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Roland Barthes Writing the Political
With typical rhetorical flourish and beholden to paradox, Roland Barthes defines his work on ‘myth’ as an attempt to ‘define things’; and yet he is known foremost for his work on …
Unfinished Austen: Interpreting "Catharine", "Lady Susan", "The Watsons" and "Sanditon"
Unfinished Austen examines four texts that Jane Austen left incomplete: Catharine, or the Bower (1792–-3), Lady Susan (1795?), The Watsons (1803–-4?) and Sanditon (1817), none of …
Samuel Beckett and the Arts
Beckett’s dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (Oppenheim 2000; Harvey, 1967, to name …
Georges Braque’s Post-Cubism Masterpieces
This is the story of Regis Krampf’s passion for the work of Georges Braque. It is an illustrated book of his collection of paintings by the artist pertaining to a specific period. …
Poetry and Freedom: Discoveries in Aesthetics, 1985–2018
This book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the aesthetics of poetic freedom. The range is broad, from antiquity to the present and from Europe and the Middle East into the …
Universality and Utopia
This book explores the intersection between philosophical and literary universalism in Latin America, tracing its configuration within the twentieth-century Peruvian socialist …
Rethinking Therapeutic Reading
‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces for …
Hawthorne's Histories, Hawthorne's World
Hawthorne’s Literary History picks up Hawthorne where The Province of Piety left him, extending the historical and theological reading there developed of the early Puritan and …
Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance
Kunqu, recognized by UNESCO in 2001 as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu …
In the Name of Security – Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 saw the start of the so-called war on terror. The aim of ‘In the Name of Security – Secrecy, …