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Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square

Is there any such thing as a new idea? Bryony Coombs discusses similarities in artistic expression, centuries apart.

September 30, 2024
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Hosting the University Press Redux Conference

Publishing

In May 2024, Edinburgh University Press hosted the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) University Press Redux Conference.…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJune 28, 2024

A Nation Built on Books: The Role of Libraries in Modern Scotland

The facade of the National Library of Scotland.

Language and Literature / Publishing / Scottish History / Scottish Literature / Scottish Studies

Scotland's National Librarian discusses the place of libraries in our cultural landscape.

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJune 18, 2024

How to be a Jacobean courtier – the ambitious man’s guide

Language and Literature / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

The author of Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters explains what the story of Thomas Overbury reveals about success at the court of James VI and I.

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJune 14, 2024

Should we compare the violence of rape, war, racism, and ecocide?

A portion of an aged magazine clipping shows a woman pointing two guns towards the viewer, with the words 'neither victim nor assassin' above

Gender Studies / Politics

…pacifist feminists have long argued we must by Selina Gallo-Cruz Content warning: mentions of rape and sexual harassment Rape, war,…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJune 13, 2024

EUP 75: Our Literature Publishing at Edinburgh University Press

Language and Literature / Publishing

Discover our Literature list, the heart of publishing at Edinburgh University Press, celebrating 75 years of excellence. Explore foundational works like the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and innovative publications in Scottish literature, Modernism, Gothic Studies, Shakespeare and more, highlighting both renowned and underrepresented authors.

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJune 5, 2024

Q&A with the author of Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion

Language and Literature / Literary Studies / Literary Theory / Modernism / Post 19th Century Literary Studies

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf studies a specific motif in modernist literature: the act of looking at portrait photographs.

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnMay 17, 2024

As Mīr Ways Khān slept: miraculous possibilities in Afghan history

History / Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

What happens when we view supernatural happenings as a wellspring of historical possibilities, rather than as excess to be cut away?

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnMay 17, 2024

EUP 75: Our Publishing in Film Studies

Cultural Studies / Film and TV / Publishing

Discover the story of Film Studies at Edinburgh University Press – the first publications, the books that changed the field and what you can expect to see in future

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnMay 13, 2024

From the Book Corner: The Journal of British Cinema and Television

Cultural Studies / Film and TV

by Misha Nguyen, Book Reviews Editorial Assistant (De Montfort University) The upcoming Spring and Summer editions of the Journal of…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnMay 9, 2024

Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square