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A vital reference for everyone interested in Islamic inscriptions on buildings, objects and works of art.

This alphabetic guide introduces terms used in the study of linguistic morphology, the study of the structure of words. The importance of morphology has been more clearly recognised in recent linguistic theory, and this glossary thus covers an area of growing interest.

This work centres on identity, questioning how the ancient Greeks saw themselves and others, and what this tells us about Greek mentality and culture. It first follows the journeying of Odysseus, considering the returning warrior's concerns of witness and memory.

Originally published in 1613, this is the earliest play to have been written in English by a woman.

Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume.

This is the first volume to offer a selection of texts from the field of deconstruction in all its radical diversity. It examines the fortunes of the term deconstruction, and the ideas associated with it, in the work of the leading commentators on Derrida's texts.

Focuses on Ranciere's central political idea that a democratic politics emerges from the presupposition of equality.

An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present.

American Exceptionalism provides an accessible yet comprehensive historical account of one of the most important concepts underlying modern theories of American cultural identity.

Now available in paperback, this collection provides a thorough assessment of W.G. Sebald's achievement through newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offering interdisciplinary perspectives on his work.

An introductory level textbook covering a wide range of feminist approaches to women and visual culture, and combining theory and practice.

Applying a broad range of theory to film, this work highlights and explains feminist issues, with analyses. It begins with a historical survey of contemporary feminist theory, visual aesthetics and film theory, with a particular focus on the work of Laura Mulvey, Annette Kuhn, E. Ann Kaplan and bell hooks. Other chapters examine the issues of reproduction, pornography and the gaze, autobiography and literary theory, postmodernism, black femini...

In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of 'Victoriana' from the 1970s to the present, a politics that emerges from the alternation between nostalgia and critique in fiction, film, biography and literary studies.

In Matters of the Mind, the distinguished philosopher William Lyons presents a popular and authoritative account of the dramatically different ways in which philosophers have thought about the mind over the last hundred years.

A richly illustrated catalogue documenting the emotionally rousing work Song of the Union by Emeka Ogboh, co-commissioned by Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival in 2021.

This book tells Edinburgh's modern story and unveils its power structure. It examines its politics, its political economy and the rise of its status as Festival city. The book explores arguments about what sort of city Edinburgh should be and what it should look like.

Presents an overview of recent archaeological discoveries made from Viking Age and Norse Scotland, showing how advances in scientific analysis have improved our understanding.

This volume, tenth in the Yale Boswell Editions Research Series of correspondence, collects the letters exchanged between James Boswell (1740 1795) and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (1739 1806), eminent banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's 'English Episcopal' community.

This book is a survey summarising the approaches taken to religion and magic by the principal scholars in the preceding and present centuries.