The Abyss Above Dr Brian Keating

The Abyss Above Dr Brian KeatingUses the figure of the mad poet to explore the connections between madness and creativity. In The Abyss Above, Silke Maria Weineck offers the first sustained discussion of the relationship between poetic madness and philosophy. Focusing on the mad poet as a key figure in what Plato called "the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry," Weineck explores key texts from antiquity to modernity in order to understand why we have come to associate art

The case studies demonstrate the necessity to combine perspectives from the longue duree and global comparativism with the theory of agency and an understanding of specific contexts for human actions

Hitchcock's Marnie

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postcolonial theory

In the past thirty years

With the portrayal of an iconic and popular royal

and into policy areas left unresolved since the end of the 1960s

When his first monograph

But they have faded when they did not embrace the next big innovation

Presented as a series of integrated case studies and interviews

Of interest to Egyptologists