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The University of Michigan Press Learning Legacies
Book SynopsisExplores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences.Trade ReviewRobbins pushes the envelope on the normative uses and perspectives about the Archive, using literal archives of educational practice recorded in counter-narratives from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Educators will find value in using this book to help train emerging teachers to be reflective about their practice and for models of how to use texts, archives, and stories as powerful teaching tools . . . "" - Timothy K. Eatman, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Syracuse University, Faculty Co-director Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life""[Learning Legacies] combines knowledge about teacher training and the history of education in the United States gained from extensive research into many formal archives, numerous site visits, and interviews with educators, archivists and others. Robbins’s own autoethnographic reflections also form a crucial and welcome element of her research."" - Sandra A. Zagarell, Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College and scholar of American Literature and Culture
£35.21
LUP - University of Michigan Press Negotiating Disability
Book SynopsisDisability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy impacts on students, faculty, administrators, and staff.Trade ReviewJoins a growing body of literature on disclosure, passing, and disability identity. Its focus on higher education allows for a deep exploration of theory while also illuminating the processes and implications of disclosure in this setting."" - Allison C. Carey, Shippensburg University""Remarkably thorough and bold . . . the book will inform higher education administrators, staff and faculty who reify the ‘progress narrative’ retold about diversity and inclusion, when such accounts rarely consider disabled faculty and students. This book is sure to become a classic resource for many in higher education."" - Linda Ware, State University of New York at Geneseo
£43.87
The University of Michigan Press Affect Animals and Autists
Book SynopsisMaps connections across performances that question the borders of the human whose neurodiverse experiences have been shaped by the diagnostic label of autism, and animal-human performance relationships that dispute and blur anthropocentric edges. The book treats a diverse selection of live performance and archival video and analyzes the ways in which they affect their audiences.Trade ReviewProvocative, timely, and well-written, Affect, Animals, and Autists raises challenging questions that will be of interest to affect theorists as well as a broad complement of interdisciplinary scholars working in disability, performance, theatre, and/or animal studies."" -Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia""A timely, exciting and important book that is evidently the manifestation of years of in-depth research and reflection. The evaluation of performances is admirably measured, whilst not underestimating the risks of perpetuating conventional paradigms of animals or autism by influential ‘hits’ like War Horse or Curious Incident."" - Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, University of Surrey
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Autistic Disturbances
Book SynopsisAutism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to language. Autistic Disturbances reveals the ways interpreters have failed to register the real creative valence of autistic language and offers a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive aesthetics of autistic rhetoric and semiotics.
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press A Company of Poets
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£26.55
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Uncertain Certainty
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£23.60
LUP - University of Michigan Press On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell
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£30.40
The University of Michigan Press Poetry and Ambition
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£22.75
LUP - University of Michigan Press From Klein to Kristeva
Book SynopsisExplores the cultural history of what underlies popular conceptions of "proper" mothering
£16.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Glass House The Life of Theodore Roethke
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£20.85
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Line Forms Here
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£23.10
The University of Michigan Press The ConjureMan Dies A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
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£19.71
LUP - University of Michigan Press Lifted Masks and Other Works
Book SynopsisA singular collection of short stories unveiling aspects of the human condition.
