What does it mean when people use the word 'Hell' to convey the horror of an actual, personal or historical experience?

This book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering. I...

Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore something of a paradox that the history of Turkey and aspects of the identity and role of the Turks, both as Muslims and...

The Sitcom explores the production, viewership, and script of this popular genre, drawing on a range of examples and case studies in order to map its characteristics, social significance, and guilty pleasures. Brett Mills takes a global approach, examining international examples as well a...

Rob Roy is set in 1715-16, yet it concerns not the conduct of the Jacobite Rising, but the economic and social conditions which gave rise to it. It celebrates the freebooting capitalism of the hero's father in the City of London, and the actual freebooting of Rob Roy, "the Robin Hood of S...

This book provides a vivid account of the major cultural forms of 1960s America -- fiction and poetry; music and performance; film and television; art and photography -- as well as influential texts, trends and figures of the decade: from the Civil Rights Movement to the rise of George Wallace a...

This collection of original essays challenges readers to accept a new term, critical category, and literary history of twentieth-century British literature. Focusing on the fiction, memoirs, criticism, and journalism of such writers as Elizabeth Bowen, Storm Jameson, William Empson, George Orwell...

In the fifth century BC, the Athenian Empire dominated the politics and culture of the Mediterranean world. Historians, then and now, have been fascinated by that domination, and continue to grapple with the problem of explaining and analysing it.

This book offers a comprehensive, and multi-fa...

This marks the first critical study of The Logic of Sense, Gilles Deleuze's most important work on language and ethics and a vital source for his philosophy of the event. Deleuze's thought always promised a revolution in ethical theories and the relation between language, idea, and action...

An introduction to the workings of the United Kingdom's Westminster Parliament, in both theory and practice. The book outlines the history, structure, and function of the Parliament and provides a topical evaluation of how well those functions are performed. Moyra Grant pays particular attention ...

This short, accessible vocabulary of business Arabic provides learners with strictly relevant key terms for translating both from and into Arabic.

Suitable for students, business people, and those working in the Middle East who have come to Arabic as non-specialists after leaving college, Busi...

One of the terminological constants in the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze is the work "immanence." His philosophy of immanence is fundamentally characterized by its opposition to all philosophies of "transcendence," and on that basis, Deleuze's project has been premised as a return to a mat...

Augustus (63 BC--14 AD), Rome's first emperor, brought peace and stability to Rome after decades of strife and uncertainty. He established a new institutional framework for the Roman Empire and inspired the ideology that sustained it for the next three hundred years. Jonathan Edmondson collects t...

This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness.The book considers the rise of Scottish Studies, the development of a national literature, and issues of cultural nationalism. Beginning in the medieval period during a time of nation building...

First published in 1995, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was a revolutionary book, arguing that British history had long caricatured Jacobitism rather than understand it and that the Jacobite Risings in fact enjoyed extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The ...

A comprehensive introduction to the study of media audiences as well as new research on viewers' emotional engagement with television texts. The text provides a detailed introduction to the history of audience research and an overview of the various competing theories on audience; a discussion of...

The Mongol invasion in the thirteenth century marked a new phase in the development of Islamic art. Trans-Eurasian exchanges of goods, people and ideas were encouraged on a large scale under the auspices of the Pax Mongolica. With the fascination of portable objects brought from China and Central...

Introduces the thought of Gilles Deleuze to researchers in performance theory and practice.

This accessible introduction blends key facts and terms with strong analytical commentary. It focuses on the period following the Second World War, covering issues from the beginning of the cold war to the present day and paying particular attention to contemporary events. The world's "trouble sp...

The Literary Cold War concentrates on authors who straddle the line between aesthetic project and political allegory, paying particular attention to the work of Vladimir Nabokov and Graham Greene. A paranoid plotline informs these and other Anglo-American texts, from Storm Jameson and Joh...

The Spanish Prisoner is David Mamet's most celebrated film. With a nod to Hitchcock's North by Northwest, The Spanish Prisoner is a deeply idiosyncratic film with origins outside of the Hollywood mainstream. The film is built on a heavily convoluted narrative that is the p...

The Siege of Malta is one of Scott's most moving works. The story of the Siege itself is remarkable, with its combination of individual defeat and group survival against overwhelming odds. It had been part of Scott's mental furniture from his early days, and it acquires a new and powerful resonan...

This book outlines what is different about writing for children followed by a succinct account of the often neglected history of children's literature. It goes on to examine a number of genres - fairy tales and fables, moral tales and books of instruction, fantasy and adventure stories, domestic ...

