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This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance.

This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers have both reflected on and contributed to the development of international ecological theory and philosophy. Provocative re-readings of works by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, Nan Shepherd, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie and George Mackay Brown demonstrate the significance of ecological thought across the spectrum of Scottish literary culture. This book traces the influence of ecology as a scientific, philosophical and political concept in the work of these and other writers and in doing so presents an original outlook on Scottish literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. In this age of environmental crisis, Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature reveals a heritage of ecological thought which should be recognised as of vital relevance both to Scottish literary culture and to the wider field of green studies. Key Features *Considers both 'canonical' and less well known Scottish writers, including Gaelic poets and mountaineering literature, Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, and contemporary authors Kathleen Jamie and John Burnside *The first book to consider Scottish literature in the light of ecological and green thought *Engages with a major topical issue and sets the study of Scottish writing within the broader context of international green approaches to literary studies *Encourages reflection on the links between literary studies and perspectives drawn from the disciplines of environmental history, anthropology, philosophy and cultural geography Louisa Gairn holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews and is a contributor to The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature, ed. Berthold Schoene (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). She lives and works in Edinburgh.

Anti- and non-fascist ethics are situated in the framework of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and of the scholarship that followed The philosophy that Deleuze and Guattari propose is engaged and situated and requires us to map urgent issues, not by opposing ourselves to it, but by mapping how it is part of the everyday, and of ourselves. The global rise of fascism today demands careful analysis. The concepts and themes that Deleuze and Guattari gave us, within the scope of their work, is immensely helpful in capturing its micropolitics and macropolitics. The range of international contributors to this volume have a keen eye on the practices of fascism today and, in line with Deleuze's thinking, they show us how fascism works. Organised into three parts: the first part - 21st century fascisms - focuses on the global threats of technologies and algorithmic realities; the second part - situated fascisms - analyses fascisms at work in different parts of the contemporary world; the third part deals with patriarchal fascism and offers concrete case-studies of sexualized and genderized modes of oppression. Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. Rick Dolphijn is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University.

Reflects the extraordinary scope and topicality of Lukács and Frankfurt School thought This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation. Interweaving discussion of art and literature, utopian thought, and the dialectics of high art and mass culture, it offers unique perspectives on an interconnected group of left-wing intellectuals who sought to understand and resist their society's systemic impoverishment of thought and experience. Starting from Lukács's reflections on art, utopia, and historical action, it progresses to the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno's analyses of music, media, avant-garde and kitsch. It concludes with discussions of erotic utopia, authoritarianism, postsocialism and organised deceit in show trials - topics for which the legacy of Lukács and Frankfurt School critical theory continue to be relevant today. Tyrus Miller is Professor of Art History and English at University of California, Irvine. His publications include Modernism and the Frankfurt School (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (1999).

Critically examines the work of Qu b cois filmmakers Denis Villeneuve

Presents a new perspective on Hannah Arendt as a political thinker and actor This book uncovers the deeply practical aspect of Arendt's thinking and introduces her works as exercises in political thinking. Treated in this way, Arendt becomes the reader's dialogue partner, whose judgements and opinions remain open for reflection and discussion. The book provides insights into not only her theory and its current relevance, but also her practice of reflective judgement. Maria Robaszkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Paderborn, Germany. Michael Weinman is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin.

