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The Foreign in
International Crime
Writing
Transcultural Representations
Edited by
Jean Anderson,
Carolina Miranda
and Barbara
Pezzotti
• A global
comparative
study of ‘the
foreigner’ in
modern crime
fiction
• Explores twentieth and twenty-first
century crime writing from Europe,
India, China, South America and
Australasia
• Examines how international crime
fiction presents issues of ‘otherness’,
globalization, immigration and diaspora
communities
Exploring popular crime fiction from
across the world, The Foreign in
International Crime Writing examines
how these popular works tackle such
issues as national identity, immigration,
globalization and diaspora communities.
JEAN ANDERSON is Associate Professor at
Victoria University of Wellington, New zealand.
CAROLINE MIRANDA is Lecturer at Victoria
University of Wellington, New zealand.
BARBARA PEzzOTTI is Teaching Fellow at
Victoria University of Wellington, New zealand.
UK June 2012 US August 2012
240 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441128171 - £60.00 / $110.00
Continuum
Contagious Metaphor
Peta Mitchell
Benjamin, Barthes
and the Singularity of
Photography
Kathrin Yacavone
‘Meticulously
tracing the network
of connections
between
Benjamin’s
and Barthes’s
visions of the
encounter between
photograph and
viewer, this book
performs an invaluable critical service.’
Michael Sheringham, FBA, Marshal Foch
Professor of French Literature, All Souls
College, University of Oxford, UK
• The first major study of Benjamin’s and
Barthes’s highly influential theories of
photography
• Explores familiar texts as well as works
which have only recently become
available
Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity
of Photography presents two of the most
important intellectual figures of the
twentieth century in a new comparative
light.
KATHRIN yACAVONE teaches in the Department
of French and Francophone Studies at the
University of Nottingham, UK.
UK March 2012 US January 2012
272 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441118080 - £60.00 / $110.00
Continuum
• Innovative study of the metaphor of
contagion
• Takes an interdisciplinary approach
• Strong potential for subsequent
paperback publication
In Contagious Metaphor, Peta Mitchell
offers an innovative, interdisciplinary
study of the metaphor of contagion and its
relationship to the workings of language.
Examining both metaphors of contagion and metaphor as
contagion, Contagious Metaphor suggests a framework through
which the emergence and often epidemic-like reproduction of
metaphor can be better understood.
PETA MITCHELL is a Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies, and
Art History at the University of queensland, Australia.
UK August 2012 US November 2012
192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441132734 - £60.00 / $110.00
Continuum
LITERARy STUDIES
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Catastrophe and
Survival: Walter
Benjamin and
Psychoanalysis
Elizabeth
Stewart
• Demonstrates how
Benjaminian and
psychoanalytic
theories of
subjectivity
illuminate each
other
• Clarifies central
but opaque categories of Benjamin’s
thought: ‘redemption,’ ‘the messianic,’
‘the coming philosophy’
This book addresses the way that
Benjamin’s thoughts regarding mental
space, the mind-body problem, and the
individual’s experience of the material
object world make contact with post-
Freudian psychoanalytic confrontations
with similar issues.
ELIzABETH STEWART is Associate Professor of
English, yeshiva University, New york, USA.
UK May 2012 US March 2012
240 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
PB 9781441116833 - £22.99 / $39.95
Continuum
The Late Walter Benjamin
John Schad
‘... mixes apparently autobiographical
fiction and social history with astute
critical reworking of many of Walter
Benjamin’s most important ideas.’
J. Hillis Miller, University of California,
Irvine, USA
• Examines Benjamin’s experiences of Nazi
Germany as context of his thought
• Fully annotated to guide students and
scholars through the documentary sources of the narrative
This book is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and
death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a
working-class council estate in post-war Austerity England.
JOHN SCHAD is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of
Lancaster, UK.
UK April 2012 US June 2012
256 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781441171702 - £60.00 / $110.00
PB 9781441177681 - £18.99 / $32.95
New Directions in Religion and Literature
Continuum
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