Anthem Press: 226 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Stephen Wall, ‘Trollope and Character’ and Other Essays on Victorian Literature gathers together the principal publications of the distinguished scholar-critic Stephen Wall. Widely regarded for his writings on the Victorian novel, Wall’s major writings about Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens,...
The Key to Musics Genetics
Why Music is Part of Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Christian Lehmann brings his experience as a musicologist, singer and academic to this fascinating journey through the origins of music and its role in human development, culture and society.
Few books on music are as rewarding as this one. Technical terms are clearly described in a way that...
'King Lear' in Context
The Cultural Background
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1606 would have brought to interpreting ‘King Lear’. How did people think about the world, about God, about sin, about kings, about civilized conduct? Learn about the social hierarchy, gender relationships,...
English Language, Literature and Creative Writing
A Practical Guide for Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A practical, easy-to-read guide that aims to help undergraduate students cope with the demands of English and Creative Writing degrees.
Written by lecturers and industry professionals with decades of experience in writing and higher education, this book also includes hints and tips from previous...
The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan
A Cinema of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This first study of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s feature films offers a compelling analysis of the socio-historical contexts of his work. Suranjan Ganguly examines how Kerala’s abrupt displacement from a princely feudal state into twentieth-century modernity has shaped Gopalakrishnan’s complex narratives...
Performing Noncitizenship
Asylum Seekers in Australian Theatre, Film and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This exacting study examines the theatre, film and activism engaged with the representation or participation of asylum seekers and refugees in the twenty-first century. Cox shows how this work has been informed by and indeed contributed to the consolidation of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone...
by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Featuring short stories “Shadow Wife,” the tale of the vengeful swordsman prodigy Hisama Sakakibara, and “The Crawler,” the story of stubborn treasury official Genbei Chitsugi, this masterpiece collection of historical ghost stories depicts the pathos of lower-class samurai who live for and are held captive by the sword.
by Masako Bandō
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In the present day, a young married couple, Asafumi and Shizuka are trying to start a new life, having had to move after losing their jobs. Asafumi decides to join the family business of selling medicines, and a notebook that used to belong to his grandfather Rentarō leads him to explore the mysterious...
by John Regan
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790 explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography in the eighteenth century, deepening our understanding of the relationship between poetry and ideas of progress with sustained attention to aesthetic, historical, antiquarian and prosodic...
Before Einstein
The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
‘Before Einstein’ brings together previous scholarship in the field of nineteenth-century literature and science and greatly expands upon it, offering the first book-length study of not only the scientific and cultural context of the spatial fourth dimension, but also the literary value of four-dimensional...
Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique
Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country’s most politically engaged writers. These terms – recognition, commercial success, political engagement – suggest a relationship to forms...
Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe
Relations, Borders and Invisibilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Over the last two decades, Eastern Europe has experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Attempts to establish liberal democracies, re-orientations from planned to market economics, and a desire to create ‘new states’ and internationally...
American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 194675
From Orientalism to Professionalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This book examines the careers of 53 area experts in the US State Department’s Middle East bureau during the Cold War. Known as Arabists or Middle East hands, they were very different in background, education, and policy outlook from their predecessors, the Orientalists. A highly competitive selection...
The Poverty of Television
The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Based on an extensive ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. Arguing for an anthropological ethics of media,...