£30.01
The University of Michigan Press A Users Guide to German Cultural Studies
Book SynopsisCapitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation
£44.36
The University of Michigan Press Fictions of Affliction Physical Disability in
Book SynopsisReveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. This book introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like 'can disabled men work?' and 'should disabled women have babies?'Trade ReviewHighly recommended... Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto. - Choice ""An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies and disability studies."" - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University ""Establishes that Victorian melodrama informs many of our contemporary notions of disability... We have inherited from the Victorians not pandemic disability, but rather the complex of sympathy and fear."" - Victorian Studies
£28.51
The University of Michigan Press Breakfast Served Any Time All Day
Book SynopsisA master of American letters collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume
£21.57
LUP - University of Michigan Press Never Better
Book SynopsisExplores the polit (“fugitive”), a literary type - an “unheroic hero” - who is rather like the picaro (“rogue”) from whom the Picaresque genre takes its name. Focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on Yiddish literature, Udel puts that literature into productive conversation with European and American texts, as well as critical and theoretical sources.Trade ReviewAn intellectually mature, subtle work that illuminates with the use of a vast array of primary and interpretive literature so many crucial moments in the shaping of modern Yiddish, Hebrew, German and American- Jewish letters. Udel is a literary scholar with a sureness of touch and consummate scholarly command.” —Steven J. Zipperstein, Stanford University “Never Better! is just that: a theoretically exciting study of the way in which Jewish writers translated and adapted a familiar European genre to create a distinctly modernist poetics of the picaresque.” —Justin Cammy, Smith College
£60.95
The University of Michigan Press Science Fiction in Argentina
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe analysis, presentation and interdisciplinary connections here are scintillating; the organization and writerly vision superb—as in all of Joanna Page’s work. This critically grounded walk through an eclectic range of cultural products is pursued with grit and panache in equal parts . . . a complex meditation on the many faces of Argentine science fiction.” —Benjamin Fraser, East Carolina University “Beyond its contribution to cultural theory, Science Fiction in Argentina has much to offer media-specific studies of the textuality of comics and cinema.”—Derek Johnson, University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of Media Franchising
£52.95
The University of Michigan Press Bodies of Modernism
Book SynopsisBrings a new and exciting analytical lens to modernist literature, that of critical disability studies. The book offers new readings of canonical and non-canonical writers from both sides of the Atlantic. Through readings of this wide range of texts, the study reveals both modernism's scepticism about and dependence on fantasies of whole, ""normal"" bodies.Trade ReviewA nuanced view of disability as it intertwines with modernist aesthetics. Linett concentrates on disabled protagonists but expands her study from mere character analysis to a thoroughgoing critique and understanding of modernism itself. An important contribution to the field of literary and disability studies."" - Lennard Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago""In a wide-ranging, lively, and convincingly argued study of an array of modernist works, Maren Linett shows how various are the attitudes towards disabled bodies but also, paradoxically, how the attitudes towards specific disabilities fall into distinct broad patterns. Anyone interested in modernism will find challenging and valuable new insights on the literature of the period in Linett’s crucial and stunning view of it through the lens of disability studies."" - Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario""Linnett’s unflinching, sometimes mortifying exposé of writers’ and readers’ misconceptions about blindness, deafness, and locomotive difficulties, together with her intricate analyses of modernist texts, will ensure the resounding impact of this study."" - Maud Ellmann, University of Chicago
£76.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Condition Red
Book SynopsisCollects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist.Trade Review[Komunyakaa] has not only displayed a profound understanding of the human condition, but also a craftsman's ability to durably articulate it . . . a major poet of our generation."" - Laurence Goldstein, in Callaloo
£64.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Learning Legacies Archive to Action through
Book SynopsisExplores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences.Trade ReviewRobbins pushes the envelope on the normative uses and perspectives about the Archive, using literal archives of educational practice recorded in counter-narratives from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Educators will find value in using this book to help train emerging teachers to be reflective about their practice and for models of how to use texts, archives, and stories as powerful teaching tools . . . "" - Timothy K. Eatman, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Syracuse University, Faculty Co-director Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life""[Learning Legacies] combines knowledge about teacher training and the history of education in the United States gained from extensive research into many formal archives, numerous site visits, and interviews with educators, archivists and others. Robbins’s own autoethnographic reflections also form a crucial and welcome element of her research."" - Sandra A. Zagarell, Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College and scholar of American Literature and Culture
£57.90
LUP - University of Michigan Press Negotiating Disability
