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The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religio …

Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these play …

Taking up the roles that Salman Rushdie has assumed as a cultural broker, gatekeeper and mediator in various spheres of public production, Ana Cristina Mendes argues that how a postcolonial author be …

Pantomime was arguably the most popular dramatic genre during the Roman Empire, but has been relatively neglected by literary critics. Seneca”s Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime adds to our …

This new edition of Andrew Stott’s Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance of comic ”events” through study of various theoretical methodologies, …

Plato”s legend of Atlantis has become notorious among scholars as the absurdest lie in literature. Atlantis Destroyed explores the possibility that the account given by Plato is historically true. R …

This controversial book is the first systematic feminist reading of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most pivotal figures in contemporary cultural theory, and is essential reading for student …

Scholars, clergy, teachers and writers present stimulating essays on the theme that Anne Frank”s Diary movingly symbolizes the triumph of childhood innocence over totalitarian brutality. This may be …

Surreal Beckett situates Beckett‘s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at o …

The late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts presented here describe female servants” experiences of work in early modern London. Domestics” court depositions offer qualitative evidence …