This book explores the importance of Lacan's role as an irritant within psychoanalysis, and how Freud and Lacan saw that as key to ensuring that psychoanalysis remained fresh and vital…

This collection of essays by specialists introduces the main ideas of Jacques Derrida who invented ‘deconstruction’, a very particular and philosophical way of reading literary texts. After a backlash against…

Ezra Pound’s Cantos remains among the most influential and difficult of twentieth century poetic writings. But now, for the first time, Rabate’s powerful and original study presents a theory of…

Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays…

Much has been written on Beckett and Sade, yet nothing systematic has been produced. This Element is systematic by adopting a chronological order, which is necessary given the complexity of…

This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not modern ; neither is it postmodern…

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

It’s happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We…

An examination of doubt in the work of James Joyce. Topics covered range from the relativity of doubt, to bisexuality in Finnegans Wake . Other works by the author include…