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This stimulating and comprehensive study of Will Self's work spans his entire career and offers insightful readings of all his fictional and non-fictional work up to and including his Booker prize nominated novel Umbrella.
Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body –... Læs mere
This collection traces the intersection between writing and intoxication, from the literary to the theoretical, exploring a... Læs mere
Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the... Læs mere
A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting... Læs mere
Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book... Læs mere
When it comes to James Joyce's landmark work, Ulysses , the influence of three literary giants, Homer, Shakespeare, and... Læs mere
Oscar Wilde's wit is foundational to his works, from his plays and novels to his self-defense at his trials. This book is a comprehensive account of Oscar Wilde's wit that focuses on discovering reasons for his critical success and ongoing legacy.
Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European... Læs mere
Suzanne Rintoul identifies an important contradiction in Victorian representations of abuse: the simultaneous compulsion to expose... Læs mere
This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical... Læs mere
This book opens up the rich range of meanings made available by these vitally important terms and offers a fresh perspective on the way dramatists, theatre owners, booksellers, and legislators, conceived the playhouses of Renaissance London.