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In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth century, Jacques Derrida ran two years of seminars on the subject, which were published posthumously. What the novelist and the philosopher of deconstruction discussed independently, this book brings into comparison. Tambling examines crime and punishm...

Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan, and the schools of thought each of these has generated). It examines the debts that these psychoanalytic traditions have to literature, and offers plentiful case-studies of literature's influence ...

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth century, Jacques Derrida ran two years of seminars on the subject, which were published posthumously. What the novelist and the philosopher of deconstruction discussed independently, this book brings into comparison. Tambling examines crime and punish...

This book argues that Paradiso - Dante's vision of Heaven - is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensates for disappointment rather than fulfils hopes, and where it moves into joy and vision, this also rationalises the experience of exile and the failure of all Dante's political hopes. The book highlights and addresses a fundamental problem in reading Dante: the assumption that he writes as a Catholic Christian, which can be o...

Discussing in detail over a dozen operas by Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Schreker, and others, this book reads opera in relation to the European culture that produced, not by accident, both fascism and the end of opera as a popular and contemporary art-form. Drawing on the work of Nietzsche, Adorno, Heidegger, and Julia Kristeva, Jeremy Tambling looks at the ideology of opera - its gender-politics, and both its reactionary and its revoluti...

This book argues that Paradiso - Dante's vision of Heaven - is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensates for disappointment rather than fulfils hopes, and where it moves into joy and vision, this also rationalises the experience of exile and the failure of all Dante's political hopes. The book highlights and addresses a fundamental problem in reading Dante: the assumption that he writes as a Catholic Christian, which can be o...

This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, and finds it one of the most rewarding and powerful of Dickens¿s texts.

Excerpt from Dante, Vol. 3His elevation is thus described zw-gazing upw Bea trice, he is endued with power to bear awhile the intensity of the Divine Light.§ This so wonderfully increases, that suddenly day seem'd added unto day, H as though Omnipotence had lighted up the sky with another sun, and he is insensibly translated from earth to heaven.The first planet, to which in company with his celestial guide he finds himself exalted, is the Moo...

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Literature and Psychoanalysis looks at Freud, Melanie Klein and Lacan, to explain their key concepts, and to suggest why they are essential in the study of literature. With a range of examples from Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, the Sherlock Holmes stories and Ibsen and from Surrealism, the book traces through the significance of literature in psychoanalysis, and why psychoanalysis is essential reading for those who are interested in litera...

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This volume provides ten essays on Dante. it puts the "Divine Comedy" - Dante's record of a journey to Hell, Purgatory and Paradise - into context for the modern reader and covers topics such as Dante's allegory, his relationship to classical and modern poetry and his treatment of love.

Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century.In this useful guide, Jeremy Tambling: presents a concise history of allegory, providing numerous examples from Medieval forms to the present dayconsiders the relationship between allegory and symbolism analyses the use of allegory in modernist deba...

Do you find poetry difficult to understand? Have you ever wondered why it's such a venerated art-form? "RE-Verse"will put the fun back into poetry, showing you how to read poems and helping you to discover why poetry really matters. The book includes over 90 examples of poetry and is provocative about the poetry it chooses - all the examples have been tried out on students in the author's own teachingStudents struggle with the subject and the ...

On Anachronism joins together Shakespeare and Proust as the great writers of love to show that love is always anachronistic, and never more so when it is homosexual. Drawing on Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Levinas and Deleuze, difficult but essential theorists of the subject of 'being and time' and 'time and the other' the book examines why speculation on time has become so crucial within modernity. Through the related ...

This book studies the will, will-power and wilfulness, the will to death or to power, and lack of will. It surveys many texts -- from Augustine, Shakespeare, Dickens, George Eliot and D H Lawrence -- in order to analyse the history of its different concepts: rational/irrational drive, sexual appetite, or just testamentary, so asserting identity beyond death. Drawing on philosophies of the will in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the book studies mu...

Set against a backdrop of debates about the so-called "end of history, " "the death of the subject" and "the end of art, " as well as the various forms of the "past" that became prevalent in the late twentieth century, Jeremy Tambling introduces the idea of "the posthumous" as a means of thinking about our relationship to the past, to death and to history. In analyzing selected texts dealing with posthumous existence by Shakespeare, Dickens, N...

Literature and Psychoanalysis looks at Freud, Melanie Klein and Lacan, to explain their key concepts, and to suggest why they are essential in the study of literature. With a range of examples from Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, the Sherlock Holmes stories and Ibsen and from Surrealism, the book traces through the significance of literature in psychoanalysis, and why psychoanalysis is essential reading for those who are interested in litera...

Puts the short stories written between 1918 and 1926 into a context of Modernism. This book makes use of critical and cultural theory to consider these short stories in the context of not only Chinese fiction, but in terms of the art of the short story, and in relation to literary modernism.

Puts the short stories written between 1918 and 1926 into a context of Modernism. This book makes use of critical and cultural theory to consider these short stories in the context of not only Chinese fiction, but in terms of the art of the short story, and in relation to literary modernism.