There is increasing pressure on the humanities to justify their value and on criminology to
undertake interdisciplinary research. In this book, Rafe McGregor establishes a new …

There is little question as to whether there is good boring art, though its existence raises a
number of questions for both the philosophy of art and the philosophy of emotions. How can …

This chapter argues that the value of Parable of the Trickster qua unfinished novel is the way
in which the text reveals the universal in the particular, the public problem of reconstructing a …

This chapter compares the intensities of academic literary study with something far more
intimate, a feeling about books and writers that is private and impressionistic. It discusses …

Sarcastic commentators may describe the concepts and methods of critical criminologists as
science fiction, and their imagination, concerns, their interpretations as belonging to the …

Amid the rupture of World War II and its direct aftermath, three Austro-German composers
surprisingly turned to Franz Kafka (who famously described himself as unmusical) to …

A distinctive feature of Margolis' work is the striking analogy he draws between selves and
artworks. The thread in the analogy that I explore here concerns how the constitution of …

This paper uses examples from the history and practices of multi-national and large
companies in the oil, chemical and asbestos industries to examine their legal and illegal …

In his new book, Literary Criminology and Literary Criticism, Rafe Mc-Gregor argues for a
new methodology of critical criminology1 that he calls criminological criticism. The features …

This chapter suggests that The Four Books reflects Yan Lianke's Kafkian approach to art,
human nature, the human quandary, and messianism. More specifically, Yan's The Four …