We will study how the writer-filmmaker Philippe Claudel begins a three-stage process of mourning following death his publisher and friend, Jean-Marc Roberts. The first two periods this process, refuge from grief exaltation memory be reflected in writing Jean-Bark, literary tribute but also place memory. In way, was able to project himself three years later towards third stage by integrating fri...

Georg Cantor (Cantor, 1941; Dauben, 1990) is well-known to mathematicians as the inventor/discoverer of the arithmetic and ordering of mathematical infinity. Cantor discovered the theory of transfinite numbers, and an infinite hierarchy of ever-larger infinities. To the uninitiated this Cantorian notion of larger and larger infinities must seem prolix and astonishing, given that it is difficult...

The aim of this book is to trace Blake’s relationship to a pro-sex culture that seemed under threat at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. Although I expect ‘Blake and sexuality’ to seem a familiar topic, ‘Blake and bourgeois politeness’ may appear to some readers to be either counter-intuitive or plain misguided. If this is so, it is the result of decades of ...