Manchester University Press: 1049 books
The Labour Party under Ed Miliband
Trying but failing to renew social democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Was Miliband successful at turning the page on New Labour and at re-imagining social democracy for the post-global financial crisis era? This study maps the ideas - old and new - that were debated and adopted by the Labour Party under Miliband and shows how they were transformed into policy proposals...
Limits of horror
Technology, bodies, Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Horror isn’t what it used to be. Nor are its Gothic avatars. The meaning of monsters, vampires and ghosts has changed significantly over the last two hundred years, as have the mechanisms (from fiction to fantasmagoria, film and video games) through which they are produced and consumed. Limits of...
Abject visions
Powers of horror in art and visual culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This major new volume brings together leading international scholars to debate the continuing importance and relevance of the concept of abjection for the interpretation of modern and contemporary culture. This genuinely interdisciplinary collection includes important new essays that draw on the work...
Adapting philosophy
Jean Baudrillard and *The Matrix Trilogy*
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position. Where previous work in the field has presented the trilogy as a simple ‘beginner’s guide’ to philosophy,...
EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of Modernism
St. Petersburg to Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of modernism critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites, concentrating Russian and Luso-Brazilian cultural...
Truth recovery in Northern Ireland
Critically interpreting the past
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its troubled political history – truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past – yet the void in knowledge and the lack of academic literature with regard to victims’ rights is particularly striking. This book, newly available...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
How do leading Labour figures strive to communicate with and influence the electorate? Why have some proven more successful than others in advancing their ideological arguments? How do orators seek to connect with different audiences in different settings such as parliament, party conference and through...
Reading behind the lines
Postmemory in contemporary British war fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This study applies the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, to novels by contemporary British writers. The first monograph-length study of postmemory in British fiction, it focuses on a group of texts about the World Wars.
by Robert Shaughnessy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's...
Reasserting America in the 1970s
U.S. public diplomacy and the rebuilding of America’s image abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a profound era of transition in the international order. The American defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Bretton...
Making home
Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors
by Jeremy Tambling
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
On Anachronism joins together Shakespeare and Proust as the great writers of love to show that love is always anachronistic, and never more so when it is homosexual. Drawing on Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Levinas and Deleuze, difficult but essential theorists of the subject...
by Peter Barry
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry ‘at work’ in poems
Unfolding Irish landscapes
Tim Robinson, culture and environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose, cartography, visual art and cultural legacy of the award-winning work of cartographer and writer Tim Robinson....