Edinburgh University Press

Joined: January 11, 2023
Articles: 253

Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector Semantics

Kurzynski discusses how poetry extends beyond sound and rhythm and taps into a deeper network of meanings.

November 12, 2025
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Scottish History, Scottish Studies

‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement

Watercolour landscape showing a coastline with building and mine shafts dotted along the shore. In the background there are fields leading to hills.

Donald Adamson and Robert Yates on the revolutionary 'Moat Pit' of Sir George Bruce, and the global significance it brought to industry in Culross

Edinburgh University Press
April 16, 2025

Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Literary Theory, Post 19th Century Literary Studies

Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan discuss their exciting new essay collection on the work of Irish author James Joyce.

Edinburgh University Press
April 11, 2025

Language and Literature, Literary Studies

5 reasons why Dickens wasn’t a bad playwright

The editors of The Plays of Charles Dickens discuss five arguments in defense of Dickens's dramatic works.

Edinburgh University Press
April 10, 2025

Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Literary Theory

Is There Such a Thing as an Irish Female Child?

Jane Elizabeth Dougherty discusses the Irish female developmental story.

Edinburgh University Press
April 9, 2025

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Politics

The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias

Photograph of a concrete underpass with spots of sunlight shining on the walls

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa

Edinburgh University Press
April 4, 2025

Classics and Ancient History, Political Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Religious History

Towards a Promethean European Cosmo-politeia

A close-up photograph of a fresco in the monastery of Saint John the Theologian, Greece

Michail Theodosiadis explores what the European Union can learn from the transcendent values of the Byzantine Empire.

Edinburgh University Press
March 28, 2025

Cultural Studies, Language and Literature, Linguistics, Scottish Studies

New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland: A Q&A with Stuart Dunmore

Landscape view looking out across a large body of water. Land is just visible on the horizon, there is a line of trees on the shore, and in the immediate foreground there is a rough stone wall.

Stuart Dunmore discusses his motivations for researching new Gaelic speakers, and the incredible places and experiences this led to.

Cultural Studies, Scots Law, Scottish History, Scottish Studies

Echoes of Infamy: Four Notorious Crimes of Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Black and white line drawing showing a chaotic scene with several horses, riders and a carriage on grass. The riders are fighting with each other, some holding guns or swords.

Allan Kennedy gives an introduction to criminality in 17th-century Scotland with four infamous crimes.

Edinburgh University Press
March 20, 2025

Language and Literature, Linguistics, Literary Theory

Techno-Cognitivism: Reimagining Literature in the Age of Language Models

Maciej Kurzynski discusses how embracing new language models can revolutionise literary studies.

Edinburgh University Press
March 19, 2025

Deleuzian Philosophy, Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy and Religion

A Life Becoming Deleuzian

close-up photograph of a saxophonist playing with a band

Eugene W. Holland explores how he became (and continues to become) Deleuzian, from graduate school through to his most recent publications.

Edinburgh University Press
March 18, 2025