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The University of Michigan Press Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right
Book SynopsisExplores the complex relationship between avant-garde art and politics to reveal links with right-wing or fascist causes
£60.95
The University of Michigan Press Strange Science
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Ruins
Book SynopsisTheorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theatre - the aesthetics of ruins.Trade ReviewIt has been a long time since I read a work of great and serious scholarship with such enjoyment. Impressive in expression, content, and imbued by an encompassing imaginative 'presence' unusual in academic writing . . . As a scholar who has spent his life researching within the realms (sometimes arcane) of ancient theatre, I repeatedly encountered both facts previously unknown to me, or interpretations of familiar subjects cast in a manner that displayed and illuminated them in such an entirely new light, that they seemed freshly fashioned and novel. I admire this book greatly."" - Richard C. Beacham, King's College, London""A gripping study of classical theatre's preservation of its own goneness. This is a learned, innovative, and wonderfully readable book that overthrows the methodological constraints of archeo-historicism to elaborate (from rich evidence) the self-forgetting that conditions the theatre at its roots . . . a powerful, marvelous book."" - Ellen MacKay, University of Chicago
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird
Book SynopsisThese essays and interviews from 1970-76 are lively, pointed, often polemical. They derive from a unified point of view about creativity and about the function of poetry. For the interested reader they can provide a key to the universe of the contemporary poet.
£19.95
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Two Cities The Political Thought of American Transcendentalism
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£40.80
MY - University of Toronto Press Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and AngloSaxon
Book SynopsisBiblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England provides an accessible introduction to biblical epic poetry.Trade Review"This ground-breaking study draws long-overdue attention to a magnificent body of Latin epics from late antiquity, including Sedulius's Carmen Paschale and Arator's Historia Apostolica. McBrine traces the promulgation of these poems in Anglo-Saxon England, where scholars like Aldhelm and Bede treasured the depth of learning and pleasure in them, and their influence extends even to vernacular epics like the Old English Genesis and Exodus. Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England does more than fill a gap; it fundamentally reconfigures our understanding of literary production in Anglo-Saxon England." -- Daniel Donoghue, John P. Marquand Professor of English, Harvard University "Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England is a very accessible introduction to the Latin biblical poets and the major poetic features of their biblical epics. This book is a major contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies and provides new context for the development and reception of Anglo-Latin poetry." -- Miranda Wilcox, Department of English, Brigham Young University "This elegantly written and meticulously researched book may well prove a milestone in Anglo-Saxon studies, combining as it does a magisterial overview of some of the most important Latin texts taught in Anglo-Saxon schools with an intricate and intriguing assessment of their impact on Old English texts that evidently echoed in the vernacular their range and purpose. Brilliant close readings sit alongside sweeping vistas, in a book that should both surprise and stimulate all serious scholars and students of Anglo-Saxon England." -- Andy Orchard, FBA FRSC , Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of OxfordTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Juvencus' Euangeliorum libri quattuor (c. 330 CE) Chapter 3 Cyprianus' Heptateuch (c. 400-425 CE) Chapter 4 Sedulius' Carmen paschale (c. 425-450 CE) Chapter 5 Avitus' Historia spiritalis (c. 500 CE) Chapter 6 Arator's Historia apostolica (c. 544 CE) Chapter 7 Reading Biblical Epics in Early England: Aldhelm, Bede, Alcuin Chapter 8 Old English Biblical Verse: Genesis A, Genesis B, Exodus Chapter 9 Conclusion Appendices Bibliography
£57.80
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Art as Performance Story as Criticism
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LSU Press William Faulkner Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
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LSU Press Freedoms Lawmakers
Book SynopsisProvides the first comprehensive directory of the over 1,500 African Americans who held political office in the South during the Reconstruction era. The book presents an impressive amount of information about the antebellum status, occupations, property ownership, and military service of these officials.
£21.80
Louisiana State University Press Two Covenants
Book SynopsisTwo Covenants serves to expand the definition of the American South by focusing on the contributions of Jews to the culture. While concerned with established concepts such as ethnicity and region, McGraw raises many questions that illustrate the complexity of southern Jewishness and also considers literary representations.
