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Post-Romantic Predicament
A collection of critical texts from Paul de Mans Harvard University years, published for the first timeThese essays, brought together from the Paul de Man papers at the University …
Beckett's Thing
Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what …
Literary Lives
Popular though biography is, it has as yet received very little critical attention. What nearly all biographies offer is an understanding of their subjects and an explanation of …
Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture
Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture presents a radical re-reading of the cultural history of the Irish state, by demonstrating through original historical research and …
CIA and the Pursuit of Security
Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been at the heart of America's security apparatus. Written by intelligence scholars and experts, The CIA and the Pursuit of Security offers …
Contaminations
Introduces the figure of contamination as alternative to dialectics Whereas dialectics separates two entities and traverses from one to the other (finally negating negation), …
Thomas Hardy: Wessex Poems
A look at Thomas Hardy's 'Wessex Poems'.
Deleuze and Contemporary Art
It is not the elements or the sets which define the multiplicity. What defines it is the AND, as something which has its place between the elements or between the sets. AND, AND, …
Jewish Orthodoxy in Scotland
Kosher haggis, tartan kippot, and Jewish Burns' Suppers: Jews acculturated to Scotland within one generation and quickly inflected Jewish culture in a Scottish idiom. This book …
Kirk and the Kingdom
What did the Church ever do for us?Johnston McKay unearths a practical social theology of the church in Scotland in the century from 1820. It has been widely believed that the …
Contemporary Western
The September 11th attacks in 2001 and the subsequent 'War on Terror' have had a profound effect on American cinema, and the contemporary Western is no exception. In this book, …
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural …