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LITERARy STUDIES
Maurice Blanchot and
Fragmentary Writing
Leslie Hill
• Offers a radically
new perspective
on fragmentary
writing in literary
and philosophical
modernity
• Authoritative
analysis
of Blanchot’s
influential but
still widely misunderstood fragmentary
texts
• Draws out the critical, theoretical,
and political implications of Blanchot’s
writings
For the first time in any language,
this book explores in detail Blanchot’s
own writing in fragments in order to
understand the stakes of the fragmentary
within philosophical and literary
modernity.
LESLIE HILL is Professor of French Studies at the
University of Warwick, UK.
UK September 2012 US July 2012
400 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.5 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781441125279 - £70.00 / $130.00
PB 9781441166227 - £22.99 / $39.95
Continuum
The Transformative
Humanities
A Manifesto
Mikhail Epstein
Edited by Igor E.
Klyukanov
• A bold statement
on the place
and role of the
humanities in
society
• A strident
affirmation of the
potential for the humanities to affect
practical change
The Transformative Humanities: A
Manifesto addresses the question: Is
there any activity in the humanities that
would correspond to the transformative
status of technology and politics? It
argues that we need a practical branch of
the humanities which functions similarly
to technology and politics, but is specific
to the cultural domain.
MIKHAIL EPSTEIN is the Samuel Candler Dobbs
Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian
Literature at Emory University, USA.
IGOR E. KLyUKANOV is Professor of
Communication Studies at Eastern Washington
University, USA.
UK September 2012 US July 2012
240 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441100467 - £65.00 / $120.00
PB 9781441155078 - £19.99 / $34.95
Continuum
On Modern Poetry
From Theory to Total Criticism
Robert Rowland
Smith
• Surveys
twentiethcentury
critical
approaches to
propose a new
way of reading
poetry
• Takes students
from theory to applied readings of
poetic texts
• Theorists covered include: Eliot,
Empson, Bloom, Derrida and Heidegger
A new exploration of poetry criticism in
the last hundred years, On Modern Poetry
is an essential guide for readers and
students at all levels. Critically exploring
this history of twentieth-century
criticism, On Modern Poetry draws on the
insights of both close reading and theory
to offer a new way of reading poetry.
ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH is a former Prize
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, UK.
UK July 2012 US September 2012
208 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781441165725 - £60.00 / $110.00
PB 9781441174222 - £18.99 / $32.95
Continuum
Redcrosse: Remaking
Religious Poetry for
Today’s World
Edited by Ewan
Fernie
• Includes the text
of Redcrosse
and a critical
exploration of
its creation and
cultural context
• Contributors
include Andrew
Motion, Jo Shapcott and Salley Vickers
• Companion website features interviews
with contributors, film footage of
public performances and reviews
This book explores the creation of
Redcrosse: a new poetic liturgy for St
George’s Day and a unique collaborative
work. The authors of the poem and other
leading writers reflect on the creation of
the liturgy as well as on its two premieres
at Windsor and Manchester Cathedral,
and its sometimes controversial public
reception.
EWAN FERNIE is Professor and Chair of
Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare
Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.
UK October 2012 US December 2012
160 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781441178589 - £50.00 / $90.00
PB 9781441138996 - £16.99 / $27.95
Continuum
Victorian Parables
Susan E. Colón
‘Susan Colón offers
an original and
highly accessible
account of the way
in which these
subversive gospel
stories worked at
an ethical level
to challenge the
reading practices
of Victorian readers.’ Professor Elisabeth
Jay, Oxford Brookes University, UK
• Innovative readings of novels by
Charlotte yonge, Margaret Oliphant and
Charles Dickens
• Brings together narrative theory,
literary history and biblical studies
• Offers a fresh angle on the ethical turn
in literary studies, a growing field of
research
This book explores how Victorian novels
draw on parables in ways that imitate,
interpret, and challenge their biblical
sources.
SUSAN E. COLóN is Associate Professor of
Literature at Baylor University, USA.
UK March 2012 US May 2012
208 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches
HB 9780826443489 - £55.00 / $100.00
PB 9781441146502 - £17.99 / $29.95
New Directions in Religion and Literature
Continuum
Dante and the Sense
of Transgression
‘The Trespass of the Sign’
William Franke
• Uses postmodern
critical theory
to open up new
readings of
Dante’s Paradiso
• Explores Dante’s
transgressive
thought and use
of language in its
medieval
historical and theological context
• Historicizes the linguistic philosophy of
Derrida, Blanchot and Bataille through
a study of Dante’s poetics
William Franke reads Dante’s poetic
language in the Paradiso in the light
of contemporary critical theory by
such thinkers as Derrida, Blanchot and
Bataille.
WILLIAM FRANKE is Professor of Comparative
Literature, Italian and Religious Studies at
Vanderbilt University, USA.
UK October 2012 US December 2012
176 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781441136916 £60.00 / $110.00
PB 9781441160423 £18.99 / $32.95
New Directions in Religion and Literature
Continuum