Books by James Vigus

James Vigus examines the most important and instructive Pirc games in recent years. This book is packed with key new ideas and critical analysis.

The ambivalent curiosity of the young poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) towards Plato - 'but I love Plato - his dear gorgeous nonsense!' - soon developed into a philosophical project, and the mature Coleridge proclaimed himself a reviver of Platos unwritten or esoteric 'systems'.

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term Shandean humour in his work of aesthetic theory.