£30.56
LSU Press The Scary MasonDixon Line African American Writers and the South Southern Literary Studies
Book SynopsisNew Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, Trudier Harris explores why black writers have consistently both loved and hated the South.
£21.95
Louisiana State University Press Women Witchcraft and the Inquisition in Spain and
Book SynopsisInvestigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas. The collection gathers scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards.
£36.51
Louisiana State University Press Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic
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£35.06
Louisiana State University Press Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary volume of literary and cultural scholarship that examines the link between two pivotal intellectual and artistic figures. The book probes the degree to which the transcendentalist author influenced the architect’s campaign against dominant strains of American thought.Trade ReviewPart intellectual biography and part history of American architecture, Ayad Rahmani's book is a rich and engaging exploration of Frank Lloyd Wright's philosophical scaffolding. Rahmani demonstrates, in particular, the centrality of Ralph Waldo Emerson's contributions to Wright's worldview and his architectural theories and craft." - Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho
£36.51
Louisiana State University Press How to Reread a Novel
Book SynopsisA novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of fiction writing through practical analysis of the resources of narration, demystifying some of the tools novelists use to build worlds.Trade Review“In this refreshingly down-to-earth and approachable book, Matthew Clark focuses on the handling of rhetorical figures and narrative situations in a wide range of authors from Homer to Toni Morrison, revealing in detail the mechanisms by which literary effects are created. Lucidly written, patiently argued, and deeply grounded in a lifetime of literary experience, How to Reread a Novel can change the way we read, amplifying both our understanding and our pleasure.” - Peter J. Rabinowitz, author of Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation
£38.66
Louisiana State University Press How to Reread a Novel
Book SynopsisA novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of fiction writing through practical analysis of the resources of narration, demystifying some of the tools novelists use to build worlds.Trade Review“In this refreshingly down-to-earth and approachable book, Matthew Clark focuses on the handling of rhetorical figures and narrative situations in a wide range of authors from Homer to Toni Morrison, revealing in detail the mechanisms by which literary effects are created. Lucidly written, patiently argued, and deeply grounded in a lifetime of literary experience, How to Reread a Novel can change the way we read, amplifying both our understanding and our pleasure.” - Peter J. Rabinowitz, author of Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation
£27.20
Louisiana State University Press Seamus Heaneys Gifts
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Land Before Her Fantasy and Experience of
Book SynopsisTo discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated.
£32.21
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina An American Triptych Anne Bradstreet Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Labor and Desire Womens Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina This Violent Empire The Birth of an American
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this much anticipated work, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg takes up Crevecoeur's challenge 'What then is the American, this new man?' and boldly answers: A deeply divided subject of This Violent Empire, this United States. In exposing republican citizens' desires and fears, she not only opens up new realms of thought and inquiry--she makes clear that no genuine understanding of the new nation can overlook the profoundly confounded and contested cultural construction of 'the American, this new man.'--Michael Meranze, University of California, Los Angeles|""Smith-Rosenberg maps the genesis of a historical dilemma, how the United States' vaunted diversity and emphasis on unity often function in bitter opposition. Historically rich and theoretically sophisticated, This Violent Empire studies the social, material, urban, intercultural, and international contexts through which an impossibly unified American identity was imagined in the magazines, literature, and art of the early United States.""--Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt University|""Scholars of the new nation and its culture have been waiting twenty years for this book--and it is well worth the wait. We will no longer hear that the most powerful actors of the 'founding' did not think or talk creatively about Indians, or slaves, or women. This Violent Empire reaches deep into the national psyche and broadly into the cultural practices that defined Americans and their 'Others' in a formative period; it is a tour de force of political and cultural analysis that informs us all.""--David Waldstreicher, Temple University
£33.71
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Other Voices A Study of the Late Poetry of Luis
Book SynopsisThrough careful reading of Luis Cernuda's later poetry, written after 1936, Alexander Coleman argues that Luis Cernuda was a poet whose primary impulse in his art was the suppression of the subjective and the consequent objectivization of poetry.
£23.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina HalfTold Tales Dilemmas of Meaning in Three French Novels
Book SynopsisPhilip Stewart demonstrates that in each of three novels - Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne, Diderot's La Religieuse, and Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise - the characters' sincerity disguises how incompletely the meaning of their own experience is resolved.
