Contributors examine the import of Barthes’s shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media…

Investigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and mass culture, as emblematised by tabloid reports of unsolved crimes…

This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film…

1922: Literature, Culture, Politics examines key aspects of culture and history in 1922, a year made famous by the publication of several modernist masterpieces such as T. S. Eliot’s The…

This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.

In this book Jean-Michel Rabate approaches the Joycean canon through the concept of ‘egoism’. This concept, Rabate argues, runs throughout Joyce’s work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, ‘hospitality’. Rabate…

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…

Jean-Michel Rabate uses Nietzsche’s image of a pathos of distance, the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation…