Product Description: Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies, among texts, and across denotation and sound; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but irreducibly collective too...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period.

Product Description: The madder stain imprinted on Tess d Urberville s arm is part of a motif which runs through Hardy s fiction. Similar to Barthes s "punctum" shooting out of the "studium," the stain is a place where the Real erupts, a blind spot that eludes interpretation...read more

Product Description: This volume, examining the ways in which Shakespeare’s plays are designed for hearers as well as spectators, has been prompted by recent explorations of the auditory dimension of early modern drama by such scholars as Andrew Gurr, Bruce Smith, and James Hirsh...read more