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Rain paperback
Conrad Williams

Gray Friar Press, 2007

This is no ordinary storm ... Ben and his family move in to a French house cloaked by storm clouds. The walls fail to keep out intruders. Warnings appear. There is an accident. There is death. There is rain. Much rain. This is Conrad Williams' new novella. Remember to breathe. Conrad Williams was born in 1969 and has been in print since 1988. He has sold around 80 short stories to a diverse range of publications and anthologies. He ...

Jacques Derrida

4 reviews

Taylor & Francis, 2007

Essential
It is clear that Bennington "gets" Derrida in this work. Bennington is easily one of the (maybe) 2 or 3 persons alive that are even nearly qualified to "finish Derrida's sentence." Everything I read of his is almost as if Derrida, himself, were writing. Though an excellent look at exactly what Derrida is up to in his early days from Grammatology to Glas, this is not for the beginner. ...

A Book of Two Halves: Football Short Stories

1 review

Phoenix, 2001

Awesome Footie Stories
Awesome collection of 25 short stories and essays about soccer. My favorites were Stephen Baxter's "Clods," Tim Pears' "Ebony International" Nicholas Lezards' "The Beautiful Game," Steve Grant's "Casuals," Geoff Nicholson's "The Winning Side," Mark Morris's "The Shirt," and Mark Timlin's "Wonder Boy." That said, almost every story has something worthwhile about it, and for a soccer fan, this ...

Jacques Derrida (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

1 review
Nicholas Royle

Routledge, 2003

Constructing Derrida
Nicholas Royle's text on Jacques Derrida is part of a recent series put out by the Routledge Press, designed under the general editorial direction of Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London), to explore the most recent and exciting ideas in intellectual development during the past century or so. To this end, figures such as Martin Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, ...

An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory

2 reviews
Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle

Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc., 2004

A good introduction to literary theory
The Bennett and Royle is really the best intro to theory text I've seen -- a small book, but readable and fairly broad, and yet scrupulous in the ways it describes various theoretical approaches. Each chapter discusses a different theoretical "issue." So, the 2nd edition includes the following chapter titles: The beginning, Readers and reading, The author, The text and the world, The uncanny, ...

How to Read Shakespeare
Nicholas Royle

W. W. Norton, 2005

Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction—a personal master class in reading—that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as Shakespeare's passion for complexity and his enduring ability to ...

The Mermaids
Robert Edric

PS Publishing, 2000

One of 300 copies signed by Robert Edric.

The Agony And The Ecstasy
Nicholas Royle

Sceptre, 1998

The Uncanny: An Introduction
Nicholas Royle

Routledge, 2003

The uncanny is the weird, the strange, the mysterious, a mingling of the familiar and the unfamiliar. Even Freud, patron of the uncanny, had trouble defining it. Yet the uncanny is everywhere in contemporary culture. In this elegant book, Nicholas Royle takes the reader across literature, film, philosophy, and psychoanalysis as he marks the trace of the uncanny in the modern world. Not an introduction in the usual sense, Nicholas Royle's book is ...

An Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory: Key Critical Concepts
Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle

Prentice Hall (UK), 1996

Deconstructions: A User's Guide

2 reviews
Nicholas Royle

Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

So you want to know about Deconstruction...?
If you've always wondered what the hell "Deconstruction" is supposed to be about, look no further. Before you get too excited, I'm not going to claim that this is the best book on Derrida's work or necessarily even for every neophyte--it's not exactly a primer. However, Royle's collection sidesteps the problem that so many other books fall prey to by trying to explain deconstruction, instead ...

After Derrida

1 review
Nicholas Royle

Manchester Univ Pr, 1995

Obscure, self-referential, obfuscatory nonsense.
I read this whilst at uni, where the author was teaching a course on deconstruction I foolishly too, to prove my intellectual prowess. It is the most obscure piece of writing I have ever had the misfortune to set my eyes on, where the reader's understanding of Derrida (already an obscure and frustrating writer himself) is second to the self-regarding masturbatory verbal gymnastics. Apparently ...

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