Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism
Investigating the Human Intellect
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Elijah Del Medigo (1458-1493) was a Jewish Aristotelian philosopher living in Padua, whose work influenced many of the leading philosophers of the early Renaissance. His Two Investigations on the Nature of the Human Soul uses Aristotle's De anima to theorize on two of the most discussed and most controversial...
by Dr Sherryl Vint
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular genre. Drawing on literature as well as example...
by Fiona McHardy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Revenge was an all important part of the ancient Athenian mentality, intruding on all forms of life - even where we might not expect to find it today. Revenge was of prime importance as a means of survival for the people of early Greece and remained in force during the rise of the 'poleis'. The revenge...
Climate Change in Human History
Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Climate Change and Human History provides an up-to-date and concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history.
Starting with periods hundreds of thousands of years ago and continuing up to the present day, the book illustrates how natural climate...
Homer
The Resonance of Epic
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products...
Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer
On the Poetics of Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Despite the brevity of its run and the diminutive size of its audience, The English Intelligencer is a key publication in the history of literary modernism in the British Isles. Emerging in the mid-1960s from a dissatisfaction with the prevailing norms of 'Betjeman's England', the young writers associated...
An Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought
Other Times, Other Places
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's Essays, Rabelais' comic fictions, Ronsard's poetry, Calvin's theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and contributed...
The Mimiambs of Herodas
Translated into an English ‘Choliambic’ Metre with Literary-Historical Introductions and Notes
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The third-century BC Greek poet Herodas had been all but forgotten until a papyrus of eight of his Mimiambs (plus fragments) turned up in the Egyptian desert at the end of the 19th century. They have since been translated into various modern languages and supplied with scholarly commentaries. This...
by Dr Laura Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Bringing new insights from genre theory to bear on the work of the journalist and novelist Rebecca West, this study explores how West's use of and combinations of multiple genres (often in single works) was informed and furthered by her subversive feminist goals.
Rebecca West's Subversive Use...
Barbara Kingsolver's World
Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Since Barbara Kingsolver published The Bean Trees in 1988, her work has been of great interest to readers-first, American readers; then British and South African readers; and finally to readers the world over. With incredible speed, Kingsolver became one of the best-known United States writers, a...
Making Sense
Art Practice and Transformative Therapeutics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Making Sense utilises art practice as a pro-active way of thinking that helps us to make sense of the world. It does this by developing an applied understanding of how we can use art as a method of healing and as a critical method of research. Drawing from poststructuralist philosophy, psychoanalysis,...
Translation Solutions for Many Languages
Histories of a flawed dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Many "translation solutions†? (often called "procedures,†? "techniques,†? or "strategies†?) have been proposed over the past 50 years or so in French, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Czech, and Slovak. This book analyzes, criticizes...
Princess Mononoke
Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Princess Mononoke (1997) is one of anime's most important films. Hayao Miyazaki's epic fantasy broke domestic box office records when it came out in Japan, keeping pace with the success of Hollywood films like Titanic (1997). Princess Mononoke was also the first of Studio Ghibli's films to be distributed...
Snuff
Real Death and Screen Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The phenomenon of so-called 'snuff movies' (films that allegedly document real acts of murder, specifically designed to 'entertain' and sexually arouse the spectator) represents a fascinating socio-cultural paradox. At once unproven, yet accepted by many, as emblematic of the very worst extremes of...