£23.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors Notes Towards a Materialist History of Linguistic Idealism
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£22.46
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Architecture of Imagery in Alberto Moravias Fiction
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£22.46
Northwestern University Press Romanticism
Book SynopsisThe renowned scholar Rüdiger Safranski's Romanticism: A German Affair both offers an accessible overview of Romanticism and, more critically, traces its lasting influence, for better and for ill, on German culture. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the power of art, culture, and ideas in the life of a nation.
£37.95
Northwestern University Press The Sublime South
Book SynopsisPresents the first systematic study of cultural images of Andalusia as Spain's Orient and the impact they have had on nation-building and modernization. José Luis Venegas deftly explores Spain's shifting engagements with oriental identity and otherness by looking at a territory that is institutionally embedded in the nation-state while symbolically placed between inclusion and abjection.
£27.96
Northwestern University Press Strategic Occidentalism
Book SynopsisExamines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture.Trade ReviewStrategic Occidentalism is a landmark study in contemporary Mexican literature that combines exhaustive, original research with clear thinking and stylish prose. Sanchez Prado establishes critical dialogues with major theorists in world, Latin American, and Mexican literary studies, but does so in constructively critical ways. "" - Brian Price, author of Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss
£27.96
Northwestern University Press Feeling Faint
Book SynopsisExplores human consciousness in its most basic sense: the awareness, at any given moment, that we live and feel. Such awareness, it argues, is distinct from the categories of selfhood to which it is often assimilated, and can only be uncovered at the margins of first-person experience. What would it mean to be conscious without being a first person - to be conscious in the absence of a self?Trade ReviewThis is important and original work, argued with passion, eloquence, and style, and it will meet an interested audience in the growing group of Renaissance and early modern scholars interested in affects, environments, cognition, and phenomenology."" - Julia Lupton, author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life
£74.25
Northwestern University Press Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity
Book SynopsisReconsiders the literary works of the Viennese satirist, journalist, and playwright Karl Kraus (1874-1936). Ari Linden reads Kraus's work both on its own terms and alongside philosophy and critical theory, yielding a portrait of Kraus as an irrepressible figure in the modernist tradition.Trade ReviewAri Linden's Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity offers an illuminating view onto Kraus's three major creative works, The Last Days of Mankind, Cloudcuckooland, and The Third Walpurgisnacht. Linden's principal contribution is an original analysis of Kraus's use of language in its relation to his contemporary reality-and in particular World War I, the creation of the Austrian Republic in the 1920s, and the era of National Socialism." - Michael W. Jennings, coauthor of Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life "Ari Linden's Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity offers a compelling portrait of Kraus as a cultural critic in dark times, whose work runs parallel to other major figures of modernism. Linden offers measured assessments of Kraus's successes and limitations, his power and powerlessness, and what they offered, and continue to offer, to later generations of readers and critics." - Kirk Wetters, author of The Opinion System: Impasses of the Public Sphere from Hobbes to Habermas "Enormously erudite and enviably conversant with critical theory, Ari Linden convincingly argues that modernism cannot be fully understood without taking account of the towering - but still often neglected - figure of Karl Kraus." - William Collins Donahue, author of Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink's "Nazi Novels" and Their FilmsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Toward a Krausian Theory of Modernity 1. Reciting War: The Last Days of Mankind (1915-22) 2. On Birds, Wars, and Fragile Republics: Cloudcuckooland (1923) 3. "Where Illegality Becomes the Law": The Third Walpurgis Night (1933/52) 4. "A Monstrous Non-Entity": Kierkegaard, Kraus, and Benjamin 5. "Origin is the Goal": Adorno and Kraus Coda: "Shadows Cast Bodies": Kraus and Posterity Bibliography Notes Index
£89.10
Northwestern University Press The Saving Line Benjamin Adorno and the Caesuras
