Jean-Michel Rabate 
After Derrida [EPUB ebook] 
Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century

The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although t …

Contemporary performance is a particularly stimulating area for the study of how Shakespeare is produced and received in different cultural contexts. Francesca Clare Rayner”s original and thought-pr …

Jane Austen”s satirical classical novels have made a lasting contribution to English literature and first gave the novel its distinctly modern character with the treatment of ordinary people in ever …

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and i …

For more than a decade literary criticism has been thought to be in a post-theory age. Despite this, the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault and new writers such as Agamben and Ran …

Both critic and writer, Stendhal has now become established as one of realism”s founding fathers. Dr Pearson”s book maps out, for the first time, the critical reception of Stendhal”s two most wide …

Henry James”s ghost story novella, The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a key gothic text and is one of the most popular James texts for undergraduate study. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting …

This book examines Thomas Hardy”s representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing ro …

Critical literacy investigates how forms of knowledge, and the power they bring, are created in language and taken up by those who use texts. It asks how language might be put to different, more equi …

Subjectivity and Identity is a philosophical and interdisciplinary study that critically evaluates critically the most important philosophical, sociological, psychological and literary debates on sub …