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This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the ‘moments of their making’ and delineates the different threads that bind postcolon …

Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the ”eye” and the ”I” in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vi …

In The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee Jan Wilm analyses Coetzee”s singular aesthetic style which, he argues, provokes the reader to read his works slowly. The effected ”slow reading” is developed …

From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a …

Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landm …

Sally West”s timely study is the first book-length exploration of Coleridge”s influence on Shelley”s poetic development. Beginning with a discussion of Shelley”s views on Coleridge as a man and a …

This critical edition is the first such version of Christianity Not as Old as the Creation and the first time it has been reprinted. Starr’s attribution is not only a significant contribution to Defo …

With its new innovations in the visual arts, cinema and photography as well as the sciences of memory and perception, the early twentieth century saw a crisis in the relationship between what was see …

James Joyce and Catholicism is the first historicist study to explore the religious cultural contexts of Joyce”s final masterpiece. Drawing on letters, authorial manuscripts and other archival mater …

Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca”s play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his jo …