This work is an examination of four fictional texts on which Freud himself wrote; a fragmentary poem by Empedocles, Hebbel's "Judith and Holofernes", Jensen's "Gradiva" and E.T.A.Hoffmann's "The Sandman". In her analysis, Kofman is concerned to reassess these texts in the light of Freud's reading of them and to highlight what he misses out. She argues that Freud's claim to give faithful summaries of these works conceals his own editing and distortion of the texts.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in Taganrog, Ukraine in 1860. First published in the eighteen-eighties, he was a celebrated figure in Russia by the time of his death in 1904, but he remained relatively unknown internationally until the years after World War I, when his works were translated into English. His essays, plays, poetry, and short fiction have been translated into countless languages and he is remembered today as a master of the modern short story.
Designed as a hip time-travel journal into the pirate past, this compendium of the sea scoundrel’s world includes all the detail of classic eyewitness guides as well as excerpts from favourite piratical fiction - making Piratepedia a swashbuckling volume kids won’t want to walk the plank without! - Features high-sea rogues, their vessels, hideouts, cunning adventures, and gnarly ends - Explores pirates from around the world and from ancient history through modern day - Combines nonfiction facts and classic fiction in an innovative new format Reading/Interest Level: 8-14 years
Through separate treatment of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne, the author tells the whole story of what lies between the practical Crusoe's shipwreck (1719) and the sentimental Yorick's stretching out of his hand (1768). In that half century, prose fiction grew to full stature.
Trillion Years Spree - The History of Science Fiction
This is an updated and greatly expanded version of Aldiss's highly respected Billion Year Spree (1973). The first ten chapters remain the same, with six new chapters added. Aldiss considers Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as the first modern science fiction story and contends that all current science fiction has inherited its literary form from that novel and its Gothic offshoots. Besides Shelley, he examines the writings of Poe, Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs and John W. Campbell, Jr. Other chapters explore the Victorian era, the major authors of the 1930s through the 1970s, and sf films.
