Raymond Tallis 
Not Saussure [PDF ebook] 
A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory

Kashmiri Life Narratives takes as its central focus writings — memoirs, non-fictional and fictional Bildungsromane — published circa 2008 by Kashmiris/Indians living in the Valley of Kashmir, India …

Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the wom …

As long as there have been fans, there has been fan fiction. There seems to be a fundamental human need to tell additional stories about the characters after the book, series, play or movie is over. …

First published in 1969, this book provides a concise and helpful introduction to the terms ‘fancy’ and ‘imagination’. Although they are generally associated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the work be …

Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, sh …

”British Studies” and ”British Cultural Studies” cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine th …

First published in 2012. Michel Foucault was a different kind of intellectual from his predecessors, one whose work articulated a new relation both to the institutions in which he worked and to a wid …

This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically a …

The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics. The co …

‘Have the courage to use your own understanding! – that is the motto of enlightenment.’ – Immanuel Kant The Enlightenment is one of the most important and contested periods in the history of philosop …