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This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature. We have witnessed a remarkable return to psychoanalysis in those fields, fields from which it had been excluded or discredited for a while. This has changed recently, and we need to understand why. The fourteen essays make use a freshly minted psychoanalytic concepts to read diverse texts, films and social practices. The distinguished authors gathered here, an international group of scholars coming from Japan, China, Korea, India, Belgium, Greece, France, Australia, and the USA, are all cognizant of the advances of theory under the form of deconstruction, feminism, post-colonial studies and trauma studies. These essays take into account the latest developments in Lacanian theory and never bracket off subjective agency when dealing with literature or film. The authors make sense of changes brought to psychoanalytical theory by redefinitions of the Oedipus complex, reconsiderations of the death drive, applications of Lacan's symptom and the concept of the Real, reassessments of the links between affect and trauma, insights into the resilience of Romantic excess and jouissance, awareness of the role of transference in classical and modernist texts, and pedagogical techniques aimed at teaching difficult texts, all the while testifying to the influence on Lacanian theory of thinkers like Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, Melanie Klein, Didier Anzieu, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek.

Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Lacan, Jacques, --- Influence. --- Lacanian theory; psychoanalytic approaches; queer studies; Romantic literature

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Authors throughout history have relied on the emotional make-up of their readers and audiences to make sense of the behaviours and actions of fictive characters. But how can a narrative voice contained in a text evoke feelings that are ultimately never real or actual, but a figment of a text, a fictive reality created out of words? How does one reconcile interiority - a presumed modern conceptualisation - with medieval emotionality? The volume seeks to address these questions. It positions itself within the larger context of the history of emotion, offering a novel approach to the study of literary representations of emotionality and its staging through voice, performativity and narrative manipulation, probing how emotions are encoded in texts. The author argues that the deceptively laconic portrayal of emotion in the Icelandic sagas and other literature reveals an "emotive script" that favours reticence over expressivity and exposes a narrative convention of emotional subterfuge through narrative silences and the masking of emotion. Focusing on the ambivalent borders between prose and poetic language, she suggests that poetic vocalisation may provide a literary space within which emotive interiority can be expressed. The volume considers a wide range of Old Norse materials - from translated romances through Eddic poetry and Íslendingasögur (sagas of Icelanders) to indigenous romance. Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland and Vice-Chair of the Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts.

Emotions in literature. --- Old Norse literature --- History and criticism. --- authorship. --- emotion. --- expression. --- history. --- iceland. --- icelandic. --- literary self-expression. --- literature. --- medieval. --- middle ages. --- pathos. --- poetry. --- publishing. --- representation. --- romantic literature. --- sagas. --- writing.

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'What is not 'Life' that really is?' asked Coleridge, struggling, like many poets, philosophers, and scientists of Europe's Romantic age, to formulate a theory of life that explained the mysterious relation between dead material bodies and living, animate beings. Romantic intellectuals found a key to this mystery surprisingly close at hand: the process by which dead matter could come to life must be something like the process of reading. 'The Revivifying Word' examines the reanimating acts of reading that became a central focus of attention for Romantic writers. German theorists, building on the Apostle Paul's assertion that the dead letter can be revivified by the living spirit, proposed a permeable, legible boundary between the living and the dead. This inaugurated a revolution in European aesthetics, implanting the germ of an extraordinarily productive narrative idea that enriched Romantic literature for decades. Poets and novelists created a large cast of characters who crossed the boundary between death and life with the help of some form of reading: figures like Keats's Glaucus, Kleist's Elizabeth Kohlhaas, Shelley's Frankenstein (and the monster he creates), Maturin's Melmoth, Poe's Madeline Usher, and Gautier's Spirite. Clayton Koelb demonstrates that such fictions offer a nuanced consideration of the most urgent question facing any theory of life: how do material bodies come to acquire, to lose, and then perhaps to regain the immaterial intellectual/spiritual quality that defines animate beings? Clayton Koelb is Guy B. Johnson Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Literature --- Romanticism. --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Literature History and criticism --- Animate Beings. --- European Romanticism. --- Literature and Philosophy. --- Reading. --- Romantic Literature. --- Theory of Life.

