This title is a unique and practical guide to the arts of creative writing. It gives a historical perspective on the storyteller's art and takes a wide view of myth, to include legends, folklore, biblical myth, classical myth, belief myths, balladry and song.

rom Bataille to Badiou: Lignes: the preservation of Radical French Thought, 1987-2017 provides an exhaustive reading of the significant yet understudied intellectual review Lignes, from 1987 to 2017, to demonstrate how it has managed to preserve and develop the legacy of French radical thought often referred to as `French Theory' or `la pensee 68'. Whilst many studies on intellectual reviews from the 1930s to the 1980s exist, this book crucially illuminates the shifting intellectual and political culture of France since the 1980s, filling a major gap in contemporary debates on the continued...