari; Bourdieu; Habermas; Jameson; and Said. It is the companion to "From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory".

P. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German and French scholarship on its origins, theory and practice.

The first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable volume.

This Reader provides substantial extracts from the core texts in the field of American social and political thought. The aim is to demonstrate the rich intellectual tradition of the United States and to facilitate a better understanding of American society and politics through the reproduction of key texts from a wide variety of thinkers.

An account of life in the Asante village of Ade beba in West Africa.

This Reader provides substantial extracts from the core texts in the field of American social and political thought. The aim is to demonstrate the rich intellectual tradition of the United States and to facilitate a better understanding of American society and politics through the reproduction of key texts from a wide variety of thinkers.

Exploring the institution of domestic service, this book discloses processes of postcolonial class formation both as exploitation and cultural elaboration. It also uncovers gender struggles amongst workers and those who employ them.

Based on the core components of Religious Studies and Theology degrees, it is designed to function as the main text for beginning students and for use throughout their studies.

Jeremy Tambling introduces the idea of 'the posthumous' as a means of thinking about our relationship to the past, to death and to history.

Based on the core components of Religious Studies and Theology degrees, it is designed to function as the main text for beginning students and for use throughout their studies.

This, the first book to deal solely with Virginia Woolf's non-fiction writing from a historical and theoretical perspective, covers comprehensively and in detail Woolf's essays and journalism including the juvenilia, reviews, critical essays, autobiographical writings, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas.