Edited Books by Our People
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2021
Elizabeth Hamilton Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier
Edited by: Anna Johnston and Elizabeth Webby
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:8e7a9c7
Publisher: Sydney University Press 2021
Details: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796–1880) arrived in Sydney in 1838 and became almost immediately notorious for her poem “The Aboriginal Mother,” written in response to the infamous Myall Creek massacre. She published more poetry in colonial newspapers during her lifetime, but for the century following her death her work was largely neglected. In recent years, however, critical interest in Dunlop has increased, in Australia and internationally and in a range of fields, including literary studies; settler, postcolonial and imperial studies; and Indigenous studies.
The Somatechnics of Life and Death: Towards a New Feminist Biopolitics
Edited by: Elizabeth Stephens and Karin Sellberg
Espace link: Coming soon
Publisher: Routledge 2021
What is ‘life’ and how do we define its boundaries? Is life immeasurable or are there levels of ‘liveliness’? How should we relate to entities that are not technically alive at all? As the world becomes increasingly technologized, questions about what counts as ‘life’ and ‘living’ have become a key field of inquiry in contemporary philosophical and arts discourse. As Mel Chen acknowledges in Animacies (2012), the "continued rethinking of life and death’s proper boundaries" has increasingly been recognized as a priority in twenty-first-century North American, European and Australasian critical theory. Indeed, the contributors of this volume go as far as to argue that the question of life has become the central problematic of recent feminist biopolitics, alongside discussions of scientific ethics and technological/organic power relationships.
Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction
Edited by: Kim Wilkins and Samantha J.Rayner
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:00f26ae
Publisher: UCL Press 2021
Details: A collection of essays on the career of historical novelist Georgette Heyer. The historical works of Georgette Heyer inspire a fiercely loyal, international readership, including literary figures such as A. S. Byatt and Stephen Fry. This book brings together an eclectic range of scholars to explore the contexts of Heyer's career. Drawing upon scholarship on Heyer and her contemporaries, the volume illustrates the ways in which her work sits in a chain of influence and why it remains pertinent to current conversations on books and publishing in the twenty-first century.
2020
Shakespeare and the Supernatural
Edited by: Victoria Bladen and Yan Brailowsky
Publisher: Manchester University Press 2020
Details: Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle with love and a magus conjures a tempest from the elements. Although written and performed for early modern audiences, for whom the supernatural, whether sacred, demonic or folkloric, was part of the fabric of everyday life, the supernatural in Shakespeare continues to enthrall audiences and readers, and maintains its power to raise a range of questions in contemporary contexts.
Fields, Capitals, Habitus: Australian Culture, Inequalities and Social Divisions
Edited by: Tony Bennett, David Carter, Modesto Gayo, Michelle Kelly and Greg Noble
Publisher: Routledge 2020
Details: Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia. Presenting the findings of a detailed national survey of Australian cultural tastes and practices, it demonstrates the pivotal significance of the role culture plays at the intersections of a range of social divisions and inequalities: between classes, age cohorts, ethnicities, genders, city and country, and the relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
2019
The persistence of melancholia in arts and culture
Edited by: Andrea Bubenik
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:32dcecc
Publisher: Routledge 2019
Details: This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas. Inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia I (1514)—the first visual representation of artistic melancholy—this volume brings together contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Topics include: Melencolia I and its reception; how melancholia inhabits landscapes, soundscapes, figures and objects; melancholia in medical and psychological contexts; how melancholia both enables and troubles artistic creation; and Sigmund Freud’s essay "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917).
Eurovision and Australia : interdisciplinary perspectives from Down Under
Edited by: Chris Hay and Jessica Carniel
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:da74b5c
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Details: This book investigates Australia’s relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest over time and place, from its first screening on SBS in 1983 to Australia's inaugural national selection in 2019. Beginning with an overview of Australia’s Eurovision history, the contributions explore the contest’s role in Australian political participation and international relations; its significance for Australia’s diverse communities, including migrants and the LGBTQIA+ community; racialised and gendered representations of Australianness; changing ideas of liveness in watching the event; and a reflection on teaching Australia’s first undergraduate course dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest. The collection brings together a group of scholar-fans from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives — including history, politics, cultural studies, performance studies, and musicology — to explore Australia’s transition from observer to participant in the first thirty-six years of its love affair with the Eurovision Song Contest.
