Bøger af Paul Bishop

1977, the one and only king of rock-n-roll, Elvis Presley, is taken from the world far too soon, but the legend will never die.1996, Elvis impersonator Cole Ramsey, a young man with enough voice and a style to take him to the top, receives a very odd phone call from an Icon dead for almost twenty years...Cole has heard all the Elvis conspiracy rumors, but...it couldn't be...Before he knows it, however, Cole's life is turned upside down. He's on the run and up to his ears in Elvises...are they all impersonators or is one of them hiding from deadly suspicious minds...

Taking Plato's allegory of the cave as its starting-point, this book demonstrates how later European thinkers can be read as a reaction and a response to key aspects of this allegory and its discourse of enchainment and liberation.

Cutting-edge criticism on major aspects of Goethe's best-known work.

The volume is offered as a Festschrift for Roger Stephenson, who recently retired from the William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages (German) at the University of Glasgow.

Wide-ranging essays making up the first major study of Nietzsche and the classical tradition in a quarter of a century.

Given the growing disenchantment, on all sides, with the 'high theory' of the 1970s and 1980s, and with the dominant master-trope of literary and cultural reflexion of the 1980s and 1990s, the extended metaphor or 'allegory', this volume offers a re-examination of what, according to Goethe, is a deeper mode of understanding the symbol.

Carl Jung is a clear and compelling critical assessment of one of the controversial and highly influential pioneers of psychology.

Discussing different themes, different texts, and working with different methodological presuppositions, the papers in this collection nevertheless share the conviction that the significance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe can best be shown by setting his works in an intercultural context.