The Principle of Relations
This volume presents a new paradigm for the entirety of reality. The Principle of Relations is applied to all fields, from the universe and elementary particles to human relations, offering a platform to understand gravity, energy, cancer, poverty, and prosperity.
From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women’s suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.
Ben-Messahel investigates the issues of space, culture and identity in recent Australian fiction. Applying Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of the Radicant, she discusses the work of 15 authors to show that, in Australia, cultural belonging is still a difficult process.
The Imagery of Writing in the Early Works of Paul Auster
Sarmento delves into the early works of Paul Auster, to show how they convey the loneliness of the individual fully committed to writing. She studies the symbolism of the genetic substance of the world (re)built through the work of writing, open to an unlimited mental expansion.
In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier’s mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.
Here, and Here
These essays explore using logos without its negative, restricting aspects through affirmation and tragic awareness. It is all about arrangements that say yes, since they do not raise absolute boundaries. The arrangement is a logos without logos: a cosmos.
Bonds and Borders
This collection of essays explores bonds and borders in literature, from colonial times to post-9/11 narratives. Trespassing boundaries to create new ideas, these essays dissect, subvert, and challenge our understandings of identity in an international society.
Back and Forth
This book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. It explores how writers from Schlegel to Baudelaire used Shakespeare’s transgressive drama to re-evaluate beauty and create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity.
In the Mirror of the Past
Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.
Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
Mohammed presents an appraisal of George Bernard Shaw’s position on women in his plays, exploring the ways in which the playwright addresses gender inequality and his attempts to project a “new woman” who is the pursuer rather than the pursued.
This volume contains papers from a conference marking the 60th anniversary of Colin Wilson’s famous book, The Outsider. Experts, scholars and fans gathered to present papers on topics ranging from Existentialism to the Occult and from H.P. Lovecraft to Jack the Ripper.
Why study Pound and Eliot as Imagists when one left the movement and the other never belonged? To explore their shared premium on precision for opposite ends. Pound plied accuracy to carve distinctions, while Eliot used it to intuit a divine amalgamation.
With Poetry and Philosophy
This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
That Elusive Fountain of Wisdom
In the university town of Leuven, Belgium, visiting scholars pursue their personal and academic objectives. What starts out as an academic sojourn becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross and they learn about each other, themselves, and life itself.
Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden’s poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?
The Everyday Fantasic
The Everyday Fantastic is a collection of essays born from a love for science fiction. Writers from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences view the genre beyond mere entertainment, engaging the fundamental questions explored in its myriad forms.
The Phenomenology of Movement and Rest
This book is a phenomenological exploration of wandering and dwelling in the works of V. S. Naipaul, W. G. Sebald, and T. G. Tranströmer. It is the first study of their common engagement with the existential themes of movement and rest, which testify to our primal human desires.
The Emergence of Discourses and Cultural Hegemony
Edward W. Said’s seminal text Orientalism disrupted how the Orient understands itself. This book focuses on his work, analyzing how the discourse of orientalism perpetrated the West’s cultural hegemony and the internal hegemony within the non-western world.