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The Trojan Horse

The Growth of Commercial Sponsorship

by Dr Deborah Philips, Prof. Garry Whannel ...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as ... Read more

$38.09 USD

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as
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And This Is My Friend Sandy

Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend, London Theatre and Gay Culture

by Dr Deborah Philips ...

This book situates the production of The Boy Friend and the Players' Theatre in the context of a post-war London and reads The Boy Friend, and Wilson's later work, as exercises in contemporary camp. It argues for Wilson as a significant and transitional figure both for musical theatre and for modes of homosexuality in the context of the pre-Wolfenden 1950s.Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend is one of ... Read more

$23.89 USD

This book situates the production of The Boy Friend and the Players' Theatre in the context of a post-war London and reads The Boy Friend, and Wilson's later work, as exercises in contemporary camp. It argues for Wilson as a significant and transitional figure both for musical theatre and for modes of homosexuality in the context of the pre-Wolfenden 1950s.Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend is one of
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Writing Well: Creative Writing and Mental Health

by Deborah Philips, Debra Penman, Liz Linnington ...

Writing Well is a practical handbook of creative writing exercises which forms the basis of an indirect, nonconfrontational approach specifically intended for therapeutic use within the mental health field. Although people with emotional or psychological problems can find creative writing particularly difficult and unsettling, when writing courses are sensitively designed they are known to be of ... Read more

$32.79 USD

Writing Well is a practical handbook of creative writing exercises which forms the basis of an indirect, nonconfrontational approach specifically intended for therapeutic use within the mental health field. Although people with emotional or psychological problems can find creative writing particularly difficult and unsettling, when writing courses are sensitively designed they are known to be of
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DIY Utopia

Cultural Imagination and the Remaking of the Possible

by Clovis Bergère, Lisa Daily, Linda Doyle, Catherine D'Ignazio, Jessica Foley, Lorenzo Giannini, Martha Kuhlman, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Deborah Philips, Rob Walker, Giorgia Aiello, Stephen Duncombe, Jeremy Hunsinger, Joan Faber McAlister ...

At first glance, contemporary popular culture, filled with bleak images of the future, seems to have given up on the possibility of positive collective change. Below the surface, however, alternative culture is rife with artist-led projects, activist movements, and subcultural communities of interest that seek to spark the collective imagination and to encourage hunger for alternatives. More ... Read more

$105.29 USD

At first glance, contemporary popular culture, filled with bleak images of the future, seems to have given up on the possibility of positive collective change. Below the surface, however, alternative culture is rife with artist-led projects, activist movements, and subcultural communities of interest that seek to spark the collective imagination and to encourage hunger for alternatives. More
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Women's Fiction

From 1945 to Today

by Dr Deborah Philips ...

Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present.Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and ... Read more

$33.19 USD

Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present.Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and
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God, Gender and the Bible

by Deborah Sawyer ...

Series series Biblical Limits
Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture. Such texts offer striking parallels to contemporary gender theories (particularly those of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler), which have unravelled given notions of power and ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture. Such texts offer striking parallels to contemporary gender theories (particularly those of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler), which have unravelled given notions of power and
... Read more
Women Experimenting in Theatre

Early Modern to Contemporary

Edited by Kate Aughterson, Deborah Philips ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This collection of essays, covering a broad historical range, shows that women working in theatre and drama since the time of Aphra Behn have been engaged in pushing the boundaries of conventional representation and dramaturgical convention. Collectively the authors show that women have used performing spaces as a channel for both political and personal radicalism - one that has demanded and ... Read more

$116.99 USD

This collection of essays, covering a broad historical range, shows that women working in theatre and drama since the time of Aphra Behn have been engaged in pushing the boundaries of conventional representation and dramaturgical convention. Collectively the authors show that women have used performing spaces as a channel for both political and personal radicalism - one that has demanded and
... Read more
Women Writers and Experimental Narratives

Early Modern to Contemporary

Edited by Kate Aughterson, Deborah Philips ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book explores the history of women’s engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a way of critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at the same time, as a way to participate in such spaces. Experimentation—of style, mode, voice, genre and language—has enabled women writers to be ... Read more

$107.09 USD

This book explores the history of women’s engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a way of critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at the same time, as a way to participate in such spaces. Experimentation—of style, mode, voice, genre and language—has enabled women writers to be
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Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection

30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot

by Robert Macfarlane, Deborah Levy, Jenn Ashworth, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Donkor, Michèle Roberts, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Ross Raisin, Owen Sheers, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nat Segnit, Sophie Coulombeau, Christopher Hope, Scarlett Thomas, Erica Wagner, Nicola Barker, Ian Samson, Kirsty Gunn, Philip Hoare ...

Unabridged

6 hours 48 min

22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observationsIn these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps ... Read more

$19.11 USD

22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observationsIn these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps
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Queen of Mercy

by Natania Barron ...

Narrated by Deborah Balm, Philip Battley ...

Series series Queens of Fate Trilogy
Unabridged

16 hours

The gorgeous final chapter in the critically-acclaimed female-led Arthurian Fantasy Romance trilogy"The first born of Arthur will bring his end."When the high priestess Vyvian du Lac dies, Morgen le Fay—acolyte to the priestess, midwife to queens, apprentice to Merlin—is left mysteriously bereft of magic. She finds herself transported to the wild, ancient forest of Brocéliande, which she must ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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The gorgeous final chapter in the critically-acclaimed female-led Arthurian Fantasy Romance trilogy"The first born of Arthur will bring his end."When the high priestess Vyvian du Lac dies, Morgen le Fay—acolyte to the priestess, midwife to queens, apprentice to Merlin—is left mysteriously bereft of magic. She finds herself transported to the wild, ancient forest of Brocéliande, which she must
... Read more

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Queen of Fury

by Natania Barron ...

Narrated by Philip Battley, Lucy Rayner ...

Series series Queens of Fate Trilogy
Unabridged

16 hours 35 min

The gorgeous second volume in Barron's female-led Arthurian romantic fantasy trilogy!One by one the kings of Braetan kneel before King Arthur under a banner of peace.Hwyfar, eldest daughter of King Leodegraunce and famed libertine of Carelon, has returned to Avillion to find her father ruined by madness and a usurper poised to take the throne. Reluctantly she takes the mantle of Queen Regent to ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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The gorgeous second volume in Barron's female-led Arthurian romantic fantasy trilogy!One by one the kings of Braetan kneel before King Arthur under a banner of peace.Hwyfar, eldest daughter of King Leodegraunce and famed libertine of Carelon, has returned to Avillion to find her father ruined by madness and a usurper poised to take the throne. Reluctantly she takes the mantle of Queen Regent to
... Read more

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The Life of Crime

Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators

by Martin Edwards ...

Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards.‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime writing.’ The TimesIn the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the ... Read more

$16.99 USD

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Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards.‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime writing.’ The TimesIn the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the
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