Miraculous encounters

Chapter 6, “Parodying Shakespeare’s Euripides in Bartholomew Fair,” argues that Shakespeare’s fascination with Greek tragedy’s female icons led his contemporaries to identify him w...

This reference work, the first of three, brings together extracts from the major writings by Christians and Muslims that reflect their awareness of one another and the attitudes th...

Encounters in the field Applied conversation analysis in professional contexts Societal impact is an integral part of academic research today and researchers are expected to share...

For over four decades, art historian and cultural theorist Adrian Rifkin has been producing visionary and esoteric work, influencing a variety of artists and scholars. Inspired by ...

Ever since Kant's Dreams of a Spirit Seer, encounters with the deceased have been discredited by philosophy. It is not without irony that a follower and confidant of Kant, Gottlob ...

This shorter chapter traces the religion of cabin-class emigrants, who were generally middle-class, so from the section of Victorian society keen to impose their religious and mora...

What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installa...