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Methods play a key role in how we access and subsequently organise data. There is a tendency, however, for scholars to focus primarily on their data at the expense of the methodological acts that bring such data into existence in the first place. The academic study of Islam is certainly no different in this regard. Indeed, many continue to employ established or classic methods that often echo (neo-)orientalist and other political inclinations. This collection, in contrast, offers an alternative, providing a set of multi-disciplinary approaches that focus on how we create, study and disseminate "Islamic data."

Turkish Politics and 'The People' enhances our understanding of 'the popular' in the study of politics through a critical examination of the uses and constructions of 'the people' from the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, to the present. It proposes ways of reading the insertion and operationalisation of the notion of 'the people' as a concept, a political subject, the object of policy and politics over the past century. It assesses the ways 'the people' have been shaped by the history of the republic, and, in turn, have informed ways of visualising society, the country's political culture, institutional architecture and framed the parameters and repertoires of political action.

Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped or dismissed. Metaphors are not inherently harmful or beneficial; instead, they can be used in unexpected and creative ways. This book analyses the illness writing of contemporary North American writers who reimagine and reappropriate the supposedly harmful metaphor 'illness is a fight' and shows how Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Anatole Broyard, David Foster Wallace and other writers turn the fight metaphor into a space of agency, resistance, self-knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. It joins a conversation in Medical Humanities about alternatives to the predominance of narrative and responds to the call for more metaphor literacy and metaphor competence.

This volume examines the activity of seeking justice through literature during the "age of revolutions" (c. 1750-1850), marked by efforts to expand political and human rights and rethink attitudes towards poverty and criminality. While the chapters revolve around legal topics, they concentrate on literary engagements with the experience of the law, revealing how people perceive the fairness of a given legal order and work with and against regulations to adjust the rule of law to the demands of conscience. The volume updates analysis of this conflict between law and equity by drawing on the concept of "epistemic injustice" to describe the harm done to personal identity and collective flourishing by the uneven distribution of resources and the wish to punish breaches of order. It shows how writing and reading can foment inquiries into the meanings of 'justice' and 'equity' and aid efforts to humanize the rule of law.

Looking Beyond Neoliberalism explores how cinema is responding to the economic crisis that sprang to public attention in 2008 and continues to shape our politics and societies. Bringing French and francophone Belgian films into dialogue with carefully selected theories, O'Shaughnessy develops insights and an analytical framework that will become important resources for other scholars of contemporary cinema. This book explores cinema's capacity to register mutations in subjectivity, the material grounds for identity construction and the machinic dimension of neoliberal subjection. It also probes its capacity to imagine alternative economies and identities and an exit from neoliberal labour. By developing fresh insights into political cinema, this book provides engages with cinema's response to neoliberalism in crisis. Professor Martin O'Shaughnessy is the Subject Leader of Film and Television Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Laurent Cantet (2015), La Grande Illusion (2009), The New Face of Political Cinema: French film since 1995 (2007), and Jean Renoir (2000).

Explores American horror remakes produced since 2000 within key cultural, industry and reception contexts Analyses remaking as a form of adaptation and offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding remakes and their prominence in contemporary film production Situates horror remakes within their own industrial, cultural and genre contexts rather than solely comparing them to original versions Case study analyses of a range of key films, distinct cycles, production companies, and thematic approaches Reanimated offers a new perspective on twenty-first century American horror film remakes. Counter to the critical dismissal of genre remakes as derivative rip-offs, Mee approaches the films as intertextual adaptations which have both drawn from and helped to shape horror since 2000. Covering films from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) to Candyman (2021), and identifying distinct cycles, production strategies and patterns of reception, this book illustrates the importance of the remake to contemporary horror cinema and addresses key cultural, industry and reception contexts. Rather than representing the death of horror, Reanimated argues that remaking instead demonstrates the genre's capacity for creative recycling, adaptation and evolution.

Examines the work of British director Joanna Hogg from a film-philosophy perspective

An engaging and provocative treatment of the principal features of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy and their applicability to cultural studies.