Book SynopsisThrows fresh light on the intellectual exchange and disagreements between Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, the problematic conjunction of secular reason and negative theology in their thinking, and their appropriations of ancient and modern legacies.Trade ReviewTrenchant, lucid, and compelling. This book is a rare achievement: a study by an extraordinarily gifted literary and philosophical thinker who patiently and carefully elucidates notoriously obscure and challenging texts, fully cognizant of the larger intellectual claims informing them and his readings of them. The book alters and deepens our understanding of Adorno and Benjamin, reveals new depths to their implicit dialogue with each other within their writings, and demonstrates how their work continues to provide insights and inspiration for the study of literary narrative." - Henry W. Pickford, author of Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein: Expression, Emotion, and Art (Northwestern University Press, 2016)Table of Contents Frequently Cited Texts Introduction 1. Benjamin's Hard Caesura: The Hopeful Narrator of Elective Affinities 2. Adorno's Hard Caesura: The Impassive Homeric Narrator 3. Adorno's Soft Caesura: The Immanent Utopia of Penelope's Remark 4. Benjamin's Soft Caesura: The Immanent Utopia of the Embedded Novella Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£27.96
Northwestern University Press At the Limit of the Obscene German Realism and
Book SynopsisExamines the fear of materiality in German-language realist and postrealist literature. The book argues that with German literature's turn in the mid-nineteenth century to the depiction of the profane, sensual world, anxiety emerged about the terms of that depiction.Trade ReviewAt the Limit of the Obscene is a masterful study of the concept of obscenity, in both its historical and theoretical permutations, as it played out in the tradition of nineteenth-century German realist literature and its afterlife in the early twentieth century. Weitzman moves with enviable grace through the German intellectual tradition from Kant forward, weaving in references to legal cases and contemporary critical interventions, and with great originality leads the discussion into the equally important tradition of French phenomenology." - Eric Downing, author of The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940"In her impeccably researched and elegantly written book, Weitzman uses the category of the obscene to unlock Poetic Realism's contradictions as well as its solutions. Mandatory reading for all those interested in 19th-century German prose and, more generally, in questions of materialism and literature." - Eva Geulen, author of The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after HegelTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: 'Scenes that do not belong in the light of day' 1. Against Nature: Adalbert Stifter 2. Base Matter: Gustav Freytag 3. Iconoclasm and Iconolatry: Theodor Fontane 4. Presence as Profanation: Arno Holz 5. Dead Ends: Gottfried Benn 6. Filth: Franz Kafka Coda: "As if she were saying something shameless" Notes Bibliography Index
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Northwestern University Press Wages of Evil
Book SynopsisIncorporates sources from philosophy, criminology, psychology, and history to argue that Dostoevsky's thinking about punishment was shaped not only by his Christian ethics but also by the debates on penal theory and practice unfolding during his lifetime.Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Scaffold and the Rod: Dostoevsky on the Death Penalty and Corporal Punishment Chapter 2 : "Squaring the Circle": The Justice of Punishment Chapter 3: Foregoing Punishment: Dostoevsky’s Third Category and the Case of Ekaterina Kornilova Chapter 4: "A Mummy" or a "Resurrected" Self? Chapter 5: "India Rubber," the "Living Soul," and the Process of Moral Change Chapter 6: Approximations of Justice: The Novel in the CourtroomAfterwordNotesBibliography
£29.96
Northwestern University Press Literary Conclusions
Book SynopsisPresents a new theory of textual endings in eighteenth-century literature and thought. Analysing works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist, Oliver Simons shows how the emergence of new kinds of literary endings around 1800 is inextricably linked to the history of philosophical and scientific concepts.Trade Review“This is a well written and forcefully argued study that succeeds in bringing out an important and heretofore unrecognized curve of literary-historical development across what must be regarded as the most significant phase of German cultural history. Simons’s command of the scholarship is exemplary, combining close textual analysis with a broad view of literary and intellectual history. The book’s contribution to current discussions in the scholarship—about the historical study of form and the place of the history of knowledge in literary historical study—is substantial.” —David E. Wellbery, editor-in-chief of A New History of German Literature“Simons operates on an elaborate and cutting-edge theoretical level. The readings in the book can be described as combining new formalist thinking with historical epistemology in the tradition of Foucault and the New Historicism. Simons’s book is innovative and exemplary at the same time, and this, in my view, is an enormous accomplishment.” —Rüdiger Campe, author of The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist""This thought-provoking book greatly enriches our understanding of a key juncture in literary history by drawing attention to the ways in which literary genres, patterns of emplotment, and syntactical structures follow, critique, and complicate forms of reasoning in an age that glorifies reason and despairs of it in turn."" —Márton Dornbach, author of The Saving Line: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Caesuras of Hope (Northwestern University Press, 2021)Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Thinking Through Conclusions 1. Lessing’s Form of Reason 2. Goethe and the Powers of Conclusion 3. Kleist’s Genres Literary Conclusions: From Urteilskraft to Schlusskraft Notes Bibliography Index
