Rhetorically analysing their verse within a gender-inclusive context, Women Writing of Divinest Things broadens our understanding of Renaissance women's poetry in literary history.

This study is a comprehensive analysis of both the original Oedipus myths and the Greek myths of father-daughter incest.

Draws further on works by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad to examine the inherent alterity of our flesh and its implications for the ways in which we relate to the world around us. The author seeks to define how the hidden shows itself. In pursuing this issue, he also raises a parallel one regarding the nature and origin of our self-concealment.

Provides the study on Heidegger's relation to the philosophy of religion. This book deals with topics such as Heidegger's interpretation of Saint Paul, Nietzsche and the death of God, ontotheology, and Heidegger's discussion of the 'last god'. It describes the tension between religion and philosophy, and religion and poetic expression.

Demonstrates how John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton - seventeenth century English poets - revised, reformed, and renewed the Judeo-Christian tradition of the sacred feminine. This title tells that they engage in literary projects that modify, expand upon, challenge, or rethink the natures of men and women.

Invites readers into the labyrinthine discussions of time, self and meaning under the auspices of three thinkers: Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur. The work of each philosopher is highlighted to show how each 'disrupts clock time', reclaiming aspects of our humanity neglected in systems that treat time merely as chronology.