This study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine.
From the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, Reading the Times offers fresh insight into modern narrative.
In these essays, brought together here for the first time, world-renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction.
A comprehensive and approachable introduction to social scientific theories of religion as they have developed in the twentieth century.
Daren Kemp surveys the whole range of descriptions of New Age, from a wide variety of angles. New Agers themselves are consulted, as well as their critics in the Churches, the media and other interest groups including rationalists, feminists and Native American Indians.
In Tales of the Wars of Montrose Hogg continues his examination of Scotland's past.
Heroic, radical and at times hilarious, Queen Hynde is Ossian with jokes; but Hogg's epic has serious purposes in mind.
This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time.
This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of ‘the conversation with the dead’.
This major textbook offers both an introduction to and key readings in twenty core political concepts. It blends original essays that survey debates and contact with... Læs mere
This is a clearly-written introduction to the study of postcolonial cultures which broadens the reach of postcolonial theory and criticism.
This new book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of science, and contemporary cognitive science.