Focusing on post-Vietnam America, using perspectives from psychology, anthropology, and physiology, this book demonstrates the need for criticism to unpack the confusions in language and cultural fantasy that drive the nation's fascination with the berserk style
"As an idea, the berserk style is terrifying but also alluring in its promise that we can gain access to extraordinary resources by overthrowing inhibitions. Focusing on post-Vietnam America, using perspectives from psychology, anthropology, and physiology, the book demonstrates…
Alive with insight, delight and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this effervescent book offers a guide through the maze of modern culture. Across ten years worth of essays, Working the Room spans the photography of Martin Parr to the paintings of Turner, the writing of Scott-F…
Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the idea of language infiltrated by music and reproducing not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects on minds and memories. She reveals that many …
"The seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British history, witnessing two revolutions, huge constitutional change, the widening of the political and literary classes, and the gradual acceptance of women as authors. This easy-to-use handbook offers readers a succinct over…
"Striding Both Worlds illuminates European influences in the fiction of Witi Ihimaera, Aotearoa New Zealand's foremost Maori writer, in order to question the common interpretation of Maori writing as displaying a distinctive Maori world-view and literary style. Far from being di…
The narrated action in literary texts is the focus of this book. After surveying different philosophical approaches to the concept of action a new model of action is formed. The second part of the study puts the action model into practise in the context of a computer-aided inves…
