The Mechanisms of Power

Content:

1 "The Book of the Duchess" - A study in Feudalism

2 Confounded Royalty: Gender, Genealogy, and Degenaration in "King John"

3 Family Plots. Father's "Yes" and the Power of the Word

4 "More than Marriage." The Mechanism of Heterogeneity and Interpretation in Blake and Nietzsche

5 Eventide of Words. Paul Celan - A Worshipper of Silence

6 Power - Destructive Temptation

7 Some Remarks on Discourse, Subject and Power

8 Life Force in Action: A Study of man and Superman

9 Authority versus Integrity: maxwell Anderson's "Barefoot in Athens"

10 Writing: A Perverse Viper in the Bosom (Chinua Achebe, Ay Kwei Armah, "Sundiata")