£84.15
Northwestern University Press The Origins of Russian Literary Theory
Book SynopsisReconstructs lost Formalist theories of authorship, of the psychology of narrative structure, and of the social spread of poetic innovations. By recontextualising Russian Formalism within this philological paradigm, the book highlights the aspects of Formalism's legacy that speak to the priorities of twenty-first-century literary studies.Trade Review“Merrill's book is a major reinterpretation of the early stages of literary theory in Russia and their wider impact. Her narrative is attentive to detail, while remaining sure-footed when capturing the bigger picture. A rewarding piece of research that makes a strong contribution to the field.” —Galin Tihanov, author of The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond“With impressive erudition and admirable lucidity, Jessica Merrill offers a strikingly novel reconstruction of Russian Formalism, placing it in a rich and largely neglected historical context. Her extended discussions of folklore and folkloristics, of the emphasis on the spoken as well as the written word, of the relevance of psychological theories and of contemporary politics, force us to reconsider the movement, its achievements, and its legacy. The book is a major contribution to the study of Western literary theory, and more generally, to twentieth-century intellectual history.” —Michael Wachtel, author of The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry“The Origins of Russian Literary Theory is remarkable for the lucidity of its composition. This clear and wide-ranging book makes an original and significant contribution to the study of Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism, and thereby also to our understanding of the history of literary theory in the twentieth century—and perhaps its future in the twenty-first.” —Ilya Kliger, author of The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature“Merrill’s book attests to the inspiring vitality of Russian Formalism for contemporary literary studies. It approaches this subject from a new and insightful perspective and provides provocative vistas on this seminal school of criticism.” —Peter Steiner, author of Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics“The Origins of Russian Literary Theory focuses on the role of comparative philology in the formation of Formalist concepts. The author efficiently considers both branches of the Formalist School—OPOIAZ and the Moscow Linguistic Circle—and explores why they favored folklore studies and sociolinguistic disciplines, such as dialectology (a fact largely disregarded in previous scholarship). As it is quite a departure from the traditional narrow view of Russian Formalism, Merrill’s book is a fascinating read for both literary theorists and intellectual historians.” —Igor Pilshchikov, coeditor of Epokha “ostraneniia” (The Age of “Estrangement”: Russian Formalism and Contemporary Humanities)Table of Contents Acknowledgements Note on the Text Introduction: The Philological Paradigm 1.Comparative Philology 2.The Author as Performer 3.The Psychology of Poetic Form 4.Inside the Moscow Linguistic Circle: Poetic Dialectology 5.Structuralisms Conclusion: Formalism and Philology in the Twenty-First Century Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Northwestern University Press Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary
Book SynopsisRevisits A Theory of Literary Production (1966) to show how Pierre Machereyâs remarkable - and still provocative - early work can contribute to contemporary discussions about the act of reading and the politics of formal analysis.Trade Review“With its exquisitely written preface and stimulating contributions by Macherey and other scholars, this collection brings long-overdue attention to the neglected and misunderstood elements of Macherey’s work, making that work a timely rejoinder to debates on a range of vital issues: reading and discursivity, the relationship between literature and philosophy, the politics of form and formalism, and the legacy of the Althusserian project. At a time when anti-intellectualism holds thought in its sway, in academe as elsewhere, the interventionist import of this volume cannot be overstated.” —Rey Chow, author of A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present“Bringing together a stellar cast of writers and scholars, this collection offers a most eloquent testimony to the lasting enigma of Pierre Macherey’s brilliant if also frequently misread first book, A Theory of Literary Production. Audrey Wasser and Warren Montag prove the continued relevance of Macherey’s proposal in the context of French Marxism and its creative dialogue with