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The Guerilla Performance and Multimedia Handbook is the ultimate guide for artists at all stages of their careers engaged in creating original performance and multimedia work, including hybrids of theatre, visual art, installation, physical theatre, dance, CD-Rom and web design. It covers all aspects of artist support including starting up a company, funding, multimedia tools, and documentation and marketing, and incorporates a useful Yellow P...

Few thinkers, in the latter half of the twentieth century, so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930–, 2004). Derrida's work on literary texts is intricate and challenging and has often been misunderstood or misrepresented. In this book, Leslie Hill provides an accessible introduction to Derrida's writings on literature which presupposes no prior knowledge of Derrida's wor...

A readable introduction to one of the most influential thinkers and writers about literature and theory.

Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The Lover Leslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, and Laca who claimed her as almost his other sel...

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Excerpt from The Wings of OppressionIn such poems as Armageddon, The Black Man's Bit, and Com, I have desired to exhibit something of this indestructible spiritual qual ity of my race. In the others I have wished merely to be brought into harmony with cur rents of thought and feeling common to all humanity. I trust that there may be in all at least an implied appeal to that spirit of human brotherhood by. Which alone the world must find the pa...

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Placing Blanchot at the centre stage of writing in the twentieth century, Blanchot sheds new light on Blanchot's political activities before and after the Second World War.

What does it mean to come after Blanchot? Three things, at least. First, it is to recognise that it is no longer possible to believe in an essentialist determination of literary discourse or of aesthetic experience. Second, there is the question of history. Here, a third meaning to the phrase "after Blanchot" comes into view.

The first book to provide a detailed account of fragmentary writing in the work of the French novelist, critic, and thinker Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003).

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Hill is concerned with the idea of the future in literary texts, and how notions of the future are essential to their very existence.

This is a new account of the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett from Murphy (1938) to Worstward Ho (1983).