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Ekphrasis is the technical term for the relationship between literary texts and the visual or the plastic arts, whereby writers write about paintings, photograpy or works of art. This is a concise introduction -- .

Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response, as well as providing a new account of English drama in these important but largely neglected years. -- .

This book offers a thorough and complete reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, arguing that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender. -- .

Miguel Delibes' inaugural address to the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975 portrayed "El camino" (1950) as a distant precursor of the emergent Green movement. This text comprises an introductory essay discussing Green issues, attitudes towards the Spanish peasantry under Franco, and the function of the novel's subtly orchestrated comedy.

In this, the first academic text devoted to The Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and enduring appeal of one of the most influential and controversial bands of recent decades. -- .

The most up to date account of the devolved government in Northern Ireland. -- .

Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works and their relationship to their political and cultural context. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories. -- .

The Invention of Spain explores cultural relations between Britain and Spain during the century 1770-1870; a dynamic and often troubled relationship between two Imperial powers at a period of turbulence and change. -- .

An analysis of the Clarendon Commission (1861-64) and the Public School Acts showing their profound importance to the future and development of education in England. -- .

This collection of essays offers a vital contribution to this critical debate, and examines its wider implications for how we conceive of Shakespeare and his works. -- .

Screen/Space is a collection of nine essays exploring developments in contemporary art informed by re-readings of the history of modernist exhibition design, experimental film festivals and key works in the history of structural and expanded film. -- .

The Culture of Regionalism is the first international comparative study of regionalism, and provides a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalism -- .

Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernist writers- Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf -used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves asnational subjects. -- .

This book examines what 16 radical and conservative, famous and notorious British women wrote about their sex in the 1790s. It offers a comprehensive survey of what they thought about their fellow women with regard to love, sexual desire and marriage; their domestic roles and issues of gender and female abilities including sensibility and genius.

Focussing on the consumer demand for goods in Renaissance Italy, The Material Renaissance establishes the dynamic social character of exchange. It demonstrates that the cost of goods, including the price of the most basic items, was largely contingent upon on the relationship between buyer and seller. -- .

The making of the GDR 1945-53 is a groundbreaking analysis of the Stalinisation of East Germany, focusing on the social roots of the emerging dictatorship and the aspirations of antifascists and Socialists manipulated and ultimately betrayed by Stalinism. -- .

This is the first critical editionBiografia de un Cimarron (Biography of a Runaway Slave) is arguably the best-known book to have been written and published in revolutionary Cuba, being the testimonial narrative of Esteban Montejo, a former slave, runaway, and soldier in the Cuban wars of independence. -- .

Explores issues including the judicial construction of racial categories, the gendered definitions of nation-states, the historical construction of citizenship, sovereignty and land rights, the limits to legality and the charting of empire, constructions of madness among colonised people, reforming property rights of married women.

Deals with the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, this title brings together essays on a range of writers from different parts of the Arab world, including, among others, Edwar al-Kharrat, Sa'd Allah Wannus, Najib Mahfuz, Rabi' Jabir, and Salim Matar.

Part of "Understanding Global Heritage" series, this book explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by 'virtual', 'intangible' and 'multicultural' heritage.

This book takes a look at the institutional framework established in the 1990s to manage the political and economic relations of the EU and the US. It focuses on the many different actors who influence transatlantic policy making at different stages of the policy process. -- .

This book stakes out new territory within an exciting,emerging field of study. Not only does it uncover the history of a neglectedgroup, but it also offers valuable insights into the significance of maritalstatus which are equally relevant to current debates on marriage and family. -- .

An exploration of the establishment, operations and impact of a large-scale Protestant mission in Ireland from its foundation during the famine into the early decades of the Irish Free State. -- .

This book investigates the scope of maternity legislation and family-friendly policies in the European Union. -- .

This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War. -- .

The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett's poetics through the notion of 'nothing', analysed in its many incarnations in Beckett's prose works, plays, TV plays and adaptations. -- .

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. The book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent trends in approaches to theatre-making. In the ensuing eleven chapters, eleven different writer-observers describe, contextualise and analyse the theatre-making practices of eleven different companies and directors, including Japan¿s Gekidan Kaitaisha and the Québécois director Robert Lepage. Each chapter is enriched with extensive illustrations as well as boxed-off ¿asides¿, giving the reader different perspectives on the work. Chapters usually focus on a single production, such as Complicite¿s 2003-04 The Elephant Vanishes, allowing detailed investigations of complex practices to emerge. The book concludes with a brief manifesto for making contemporary theatre by the editors, plus a bibliography suggesting further reading. Making contemporary theatre is a rich resource for the theatre-making student and the theatre-goer alike, full of diverse examples of how the most exciting theatre is actually made.

An excellent study of the performance of one of Shakespeare's perceived 'problem plays', complete with interview material with actors and directors, an awareness of global productions and an insight to theatrical art. -- .

An empirico-historical inquiry into the empire cinema in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. It shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized people.

This volume analyses major French plays of the 1830s, focusing on their theatricality, and on the ways in which they expose the workings of the theatre rather than conceal them. It breaks new ground in nineteenth-century theatre scholarship while proposing a fresh direction in the study of text and performance. -- .