Books in the Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies series

Edwards (literary studies, Deakin U.) argues that play is endemic to culture and that it helps to explain the operations of literary texts as cultural productions. He analyzes the forms and styles of play in various postmodernist novels, and particularly in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow , John

Xie, a poetry scholar (academic affiliation not noted), examines the notion of the Chinese ideogram in Fenollosa, Pound, and Lowell in relation to Western conceptions and misconceptions and poetic theory and practice. He then discusses the doctrine of the "moment" or the Image; considers the modula

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Both Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva have made an enormous impact throughout the humanities with their work on signification, identity and difference, and yet the nature of the relation between their theories seems oddly indeterminate: they have sometimes been regarded as more or less indistinguishable and sometimes as incompatible This book aims at establishing precisely how Kristeva's and Derrida's writings may be articulated, tracing intersections and divergences, parallels and discontinuities between them. But how do you compare two theories of the production of difference? What conception of difference do you use to go about it? Any search for a dividing line between Derrida and Kristeva already engages with their preoccupations. Should the juxtaposition of these practices be conceived as a face-to-face confrontation or rather a gap, a hiatus? Could it be a dialectic? or a diff rance? Should it be thought of in terms of Kristeva's work . . . or Derrida's? Accessible and lively, this book studies the theories on their own terms, in terms of one another, and with regard to the literary text, a privileged object of their attention. It demonstrates that the articulation of the theories shifts under different discursive conditions such that a Derridean reading of the relation is unlikely to coincide with a Kristevan interpretation. It shows why there is no single answer to the question of how the two fit together. And it investigates what is at stake in the strategic uses to which their work is put, whether separately or together.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book collects essays that examine key scenes in a number of plays which the author felt 'cried out' to be dramatized.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1996. This book of original essays explores three important areas in comparative literature and history and in cultural studies: the boundaries between history and fiction;women as writers and subjects; and the connection between the early modern, modern and postmodern.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.