Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This book offers a readable introduction to the main aspects of thought experimenting in philosophy and science (together with related imaginative activities in mathematics and linguistics).

This book provides fresh insight into the creative practice developed by Paul McCartney over his extended career as a songwriter, record producer and performing musician.

This book discusses key works by important writers from Church of Ireland backgrounds (from Farquhar and Swift to Beckett and Bardwell), in order to demonstrate that writers from this Irish subculture have a unique socio-political viewpoint which is imperfectly understood.

Emotional Ethics of The Hunger Games expands the 'ethical turn' in Film Studies by analysing emotions as a source of ethical knowledge in The Hunger Games films.

This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality.

Hysteria is alive and well in our present time and is apparently spreading contagiously: especially the second decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever-increasing interest in the term.

This book repairs and revives the Theory of Knowledge research program of Russell's Principia era.

This edited collection explores the narrative, genre, nostalgia and fandoms of the phenomenally successful Netflix original series, Stranger Things.

This book is the first comprehensive attempt to identify the deeper causes that have shaped contemporary behaviour patterns and motivations among football fans in Poland.

This edited collection from leading scholars in the fields of media, communications, cultural studies and a number of aligned areas looks to the intersection of capitalism, crime and the media.

This book investigates desert islands in postwar anglophone popular culture, exploring representations in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, cinema, video games, and comedy, drama and reality television.

This book explores why word of mouth is the most important determinant of a movie's success.

Poker is a centuries-old American game.

Depictions of cross generational relationships have always been present in popular cinema.

By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted.

Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events?

This book focuses on the "e;dark side"e; of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams.

Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century's most successful double-act.

By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted.

This book examines key issues in Christianity from various philosophical points of view.

This book collects 13 papers that explore Wittgenstein's philosophy throughout the different stages of his career.