This pocket-sized alphabetical guide introduces the range of phenomena studied in phonology and the main theoretical frameworks for engaging in phonological analysis. The entries are a concise and clear overview of one of the main areas in linguistic analysis.

This alphabetical guide clearly defines standard grammatical terms and shows how they are used, encompassing variants as found in Huddleston and Pullum's Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.

The American counterculture played a major role during a pivotal moment in American history. Post-War prosperity combined with the social and political repression characteristic of middle-class life to produce both widespread civil disobedience and artistic creativity in the Baby Boomer generatio...

Insa Nolte examines the evolution of a distinctive Yoruba community, Remo, and the central role of the Remo-born Nationalist and Yoruba leader, Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987). Beginning in the nineteenth century, public participation played an important role in challenging or confirming local hierar...

The Handbook of Business Discourse is the most comprehensive overview of the field to date. It offers an accessible and authoritative introduction to a range of historical, disciplinary, methodological, and cultural perspectives and addresses many of the issues facing a growing, varied, a...

In Memory of Jacques Derrida is a remarkable account of one of the greatest thinkers of our time. We are still coming to terms with the astonishing richness of Derrida's writings, as well as his untimely death in 2004. It may be said that we are all ""in memory of Derrida,"" regardless of...

Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Nietzsche. In this book, Tsarina Doyle shows that a specifically Kantian-informed methodology lies at the heart of Nietzsche's approach to epistemology and metaphysics. Doyle claims that both Nietzsche's early and late writings may...

Which topics, discursive strategies, and linguistic devices are employed in the construction of national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand and difference to other national collectives on the other? This volume examines European discourses of national identity, paying particular attention to...

Phenomenology or Deconstruction? contains new readings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul RicÂœur, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Jacques Derrida's engagement with phenomenological themes generates a new understanding of "being" and "presence" that exposes significant blindspots in traditional reading...

In this volume Suvir Kaul addresses the relations between literary culture, English commercial and colonial expansion, and the making of 'Great Britain' in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He argues that literary writing played a crucial role in generating the vocabulary of British ...

Time, evolution, becoming, and genealogy are central concepts in Deleuze's work, yet there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. Those working in history, the history of ideas, science, evolutionary psychology, and interdisciplinary projects inflect...

This book represents the first comprehensive overview of the US-Iraqi relationship since 1979 and the first attempt to place the 2003 American invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq in a wider historical context. Using a modified version of World Systems Theory, the book places America's poli...

Is a Darwinian universe necessarily a godless one? What might Darwinism tell us about the nature of God? Is Darwinism compatible with immortality, and if not, how can we face death or the loss of those we love? Darwin's Bards is the first comprehensive study in more than fifty years to ex...

Ken Lodge investigates the basic concepts of phonological theory. He especially focuses on sameness and difference, each a sine qua non of classification. It is assumed that all academic disciplines utilize these two basic concepts in classification. Since phonology deals with the interface betwe...

Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right is widely acknowledged as one of the most important works in the history of political philosophy, and scholars largely agree that Hegel intended this work to be interpreted as a significant part of his greater system of speculative philosophy. T...

Following the events of 11th September 2001 in the USA, and more especially, the bombings on the London underground on 7th July 2005 and the incident at Glasgow Airport on 30th June 2007, an increasing amount of public attention has been focused upon Muslims in Britain. Against the backdrop of th...

Praise for the first edition:

"An excellent book that tries to come to grips with the ever-increasing role of sport in the media as a particular phenomenon of twentieth-century popular culture."& mdash; European Journal of Communication

"Excellent, well written and informative...

Virginia Woolf, Fashion, and Literary Modernity reads Woolf´s work through the lens of Victorian sartorial practice, considering theories of dress and fashion from Thomas Carlyle to Walter Benjamin, from Wyndham Lewis to J. C. Flugel. Bringing together studies in fashion, body culture,...

Much more than a conventional biography, this book follows the rise of Barack Obama and the evolution of his vision as a response to America's profound social and political developments and the potential transformation of its foreign policy in the post-Bush era. Carl Pedersen asks whether the pos...

Praise for the first edition:

"An excellent book that tries to come to grips with the ever-increasing role of sport in the media as a particular phenomenon of twentieth-century popular culture."& mdash; European Journal of Communication

"Excellent, well written and informative...

This book explores Kant's cosmopolitanism and the normative requirements consistent with a Kantian based cosmopolitan constitution. It explores and defends such topics as cosmopolitan law, cosmopolitan right, the laws of hospitality, a Kantian federation of states, a cosmopolitan epistemology of ...