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This book provides an literary and psychological definition of human evil by analyzing Friedrich Durrenmatt's Der Verdacht and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Women Telling Nations highlights how, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, European women, as readers and writers, contributed to the construction of national identities. It demonstrates the impact of cross-fertilisation of nations: focusing on routes rather than roots.

Ce livre identifie et explore les mouvements cles de l'ecriture des femmes au cours de la premiere decennie du vingt-et-unieme siecle, regardant en arriere afin de remarquer l'evolution des themes feminins et feministes precedents, et s'ouvrant a de nouveaux horizons et a " l'encore a venir ".

Literature is a central agent of the maritime cultural imaginary through the negotiation of competing versions of coast and sea. Discussed are historically specific functions of maritime spaces as historicized places, where cultural exchange and 'the technical sublime' are dramatized.

This book analyses Darwin's influence on art and the effect of his science on experiences of beauty. It shows the political use of science (Hackel and Virchow) and foreshadows present-day debates between Darwinism and Creationism, science and an idealized view of nature.

Dans ce livre - a l'instar du recit fondateur de Georges Bataille - l'oeil est observe, ouvert, reprime, presse, ecrase, revulse, extirpe, introduit dans des lieux plus ou moins adaptes a ce but, enfin attribue a des objets et des etres chez lesquels on ne l'attendrait jamais.

Poetic Revolutionaries is an exploration of the relationship between radical textual practice, social critique and subversion. Drawing on theories of avant-garde practice, intertextuality, parody, representation, and performance.

Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma analyses the treatment of memory and the past in Bowen's writing through the lens of trauma theory. It draws on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, and Cathy Caruth.

Has thinking, working and teaching in terms of national literatures become obsolete in today's globalized world of hyphenated languages, literatures and cultures? Or must we consider the fact that today's Europe is not only postnational but, post-multinational as well?

This book considers both music in Beckett and Beckett's significance in contemporary music, examining also how comparable philosophical concerns and artistic effects appear in literature and music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

La verve critique des Philosophes a toujours fait bon menage avec un esprit de serieux sentimental. Ce recueil relit le corpus pathetique devant l'horizon des 'mentalites'.