The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory, Stuart Sim

• Explores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological arts
• Provides an opportunity to hear new thinking from established scholars as well as showcasing work by new scholars

• Highlights new definitions of the Gothic from a wide variety of perspectives

The Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century. From architecture, painting and sculpture through music, ballet, opera and dance to installation art and the graphic novel, each of the 33 chapters reflects on and weighs in on the ways in which the Gothic is taken up in the art forms and modes under examination. An Introduction discusses Gothic as a changing cultural form across the centuries with deep psychological roots. This is followed by sections on: architectural arts; the visual arts; music and the performance arts; the literary arts; and media and cultural arts.

This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including Literature, Philosophy, Art, Biosemiotics, and Geography, set the agenda for Animal Studies today. Rather than a narrow specialism, the 35 newly commissioned essays in this book show how we think of other animals to be intrinsic to fields as major as ethics, economies as widespread as capitalism and relations as common as friendship.
The volume contains original, cutting-edge research and opens up new methods, alignments, directions as well as challenges for the future of Animal Studies. Uniquely, the chapters each focus on a single topic, from 'Abjection' to 'Voice' and from 'Affection' to 'Technology', thus embedding the animal question as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplines.

Key Features

• Provides in one work prominent scholars in animal studies and their reflections on the trajectory of the field
• Embeds the 'animal question' as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplines
• Brings discourses from the sciences into dialogue with the arts and humanities
• Opens up new methods, alignments, directions and challenges for the future of animal studies
• Afterword from Cary Wolfe (Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University)

• Offers research essays by literary specialists and musicologists that provides access to the best current interdisciplinary scholarship on connections between literature and music
• Includes five historical sections from the Middle Ages to the present, with editorial introductions to enhance understanding of relationships between literature and music in each period
• Charts and extends work in this expanding interdisciplinary field to provide an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media

Bringing together seventy-one newly commissioned original chapters by literary specialists and musicologists, this book presents the most recent interdisciplinary research into literature and music. In five parts, the chapters cover the Middle Ages to the present. The volume introduction and methodology chapters define key concepts for investigating the interdependence of these two art forms and a concluding chapter looks to the future of this interdisciplinary field. An editorial introduction to each historical part explains the main features of the relationships between literature and music in the period and outlines recent developments in scholarship. Contributions represent a multiplicity of approaches: theoretical, contextual and close reading. Case studies reach beyond literature and music to engage with related fields including philosophy, history of science, theatre, broadcast media and popular culture.

This trailblazing companion charts and extends the work in this expanding interdisciplinary field and is an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media.

• Offers the most comprehensive assessment yet of Lawrence's relationship with the arts　
• Places Lawrence in the context of the latest developments in fields including life writing, posthumanism, queer theory, and technology studies
• Considers Lawrence's continued reception in other people's art, and the nature of his relevance today

This book includes twenty-eight innovative chapters by specialists from across the arts, reassessing Lawrence's relationship to aesthetic categories and specific art forms in their historical and critical contexts. A new picture of Lawrence as an artist emerges, expanding from traditional areas of enquiry in prose and poetry into the fields of drama, painting, sculpture, music, architecture, dance, historiography, life writing and queer aesthetics. The Companion presents original research on topics such as Lawrence's politics in his art, his representations of technology, his practice of revising and rewriting, and the relationship between his criticism and creation of prose, poetry and painting. This interdisciplinary Companion also makes a strong case for Lawrence's continuing relevance and aesthetic power, as represented by case studies of his afterlives in biofiction, cinema, musical settings and portraiture.