Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Film Noir
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study, the answer is a lot more complex than that. This book is designed to tackle those complexities in a...
by Dr Caroline Norma
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The Japanese military was responsible for the sexual enslavement of thousands of women and girls in Asia and the Pacific during the China and Pacific wars under the guise of providing 'comfort' for battle-weary troops. Campaigns for justice and reparations for 'comfort women' since the early 1990s...
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
Bolano and After
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered-Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez-are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English...
Asclepius
The Perfect Discourse of Hermes Trismegistus
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Asclepius is one of two philosophical books ascribed to the legendary sage of Ancient Egypt, Hermes Trismegistus, who was believed in classical and renaissance times to have lived shortly after Moses. The Greek original, lost since classical times, is thought to date from the 2nd or 3rd century...
Full History
On the Meaningfulness of Shared Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
How can we take history seriously as real and relevant? Despite the hazards of politically dangerous or misleading accounts of the past, we live our lives in a great network of cooperation with other actors; past, present, and future. We study and reflect on the past as a way of exercising a responsibility...
by Professor Dmitri Nikulin
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the modern understanding of history that presents it as universal and teleological, progressively moving forward to an end. Although...
The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic
From Aristotle to Tarski
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic introduces ideas and thinkers central to the development of philosophical and formal logic. From its Aristotelian origins to the present-day arguments, logic is broken down into four main time periods:
Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Aristotle and...
by Mary Klages
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering...
Dialectic of the Ladder
Wittgenstein, the 'Tractatus' and Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein's early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work...
Gestures of Testimony
Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned torture. Detainees across the globe were waterboarded, deprived of sleep, beaten by guards, blasted with deafening music and forced into obscene acts. Their torture presents a profound problem for literature: torturous pain and its traumatic...
Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives
An International Inquiry With Immigrant Children and The Arrival
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Winner of the Literacy Research Association's 2015 Edward B. Fry Book Award
Immigration is an ongoing, global phenomenon and schools and teachers in host countries must continually find new ways of working with the increasing numbers of immigrant pupils, including refugees and asylum seekers....
Transitional Aesthetics
Contemporary Art at the Edge of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Using the way in which artists from the former Eastern bloc perceive the experience of EU integration and transition from a Soviet past as a conceptual launching pad, this book explores how artists critically inhabit a permanent state of 'in-between' to capture the simultaneous existence of multiple...
Nothingness and the Meaning of Life
Philosophical Approaches to Ultimate Meaning Through Nothing and Reflexivity
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained...
by Dr Debbie Pullinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children's literature. Drawing on Walter Ong's theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist's work on brain function, this book develops a new...