Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from 'Don Quixote' to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Moder…
A critical exploration of one of the most exciting, original and influential figures to emerge in contemporary film, this book offers an in-depth discussion of Del Toro's output and investigates the key ideas, recurrent motifs and subtle links between his movies. In addition the…
This book offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations between literature and cinema. It does so by articulating an 'affective turn' for adaptation studies, a field whose traditional focus has been the critical castigation of film adaptations of canonical plays or nove…
How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercis…
by Hubble, Nick, McLeod, John, Tew, Philip
fromDecades series
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war to contemp…
by Tew, Philip, Horton, Emily, Wilson, Leigh
fromDecades series
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated…
Europe and the struggle for leadership' offers a comparative history of sharply contrasting national experiences in the aftermath of the Second World War. Perceived as a failing power, post-war France seized the initiative in European construction, gaining ascendancy in Western …
The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism. It was a decade in which the avan…
While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of pa…
Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, is a very major, poss…
Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman' begins with a comprehensive and original anthropological analysis of Vertov's film The Man With a Movie Camera. Tomas then explores the film's various aspects and contributions to media history and practice through detaile…
Nietzsche challenges the tenets of received political wisdom in a number of ways and his thinking contains resources for revitalising political thinking. This book offers fresh insights into Nietzsche's relevance for contemporary political thought in light of recent advances in …
Cyprus is better known as a site of conflict between Greek and Turkey, rather than for its film output. The authors seek to rectify this dearth of information by discussing the work of a new generation of filmmakers striving to engage with the island's traumatic legacies: anti-c…
This book is the first, and much-needed, introduction to contemporary political cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is the idea that we are all world citizens, and that we have moral duties towards others independently of their nationality. Over the last forty years this idea, whic…
by Zohar, Zvi
fromKogod library of Judaic studies
Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East' provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern tim…
This book provides an introduction to Irish history that blends a scholarly approach to the subject, based on recent research and current historiographical perspectives, with a clear and accessible writing style. All the major themes in Irish history are covered, from prehistori…
The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture, particularly through the media of fi lm and television, since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s. This collection argues that the serial killer performs a unique role, specif…
