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Offers insight into the role that the religious imagination plays in the creation of sacred worlds. Covering foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, this work explores different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature.

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A study that introduces, conceptualises, and examines the American Adam and American Psycho paradigms while focussing on the inter-relations between the two figures. Using the American Adam as a paradigm of masculine identity formation, it examines the American Psycho as Adam's 'real' condition of existence.

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Explores the ways in which philosophical discourse in the Romantic period used literature to express philosophical problems and paradoxes which philosophy found itself incapable of expressing on its own terms. This book engages with a variety of Romantic writings, including literature, philosophy and political theory.

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A monograph covering Romanticism and philosophy, focusing on aesthetics and reason. It proposes a radical revisioning of Romantic literature by developing a fresh insight into its philosophical importance. It challenges a number of attacks on philosophical reason, and historicist readings of Romanticism.

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One of the greatest texts of both German and world literature, "Faust, Parts I and II", confronts us with questions about rebellion and suffering, faith and its loss, reality and simulation, order and chaos, weakness and power, technology and human improvement. This monograph offers us a fresh interpretation of Goethe's famous play.

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Focussing on the significance of sensation, this study develops a Deleuzian poetics of reading, through an examination of contemporary innovative poetry. It suggests that a Deleuzian way of reading offers a firm purchase on notoriously difficult texts, providing concepts and a language that aids their understanding.

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Presents a critique of views that the fiction of Joseph Conrad is innocent of any interest in or concern with sexuality and the erotic, and that when he does attempt to depict sexual desire or erotic excitement, it results in bad writing. This book argues for a revision of the view that Conrad lacks understanding of and interest in sexuality.

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A fascinating study of Beckett's legacy for contemporary writers, which is part of the growing interest in Beckett studies in the question of Beckett's reception and influence.

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Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. This title studies Beckett's legacy for contemporary writers, which is part of the interest in Beckett studies in the question of Beckett's reception and influence.

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A monograph investigating the way in which detective fiction reflects wider issues in society.

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Examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the modern and to modernity. This monograph focuses on two key themes: the moral relationship of detection to a particular social world and the attempt to restore and even improve the social world that has been threatened and fractured by a crime, usually that of murder.

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Investigates how the notion of incarnation has been employed in phenomenology and how this has influenced literary criticism. This book examines the interest that Joyce and Proust share in the concept of incarnation.

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By examining the relation between time and processes of figuration in James Joyce's later work, this study identifies his attempt to engage with the philosophical problem of describing time's characteristic movement whilst acknowledging the impossibility of reducing this movement to anything that can be observed, represented or even experienced.

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Drawing together diverse literary, critical and theoretical texts in which the palimpsest has appeared since its inauguration by Thomas De Quincey in 1845, this work provides a genealogy of this metaphor. It also provides a reference point and critical tool for future employment of the concept of 'palimpsestuousness'.

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The first book to highlight the spiritual element in Borges' work - this work offers an insightful and scholarly interpretation of a fundamental facet of his writing.

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Highlights the spiritual element in Borges' work. This book offers an insightful and scholarly interpretation of a fundamental facet of his writing. It argues that the quest for God, though largely unheeded by the critical canon, was a major and enduring preoccupation for Borges.

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A study tracing issues of race, class and imperialism in the South Pacific through the work of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London.

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Informed by the work of Jacques Derrida, this literary and theoretical study tackles modernism and fascism in the case of the influential novelist Knut Hamsun.

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Modernist troublemaker in the 1890s, Nobel Prize winner in 1920, and indefensible Nazi sympathiser in the 1930s and 40s, Knut Hamsun continues to provoke condemnation, apologia and critical confusion. This title analyses the heterogeneous and conflicted legacies of the enigmatic European writer, Knut Hamsun.

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Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 onwards. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership.