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Indirectness
We are said to live in a ‘post-truth’ era, yet our time is equally marked by an obsession with reality. From new realism in philosophy to the cult of authenticity in culture and …
Pierre Schaeffer and the Ethics of Experimental Music Research
What should musicians and their audiences do with evolving broadcast and recording technologies? This is the question that occupied French writer and engineer Pierre Schaeffer from …
Constructing Female Terrorism
News media reporting on female political violence invariably portrays the perpetrators as duped, naive and exploited, acting from personal rather than political motivations, as …
Transnational Moroccan Cinema
Since the early 2000s, Moroccan cinema has emerged as a major force in the Maghreb and African cinema, driven by digital technologies, international collaborations and …
Development of Commercial Law in Scotland, Volume 1
This edited collection is the first volume of a series that examines the development of commercial law in Scotland. This volume focuses on the meta-themes in the shaping of …
Maritime Modernism
By tracing maritime settings and contexts across modernist literature in Britain and Ireland, Maritime Modernism: Seas, Coasts and Islands in British and Irish Literature reveals …
Sovereign Violences of Racial Terror
Alfred Frankowski critically examines how the spatiality of lynching violence continues as a politics and functions as an expression of political sovereignty.He argues that terror …
Edinburgh Companion to Curatorial Futures
What function do concepts like the future and futurity play in the field of curating and the curatorial? The Edinburgh Companion to Curatorial Futures is the first curatorial …
Music of Absence
This collection of essays studies how music of the twenty-first century resonates with sentiments of despondency and loss in the context of the multiple existential crises of the …
Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture
This book explores the fictional figure of the drunkard and why it was so important to Victorian thinking about what it meant to be human. From Jos’s life-changing hangover in …
Arabic Language
This is the third edition, fully revised and updated, of this indispensable introduction to Arabic linguistics.New for this edition:• Presents new perspectives on the history of …
Before the Qur'an
The question of the Qur’an’s geographical and cultural context has been hotly debated in the last few decades. Several authors have proposed that its place of origin may be …