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[headline]Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal intersections between the two approaches to consider the ethical implications of decisions made when artists and scholars appropriate Shakespeare. The essays in this book, written by established and emerging scholars in subfields such as premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, performance studies, adaptation/appropriation studies and fan studies, demonstrate how remaking the plays across time, cultures or media changes the nature both of what Shakespeare promises and the expectations of those promised Shakespeare. Using examples such as rap music, popular television, theatre history and twentieth-century poetry, this collection argues that understanding Shakespeare at different intersections between performance and appropriation requires continuously negotiating what is signified through Shakespeare to the communities that use and consume him. [bios]Louise Geddes is Professor of English at Adelphi University, USA. Kathryn Vomero Santos is Assistant Professor of English and co-director of the Humanities Collective at Trinity University, USA. Geoffrey Way is the Manager of Publishing Futures for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and ACMRS Press, where he serves as the Managing Editor for The Sundial and Borrowers and Lenders.

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions

In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze argued that atheism is not a drama but 'the philosopher's serenity and philosophy's achievement.' LeRon Shults illustrates the uses and effects of an 'atheist machine' throughout Deleuze's work, demonstrating its central role in his philosophical achievements in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Shults also brings Deleuze's philosophy into dialogue with recent advances in computational social simulation, specifically multi-agent artificial intelligence modelling. Framing his argument in the context of empirical findings and theoretical developments in the scientific study of religion, he points toward the potentially creative role of atheist assemblages in addressing societal challenges associated with the Anthropocene. F. LeRon Shults is Professor at the Institute for Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder and Research Professor at the NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems in Kristiansand, Norway.

Examines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987

Examines how the imagination of space in the early modern period influenced the development of the modern concept of political universalism

Uses The Innocence of Muslims controversy as a starting point for exploring Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan.

Examines the development in Sufism in Western Europe in the 21st Century

A history and analysis of how films have figured in TV programming in the UK and the role that British television services have played in changing the nature of film entertainment

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature

Traces changing approaches to governing migrants in the Ottoman Empire during the global era of mass migration through the term muhacir (migrant).

Illuminates the core beliefs of twentieth-century Arab philosophers in response to Western ideas of modernisation

Puts forward a bold, polemical interpretation of democracy as an emancipatory political project through the work of Jacques Rancière, Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour. This book explores an often neglected current in contemporary French political thought that challenges the limits of the concept of democracy. It situates the projects of Jacques Rancière, Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour in relation to each other, as well as to the larger philosophical question of the nature of democracy itself. In doing so, Bryan Nelson illuminates democracy's potential as a profound emancipatory and transformative project, offering an unprecedented challenge to modes of domination, strategies of inequality and hierarchies of all kinds. Against prevailing interpretations, the author draws on the central concepts, problems and polemics in the works of Rancière, Lefort and Abensour to develop a bold conception of democracy that allows us to rethink its character, power and broader social and political implications. Bryan Nelson is a Liberal Arts & Sciences Professor at Humber College, Toronto, Canada.

Analyses the struggles for accountability and the resurgence of militarism in Brazil

Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.

Examines dramatic acts of nostalgia as rhetorical moves designed to precipitate future action.

The first booklength literarygeographical study of late modernist poetry.

Provides the first booklength analysis of modernism and the Anthropocene.

Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy.

A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture.