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This book reads Derrida’s deconstruction through Blake’s “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” It takes deconstruction out of the seminar room, demonstrating its vital role in everyday life and revealing it as the invisible heart of both art and religion.
This book reads Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of deconstruction through the lens of William Blake’s aphorism, “Eternity is in love with the productions of time”. Blake’s sentence finds a modern echo in Leonard Cohen’s most famous line, “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”. That light is Blake’s eternity. This book takes deconstruction out of the seminar room and into the wider world, demonstrating its vital role in everyday life, and showing also that it has existed for as long as language itself, and that it forms the invisible heart of both art and religion.
The book will be of interest to all Blake and Derrida scholars, and to all literature lovers who harbour a spiritual hunger. It will also interest students of religion and theology, and indeed anyone who wonders, with Charles Bukowski, about the nature of that “place in the heart that will never be filled”.
The modern Arctic is more than melting glaciers; it’s a mix of indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday. This volume examines how heroic images continue to shape our view of the region: as a utopian future, a symbol of modernity, or a mythic, nostalgic past.
This volume explores how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire from both a literary and sociocultural point of view. Illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices, these studies draw attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.
This collection of original essays examines the comedy of Plautus as a creative dialogue with contemporary culture. The studies explore his engagement with Greek literature, science, and philosophy, revealing his foundational influence on Latin literature.
This volume explores the political side of ancient religion. Written by experts, its chapters engage the diversity of the Greco-Roman religious experience as it receives and negotiates power relations in the ancient Mediterranean from the 7th Century BCE to the 4th Century CE.
This collection demonstrates how the Cinderella story remains active in societies adapting to modern culture. The volume explores dating apps, prom nights, women’s roles, and gender identity through international perspectives on folklore, film, fashion, and literature.
This book explores Dante’s formative Florentine years, a crucible of great importance. Focusing on the Vita Nuova and early poems, it shows how the young poet took archetypes from ancient-medieval tradition and reshaped them to pave the way for his own work.
This panoramic collection of articles explores Greek and Roman literature and philosophy, from close textual readings to the modern legacy of ancient works. A vital resource for classical scholars, students of philosophy, and intellectual historians.
This exploration of the Medea myth reveals how unresolved suffering turns to vengeance. Her tragic story became a touchstone for early twentieth-century female authors who used it to explore their own struggles with unrequited love, societal abandonment, and self-discovery.
German travellers, explorers, and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first English-language volume dedicated to their work, offering critical readings of travelogues, histories, and fiction.
The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?
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