This revised second edition from our bestselling Key Guides includes brand new entries on
some of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth-and twenty-first century: Zizek, Bergson …

Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies,
and literary studies—have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of …

This thesis reports a study applying stylistics in the analysis and assessment of literary
translation, with specific reference to translations between English and Chinese. It focuses …

Making extensive use of archival materials by Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Anne
Sexton, Amanda Golden reframes the relationship between modernism and midcentury …

This book offers a fundamental and comprehensive re-evaluation of one of Joyce's most
pervasive themes. By showing that betrayal was central to how Joyce understood and …

This study investigates the lukewarm resistance against pervasive social injustice in
Rabbani's Invisible People. Characters in these short stories may release their reactions …

The monograph is a discussion of Karen Blixen's texts in the light of 'play theory.'By
investigating the functions of various topoi of play and games, and tracing some of Blixen's …

Many decades after the first book with the title Finnegans Wake (FW) and James Joyce's
name on the cover was published in 1939, followed by a number of post-Joyce variants,“FW” …

This essay seeks to establish that, far more than has generally been recognized, Joyce
drank heavily and habitually from his early twenties to his death. In addition, it speculates on …

The interwar debate about pleasure clusters most intensely around cinema and popular
literature. However, I will begin with a sensual experience that has received far less …