Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital

Claire Colebrook

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Drawing on recent theories of digital media and on the materiality of words and images, this fascinating study makes three original claims about the w... Lees meer

Religion, Literature and the Imagination

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies | nr. 174
• The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative co... Lees meer

Beckett and Ethics

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies | nr. 181
• At first glance, Samuel Beckett's writing-where scenes of violence and cruelty often provide the occasion for an unremittingly bleak comedy-would seem... Lees meer

Blake and Kierkegaard

James Rovira

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. However,... Lees meer

Pastoral Elegy in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

Iain Twiddy

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poe... Lees meer

The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London

Lawrence Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• From 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Engag... Lees meer

Christina Rossetti's Gothic

Serena Trowbridge

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• The poetry of Christina Rossetti is often described as 'gothic' and yet this term has rarely been examined in the specific case of Rossetti's work. Ba... Lees meer

Lacan and the Destiny of Literature

Ehsan Azari

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies | nr. 196
• In contemporary academic literary studies, Lacan is often considered impenetrably obscure, due to the unavailability of his late works, insufficient a... Lees meer

Milton, Evil and Literary History

Claire Colebrook

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Milton, Evil and Literary History addresses the ways in which we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, prog... Lees meer

Community, Myth and Recognition in Twentieth-Century French Literature and Thought

Nikolaj Lübecker

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies | nr. 186
• Taking as its point of departure the notion of community in mid-twentieth century French literature and thought, this ambitious study seeks to uncover... Lees meer

Male Jealousy

Louis Lo

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Male Jealousy: Literature and Film is a critical and cultural theory-based study of male jealousy in western culture and its connections with paranoia... Lees meer

Melville, Mapping and Globalization

Robert T Tally Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• In Melville, Mapping and Globalization, Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather cre... Lees meer

Coleridge and German Philosophy

Paul Hamilton

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within ... Lees meer

The Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary Fiction

Areti Dragas

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Focusing on the figure of the storyteller, this study breaks new ground in the approach to reading contemporary literature by identifying a growing in... Lees meer

Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad

Jeremy Hawthorn

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Awarded third place for The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2009 The book presents a sustained critique of the interlinked (and contradictory... Lees meer

Money, Speculation and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction

Nicky Marsh

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Fiction has become increasingly concerned with the political and imaginative significance of finance, speculation and the money markets - from Ian Fle... Lees meer

Hopkins and Heidegger

Brian Willems

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Hopkins and Heidegger is a new exploration of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetics through the work of Martin Heidegger. More radically, Brian Willems argue... Lees meer

Character and Satire in Post War Fiction

Ian Gregson

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best know... Lees meer

Active Reading

Ben Knights, Chris Thurgar-Dawson

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• The subject of this book is the crossover between critical study and creative writing. 'Active reading' is a structured process of writing activities ... Lees meer

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space

David James

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies | nr. 187
• This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writ... Lees meer

Religion, Literature and the Imagination

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative co... Lees meer

Cross-Rhythms

Keren Omry

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Cross-Rhythms investigates the literary uses and effects of blues and jazz in African-American literature of the twentieth century. Texts by James Bal... Lees meer

Dickens and Creativity

Barbara Hardy

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Charles Dickens's experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. His intelligence works i... Lees meer

The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory

Sarah Dillon

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Literary Studies
• Drawing together diverse literary, critical and theoretical texts in which the palimpsest has appeared since its inauguration by Thomas De Quincey in ... Lees meer