This is a collection of 13 short stories of the sea and shore.

Lands End

Literature & Fiction

InkerMen, The

Literary

InkerMen Press

Romanticism elaborates a model of fragmentation, different from the fragment as ruined part of a totality from which it is shorn. Rodolphe Gasché argues that the concept of the Romantic fragment would have to be 'radically recast' to be applied to contemporary literature. It is via Maurice Blanchot that the fragment is 'recast' into an event in which 'all literature is the fragment'. This book investigates that turn, exploring its implications in the work of Blanchot, Samuel Beckett and J. M. Coetzee. Blanchot's 'recast' fragment demands that literature become fragmentary whether it carries the form of the fragment or not. Beckett's prose work unfolds a part of fragmentary writing that appears to be degenerative, as words collide and syntactic structures are eroded. However, fragmentary writing allows the presentation of a damaged work, one under the threat of abandonment, as work in progress; being neither finished nor continued. The work of Coetzee demonstrates the fragment's relation to Levinasian ethics, inviting a responsiveness to the 'other': a situation that maintains the singularity of the work without reducing it to particular critical positions. The legacy of the fragment remains as much a responsibility for modern literature as for the event of the German Romantic fragment. Fragmentary Futures argues that the fragment points to an impossibility governing the generation of literature itself. The German Romantic fragment is still to come, haunting literature. The 'recast' fragment does not exorcise such a revenant but makes its future appearance more fascinating.

Fragmentary Futures: Blanchot, Beckett, Coetzee

Watt, Daniel

Dramas & Plays

It's the most wonderful time of the year, or so we've been led to believe. Scour any frosted pane and within you will find a family gathered in harmony, exchanging carefully wrapped presents, safe in the warmth of the hearth. Sound familiar?  Not, apparently, to The InkerMen conspirators. These festive tales tell a very different story. The window is broken, the fire's gone out and you are alone with your thoughts, walking in a winter hinterland. 'Tis the season for ghost, not Bible, stories.  The Christmas found inside these pages is a Christmas of long, arduous drives cross country. The sky is overcast and forbidding, the roads are treacherous, and the day is growing late. In the back the children are fighting, outside the landscape looks starved and barren, and all that lies ahead is the family home that you spent so many years longing to escape.

Cold Turkey: A Christmas Selection

Short Stories & Anthologies

Debates around education tend to be constructed through a series of oppositions, the student-centred against the didactic, the innovative against the traditional, the free against the controlled. Rather than attempting to resolve such conflicts, this book analyses the extent to which the various sides can be read as sharing a range of assumptions about pedagogical purpose and process.  In charting the various ways in which the student's desires are claimed to be known, its independence guaranteed, and its growth optimised, the book makes a plea for the role of close textual analysis in any engagement with educational discourse.  It is argued that until the student is read as a construction, rather than observed as a fact, the various sides in education theory will not be able to address the consensus their work is dependent upon.

Student-Centred: Education, Freedom and the Idea of Audience

Education & Teaching

Cocks, Neil

Higher & Continuing Education

Muse & Messiah is the first full comparative study of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), based on the latest materials, including new interviews with ex-students and biographers, Polish texts, plus all worldwide English studies and influenced works. Rare photographs, detailed chronology, and recent images are included for comparison. Schulz's life and themes are examined with detailed Polish and European influences. New, first-hand corrected information about his home region adds a new dimension to his creative world within contemporary Polish-Jewish tensions. Controversial international debates about his last works are brought up to date in a work that seeks to place his poetic-artistic achievement more centrally to highlight an original, modernist and yet universal vision.

Muse & Messiah: the life, imagination & legacy of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942)

Biographies & Memoirs

Banks, Brian R.

Arts & Literature

The author gives an essay on Georges Bataille, self-sacrifice and the communal language of the Yucatan Maya, plus a play (and storyboard) based on travel experiences in Mexico.

Excessive Narratives: Georges Bataille, Self-Sacrifice & the Communal Language of the Yucatec Maya & U Chan Tsola'ni Ek Balam (The Short Story of The Black Cat)

Brocklehurst, Robert John

History & Criticism

Dear Lost Boys and Lost Girls, Join The InkerMen for a Lost Weekend, rolling down the Lost Highway. They are Losing Their Minds, Losing Their Religion and Losing Sleep. They lost that loving feeling a long time ago. They came seeking a Lost Civilisation, an Island Of Lost Souls, only to lose their identity, their memories and their innocence. The InkerMen need your help, your tears, your loves labours. For once they are lost for words. They are losing the plot, losing their place. They have lost their train of thought. They are Lost in Music. They are Lost in Space. They don't have the number for the Lost Property Office. This is a book for all the Lost Children and Lost Hearts, for all those pursuing a lost cause, fighting a losing battle.

Loss

Works of Illness takes a fresh look at illness by examining the role of artworks in the understanding of and response to serious disease. The special contribution of this book is to focus upon pictures, narratives and dramatic performance as ways of giving shape to illness experience, communicating this to others, and influencing social action in order to mitigate suffering. It shows how the aesthetic dimension of such representations is key to understanding the relationship of the world of illness to that of health. Works of Illness is an original interdisciplinary study that draws upon medical sociology, the philosophy of art, and discussions of ethics to offer a new theory of how serious illness is made social.

Works of Illness: Narrative, Picturing and the Social Response to Serious Disease

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Radley, Alan

Psychology & Counseling

This is a Witkiewicz play translated and introduced by Daniel Gerould.

Maciej Korbowa and Bellatrix

Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy

Humor & Entertainment

King Cobra. Draculess. Son of the Pope. Black leather cats. Panther-parrots. A wild child. An eighty-year-old woman eight months pregnant. A man and a woman. A woman and a woman. A woman and a dead man. Flash floods and earthquakes. Spirit animals and strange herbs. The pig that knew the trick. A man's heart roasted on a spit. A red ruby. Tall tales, cataclysms, transformations.

A Bestiary of My Heart

Nelson, Victoria

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