It sounds daunting: all those '-isms', long technical words, weird French thinkers and incomprehensible Germans. You can't read a book nowadays, it seems, without being required to refer to ...more on ebook "Literary Theory - The Pocket Essent..."

This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of ...more on ebook "The Cambridge Companion to Lacan..."

These bracing, polemical essays explore issues of philosophical interest in the analysis of literature, including the role of the author, literary appreciation, the nature of fiction, the pl ...more on ebook "Philosophy and Fiction..."

Certain people pretend to tell us what birth and death are like: a mother, for instance, has her point of view about birth; a doctor, a religious, have their points of view about both. But ...more on ebook "Aspects of the Novel..."

Why do human beings need fictions? For that matter, why do human beings need to interpret, despite the fact that complete interpretation is unattainable? These are the questions with which p ...more on ebook "The Range of Interpretation..."

This volume argues that Jack London's Martin eden and Henry Adams' The education of Henry Adams are two of the first works in American literature to embody the motif of exis ...more on ebook "Martin Eden and The Education of He..."

Richard Kearney skilfully illuminates how stories are deep at work in all forms of writing, and discusses the power of the story in its ability to determine our identities and the identity o ...more on ebook "On Stories..."

Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge ...more on ebook "Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowle..."

The work of Jacques Derrida has transformed our understanding of a range of disciplines in the humanities through its questioning of some of the basic tenets of western metaphysics. This vol ...more on ebook "Jacques Derrida and the Humanities..."

From Homer to Hollywood, the western storytelling tradition has canonised a distinctive set of narrative values characterised by tight economy and closure. This book traces the formation of ...more on ebook "The Classical Plot and the Inventio..."