New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playw…
"Virginity Revisited is a collection of essays that examines virginity not as a physical reality but as a cultural artefact. By situating the topic of virginity within a range of historical 'moments' and using a variety of methodologies, Virginity Revisited illuminates how chast…
"Virginity Revisited is a collection of essays that examines virginity not as a physical reality but as a cultural artefact. By situating the topic of virginity within a range of historical 'moments' and using a variety of methodologies, Virginity Revisited illuminates how chast…
"The time for new approaches to White’s work is overdue. Central to the present study are Edward Said’s ideas about the role of the intellectual (and the writer) – of speaking “truth to power,” and also the importance of tracing the “affiliations” of a text and its embeddedness …
Making waste -- The invention of the wasteland : civic narrative and Dryden's Annus mirabilis -- Wastelands, Paradise lost, and popular polemic at the restoration -- Milton's chaos in Pope's London : material philosophy and the book trade -- The man on the dump : Swift, Ireland,…
"Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the "lost circulations" of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities. Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine o…
Auctor ludens: essays on play in literature
by Hurley, Andrew, Guinness, Gerald
fromCultura ludens
Auctor ludens: essays on play in literature
by Hurley, Andrew, Guinness, Gerald
fromCultura ludens
"If queer theorists have agreed on anything, it is that for queer thought to have any specificity at all, it must be characterized by becoming, the constant breaking of habits. Queer Times, Queer Becomings explores queer articulations of time and becoming in literature, philosop…
'Thresholds of Meaning' offers evidence not only of a reprise and reworking of certain 'traditional' themes (family, heritage and history; memory and commemoration; the relationships between the generations, between the individual and the community), but also of a reinstatement …
'Thresholds of Meaning' offers evidence not only of a reprise and reworking of certain 'traditional' themes (family, heritage and history; memory and commemoration; the relationships between the generations, between the individual and the community), but also of a reinstatement …