Explores the role that talent intermediaries, including producers and talent managers, play in packaging American independent cinema projects

Advances the method of isnād-cum-matn analysis for unravelling complex aspects of early Islamic history

Reconsiders the historical connections between modernism and close reading and argues that new modernist fiction can bring with it new modes of reading Brings close reading into the new modernist studies Considers the changing meanings of reading among contemporary critics of modernist fiction and among mid-century critics Offers sustained readings of three new modernist novels: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, John Rodker's Adolphe 1920, and Mina Loy's Insel Considers how these novels present their literary, cultural, and social contexts to close reading Extends the book's questions to Samuel Beckett's Comment c'est/How It Is and Jean Rhys's short stories The new modernist studies have recognised a range of writers, many of whom are now receiving new attention in criticism and teaching. Yet if an older modernist studies was developed for a different, narrower selection of literary works, how can its tools be brought to this new, widened canon? This book considers how close reading may change as the discipline's subjects of study change. The chapters ask first how modernism was being read around 1930 and at mid-century, and then what close reading might look like now for three new modernist novels -- Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, John Rodker's Adolphe 1920, and Mina Loy's Insel. These novels tend to deflect strategies of reading that were interdependent with the establishment of a more familiar canon of modernist literature at mid-century. Reading this new modernist fiction closely offers a way to open up modernism to other voices.

Pieces of feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature

Analyses the relation between visual culture, militarisation, and liberal governance

[headline]The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day Harryette Mullen is one of the most exciting innovative poets writing today. This landmark volume is the first of its kind, featuring Mullen's works from 1981 to the present day. Her Silver-Tongued Companion collects poems from Recyclopedia, Sleeping with the Dictionary, Urban Tumbleweed, Broken Glish: Five Prose Poems, a sampler of poems from Blues Baby, and several previously uncollected poems. Five compelling scholarly essays accompany the texts, offering new insight into Mullen's works, ranging beyond contemporary poetry to consider Mullen's works in wider contexts. Foregrounding Mullen's formal innovation, this critical edition will be indispensable to scholars and general readers of Mullen's poetry and contemporary avant-garde writing more widely. Her Silver-Tongued Companion offers an expansive and illuminating curation of Mullen's extraordinary work, tracing the remarkable career of one of the major poets of the twenty-first century. [bio]Harryette Mullen is Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a recipient of a Stephen Henderson Award, Jackson Poetry Prize, United States Artist Fellowship, Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Katherine Newman Award for Best Essay on Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry. In 2023 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Georgina Colby is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at University of Westminster. She has published widely in the field of avant-garde writing and feminisms. Her books include Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible (2016), and the collections Reading Experimental Writing (2019) and, as co-editor, The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible (2020).

[headline]Offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters Whilst the ancient Sceptics always struggled to find expressions fit for their doubtful philosophy, in his Essais, Montaigne identified Seneca and Plutarch as two dogmatists who nonetheless had a 'doubtful way of writing'. In this erudite and well-argued book, O'Sullivan argues that Montaigne's engagement with Seneca and Plutarch produced a radical new mode of doubtful thinking and writing that revealed the liquid, shapeshifting movements of the soul. It is a form of writing that recasts authorship as insecure and temporary, and entangles Montaigne's 'simple' truth-telling with doubleness. Reading Seneca and Plutarch not in their familiar garb, but in light of their curious, understudied association with doubt, this book argues for a reassessment of philosophical uncertainty, cognitive contradiction and stylistic ambiguity in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. [bio]Luke O'Sullivan is Career Development Fellow in Early Modern French at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.

[headline]Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller argues that the modernist scene of reading reveals some of our culture's most powerful and enduring fantasies about the role of literature in psychic, social and political life. Focusing on the writing of Virginia Woolf, and reading her novels alongside writing by Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Ethel M. Dell, Melanie Klein, Marion Milner and others, this book challenges our prevailing critical assumptions about modernist reading. Reading modernism alongside psychoanalysis and the bestseller, it aims not only to intervene in debates about modernism, but also to address its legacies in contemporary literature and in the context of increasingly urgent questions about how - and why - we read today. Helen Tyson makes an original intervention to reorient debates about modernism, critique and postcritique. [bio]Helen Tyson is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century British Literature at the University of Sussex, where she is also a Co-Director of the Centre for Modernist Studies. Helen has published in Textual Practice, Literature Compass, Feminist Modernist Studies, Critical Quarterly, Literary Review and the TLS. She is co-editor of the award-winning collection of essays Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life (2021).

