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Showcases Ezra Pound's close involvement with the arts throughout his career This volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ballet, cinema, music, painting, photography and sculpture. Divided into 5 historically and thematically arranged sections, the 28 chapters foreground the shifting significance of art forms throughout Pound's life, which he spent in London, Paris, Rapallo and Washington. The Companion maps Pound's practices of engagement with the arts, deepening areas of study that have recently emerged, such as his musical compositions. At the same time, it opens up new fields, particularly Pound's interaction with the performing arts: opera, dance, and cinema. The book demonstrates overall that Ezra Pound was no mere spectator of the modernist revolution in the arts; rather he was an agent of change, a doer and promoter who also had a deep emotional response to the arts. Roxana Preda is Researcher and Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

'An exciting and adventurous collection which sets out to challenge established interpretations of this complex period.' Valerie Sanders, University of Hull Explores the significance of the British fin de siècle in Scotland and Ireland, as well as some regional cities in England The late nineteenth-century fin de siècle has proved an enduringly fascinating moment in literary and cultural history. It is associated with the emergence of intriguing figures such as the 'new woman' and 'uranian'; with contradictory impulses, of decadence and decay on the one hand and of experiment and renewal on the other; and with unprecedented intercultural exchange, especially between Britain and France. The twenty-two newly-commissioned essays collected here re-examine some of the key concepts taken to define the fin de siècle, while also introducing hitherto overlooked cultural phenomena into the frame, such as the importance of humanitarianism. The impact of recent research in material culture is explored, particularly how the history of the book and the history of performance culture is changing our understanding of this period. A wide range of cultural activities is discussed: from participation in avant-garde theatre to interior decoration and from the writing of poetry to political and religious activism. Together, the essays provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siècle and enrich our understanding of this complex period, while paying particular attention to the importance of regionalism. Josephine M. Guy has published widely on Victorian literature and culture, especially on Oscar Wilde, and is a member of the editorial team of the Oxford English Texts Edition of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. She is the author of The British Avant-Garde: The Theory and Politics of Tradition (1991) and co-editor, with Ian Small, of The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature (2012). Cover image: The Brontolonis, Bertalan Karlovsky, 1890 (c) Alfredo Dagli Orti/REX/Shutterstock Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0891-2 Barcode

*APPROVED* A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the present This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. Rather than looking at particular forms of artistic expression in isolation and focusing only on the war and inter-war period, the 26 essays collected in this volume approach artistic responses to the war from a wide variety of angles and, where appropriate, pursue their inquiry into the present day. In 6 sections, covering Literature, the Visual Arts, Music, Periodicals and Journalism, Film and Broadcasting, and Publishing and Material Culture, a wide range of experts across literature and the arts examine what means and approaches were employed to respond to the shock of war. How and why have literary and artistic responses to the war changed over time? How far are later works of art responses not only to the war itself, but to earlier cultural production? These are key questions that this volume seeks to answer. Ann-Marie Einhaus is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University. She is the author of The Short Story and the First World War (2013) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story (2016). Katherine Isobel Baxter is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is the author of Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance (2010), and co-editor, with Robert Hampson, of Conrad and Language (2016).

Presents the most complete Persian edition and the first known English translation of the Durr al-Majālis

Examines ʿAttar's didactic poetry in historical context from a rhetorical, reader-centered perspective

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts is the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf's artistic influences and associations.

Explains the political role of journalism in Arab countries marked by pluralist and manipulated media

Delves into a royal tomb in order to expand our understanding of Ottoman palace culture

Investigates the environmental policies of transnational and militant Islamist groups

Offers a new way of reading Stein's key publications: as responses to the politics of authorship and aesthetic participation

Studies Arabic literary production from the point of view of continuity and interference and the interactions between them

Studies Arabic literary production from the point of view of commitment and hybridization and the interactions between them

Studies the capacity of Shakespeare's plays to touch and think about touch

The first edited collection dedicated to the historical specifics of Irish shame.

Examining the Romantic literary theme of suicide, this book positions slavery and abolition as central to the Romantic era.

Shows how late-Victorian writers develop new understandings of the relationship between cognition and embodiment.

Explores the haptic relations that connect the mothers and wives of the fallen soldiers of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) to their sons and husbands as martyrs

A book on Thomas Lodge's Rosalynd.

Flora of Turkey, Volume 9

This is the first comprehensive history of the Scottish economy to be published in a generation. It provides the essential background on current debates on the condition and future of Scotland under devolution.

In this edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson", Marshall Waingrow offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. He charts the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors which crept into the final edition.

The text for this volume of poetry reproduces the first edition of 1917, allowing Hardy's poems to be read as he first gathered them and as the publishers first produced them. This edition also contains an introduction and a bibliography.

The biography of a leader of the campaign for moral education which had been conducted for several decades in Britain and in the USA.

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

A book on the emergence of modern humans

A look at the British Government's policy towards China between 1945 and 1950.

Edmund Gosse: Father and Son

Gertrude Stein frequently proclaimed herself to be a genius. But, what did the term really mean to her? This work explores the centrality and secificity of the idea of "genius" to Stein's work and the aesthetic ideals and contradictory intellectual affiliations of modernism in general.