Edinburgh University Press
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To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida
Kamuf Peggy
- Edinburgh university press
- 5 Octobre 2010
- 9780748643707
This book collects ten years of Peggy Kamuf's writing on the work and friendship of Jacques Derrida. The majority of the chapters discuss a key aspect of Derrida's thought, either from a single work or across several texts. Kamuf engages with a broad array of his work, from the 1960s to the posthumo...
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Romani in Britain: The Afterlife of a Language
Matras Yaron
- Edinburgh university press
- 5 Octobre 2010
- 9780748643691
Romani is one of Britain's oldest and most established minority languages. Brought to the country by Romani immigrants from continental Europe in the sixteenth century or even earlier, it was spoken in its old, inflected form as a family and community language until the second half of the nineteenth...
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The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations
Jan Bremmer
- Edinburgh university press
- 30 Juillet 2010
- 9780748642892
This collection offers a fresh look at the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much ...
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Muslims of Europe: The 'Other' Europeans
Hellyer H A
- Edinburgh university press
- 30 Septembre 2009
- 9780748642083
The interchange between Muslims and Europe has a long and complicated history, dating back to before the idea of 'Europe' was born, and the earliest years of Islam. There has been a Muslim presence on the European continent before, but never has it been so significant, particularly in Western Europe...
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Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Statebuilding and Peacebuilding
Franks Jason
- Edinburgh university press
- 16 Septembre 2009
- 9780748642069
This book examines the nature of 'liberal peace': the common aim of the international community's approach to post-conflict statebuilding. Adopting a particularly critical stance on this one-size-fits-all paradigm, it explores the process by breaking down liberal peace theory into its constituent pa...
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Gender and Political Identities in Scotland, 1919-1939
Hughes Annmarie
- Edinburgh university press
- 15 Mai 2010
- 9780748641864
This work offers a unique contribution to gender and Scottish history breaking new ground on several fronts: there is no history of inter-war women in Scotland, very little labour or popular political history and virtually nothing published on women, the home and family. This book is a history of wo...
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Discover Your Scottish Ancestry: Internet and Traditional Resources
Winch Jack
- Edinburgh university press
- 4 Novembre 2009
- 9780748641789
This illuminating guide to discovering your Scottish family history has been fully revised and updated to take account of changes to resources and methods for researching your Scottish ancestry over the last few years. Accessible in style and comprehensive in coverage, this new edition stresses the ...
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Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History
Bogue Ronald
- Edinburgh university press
- 5 Juillet 2010
- 9780748641758
The concept of fabulation makes a late appearance in Deleuze's career and in only limited detail, but by tracing its connections to other concepts and situating them within Deleuze's general aesthetics, Ronald Bogue develops a theory of fabulation which he proposes as the guiding principle of a Dele...
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Culture and Power in Cultural Studies: The Politics of Signification
Storey John
- Edinburgh university press
- 28 Février 2010
- 9780748641673
Culture and Power in Cultural Studies is a collection of John Storey's best and most significant contributions to the field of cultural studies, spanning 25 years. Covering a variety of topics, all chapters share a common focus on culture and power and the politics of signification: the struggle to ...
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Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture
Storey John
- Edinburgh university press
- 31 Mai 2010
- 9780748641666
A revised and fully updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods which have been used to study contemporary popular culture. Doing this, it also provides a map of ...
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The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman
Scott Hames
- Edinburgh university press
- 5 Juillet 2010
- 9780748642885
James Kelman is one of the most important Scottish writers now living. His fiction is widely acclaimed, and widely caricatured. His art declares war on stereotypes, but is saddled with plenty of its own. This book attempts to disentangle Kelman's writing from his reputation, clarifying his litera...
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Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipat
Crangle Sara
- Edinburgh university press
- 5 Juillet 2010
- 9780748642861
Studying the work of Joyce, Woolf, Stein and Beckett, Sara Crangle explores the everyday human longings found in Modernist writing. This discussion is set within a framework of continental philosophy, particularly the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas. ...
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Postcolonial Agency: Critique and Constructivism
Bignall Simone
- Edinburgh university press
- 7 Mai 2010
- 9780748642441
With particular reference to Deleuze, and drawing on Spinoza, Nietzsche and Bergson, Simone Bignall attends to a minor tradition within Western philosophy to argue that a non-imperial concept of social and political agency and a postcolonial philosophy of material transformation are embedded within ...
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Revolution or Evolution? The 2007 Scottish Elections
Ormston Rachel
- Edinburgh university press
- 7 Décembre 2009
- 9780748642151
The Scottish parliamentary and local elections of 2007 were significant for two key reasons: the SNP was brought to power for the first time in its history, posing a fundamental challenge to the 300-year Scottish-English Union; and the local elections used the Single Transferable Vote - the first ti...
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Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing 1500-1650
Margaret Healy
- Edinburgh university press
- 5 Octobre 2009
- 9780748642106
Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing 1500-1650 asserts the centrality of historical understanding in shaping critical vision. This collection of distinctive new essays explores the dynamic cultural, intellectual and social processes that moulded literary writing in the Renaissa...
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Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature
Lecercle Jean-Jacques
- Edinburgh university press
- 26 Juin 2010
- 9780748641635
Considers the 'strong readings' that Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze imposed on the texts they read. Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? Does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? If so, to what extent? Anyone who reads contemporary European philosophers has...
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Virginia Woolf and Classical Music: Politics, Aesthetics, Form
Sutton Emma
- Edinburgh university press
- 30 Août 2013
- 9780748637881
This study is a groundbreaking investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. In this unique study Emma Sutton discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical rep...
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Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and
Michael Gardiner
- Edinburgh university press
- 13 Juin 2011
- 9780748637751
The first full-length study of Scottish literature using a post-devolutionary understanding of postcolonial studies. Using a comparative model and spanning over two hundred years of literary history from the 18th Century to the contemporary, this collection of 19 new essays by some of the leading fi...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark
Michael Gardiner
- Edinburgh university press
- 6 Juillet 2010
- 9780748637706
This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It encompasses the range of Spark's output, pursuing contextual lines of approach including biography, geography,...
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Linguistic Variation and Change
Kiesling Scott F
- Edinburgh university press
- 29 Avril 2011
- 9780748637638
The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around three constraints on variation: linguistic structure, social structure and identity, and social and linguistic perception. By considering both structure ...
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Mediated Business Interactions: Intercultural Communication Between Sp
Marquez Reiter Rosina
- Edinburgh university press
- 7 Juillet 2011
- 9780748637218
This is the first monograph to examine mediated business interaction in Spanish. It focuses on communication between native speakers of Spanish from different Spanish-speaking countries with a view to informing our understanding of intercultural communication in a contemporary business environment. ...
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This book presents the diverse, expansive nature of African American Studies and its characteristic interdisciplinarity. It is intended for use with undergraduate/ beginning graduate students in African American Studies, American Studies and Ethnic Studies.Section I focuses on the historical develop...
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The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm
Sarro Ramon
- Edinburgh university press
- 18 Décembre 2008
- 9780748636662
Winner of the 2009 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology. The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period. With an ethnographic ...
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Luck Egalitarianism: Equality, Responsibility, and Justice
Knight Carl
- Edinburgh university press
- 10 Juillet 2009
- 9780748641376
How should we decide which inequalities between people are justified, and which are unjustified? One answer is that such inequalities are only justified where there is a corresponding variation in responsible action or choice on the part of the persons concerned. This view, which has become known as...