2018
Public Interest Communication: Critical Debates and Global Contexts
Edited by: Jane Johnston and Magda Pieczka
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:d0ccae8
Publisher: Routledge 2018
Details: Communication has become the technology of public interest, demanding a re-examination of the key concept of public in both public relations and communication theory. This book defines a new concept of public interest communication, combining the conflict, negotiation and adaptation inherent in public interest, with a critical approach to communication management and public relations. Combining conceptual discussions about public theories of language with the tension between the public and private interests for public relations professionals, the book uses case studies to explore the negotiation of conflicting interests and the construction of the public interest within systems of governance at local, national and international levels. Public interest communication is identified within social and cultural contexts that resonate globally - health, community, media and the environment - each representing interest conflicts within the changing global environment.
2015
Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England
Edited by: Marcus Harmes and Victoria Bladen
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:350353
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Details: Divided into three sections - ‘Magic at Court’, ‘Performance, Text and Language’ and ‘Witchcraft, the Devil and the Body’ - the volume offers a broad cultural approach to the subject that reflects current research by a range of early modern scholars from the disciplines of history and literature. By bringing scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue, the case studies presented here generate fresh insights within and between disciplines and different methodologies and approaches, which are mutually illuminating.
Courting blakness: recalibrating knowledge in the sandstone university
Edited by: Fiona Foley, Fiona Nicoll and Louise Martin-Chew
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:337516
Publisher: UQP 2015
Details: This book will document the themes addressed in the installation and the Courting Blakness symposium (5-6 September 2014) with a discussion of art that speaks to concepts of nationhood and the tensions that arise from unresolved sovereignty in Australia. Chapters will explore the event and its outcomes, the ideas canvassed in the papers presented, and the innovation in the nature of the event.
The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulous
Edited by: Angelos Koutsourakis and Mark Steven
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:371315
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Details: The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is the first critical assessment of one of the leading figures of modernist European art cinema. Assessing his complete works, this groundbreaking collection brings together a team of internationally regarded experts and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, to provide a definitive account of Angelopoulos' formal reactions to the historical events that determined life during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Refusing to restrict its approach to the confines of the Greek national film industry, the book approaches his work as representative of modernism more generally, and in particular of the modernist imperative to document its allusive historical objects through artistic innovation. Retrospective in nature, The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos argues that Angelopoulos' films are not emblems of a bygone historical and cultural era or abstract exercises in artistic style, but are foreshadowing documents that speak to the political complexities and economic contradictions of the present.
2014
New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice
Edited by: Berndaette Cochrane and Katalin Trencsenyi
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:724072
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing 2014
Details: Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had corresponding implications for dramaturgy. The way we think about theatre and performance today has changed our approaches to theatre making and composition. Emerging new aesthetics and new areas of dramaturgical work such as live art, devised and physical theatre, experimental performance, and dance demand new approaches and sensibilities. New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice is the first book to explore new dramaturgy in depth, and considers how our thinking about dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg has been transformed.
Cognitive Media Theory
Edited by: Ted Nannicelli and Paul Taberham
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:323260
Publisher: Routledge 2014
Details: Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive Media Theory takes up this question in the context of film and media studies. This collection of essays by internationally recognized researchers in film and media studies, psychology, and philosophy offers film and media scholars and advanced students an introduction to contemporary cognitive media theory—an approach to the study of diverse media forms and content that draws upon both the methods and explanations of the sciences and the humanities. Exploring topics that range from color perception to the moral appraisal of characters to our interactive engagement with videogames, Cognitive Media Theory showcases the richness and diversity of cognitivist research. This volume will be of interest not only to students and scholars of film and media, but to anyone interested in the possibility of a productive relationship between the sciences and humanities.
2013
Re-reading Derrida: Perspectives on Mourning and Its Hospitalities
Edited by: Judith Seaboyer and Tony Thwaites
Espace link: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:295053
Publisher: Lexington-Rowman and Littlefield 2013
Details: Anchoring the book are two major essays on mourning by two of the best-known Derridean thinkers today, who were close friends of Derrida: J. Hillis Miller and Derek Attridge. Each of the other essays has been written to respond to these, and—in a novel move—to at least two of the other contributions. As a result, the very form of the book is a way of exploring the thematics of hospitality, and the ways in which disciplines open themselves to one another, extending lines of flight across the archipelagos of knowledge—the politics of the memorial, poetry, trauma, film, neoliberalism, the novel, and psychoanalysis.