Interrogating The Abyss

"Just when you think Kelso has taken you as far as he can, he proves you wrong, setting off in a bold new direction." ​​-​John Langan, author of The Fisherman "Lyrical, intelligent and deeply astute" ​​-​Laura Mauro, Black Static Interrogating the Abyss is the first volume in the collected interviews, essays, and fictions of Chris Kelso. It's an exploration of darkness and a dissection of human relationships and obsession, featuring conversations with writers such as Dennis Cooper and Matthew Stokoe, and culminating in Voidness, ten sessions of psychic intervention by some of literature's most compelling storytellers.

Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the writings collected in Interrogating the Real reflect not only the remarkable extent of Žižek's varied interests, but also reveal his controversial and dynamic style.

"The relationship between the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and the post-structuralist Jacques Derrida has never been fully examined until now. In Forms in the Abyss, Steve Martinot sees these two important philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century as "kindred souls" despite their vast differences."--BOOK JACKET.

The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism offers a wide-ranging dialogue between theory and German Idealism, joining up the various lines of influence connecting German Idealist and Romantic philosophies in all their variety to post-'68 European philosophies, from Derrida and Deleuze to Žižek and Malabou. Key features: Provides in-depth reflections on the various conversations between German Idealism and theory, including an expanded canon of Idealist philosophers and a wide range of contemporary anti-foundationalist thinkers. Includes marginalized voices and concepts that reflect both contemporary concerns as well as the sheer abundance of readings of German Idealism undertaken by European theorists over the last fifty years. Expands the existing scholarship by focusing on new, future directions emerging out of the idealism-theory relationship. The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism is essential reading for researchers and students of all levels — from senior scholars to advanced undergraduates — working on the legacy of German Idealist philosophers within philosophy departments, as well as all those interested in theory from across the humanities.

Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. Sometimes dismissed as a shopworn convention of the genre, frame narratives in fact function as a dynamic basis for imaginative variation and are vital to evaluating the diverse Gothic tradition. The juxtaposition between the everyday "frame world" of the story and the disturbing embedded narrative allows the monstrous to escape textual confines, forcing the reader to experience the reassurance of the ordinary alongside the horror of the uncanny.

Collects Exiles (2001) #59-61 plus material from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Age of Apocalypse. Welcome home, Blink and Sabretooth! In an X-MEN: AGE OF APOCALYPSE tie-in, the Exiles return to the AoA with the unlikeliest new teammate: Apocalype's homicidal son, Holocaust! Their new assignment: kill the X-Men!? Can they stop fighting among themselves long enough to complete their mission? Plus: Just what was Blink up to during her absence from the Exiles those many months ago?

When reality was restored, what happened to the Age of Apocalypse? Find out right here! With Apocalypse destroyed, surely it's happy ever after for Magneto and his X-Men? Not if Sinister has his way! Blink and Sabretooth revisit their home dimension, dragging the Exiles along for the ride, while a little piece of home finds Nate Grey, exiled in the Marvel Universe! COLLECTING: X-MAN #53-54; X-MEN: AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1-6; EXILES (2001) #60-61; WHAT IF? (1989) #77, #81; WHAT IF? X-MEN AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1; MATERIAL FROM X-MEN: AGE OF APOCALYPSE ONE-SHOT, HULK: BROKEN WORLDS #2, X-MEN PRIME, X-MEN: ENDANGERED SPECIES, EXILES: DAYS OF THEN AND NOW #1.

This study attempts to multiculturalise the Gothic by reading a wide selection of Postcolonial Asian and Asian American narratives in light of familiar Gothic tropes such as the uncanny, the double, spectres, and the sublime. Discussing some of the more important concepts in postcolonialism such as subjectivity, belonging, hybridity and nationalism, the author argues that the trajectory of the postcolonial and diasporic experience is fraught with profound moments of trauma, loss and transgression which the aesthetics of the Gothic can illuminate. Throughout the study, a careful balance is maintained between deploying Gothic criticism and emphasising the narrative's cultural, historical and ideological specificity to ensure that a textual form of colonial imposition does not occur. Writings by well-known authors such as Rushdie, Roy, Ondaatje and Mukherjee, and lesser known ones such as Lan Samantha Chang, K.S, Maniam and Beth Yahp are analysed.