LITERARY THEORY • CULTURAL THEORY
Homi K. Bhabha
CULTURAL THEORY Eleanor Byrne, Senior Lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
This comprehensive introduction to the work of Homi K. Bhabha, a key figure in both postcolonial and post-structuralist theory, is accessible and engaging. It places Bhabha’s work in context, considers his effect on contemporary criticism, offers readings of a range of texts to illustrate his theories, and features an interview with the theorist. Contents: General Editor’s Preface / Preface / Acknowledgements / Introduction: ‘The Missing Person’: Re-/Locating Homi K. Bhabha / Migrant Visions / Unpacking Bhabha’s Library: Bhabha, Said and the Postcolonial Archive / Fanon, Bhabha and the ‘Return of the Oppressed’ / Bhabha’s Postal Politics / Dwelling in/ on the Ruins: Postcolonial Futures / Afterword: Politics of Empire, Anxiety, Migration and Difference post-9/11 / Interview with Bhabha / Notes / Bibliography / Index April 2009 Hardback Paperback
192pp £60.00 £20.99
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Transitions Series Editor: Julian Wolfreys
The Social Impact of the Arts An Intellectual History Eleonora Belfiore, Assistant Professor of Cultural Policy Studies and Oliver Bennett, Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, both at University of Warwick, UK
‘This is a much-needed study, believe me, and a timely one as well: an examination of what lies behind the rhetoric, it fills a surprising gap in the fast-expanding literature on cultural policy.’ - Sir Christopher Frayling, Chairman, Arts Council England, UK; Rector, Royal College of Art, UK September 2010 Paperback
248pp £18.99
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ebook available from: Palgrave Connect Literature & Performing Arts Collections
The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts Edited by Helen Hanson, Lecturer in Film, University of Exeter, UK and Catherine O’Rawe, Senior Lecturer, Department of Italian, University of Bristol, UK
Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness Ina Habermann, Professor of English Literature, University of Basel, Switzerland
This study explores Englishness as a ‘symbolic form’ from the 1920s to the 1940s. Two case studies, focused on J.B. Priestley and Daphne du Maurier, explore crucial ways in which popular ‘middlebrow’ authors imagine and shape the nation, providing an innovative approach to literary negotiations of cultural identity. Contents: Acknowledgements / PART I: INTRODUCTION: ENGLISHNESS AS A SYMBOLIC FORM / Identity: Englishness and the Reconfiguration of the Nation / Myth: Ideology, Symbolic Forms and the ‘mythical present’ / Memory: Shaping the Present out of the Past / Media: Challenging Modernism: The ‘middlebrow’ and Memodrama / PART II: J.B. PRIESTLEY: SHAPING COMMUNITIES / Steak-and-Kidney Pie in the Land of Cockaigne / English Journeys / Addressing the People / PART III: DAPHNE DU MAURIER: (DE-) FAMILIARIZING THE NATION / English Dreamtime in Cornwall / From Gothic to Memodrama / The Skeleton in the Cupboard / Notes / Index May 2010 Hardback
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216x138mm 978-0-230-24136-7
These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.
Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse
July 2010 Hardback
April 2010 Hardback
248pp £50.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-20361-7
H.D., Loy, and Toomer Lara Vetter, Assistant Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA 240pp £52.50
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Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
America in An Arab Mirror Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology
Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry
Edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, and Hejinian
April 2010 Paperback
176pp £21.99
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David W. Huntsperger, Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington, USA April 2010 Hardback
206pp £50.00
234x156mm 978-0-230-62202-9
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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