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On Literature
Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is …
Medium is the Maker
This book sets out to provide a new understanding of the nexus between the literary world and contemporary communication (iPhone et al.) in all its facets -- not Marshall McLuhan's …
Draping the Sky for a Snowfall
But, while the essays are often 'hard work', inviting us to grapple with Derrida and Merleau-Ponty, the finer points of linguistics and etymology, they are often also light, …
Literature Matters
Relativism in the Arts
In a world where the acceptance of relativism has caused erosion in the tradition of Cartesian dualism, representationalism in the arts has come under serious questioning. The …
Theory and the Disappearing Future
Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes …
The Disappearance of God
A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the foremost interpreters of nineteenth-century England, The Disappearance of God confronts the consciousness of an absent (though …