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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction SECTION 1: THEORY - PUTTING WOMEN'S LIVES INTO PRINT: FEMINIST ETHICS, METHODOLOGIES & EPISTEMOLOGIES How Do We Know Past Lives? Methodological and Epistemological Matters Involving Prince Philip, the...

Introduction PART ONE: REPRESENTATION, EXPRESSION AND PHANTASY Representation, Depiction and Portrayal in Film Expression, Projection and Style in Film Phantasy PART TWO: ADRIAN STOKES - CARVING AND MODELLING Stokes: The Carving and Modelling Modes A...

Introduction: The Voice of Someone - Lacan and the Alienation of Language - Barthes and the Pleasures of Alienation - Foucault and the Archeology of Alienation - Derrida and the Wholly Other - Conclusion: Recontextualizations - Notes - Bibliography -...

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Conclusion - Notes - Works Cited - Index

Notes on Contributors Introduction Holocaust-genres and the Turn to History; B.Lang Holocaust Writing in Context: Italy 1945 - 1947; R.Gordon Representations of the Holocaust in Women's Testimony; A.Hardman Between Repulsion and Attraction: George...

Introduction Edgar Allen Poe: The Domain of Artifice Van Gogh and Hofmannsthal: Colours and Silence Baudelaire, Haussmann, Fustel de Coulanges: The Modern Metropolis and the Ancient City Trieste as Frontier: From Slataper to Del Giudice and Bazlen Also...

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Welsh Myth in Fiction: A Place of the Mind and the Spirit - Welsh Myth and the Sense of Belonging - Eternal Triangles and the Cycles of Myth - Reconstructing the Present for the Stories of the Past - Children from...

Acknowledgements - Notes - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - The Background: History and Literature in Contemporary Russia - The Years 1985-6: Reassessment of History Begins - The Second Phase of Glasnost: the Year 1987 - Two Key Writers: Shatrov...

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: TRAJECTORIES OF MYSTICISM IN LITERATURE AND THEORY Language and Mysticism in the 'Spiritual Canticle' by St John of the Cross; A.Barro The Metaphysics of Language in Emily Dickinson (As...

This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities.  It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material...

When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work centred on the quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. In Alternative Shakespeares, John Drakakis brought...

This volume integrates new studies by leading researchers in sociolinguistics, sociology, social psychology, and cultural theory. It explores the many interfaces of body and discourse, organized under three main themes: the body as an interactional...

Acknowledgements Introduction Romantic Promontories All at Sea Les Fleurs du mal de mer Modernity in Transit Conclusion: In Between The English Channel/La Manche: A Cultural Chronology, 1778-2001 Notes Index

Before Modernism Was places modernist writing within the texture of modern history. Texts by Woolf, James, Freud, Wyndham Lewis, Stein, Malinowski, and others are read through a range of figures that construct and disrupt modern meaning: the ghost that...

For the last twenty-five years, Language, Discourse, Society has been the most intellectually challenging series in English. Its titles range across the disciplines from linguistics to biology, from literary criticism to law, combining vigorous...

Acknowledgements and Abbreviations Introduction The Arzamas Horror: A Sample of Tolstoy's Psychopathology Tolstoy and his Mother Tolstoy's Case for Sexual Abstinence Sexual Abstinence: The Hidden Agenda Tostoy's Problematical Self

Introduction; J.B.Winston After Zigzagging; L.Donh Rap Music; N.Q.Chanh Playing with Identities: Everyday Pleasures in Colonial Vietnam; E.J.Peters Moving Along the Edge of Summer; P.H.Thu Cultural Encounters in French Colonial Literature; P.Laude After...

Cosmopolitanism is now understood as a perspective that regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved. Here, Cyrus K. Patell asks does this perspective lie behind all ""great"" literature, which asks its...

This study uncovers a vital thematic unity within Blake's early work: his far-reaching use of humor. Although often dismissed as a product of his eccentricity, the comic was an essential key to Blake's concept of Vision. With special reference to...

Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment postcolonialism, Beyond Postcolonial Theory posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of color as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony. The testimonies and signifying practices of...

This is a collection of essays that addresses the absence of real confrontation with Jean-Paul Sartre's work by shedding light on Sartre's contribution to critical trends that have been developing over the last twenty years, including feminism, gender...

Taking issue with Transformational Grammar Theory, which has dominated language study since Noam Chomsky introduced it more than 30 years ago, Shaumyan separates language from psychology, arguing that language occupies a different world, that of the...

In an important new book, Laura Gillman argues that in this post-identity politics era, identities can still yield reliable knowledge. Focusing on womanist and mestiza theoretical writings, literary texts, and popular cultural representations, Gillman...

This volume deconstructs the underlying assumptions behind youth-culture Shakespeare and then analyzes specific "texts," from 10 Things I Hate about You to The Bomb-itty of Errors, from The Sandman to Reviving Ophelia. The authors explore the...

The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues...

This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to...

Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as...