Author : Vera J. Camden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108477488
Combining literature and psychoanalysis, this collection foregrounds the work of literary creators as foundational to psychoanalysis.
Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826662
This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker. These essays, supported by a useful chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107493730
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author : Jerome Neu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 1991-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521377799
This volume covers all the central topics of Freud's work, from sexuality to neurosis to morality, art, and culture.
Author : Polly Young-Eisendrath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827987
This second edition represents a wide-ranging critical introduction to the psychology of Carl Jung, one of the founders of psychoanalysis. Including two new essays and thorough revisions of most of the original chapters, it constitutes a radical assessment of his legacy. Andrew Samuels' introduction succinctly articulates the challenges facing the Jungian community. The fifteen essays set Jung in the context of his own time, outline the current practice and theory of Jungian psychology and show how Jungians continue to question and evolve his thinking and apply it to aspects of modern culture and psychoanalysis. The volume includes a full chronology of Jung's life and work, extensively revised and up to date bibliographies, a case study and a glossary. It is an indispensable reference tool for both students and specialists, written by an international team of Jungian analysts and scholars from various disciplines.
Author : David S. Ferris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521797245
This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical and historical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include Benjamin's relation to the avant-garde movements of his time, his theories on language and mimesis, modernity, his significance and relevance to modern cultural studies, and his autobiographical writings. Additional material includes a guide to further reading and a chronology.
Author : Susan Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521896940
A revised and fully updated edition, featuring five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship on Woolf.
Author : Stan Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827138
This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden critics, alongside specialists from such diverse fields as drama, ecological and travel studies. It provides scholars, students and general readers with a comprehensive and authoritative account of Auden's life and works in clear and accessible English. Besides providing authoritative accounts of the key moments and dominant themes of his poetic development, the Companion examines his language, style and formal innovation, his prose and critical writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion, psychoanalysis, politics, landscape, ecology, and globalisation. It also contains a comprehensive bibliography of writings about Auden.
Author : Hugh Stevens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521888441
In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing introduces readers to important concepts, methods and cultural and historical debates relevant to the study of sexuality and literature.
Author : J. Michelle Coghlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1108427367
This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.
