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Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens' novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens' novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens' writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ideas and modes of living. Arguing that Dickens, within nineteenth-century modernity, sees language as always double, Tambling draws on a wide range o...

Hölderlin (1770-1843) is the magnificent writer whom Nietzsche called 'my favourite poet'. His writings and poetry have been formative throughout the twentieth century, and as influential as those of Hegel, his friend. At the same time, his madness has made his poetry infinitely complex as it engages with tragedy, and irreconcilable breakdown, both political and personal, with anger and with mourning. This study gives a detailed approach to Hö...

This new study of Henry James draws on novels and short stories from throughout his career. Jeremy Tambling discusses James' importance as a theorist of the novel and argues for his importance as an American. He sees all James' work as a complex engagement with America and an attempt to find something in textual form that has been missed in the actual experience of America, in comparison with what he has imagined he has found in Europe.

E. M. Forster's novels have always been popular, but he does not belong to the heavyweight category of a 'modernist' and his achievement has often been slighted or reduced as being a celebration of 'Englishness' and the Edwardian era. This New Casebook draws together approaches to Forster's work from many aspects of new critical theory and establishes a new case for him as a figure of far more than merely conventional interest with a central p...

Hölderlin (17701843) is the magnificent writer whom Nietzsche called my favourite poet'. His writings and poetry have been formative throughout the twentieth century, and as influential as those of Hegel, his friend. At the same time, his madness has made his poetry infinitely complex as it engages with tragedy, and irreconcilable breakdown, both political and personal, with anger and with mourning. This study gives a detailed approach to Höld...

Excerpt from Dante, Vol. 3 "In exhibiting the works of great Poets in another language, much depends upon preserving not only the internal meaning - the force and beauty as regards sense, but even the external lineaments, the proper colour and habit, the movement, and, as it were, the gait of the original" - Bishop Lowth. Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews. Lec. 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl...

This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contemporary critical theory, and why it has inspired so many forms of writing which have attempted to deal with its challenges to think about it and to represent it. Gathering together 40 contributors who look at different modes of writing and film-making in throughout the world, this handbook asks how th...

This book is about representations of the devil in English and European literature. Tracing the fascination in literature, philosophy, and theology with the irreducible presence of what may be called evil, or comedy, or the carnivalesque, this book surveys the parts played by the devil in the texts derived from the Faustus legend, looks at Marlowe and Shakespeare, Rabelais, Milton, Blake, Hoffmann, Baudelaire, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, and...

Written using critical theory, especially by Walter Benjamin, Blanchot and Derrida, Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare reads medieval and early modern texts, exploring allegory within texts, allegorical readings of texts, and melancholy in texts. Authors studied are Langland and Chaucer, Hoccleve, on his madness, Lydgate and Henryson. Shakespeare's first tetralogy, the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III...

This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text.

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 day considers the relationship between allegory and symbolism analyses the use of allegory in modernist...

A guide-book that brings to the reader the art and architecture of Macao, and the baroque treasures that make the territory attractive. It helps the reader who wants to understand the complex history and layout of the city, as a Portuguese ex-colony founded in the sixteenth century, and as a modern Chinese city.

Wong Kar-wai's controversial film, "Happy Together", shows two gay Chinese men in Buenos Aires and probes masculinity, aggression, identity and homosexuality. This text examines this memorable film, placing it within the context of other films by Wong Kar-wai and other Hong Kong directors.

Wong Kar-wai's controversial film, "Happy Together", shows two gay Chinese men in Buenos Aires and probes masculinity, aggression, identity and homosexuality. This text examines this memorable film, placing it within the context of other films by Wong Kar-wai and other Hong Kong directors.