Explores changing attitudes to the holy through a study of 5 centuries of Bosnian Hajj literature Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy focuses on conceptualisations, images and descriptions of Hajj and Islamic geography by Bosnian Muslim authors in different writing genres from the 16th to the 21st centuries. It shows how meanings of Hajj differed across time, while its significance for the believers remained unchanged. The analysis of conceptualisations includes looking into meanings that are ascribed to rites, narratives used to explain the ritual, emotional expressions that are connected to the pilgrimage, and social meanings attached to the gathering. On another level, because Hajj entails a journey as well, the book observes changes in the perception of travel - including mechanisms of narrative and descriptive inclusion and exclusion, the image of Others (generally non-Muslims, but occasionally Muslim women), the role of transportation, food and lodging. Finally, the book shows what Bosnia meant for pilgrims in the creation of the sacred Islamic geography. This is the first critical and theoretically grounded book-length study of Hajj literature as a medium. Covering a period of several centuries and encompassing literature written in several languages, it redefines the ways pilgrimage can be understood and offers new methods for investigating the meaning and importance of Hajj for generations of premodern and modern believers. Dzenita Karic is a senior researcher at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Antoinetta Angelidi directed four full-length fiction films: Idées Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A Square Film (1995) and Thief or Reality (2001), which have been screened at international film festivals and contemporary art museums. Angelidi's work has become synonymous with Greek Experimental Cinema, while her films and her theoretical writings have been the subject of numerous film courses, critical essays and retrospectives. The inversion and juxtaposition of codes, as well as the dream-mechanism and the uncanny, comprise her main creative strategies. The complexity of cinematic heterogeneity and the narrative multiplicity of different filmic elements which characterize her work are examined in depth in this edited collection dedicated to Antoinetta Angelidi's oeuvre. Penny Bouska is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Film at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Sotiris Petridis is a Postdoc Researcher at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Examines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behavior Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social milieu, congregation and family. The book encompasses the period from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, examining early modern shrew and devil plays, picaresque and rogue literature, and Quaker life-writing. Refusing to Behave examines the ways in which Thomas Dekker, Thomas Ellwood, Mateo Alemán and his translator James Mabbe, and the anonymous author of Grim the Collier of Croydon use textual tricks to provoke bodily responses in readers, and also draw on readers' bodily experiences to enrich their textual descriptions. This study broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural norms. Laura Seymour is a Stipendiary Lecturer in English at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Examines early Muslim discourses of religious inclusion and exclusion What was the status of Zoroastrians after Muslims conquered Iran in the 7th century? Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History addresses this and other issues of intercommunal contact in the early caliphates. It argues that caliphal administrators, following an imperial logic of accommodation, accepted tax from Zoroastrians without recognising them as People of the Book. Later Muslim jurists, uncomfortable with that decision, sought to circumscribe social interaction with Zoroastrians. Local Persian historians remembered the Muslim-Zoroastrian encounter differently. They promoted triumphal tales of violence and temple desecration. Meanwhile, Arab Muslim authors used the term 'Zoroastrians' to describe pagans, heretics and other perceived deviants. This book juxtaposes these competing memories in order to explore the ambivalence that some Muslims felt about accommodation. Drawing on sources in Arabic and Persian from the Middle East and South Asia, it challenges readers to reconsider assumptions about the nature of interfaith relations in medieval Iran. Andrew D. Magnusson is Associate Professor in the Department of History & Geography at the University of Central Oklahoma.

An innovative history of medical mission from the perspective of the history of emotions

Reveals how long poems of the long eighteenth century articulate philosophies of time in both content and form Reading Time tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, between 1660 and 1850, as a medium in which poets could shape and reshape time. Analysing Milton's Paradise Lost, Thomson's The Seasons and Wordsworth's The Prelude, this study reveals how these poets used both the content and form of their long poems to intervene in contemporary debates about the temporalities of free will, nature and identity. Reading Time argues that they use the figure of the prospect, the extended landscape, to imagine time as a space onto which different causal configurations could be mapped. In turn, readers have approached these poems as both temporal and spatial forms, as linear processes and as static structures, demonstrating how the long poem can shape a reader's own experience of time. Tess Somervell is Lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford.

Explores the religious cultures, beliefs and imperatives that shaped the Jacobite movement in Scotland

A history of post-Disruption Scottish Presbyterian dissent and its religious, political, and social influence

Brings together diverse scholarship on theatre and conversional practices in early modern Europe and Latin America This book explores how theatrical practices shaped the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe. Each chapter focuses on a specific city or selection of cities including Venice, London, Mexico City, Madrid and Berne. Collectively, these studies establish a picture of early modernity as an age teeming with both excitement and anxiety over conversional activities. Considering the commercial theatre that produced professional dramatists such as Lope de Vega and Thomas Middleton, the book surveys a wide variety of kinds of performances that brought theatricality into formative relationships with conversional practices. As a whole, the volume addresses issues of conversion as it pertains to early modern theatre, literature, theology, philosophy, economics, urban culture, globalism, colonialism, trade and cross-cultural exchange. José Ramón Jouve Martín is Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at McGill University. Stephen Wittek is Assistant Professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies division of the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University.

'This extraordinary collection will have a profound impact on Shakespeare and appropriation studies. Using object-oriented methodology, the authors develop a speculative approach that refigures Shakespeare as a vibrant, multifarious "thing" that actively participates in the creation of limitless interpretations and appropriations. The volume opens up new possibilities for the field.' Lisa S. Starks, University of South Florida Examines Shakespeare fragments as agents of appropriation Drawing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant object replete with a variable energy that accounts for its infinite meaning-making capacity. Using critical race theory, object oriented feminism, performance studies, Global Shakespeares, media studies and game theory, the collection's essays explore the dialogic relationship between the Shakespeare object and its appropriation. Each chapter demonstrates that instead of moving away from the source of appropriation, an object-oriented approach can centralise Shakespeare without the constraints of outdated notions of fidelity. Highlighting the variable materiality inherent in Shakespeare, the collection foregrounds the political ecologies of literary objects as a new methodology for adaptation studies. Valerie M. Fazel is Instructor at Arizona State University. Louise Geddes is Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University.

