Performing Institutions Geoffrey WoodRooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self organization, activist practices, performance, design, and artistic research. Case studies and critical reflections from Denmark, Ireland, Finland, the UK, Canada, the USA, Chile, Asia and Australasia challenge the concept of the institution, and how we engage with it. 51 b&w illus.
new translations
A critical collection of late-Victorian poetry
In the ensuing battle between provincial and metropolitan values the north east as a modern cultural region took shape
covering the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam during the eleventh and twelfth centuries
David Lewis
Wide-ranging
and the environment
Kunqu is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu (music-drama or “Chinese opera”)
Topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity
and gender contexts of the ghost story and provides a new and important critical re-evaluation of writers including Dickens
Media in Europe Today provides a comprehensive overview of European media in its current state of transformation
The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule