Autor: Peter Marks

At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things’: the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contempo …

At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things’: the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contempo …

Critically assesses how literary and cinematic eutopias and dystopias have imagined and evaluated surveillance.Imagining Surveillance presents the first full-length study of the depiction and assessm …

George Orwell argued that one of the four great motives for a prose writer was the desire ‘to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they shou …

Critically assesses how literary and cinematic eutopias and dystopias have imagined and evaluated surveillance.Imagining Surveillance presents the first full-length study of the depiction and assessm …

George Orwell is acclaimed as one of English literature”s great essayists. Yet, while many are considered classics, as a body of work his essays have been neglected. Peter Marks provides the first s …

Terry Gilliam presents a sustained examination of one of cinema’s most challenging and lauded auteurs, proposing fresh ways of seeing Gilliam that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but …

Provides a synoptic view of the exuberant and challenging fiction, poetry and drama created in 1990s Britain Placing literary creativity within a changing cultural and political context that saw the …

The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars r …

Collective decision making seems a straightforward matter: people come together and decide. But why is it that today’s winners can turn into tomorrow’s losers? Why can’t you always get what you want? …

Provides a synoptic view of the exuberant and challenging fiction, poetry and drama created in 1990s Britain Placing literary creativity within a changing cultural and political context that saw the …