Jeremy Tambling

Reader Department of Comparative Literature Jeremy Tambling

Lectures on environmental aspects of particle-associated chemicals in aquatic systems. They consider assessment methods, transfer processes, environmental impact, dredged material. Tambling is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the U. of Hong Kong. Drawing on new critical theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, his study surveys confessional practices running through Western societies, examines confessional literature, and asks about the relationship of confession to strategies of power and control in modern society. Indexed by name only. Distributed in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sexuality, Sin, the Subject

Confession

Written using critical theory, especially by Walter Benjamin, Blanchot and Derrida, Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare reads medieval and early modern texts, exploring allegory within texts, allegorical readings of texts, and melancholy in texts. Authors studied are Langland and Chaucer, Hoccleve, on his madness, Lydgate and Henryson. Shakespeare's first tetralogy, the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III conclude this investigation of death, mourning, madness and of complaint. Benjamin's writings on allegory inspire this linking, which also considers Dürer, Baldung and Holbein and the dance of the dead motifs. The study sees subjectivity created as obsessional, paranoid, and links melancholia, madness and allegorical creation, where parts of the subject are split off from each other, and speak as wholes. Allegory and melancholy are two modes - a state of writing and a state of being - where the subject fragments or disappears. These texts are aware of the power of death within writing, which makes them, fascinating. The book will appeal to readers of literature from the medieval to the Baroque, and to those interested in critical theory, and histories of visual culture.

The Late Medieval and Shakespeare

Allegory and the Work of Melancholy

This book introduces the idea of the posthumous as a means of thinking about our relationship to the past, to death and to history.

Reader Department of Comparative Literature Jeremy Tambling

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