Publications
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Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean
(2000)
The current drive in Caribbean literary studies stresses similarities and points of convergence between the various islands of the archipelago and their authors, the fundamental aim of which is to move closer to an ...
Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine
(2000)
This study examines Luce Irigaray's oeuvre through the question of the divine, focusing upon her contention that women need a female divine if they are about to become subjects. It attempts to demonstrate that the issue ...
Art, Gender, and Sexuality
(2000)
This study opens up new avenues of inquiry into the work of Luis Cernuda. It analyses the representation of aesthetics, gender, and sexuality in his last four books of poetry by drawing on work in aesthetics, feminism, ...
Welttheater
(1998)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal had a lifelong fascination with the theatrum mundi topos. Judith Beniston analyses his changing responses to it against an unfamiliar backdrop - the revival of Catholic drama which, from the 1890s ...
Another Country
(2000)
This book studies the emergence, in the late 1960s and 1970s, of a sophisticated body of gay fiction in Catalan, and examines the relation between the representation of homosexuality and the discourses on national identity ...
Divided Loyalties
(2000)
This study aims to shed light on the relationship of writers with power in East Germany by setting their work in the context of Soviet and SED German policy after 1945. Peter Davies provides an analysis of the politics of ...
The Appearance of Character
(1999)
Physiognomy - the notion that there is a relationship between character and physical appearance - is often dismissed as a marginal pseudoscience; however, The Appearance of Character argues that it is central to many ...
Mapping a Tradition
(2000)
In recent years, critical interest in francophone literature has become increasingly pronounced. In the case of the French Caribbean, the work of several writers (Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant and Patrick ...
Being and Meaning in Thomas Mann's Joseph Novels
(1996)
The premise of this book is that the theme of being and meaning in Thomas Mann’s novel tetralogy Joseph und seine Brüder unites the novel’s stylistic and thematic structure. The author demonstrates persuasively how these ...