Continuum imprint: 595 books
by Jason Gaiger
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Aesthetics and Painting introduces and opens up current debates and ideas in the aesthetics of painting. At the book's center is an investigation of the complex relationship between what a painting depicts and the means by which it is depicted. The book looks at: how and why painting may be distinguished...
Discourse Analysis
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
This is the new edition of Discourse Analysis: An Introduction, an accessible and widely-used introduction to the analysis of discourse. In its 10 chapters the book examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and genre, discourse...
Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers
Icons of Marginalization in Post World War II Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers explores how nine different "outsider" authors treat the theme of alienation in one of their major works. All the novels under review were written in a limited time span (1942 to 1987, approximately 50 years), and all are structured around a hero or heroine who...
Conversations with Clint
Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979-1983
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Clint Eastwood has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer. These newly discovered conversations with legendary journalist Paul Nelson return us to a point when, still acting in other people's films, Eastwood was honing his directorial craft on a series of inexpensive...
Psycho in the Shower
The History of Cinema's Most Famous Scene
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
"With this book, Philip Skerry makes an ambitious and largely successful effort to restore perspective to the debate that has swirled around Psycho since Hitchcock first ripped back the shower curtain of our expectations in 1960 and plunged his knife into the collective cinematic consciousness."...
Dissensus
On Politics and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2010
Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Rancière's most recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics.
In this fascinating collection, Rancière...
Waiting for Godot
Character Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
This book provides an introductory study of Beckett's
most famous play, dealing not just with the four main
characters but with the pairings that they form, and
the implications of these pairings for the very idea of
character in the play. After locating Godot within the
context of Beckett's work,...
First Sight
The Experience of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
In his latest book, Laurence Freeman shows that the basic experience of contemplation is the experience of faith and that we all need to develop this in order to become fully human. We are all capable of it - indeed we are designed for it.
Freeman re-defines faith for our secular age. He draws...
Bound to be Free
The Paradox of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Freedom is one of the most cherished ideals of Western culture. Yet that ideal is threatened from without and within in alarming ways in our increasingly polarised world. Could it be that at the heart of our secular vision of freedom there is a fatal flaw, which means it can never square the circle...
A Tour of Bones
Facing Fear and Looking for Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Author, academic and adventurer, Denise Inge grew up in a large and rambunctious family on the east coast of America. She crossed the Sahara, charmed snakes in Marrakech and cycled the Adirondack mountains but her latest adventure is an interior one. It starts with the discovery that her house is...
Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan
From Communism to Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Kazakhstan is colossal in size, complicated in its history, colourful in its culture and is a nation state that most outsiders know little of. Much of the existing narrative revolves around the country's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. But his life can only be understood in the context of the...
Chimera's Children
Ethical, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on Human-Nonhuman Experimentation
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
The idea of human-nonhuman combinations has been a recurrent theme throughout the history of humanity. From the myths of the Minotaur and the centaurs in ancient Greece to the dogheads of the Middle Ages right through to the monsters of modern science fiction, these beings have always been a source...
by Father Herbert McCabe
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
A reissue of McCabe's study of the sacraments and what it means to live in the Church and the Church's world, The New Creation explores how human beings can reach real unity with one another and the world around them through the Spirit of Christ.
The New Creation engages with themes like...
The Extra Mile
A 21st century Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Contemporary pilgrim Peter Stanford visits some of the most ancient religious sites in Britain, taking the spiritual temperature of our apparently secular and sceptical age.