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The volume presents selections, nearly a quarter of the whole, from the influential 14th century Oxford exegete Robert Holcot's reading of minor prophets. It includes a commentary that attempts to naturalise Holcot's exegetical method. The volume includes a facing-page translation, numerous references to analogous discussions elsewhere in Holcot, and extensive indexes.

Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror aims to examine why we repeatedly return to certain popular horror films. Authors from a range of backgrounds invite readers to consider their own relationships between past horrors -- both on film and through trauma -- and present lives.

This critical study engages with the films of the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, from his first feature Pusher (1996) up to and including Copenhagen Cowboy (2023).The book focuses on Refn's treatment of genre, gender and glamour and rejects simplistic readings of his work as 'macho' or misogynistic arguing instead that his films provide complex and layered representations of masculinity.

This work attempts a re-reading of Peckinpah's films by applying recent scholarship on the Gothic to understand better one distinctive approach he used in his critique of American institutions. It extends beyond the Western (with which he is commonly identified) to focus on his other work, in the light of recent work on the Gothic.

This study of how early modern Spanish literature constitutes a cultural 'Golden Age' addresses the evolving uses of a literary canon that is now regarded as national cultural patrimony. It approaches these uses of the Spanish Golden Age as a diachronic problem whose analysis can address some of the most persistent questions in the field of Hispanism.

This translation of the sermons of the Patriarch Germanos II (1223-40) draws attention to an unfairly neglected source for a critical period when the survival of Byzantium was in the balance. They support the patriarch's enduring importance as an architect of the Byzantine recovery from the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204.

This book argues that one of the most striking aspects of Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction is his concern with literary apprenticeship. Engaging with a sub-set of his novels concerned with the composition of a narrative account, this book reads Robinson's fiction as addressing problems bound to narrative, examining its structures, limits, possibilities, and value.

This absorbing study chronicles the remarkable movement for domestic worker rights in Indonesia. Examining the contribution of workers, activists, unionists, journalists, and scholars from the 1980s to COVID-19. it offers an original perspective on the spatial politics and everyday experiences of cross-class feminist and transnational social movement organizing.

The first book on films that screen Parisiennes as city women, as urban residents, or as women fighting to find a place in the city. An exciting new perspective on Parisian women on screen, combining blockbusters movies, art-house films, and films directed by women. A unique focus on women as protagonists in the city of Paris through close film analyses. An innovative analysis combining gender, urban, and film studies, employing an intersectio...

This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of anti-colonial thought in its existential, Marxist, religious, and ethnophilosophical manifestations. Past Imperfect directly employs time - in its different guises (history/historiography, memory, temporality, and historicity) - as a tool to understand the decolonization of the humanities in Francophone Africa in the immediate post-WW2 era.

Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance confronts how Palestinians have recently felt obliged to re-think memory and resistance in response to dynamic political and regional changes in the twenty-first century, and asks: in what ways do contemporary Palestinian writers critically and creatively consider the possible future(s) of their nation?

This book locates the frequent expressions of shame in sub-Saharan African literature and shows how its diverse literary representations underscore shame's function as a fulcrum in the mutual constitution of subject and community on the continent employing both African and Western conceptions of the emotion.

Global Trespassers explores contemporary representations of minoritised migrants permitted to remain in the Global North. With reference to three domains where 'good immigrants' are readily sanctioned -- the adoptive family, the sporting arena, the world city -- McLeod critically assesses how imaginative acts of trespassing can traverse the boundaries of such sanctioning.

The alliterative poem St Erkenwald, long associated with the Gawain-Poet, is here presented in a new critical edition designed to offer maximum support for the general reader, as well as to provide fresh insights for the specialist. The text is accompanied by a close translation and an extensive commentary and glossary.

Fresh and distinctive voices in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol. Timely commentaries, strategies and insights on enriching and transforming an uncomfortable heritage through empathy and creativity. Multiple perspectives from academics, artists, activists, and heritage professionals, contribute ideas, strategies and experiences towards getting unheard voices and silenced stories heard.

Taking inspiration from a police informer's comment that his workmates had gone "Spain mad?" in response to the Spanish Civil War, this book uses biographical studies to explore the nature of British engagement with the conflict.

A new edition of this famous work provides a Latin text and a new English translation of all of Cicero's De re publica, accompanied by a detailed introduction and commentary. This material enables a new appreciation of De re publica, an influential work in the history of political thought and important for understanding Cicero's development as a writer and politician.

How to escape this world, this body? How can one invent a world parallel to this one? How do language and literature strive for a heterotopia that empties out the world and replaces it with words? From the mass graves of the First World War to transhumanist utopias, from Louis-Ferdinand Céline to Michel Houellebecq, Out of This World focuses on the modern and postmodern vexed relation to the world, body, and Creation, a major theme in gnostic ...

The first annotated, critical edition and English translation of three key texts in the history of women's writing: Sor Juana's Crisis sobre un sermón (or Carta atenagórica, 1690), Respuesta (1691), and Fernández de Santa Cruz's Carta de sor Filotea (1690). Includes a comprehensive introduction, commented textual variants and extensive notes.

Animate(d) Architecture is an edited volume that examines animation from a spatial lens. It offers an interdisciplinary approach to survey the role of space animation, including in creating humorous moments in early cartoon shorts, generating action and suspense in Japanese anime, and even stimulating erotic pleasure in pornographic Hentai.