psychoanalysis, the history of the sciences, and the critique of ideology.” —Bruno Bosteels, author of The Actuality of CommunismTable of Contents Preface - Warren Montag and Audrey Wasser Postface to Pour une thÉorie de la production littÉraire (2014) - Pierre Macherey 1. Why Read, Macherey? - Audrey Wasser 2. Spoken and Unspoken - Ellen Rooney 3. Baudelaire’s Shadow: On Poetic Determination - Nathan Brown 4. What is Materialist Analysis? Pierre Macherey’s Spinozist Epistemology - Nick Nesbitt 5. Blackness: N’est Pas? - David Marriott 6. What Do We Mean When We Speak of the Surface of a Text? - Warren Montag 7. Reading Althusser - Pierre Macherey 8. Between Literature and Philosophy: An Interview with Pierre Macherey - Pierre Macherey and Joseph Serrano Bibliography of Works by Pierre Macherey Notes Index
£29.56
Northwestern University Press Traces of the Unseen Volume 43
Book SynopsisProvides a richly illustrated examination of photography as a technology for documenting, creating, and understanding the processes of modernization in turn-of-the-century Brazil and the Amazon.Trade Review“Traces of the Unseen is an innovative study on the role of photography in revealing the violent underside of modernization in Brazil. Through a careful analysis of visual records about key events in the country’s history—the Canudos massacre, the Amazonian rubber boom and its aftermath—the author shows how photographers including Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roger Casement, and Mário de Andrade drew attention to forgotten communities, victims of Brazil’s stride toward progress. A must-read for those interested in the iconography of Brazilian modernity.” —Patricia Vieira, author of States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian CultureTable of Contents Introduction Acknowledgments Chapter 1 - Corpse: The Nation in a Decomposing Portrait Chapter 2 - Scars: Humanitarianism and the Colonial Point of View Chapter 3 - Debris: The Indigenous Past in an Ethnographer’s Dream Chapter 4 - Shadows: The Amazonian Worker and the Modernist Traveler Epilogue: Fire Bibliography Notes Index
£999.99
Northwestern University Press Dostoevskys Provocateurs
Book SynopsisLike so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient and precocious. In this book, Lynn Ellen Patyk singles out these forms of incitement as a communicative strategy that drives his paradoxical art.Table of Contents Introduction. “Why don’t we reduce all this reasonableness to dust”: An Introduction to Dostoevskian Provocation Chapter 1. “Or I am not I”: Ontological Provocation in The Double Chapter 2. “I’ll say it in the whole world’s face”: Provoking Confession and Provoking Comedy in Notes from Underground Chapter 3. “That a girl!” Dostoevsky’s Feminist Provocation in The Idiot Chapter 4. “No one is pleased and everyone is angry”: The Diary of a Right-Wing Provocateur Chapter 5. “But the Devil was overcome”: The End of Provocation in The Brothers Karamazov Conclusion. “I came not to send peace”: Problems in Dostoevsky’s Provocative Authorship
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University Press of Florida Irish Cosmopolitanism Location and Dislocation
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewClearly written, convincingly argued, and transformative.”—Nicholas Allen, author of Modernism, Ireland and Civil War “Goes beyond ‘statism’ and postnationalism toward a cosmopolitics of Irish transnationalism in which national belonging and national identity are permanently in transition.”—Gregory Castle, author of The Literary Theory Handbook “Shows how three important Irish writers crafted forms of cosmopolitan thinking that spring from, and illuminate, the painful realities of colonialism and anti-colonial struggle.”—Marjorie Howes, author of Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History “Asserting the simultaneity of national and global frames of reference, this illuminating book is a fascinating and timely contribution to Irish Modernist Studies.”—Geraldine Higgins, author of Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats
£15.26
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOriginal and significant. This book shows us how Conrad and Joyce manipulate representations of imperialist belief in the sacred to indict Western culture for its racist colonization. This striking reading of modernism emphasizes Conrad's and Joyce's use of chaos in general and pilgrimage in particular in terms of mapmaking, racial denigration, and strategies of power. Szczeszak-Brewer makes spectacular connections between sacred language, nation building, and literary representation." - Georgia Johnston, author of The Formation of Twentieth-Century Queer Autobiography
£15.26
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Eroticism Spirituality and Resistance in Black Womens Writings
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Foundational Essays in James Joyce Studies
Book SynopsisPresents, in a single volume, key seminal essays in the study of James Joyce. Representing important contributions to scholarship that have helped shape current methods of approaching Joyce's works, the volume reacquaints contemporary readers with the literature that forms the basis of ongoing scholarly inquiries in the field.
