The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent
philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's …

Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and
queer theory Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study …

Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and
political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work …

Examines the intersection of shame, gender and writing in contemporary literatureConsiders
the particular intersection of shame, gender and writing in literature produced since the …

There is general agreement, among those professionals who work with adult survivors, that
the effects of abuse might show themselves in the form of low self esteem, lack of …

“These essays finally quash the naive view that Nabokov's writings–especially Lolita, Pale
Fire and the bewitching short stories–are free ideological zones, neutral and vacant …

By sidesteps and accidents, by reading in too many genres and fields at the same time, by
being irritable about certain tics of theory, by trying as a freelance independent scholar to …

Reading Thomas Mann's “Der Todin Venedig” and Max Frisch's Homo faber as narratives of
male aging and ageism, I show that the protagonists'“midlife crises” are crises in …

A estética cute (“adorável,”“fofinho”) é uma característica central dos meios mediáticos do
século XXI, estendendo-se desde a estratosfera das belas-artes contemporâneas até ao …

Mann's Der Tod in Venedig is often held to be a culturally conservative text, one that would
uphold notions such as high culture and authorhood, despite the taboo (apparently sexual) …