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Reading Lu Xun's Fiction
Madmen and Other Survivors: Reading Lu Xun's Fiction puts the short stories written by this outstanding Chinese writer between 1918 and 1926 into a br...
Wong Kar-wai's controversial film, Happy Together, was released in Hong Kong just before the handover of power in 1997. The film shows two Chinese gay...
Life and Death in Literary and Cultural Studies
This book introduces the idea of the posthumous as a means of thinking about our relationship to the past, to death and to history....
From Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees
This book is about representations of the devil in English and European literature. Tracing the fascination in literature, philosophy, and theology wi...
This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its a...
A scholarly edition of a work by Bernard Mandeville. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and ...
On Anachronism joins together Shakespeare and Proust as the great writers of love to show that love is always anachronistic, and never more so when it...
The Late Medieval and Shakespeare
Written using critical theory, especially by Walter Benjamin, Blanchot and Derrida, Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakesp...
Allegory and Literature of the City
Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens’ novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens’ novels as a unique form of poetry...
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Turning Towards Poetry
Many people are intimidated by poetry, thinking it difficult and high-brow and not for them. But it is still considered an essential part of art and l...
Literature and Psychoanalysis is an exciting, and compulsive working through of what Freud really said, and why it is so important, with a chapter on ...
This volume brings to the reader the art and architecture of Macao, and the baroque treasures that make the territory so attractive. As the authors co...
This volume shows how highly conscious Dickens was of words – of their meaning of course, and of the ideas they conjured up, but also of their very ...
Dante's work has fascinated readers for seven hundred years and has provided key reference points for writing as diverse as that of Chaucer, the Renai...
Sexuality, Sin, the Subject
Law and Desire in Literature and Music
On Reading the Will studies the will, will-power and wilfulness, the will to death or the will to power, as well as lack of will. It surveys many text...
Dickens and London
‘Among the numerous books on Dickens’s London, Going Astray is unique in combining detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis a...
Writing in the 'Commedia'
This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text, and comparing t...
London streets, its people, its crowds, its buildings. It is Dickens's constant subject, from his early journalism, Sketches by Boz, to The Uncommerci...
Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth century, ...
Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Benjamin
Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is the magnificent writer whom Nietzsche called 'my favourite poet'. His writings and poetry have been formative throughout the...
States of Affect
This volume provides an advanced survey of Dante studies and offers a new, detailed, and accessible reading of his Purgatorio, making this very rich t...
Dreams of the Scaffold
Drawing on the theories of Foucault, Deleuze, and others, Tambling situates Dickens within the discourses circulating in his society and presents the ...