Continuum imprint: 595 books
Strong Opinions
J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
This new collection of essays on Coetzee examines how his novels create and unsettle literary authority. Its unique contribution is to show how Coetzee provokes us into reconsidering certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism, the authority of the author...
The Rise of Alchemy in Fourteenth-Century England
Plantagenet Kings and the Search for the Philosopher's Stone
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Alchemists did more than try to transmute base metals into gold: they studied planetary influences on metals and people, refined plants and minerals in the search for medicines and advocated the regeneration of matter and spirit. This book illustrates how this new branch of thought became increasingly...
The Low-Residency MFA Handbook
A Guide for Prospective Creative Writing Students
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
The Low-Residency MFA Handbook offers prospective graduate students an in-depth preview of low-residency creative writing MFA programs. Interviews with program directors, faculty, alumni, and current students answer the many questions prospective graduates have, including: What happens during the...
by Dr Alison Scott-Baumann
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. In his enormous corpus of work he engaged with literature, history, historiography, politics, theology and ethics, while debating 'truth' and ethical solutions to life in the face of...
by Mary Klages
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Students of literature, film and cultural studies need to understand key theoretical terms and concepts but often find it hard to get to grips with exactly what they mean. This book provides precise definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements...
by Claire Colebrook
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
The intensification of interest in Deleuze over the last decade has coincided with the end of the linguistic paradigm in both continental and analytic philosophy. Indeed, the division between the two traditions appears to be closing and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze seems to be crucial to this...
God and Nature
A Theologian and a Scientist Conversing on the Divine Promise of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The current religion and science dialogue begs for greater clarity on the relation of God to nature. In God and Nature two scholars who embrace contemporary insights from science and religion explore the complexities of this debate.
As the narrative unfolds, classical and contemporary thinkers...
'Tis Pity She's A Whore
A critical guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
John Ford's tragedy 'Tis Pity She's A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed, if controversial, play.
This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and...
Myths of the Pagan North
The Gods of the Norsemen
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
As the Vikings began to migrate overseas as raiders or settlers in the late eighth century, there is evidence that this new way of life, centred on warfare, commerce and exploration, brought with it a warrior ethos that gradually became codified in the Viking myths, notably in the cult of Odin, the...
How To Be A Philosopher
or How to Be Almost Certain that Almost Nothing is Certain
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Do life's big questions perplex you? This book, now available in paperback, will give you answers to some of them while revealing that others have no answer. A humorous but informed instruction manual to questions philosophers have been asking and attempting to answer for centuries, How to Be A...
by Nigel Kettley
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Sophisticated monograph focussing on attainment at the end of secondary/high school education (and the interface with tertiary education). Combines re-analysis of secondary literature (including official statistics, institutional histories, interview data) and analysis of qualitative and quantitative...
Invasive Technification
Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Technology has extended its reach to the human
body, not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and
technological substitutes for biological organs, but in a more figurative sense
too. Technological infrastructure and the institutions of a technified society today
determine what perception...
Kazuo Ishiguro
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, included twice in Granta's list of Best Young British Writers, has over the past twenty-five years produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
For Gilles Deleuze, time is 'out of joint'. For Michel Serres, it is 'a crumpled handkerchief'. In both of these concepts, explicit references are made to the non-linear dynamics of Chaos and Complexity theory, as well as the New Sciences. The groundbreaking work of these key thinkers has the potential...