Jean-Michel Rabate 
Cambridge Companion to Lacan [PDF ebook] 

Originally published in 1978, this study presents a detailed analysis of the major literary movements in Austria and Germany from the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the Third Reich. …

At last! Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were afraid to ask. Hans Bertens” Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witt …

Is Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment of the parson”s roguish reputation. The book”s aim, however, is not to dispel r …

Lucretius” On the Nature of Things – one of the glories of Latin literature – provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in th …

This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, …

Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his bes …

What was ‘information’ in the early eighteenth century, and what influence did the emergence of information, as potential physical and psychological threat, have on readers of the period? Recent scho …

Latin America has been an important basis for theorizing the postmodern condition and has been the site of some of the most significant contributions to postmodern literature. However, discourses abo …

Linking fiction with history and historical theory, ”A New Type of History”: Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists – To …

This volume makes available to teachers, students, and scholars a convenient selection of the most provocative and influential articles from the past 20 years on Chaucer”s afterlife in the 15th cent …