Investigates the role of memory in forming ethnic and national identities in the early twentieth-century Tasman World

Reconsiders contemporary Disney animation through the critical lens of genre theory

Explores the link between revolutionary change in the Victorian world of print and women's entry into the field of mass-market publishing This book highlights the integral relationship between the rise of the popular woman writer and the expansion and diversification of newspaper, book and periodical print media during a period of unprecedented change, 1832-1860. It includes discussions of canonical women writers such as Felicia Hemans, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, as well as lesser-known figures such as Eliza Cook and Frances Brown. It also examines the ways in which women readers actively responded to a robust popular print culture by creating scrapbooks and engaging in forms of celebrity worship. At the same time, it demonstrates how Victorian women's participation in popular print culture anticipates our own engagement with new media in the twenty-first century. Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

'The horror film is often read as a low-budget and disreputable genre that is disparaged by critics and loved by only a small core of committed fans. However, there has always been a high end to horror, a high end that is made up of both art films and prestigious productions from the major studios. In this book, then, Church offers a crucial contribution to an understanding of this trend through his analysis of recent developments in its history. Grounded in an analysis of the reception contexts within which these films are produced, mediated, and consumed, this book is a must for those interested in contemporary film culture in general and the horror film in particular.' Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia 'With this book, David Church confirms his status as one of the most interesting contemporary scholars working on horror and on taste politics. Church expands the notion of art-horror and shows the links between contemporary post-horror and 1940s woman's films, melodrama, science fiction and European art cinema, with great chapters devoted to the post-horror connection between family and intimate relationships to epistemic violence. Meticulously researched and theorized, this is a book that, like the films it analyzes, rewards multiple readings. A thumping good read.' Joan C. Hawkins, Indiana University Horror cinema has long been a popular but culturally denigrated genre. This assumption has been challenged by a new wave of films that mix arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Dubbed 'elevated horror' or 'post-horror', films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, Get Out, Hereditary, Midsommar, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema. David Church is a film and media scholar specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film circulation. Cover image: A Ghost Story. Photo: Andrew Droz Palermo. Courtesy of David Lowery / Sailor Bear

The notion of seriality and serial identity performance runs as a strong undercurrent through much of the fields of feminist theory, gender studies and queer studies. Defining gender as a serial and discursively produced entanglement of different practices and agencies, this book argues that serial storytelling can offer such complex negotiations of identity that the 'results' of televisual gender performances are rarely separate from the processes that produce them. As such, gender performances are not restricted to individual television programmes themselves, but are also located in official paratexts, such as making-of documentaries, interviews with writers and actors, and in cultural sites like online viewer discussions, recaps and fan fiction. With case studies of series such as Girls, How to Get Away With Murder and The Walking Dead, this book seeks to understand how gender as a practice is generated by television narratives in the overlapping of text, reception and production, and explores the viewer practices that these narratives seek to trigger and draw on in the process. Maria Sulimma is an American Studies scholar working in the intersecting areas of cultural studies, urban studies, feminist media studies, and gender studies. Based at the University Duisburg-Essen, she is the Postdoctoral Researcher in the Research Group City Scripts.

This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus, dance, gestural theatre and theatre of objects.

Brings together previously dispersed sources to argue for a tradition of Scottish colonial writing before the Union of Parliaments This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s). Analysing works written in the larger context of the Scottish Atlantic, it examines how the Atlantic influenced seventeenth-century Scottish literature and vice versa. The relationship between art and ideology is key to the author's discussion as Sandrock argues early modern writing employed utopianism as a tool for empire-building and as a means of claiming power over the Atlantic. Kirsten Sandrock is Assistant Professor at the English Department at the University of Goettingen, Germany.

Animating Truth examines the rise of animated documentary in the 21st century, and addresses how non-photorealistic animation is increasingly used to depict and shape reality. Confronting shifts in the status and aesthetics of the real, Nea Ehrlich analyses how contemporary technoculture has transformed the relationship of animation to documentary by mapping out two parallel trends: the increased use of animation within documentary or non-fiction contexts, and the increasingly pervasive use of non-photorealistic animation within digital media. As the virtual becomes another aspect of our contemporary mixed reality (physical and virtual), the book aims to understand how this visual paradigm shift influences viewers, both ethically and politically, and questions the wider ramifications of this transformation in non-fiction aesthetics. Nea Ehrlich is a lecturer in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.