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Derek Brewer (1923-2008) was one of the most influential medievalists of the twentieth century, first through his own publications and teaching, and later as the founder of his own academic publishing firm. His working life of some sixty years, from the late 1940s to the 2000s, saw enormous advances in the study of Chaucer and of Arthurian romance, and of medieval literature more generally. He was in the forefront of such changes, and his understandings of Chaucer and of Malory remain at the core of the modern critical mainstream. Essays in this collection take their starting point from his ideas and interests, before offering their own fresh thinking in those key areas of medieval studies in which he pioneered innovations which remain central: Chaucer's knight and knightly virtues; class-distinction; narrators and narrative time; lovers and loving in medieval romance; ideals of feminine beauty; love, friendship and masculinities; medieval laughter; symbolic stories, the nature of romance, and the ends of storytelling; the wholeness of Malory's Morte Darthur; modern study of the medieval material book; Chaucer's poetic language and modern dictionaries; and Chaucerian afterlives. This collection builds towards an intellectual profile of a modern medievalist, cumulatively registering how the potential of Derek Brewer's work is being reinterpreted and is renewing itself now and into the future of medieval studies. Charlotte Brewer is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford; Barry Windeatt is Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Contributors: Elizabeth Archibald, Charlotte Brewer, Mary Carruthers, Christopher Cannon, Helen Cooper, A.S.G. Edwards, Jill Mann, Alastair Minnis, Derek Pearsall, Corinne Saunders, James Simpson, A.C. Spearing, Jacqueline Tasioulas, Robert Yeager, Barry Windeatt.

English literature --- History and criticism. --- Brewer, Derek, --- Brewer, Derek Stanley --- Brewer, D. S. --- Influence. --- Arthurian Romance. --- Chaucer. --- Chaucerian Afterlives. --- Class-Distinction. --- Derek Brewer. --- Feminine Beauty. --- Friendship. --- Knight. --- Love. --- Masculinities. --- Medieval Laughter. --- Medieval Literature. --- Medieval Material Book. --- Medieval Studies. --- Narrators. --- Poetic Language. --- Romantic Literature. --- Storytelling. --- Symbolic Stories.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for one, quite short, period of his life he held real political power – acting as Public Secretary to the British Civil Commissioner in Malta in 1805. This was a formative experience for Coleridge which he later identified as being one of the most instructive in his entire life. In this volume Barry Hough and Howard Davis show how Coleridge’s actions whilst in a position of power differ markedly from the idealism he had advocated before taking office – shedding new light on Coleridge’s sense of political and legal morality.

British -- Malta -- History -- 19th century. --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, -- 1772-1834 -- Travel -- Malta. --- Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography. --- English poetry -- Italian influences. --- Malta -- Intellectual life -- 1789-1900. --- Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography. --- Poets, English -- Homes and haunts -- Malta. --- Italian influences. --- Coleridge, S. T. --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil, --- Кольридж, Самуил, --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil Teĭlor, --- Кольридж, Самуил Тейлор, --- Kūlīridzh, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- קולרידג׳, סמיואל טיילור --- Kūlīridj, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- كولردج، صمويل تيلور, --- קאָלרידש, ס. ט., --- Republic of Malta --- Repubblika taʼ Malta --- State of Malta --- Malte --- Maltese Islands --- مالطة --- Mālṭah --- Мальта --- Рэспубліка Мальта --- Rėspublika Malʹta --- Republika Malta --- Малта --- Република Малта --- República de Malta --- Maltská republika --- Gweriniaeth Malta --- Republik Malta --- Malta Vabariik --- Μάλτα --- Δημοκρατία της Μάλτας --- Dēmokratia tēs Maltas --- Government of Malta --- Gvern ta̕ Malta --- マルタ --- Maruta --- Melita --- Poets, English --- British --- Critics --- English poetry --- English poets --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- History --- Homes and haunts --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Travel --- Malta --- Intellectual life --- romanticism --- legal history --- romantic literature --- nineteenth century --- colonial government --- political history --- samuel taylor coleridge --- colonialism --- malta --- british imperial history --- maltese history --- Avvisi --- Royal commission --- British imperial history --- Colonial government --- Colonialism --- Legal history --- Maltese history --- Political history --- Romantic literature --- Romanticism --- Nineteenth century