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Scholars, Travels, Archives: Greek History and Culture through the British School at Athens
edited by M. Llewellyn Smith, P.M. Kitromilides, and E. Calligas
The British School at Athens is renowned for its discoveries in Bronze Age and Classical archaeology. This book reveals for the first time that in parallel with this story of archaeology and the classics, another theme runs persistently through the history of the School from its foundation in 1886. This is the contribution of British scholars to the study of Byzantine and modern Greek culture, art and architecture, anthropology, geography, ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £55.00, Our Price GB £9.95

France/China: Intercultural Imaginings
by Alex Hughes
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their année de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the Jesuits, who arrived in LEmpire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and the Tel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took them to the Peoples Republic in 1974. Symptomatic, too, are the narrative ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00

Bakhtin between East and West: Cross-Cultural Transmission
by Karine Zbinden
Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) has had an enormous influence on literary studies and cultural theory. Bakhtin between East and West: Cross-Cultural Transmission looks beyond the concepts of carnival and dialogue and traces for the first time the transformation of the Bakhtin Circle's thought from its introduction to the West in Julia Kristeva's seminal late-1960s theory of intertextuality, through Tzvetan Todorov's landmark study and on to ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture
edited by Michael Caesar and Marina Spunta
In our highly literate culture, orality is all-pervasive. Different kinds of media and performance - theatre, film, television, story-telling, structured play - make us ask what is the relation between improvisation and pre-meditation, between transcription and textualization, between rehearsal, recollection and re-narration. The challenge of writing orality has a technical side - how do young writers 'represent' the spoken language of their ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970's
edited by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio
Commonly referred to collectively as the years of lead, the 1970s have been seen as a self-contained parenthesis in Italian history, which was dominated by political violence and terrorism. The seventeen essays in this wide-ranging collection adopt different scholarly perspectives to challenge this monolithic view and uncover the complexity of the decade, probing into its many facets while also re-evaluating political conflict. The volume brings ...
Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £48.00

The Anatomy of Laughter
edited by Toby Garfitt, Edith McMorran, and Jane Taylor
What is laughter - physiologically, psychologically, metaphysically, linguistically, artistically? And what about its politics and ideology? Is laughter culture-specific? Does it travel? These questions were addressed in two colloquia organized by TRIO (Translation Research in Oxford) at St Hugh's College, Oxford, in 2001-2. The selected essays in this volume explore the conditions governing the production and survival of laughter. The visual ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £42.50, Our Price GB £14.99

Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture
edited by Stephanie Trigg
This collection is designed to open up a new field of acadamic and general interest: Australian medievalism. That is, the heritage and continuing influence of medieval and gothic themes, ideas and narratives in Australian culture. Geographically removed from Europe, and distinguished by its eighteeth-century colonial settlement, Australia is a fascinating testing-ground on which to explore the cultural residues of medieval heritage and tradition. ...
Hardback. Price GB £51.00

Crossing Fields in Modern Spanish Culture
by Federico Bonaddion, Xon de Ros
Modern Spanish culture is bold and experimental, expressing a disregard for generic boundaries and formal conventions. In these essays, leading Hispanists explore the dialogue and interrelation between cultural discourses and artistic practices in a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from the perspectives of literary criticism, cultural analysis, media studies, politics and the history of art. The contributors address fundamental ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £14.99

Veni vidi vici: Geflügelte Worte aus dem Griechischen und Lateinischen
by Klaus Bartels
Hardback. Price GB £18.50

Midsummer: A Cultural Sub-Text from Chretien de Troyes to Jean Michel (TCNE 3)
by S. Billington
Summer festivals commemorating the solstice or the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist traditionally turned into celebrations of disorder and rebellion, outside the control of the church. Billington shows how summer festivities pervaded all areas ...
Hardback. Price GB £47.00