Author: Tielman de Villiers
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Morgan, Luke, The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design
Luke Morgan, The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) 256 pp. $ 65.00 Hb. . ISBN: 9780812247558 In The Monster in the Garden Luke Morgan postulates that the historical place-spaces represented by Renaissance landscapes should be understood as in Foucauldian terms as…
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Wallraven, Miriam, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches
Miriam Wallraven, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches (New York: Routledge 2015) 236 pp. £95 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-138-82418-8 In Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses and Witches Miriam Wallraven investigates the ‘epistemological triad’ of interrelationships between occultism, gender and text –…
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Baxter, Jeannette and Valerie Henitiuk and Ben Hutchinson (eds), A Literature of Restitution. Critical Essays on W G Sebald
Jeannette Baxter, Valerie Henitiuk and Ben Hutchinson (eds), A Literature of Restitution. Critical Essays on W G Sebald (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2013) 320 pp. £70.00 Hb, £17.99 Pb. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8852-0 In the last essay of this book, ‘The Question of Genre in W G Sebald’s “Prose” (Towards a Post-Memorial Literature of Restitution)’, Russell Kilbourn…
