What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what
is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars …

In the beginning of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino carefully sets the scene for
the reading experience of his intensely metafictional novel: Find the most comfortable …

Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international diaspora of jazz, well
underway within a year of the first jazz recordings in 1917. This book studies the processes …

Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying
to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contemporary literature. Make It the Same …

Theatre, Performance and Cognition introduces readers to the key debates, areas of
research, and applications of the cognitive sciences to the humanities, and to theatre and …

Through a selective historical, theoretical, and critical survey of the various uses of the
concept of scaffolding, John Sutton introduces the background to the idea of memory …

'The Çatalhöyük evidence as a whole', write Hodder and Pels,'gives many indications that,
indeed, people began to link themselves to specific pasts, by burying pots, tools, humans …

The ability of an emotional engagement–perhaps an entanglement–to bring the past into the
present is the subject of this paper. If acknowledging that historians feel emotions whilst …

In this paper, I argue that recent research on episodic memory supports a limited defense of
the phenomena that Daniel Wegner has termed transactive memory. Building on …

Contemporary critical instincts, in early modern studies as elsewhere in literary theory, often
dismiss invocations of mind and cognition as inevitably ahistorical, as performing a …