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John Schad
Explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. This title explores the emergence of Benjamin’s thinking from…
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Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead - this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that…
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Explores the startling conceit that nineteenth-century poetry is amazed by twentieth-century literary theory. This title re-reads poststructuralist theory through Victorian poetry. It is suitable for those interested in the Victorians…
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Douglas Dunn is one of the most read and respected poets of his generation. This book charts Dunn’s career from his debut volume Terry Street to his New Selected Poems…
This is an unlikely history of Christian involvement in such radical movements and developments as anarchism, surrealism, the absurd, deconstruction and even quantum physics. It is also a history of…
This title was first published in 2001. A volume of essays on the Pauline, ecclesiastical body of Christ -the church. It is, of course, not possible to separate completely one…
Is there life after theory? If the death of the Author has now been followed by the death of the Theorist, what’s left? Indeed, who’s left? To explore such riddles…
Michael Payne
John Schad,Fred Dalmasso
Benjamin, a volume that brings together two tragi-comic plays which mirror each other in a host of ways - above all, in the way that the central philosophical figure is…
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Thomas Hardy
The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the…
Los Angeles painter Albert Contreras (born 1933) first won public acclaim in the early 1960s, with monochrome paintings featuring a central disc motif. By the early 1970s, with the dematerialization…
Sea, Sky, Land: Towards a Map of Everything brings together a selection of paintings and sculptures by world renowned artist Enrique Martinez Celaya, from 2005 to the present. Following his…