£18.86
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Black Legacies
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Ordinary Masochisms Agency and Desire in
Book SynopsisReveals how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behaviour, an opinion supported by many sexologists and psychoanalysts in the 1800s. In these texts, Jennifer Mitchell highlights everyday examples of characters deriving pleasure from pain.
£63.75
University Press of Florida An IrishJewish Politician Joyces Dublin and The
Book SynopsisIn this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853-1903), a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced James Joyce’s creation of the character of Leopold Bloom as well as Ulysses‘ broader themes surrounding race, nationalism, and empire.
£999.99
University Press of Florida Textual and Critical Intersections Conversations
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays representing fifty years of scholarship on Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New brings Sterne into conversation with other authors - both his contemporaries, such as James Boswell and Samuel Richardson, and modernists, such as Marcel Proust and James Joyce.
£60.35
Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press Borrowed Voices Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination
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Rutgers University Press Querying Consent Beyond Permission and Refusal
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions. From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, Querying Consent addresses the most uncomfortable questions about consent today.Trade Review“Querying Consent gathers contributions that represent a diversity of perspectives on the multi-faceted issue of consent. The collection combines updated discussions on classical controversies with cutting edge and thought-provoking new questions altogether to a timely, much needed intervention and interrogation into the field of study on consent. An intriguing anthology that challenges the reader to think further and into new directions.”— Robin Bauer, author of Queer BDSM Intimacies: Critical Consent and Pushing Boundaries “A welcome interdisciplinary dialogue on the limits, exclusions, and paradoxes of consent, this volume poses delightfully challenging questions in a range of idioms and contexts. What does consenting to consent as an elementary relational paradigm prevent us from doing, seeing, knowing? Querying Consent could not be more timely.”— Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking "The essays collected in Querying Consent variously call attention to situations in which what might seem to be consent could in fact be construed to as something closer to coercion--not just in sexual interactions, but in everything from software user agreements to the fine print in authorization forms for medical treatment." — Harper's MagazineTable of ContentsContents Introduction: The Subject of Consent Jordana Greenblatt and Keja Valens Part 1: Consent, Power, and Agency Chapter 1: Consent, Command, Confession Karmen MacKendrick Chapter 2: The Gender of Consent in Patmore, Hopkins, and Marie Lataste Amanda Paxton Chapter 3: Consensual Sex, Consensual Text: Law, Literature, and the Production of the Consenting Subject Jordana Greenblatt Chapter 4: Consent and the Limits of Abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching God and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do” Keja Valens Part 2: Consent, Violence, and Refusal Chapter 5: The Seduction of Rape as Allegory in Postcolonial Literature Justine Leach Chapter 6: Willful Creatures: Consent, Response, and Animal Will in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles Kimberly O’Donnell Chapter 7: Consenting to Read: Trigger Warnings and Textual Violence Brian Martin Chapter 8:Blue is the Warmest Color, Luce Irigaray, and the Question of Consent Caroline Godart Part 3: Consent, Personhood, and Property Chapter 9: The Art of Consent Drew Danielle Belsky Chapter 10: Sardanapalus’s Hoard: Queer Possession in Henry James's Aspern Papers Annie Pfeifer Chapter 11: Queering and Quartering Informed Consent: Genomic Medicine and Hyperreal Subjectivity Graham Potts Chapter 12: Vulnerabilities: Consent with Pfizer, Marx, and Hobbes Matthias Rudolf Chapter 13: “I Never Heard Anything So Monstrous!”: Developmental Psychology, Narrative Form, and the Age of Consent in What Maisie Knew Victoria Olwell Notes on Contributors Index
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