An ethnographic study that examines the socio-cultural embeddedness of the Hajj in present day Moroccan society

Explores little-known contexts of the Greek Revolution, especially the previously unrecognised Scottish dimension of the international movement known as Philhellenism

Places Deleuze's cinematic philosophy in dialogue with contemporary digital media and the concept of information Timothy Deane-Freeman traces Deleuze's remarks about the digital to reveal both their origins and implications. In so doing, we encounter a position which is fundamentally ambiguous. On the one hand, digital techniques are intimately related to what Deleuze calls 'societies of control', which deploy them in order to close down potential spaces of creativity and resistance. On the other, digital images take up the mantle of cinema, displacing habitual forms of cognition and forcing us to think in new ways. Deane-Freeman traces these dual impulses through the images of cinema, television and social media, as well as explicating key Deleuzian concepts, including virtuality, immanence and the outside. Timothy Deane-Freeman is an independent scholar currently teaching across various higher education institutions in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

The first book-length academic study of the work of Norwegian director, Joachim Trier

Combining political theory and sociological interviews spanning four countries, Israel, the USA, Canada and the UK, Ilan Zvi Baron explores the Jewish Diaspora/Israel relationship and suggests that instead of looking at Diaspora Jews' relationship with Israel as a matter of loyalty, it is one of obligation. Baron develops an outline for a theory of transnational political obligation and, in the process, provides an alternative way to understand and explore the Diaspora/Israel relationship than one mired in partisan debates about whether or not being a good Jew means supporting Israel. He concludes by arguing that critique of Israel is not just about Israeli policy, but about what it means to be a Diaspora Jew.

Explores Persian tribespeople's changing ethics, feelings and lifeways in tough times

Grounds the origins of the Corinthian Christ group within local social practice

Argues for a rethinking of sexuality as a constellation, rather than substantive identity Western thinking on sexuality has historically affirmed not only a binary division between two sexes, each of which is defined by unique fixed attributes that delineate its essence, but also a privileging of the masculine over the feminine and heteronormative relations over alternatives. By engaging with psychoanalytic theory, phenomenology, feminist and gender theory, and the new materialisms, Gavin Rae shows how this model came under sustained and heterogeneous attack in the twentieth century. Rather than affirm one of these critical trajectories, Rae rethinks the problematic by turning to Walter Benjamin's notion of concepts as constellations to develop an alternative model called sexuality as constellation. Gavin Rae is Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Investigates the Ottoman bureaucrats who resisted the ethnic cleansing in the Smyrna region in 1919-1923

Examines the affective responses to rape in rape-revenge films, and how this response can be harnessed to work through complex questions about rape Extends the interdisciplinary reach of cognitive film studies by creating a dialogue with feminist film theory and feminist philosophy in an exploration of women's anger and the female avenger Focuses particularly on rape revenge films directed by women Covers film and televsion - case studies include the MillenniumTrilogy, Ms 45, Revenge, Twilight Portrait, Promising Young Woman and I May Destroy You Maps on to debates within the #MeToo movement Expanding on the fertile mapping of emotional engagement with fiction in cognitive film theory by narrowing in on anger, an under-explored emotion in film theory The Female Avenger, Women's Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television examines the contentious nature of the female rape survivor turned avenger in rape-revenge stories. The focus is on a trend of contemporary rape-revenge film made by women directors. Vaage asks what it might mean for women in particular to watch female avengers, and suggests that the reason some women filmmakers explore the rape-revenge convention is because it is all about an emotion that is difficult for women, and used to label women as difficult, namely anger. The central premise in this book is that understanding the emotions stirred up by this type of story is crucial in order to understand its recurring, controversial presence in popular culture, and also its potential value. Vaage offers a cultural and political analysis of contemporary rape-revenge film made by women grounded in the psychological and philosophical study of the emotions

Studies the diplomatic and cultural implications of the exchange of symbolic objects in the ancient world

What is the relationship between contemporary capitalism and mental health?