Narrating the Catastrophe

Narrating the CatastropheThis book guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where 'being' is defined as an act rather than a form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa creates an alternative perspective from which to interpret and engage with the world around us.

experimental film festivals and key works in the history of structural and expanded film

a later contemporary of Shakespeare

a lavishly illustrated and expertly curated celebration of an incredible career

It is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga’s famous study of the Burgundian court in The Waning of the Middle Ages

including refugees

The distinctive likeness of the Valois king was widely disseminated and perceived by his French subjects

Shots to the Heart aims to provide both concrete critical engagements with moments of performance as well as philosophical explorations of and reflections on the implications of a love for performance in viewing cinema

such as Diva and Betty Blue (37º 2 le matin)

Discusses the modern concept of toleration in diverse societies

psychoanalysis and genealogy

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist

This book offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas from the islands of Ireland and Britain