Book SynopsisDisability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy impacts on students, faculty, administrators, and staff.Trade ReviewJoins a growing body of literature on disclosure, passing, and disability identity. Its focus on higher education allows for a deep exploration of theory while also illuminating the processes and implications of disclosure in this setting."" - Allison C. Carey, Shippensburg University""Remarkably thorough and bold . . . the book will inform higher education administrators, staff and faculty who reify the ‘progress narrative’ retold about diversity and inclusion, when such accounts rarely consider disabled faculty and students. This book is sure to become a classic resource for many in higher education."" - Linda Ware, State University of New York at Geneseo
£80.95
The University of Michigan Press Affect Animals and Autists
Book SynopsisMaps connections across performances that question the borders of the human whose neurodiverse experiences have been shaped by the diagnostic label of autism, and animal-human performance relationships that dispute and blur anthropocentric edges. The book treats a diverse selection of live performance and archival video and analyzes the ways in which they affect their audiences.Trade ReviewProvocative, timely, and well-written, Affect, Animals, and Autists raises challenging questions that will be of interest to affect theorists as well as a broad complement of interdisciplinary scholars working in disability, performance, theatre, and/or animal studies."" -Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia""A timely, exciting and important book that is evidently the manifestation of years of in-depth research and reflection. The evaluation of performances is admirably measured, whilst not underestimating the risks of perpetuating conventional paradigms of animals or autism by influential ‘hits’ like War Horse or Curious Incident."" - Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, University of Surrey
£68.95
The University of Michigan Press Autistic Disturbances
Book SynopsisAutism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to language. Autistic Disturbances reveals the ways interpreters have failed to register the real creative valence of autistic language and offers a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive aesthetics of autistic rhetoric and semiotics.Trade ReviewJulia Rodas rejects ableist repertoires of what language is and can mean, notably the understanding that language necessitates understanding or intelligibility . . . readers are viscerally confronted with autism's many possibilities, are given neurodivergent mechanisms through which to re-see Villette, Frankenstein, Robinson Crusoe, and more . . . What Autistic Disturbances offers is at once a method and a style for apprehending aesthetic autism, across genre and mode. This is an incomparable book, one brimming with ideas for how to reclaim autistic echoes in a morass of literary expression."" - Melanie Yergeau, author of Authoring Autism
£68.95
University of Michigan Press HandiLand
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£69.30
The University of Michigan Press The French Joyce
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£22.75
The University of Michigan Press Now through a Glass Darkly
Book SynopsisIn this series of interrelated essays, treating Ovil, Virgil, St Augustine, Henrich von Morungen, Chretien de Troyes, Dante, Langland, and Chaucer, the author explores the ways in which medieval authors and their Roman predecessors used the image of the mirror both as instrument and metaphor.
£68.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Ambiguity of Taste
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£76.95
The University of Michigan Press The Myths of Fiction
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£60.95
The University of Michigan Press In the Thick of the Fight
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£64.95
The University of Michigan Press The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect
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£50.30
The University of Michigan Press Shipwrecked
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£48.95
The University of Michigan Press Virtuous Necessity
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£52.95
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
£57.90
The University of Michigan Press An Emotional State
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£68.95
The University of Michigan Press AntiImperialist Modernism
Book SynopsisArgues that US multi-ethnic cultural movements helped construct a common sense of international solidarity that critiqued ideas of nationalism and essentialized racial identity. The book thus moves beyond accounts that have tended to view the pre-war “Popular Front” through tropes of national belonging or an abandonment of the cosmopolitanism of previous decades.
£72.95
The University of Michigan Press Anonymous Connections
Book SynopsisAsks how the Victorians understood the ethical, epistemological, and biological implications of social belonging and participation. Specifically, Tina Choi considers the ways nineteenth-century journalists, novelists, medical writers, and social reformers took advantage of spatial frames-of-reference in a social landscape transforming due to intense urbanization and expansion.Trade Review“Choi’s work makes a unique and original point: complex, multi-plot Victorian narratives and notions of the social order fed and were fed by one another. . . . This book will be an important one for scholars of Victorian literature and culture.”—Laura Otis, Emory University“In this astute interdisciplinary study, Tina Choi examines new understandings of material connections between bodies—miasmas, microbes, body parts, waste—across geographical distances and social classes in the Victorian period. Anonymous Connections moves between literary and scientific texts to forcefully demonstrate that transformed conceptions of bodily intimacies also transformed conceptions of social relations. Surprisingly, such connections were not necessarily conceived of as threatening, but also inspired positive ideas of social cohesion. One of the great virtues of Choi’s study is that it persuasively shows that the scientific and medical theories she discusses have important implications for plot and narrative form in the nineteenth-century novel.”—Suzy Anger, University of British Columbia
£56.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Dreams for Dead Bodies
Book SynopsisTrade Review“With verve and energy, Michelle Robinson argues that the work of detection in fiction predates the appearance of the detective per se, and demonstrates that genres are fluid patchworks under constant repair and erasure even as they become ever more stable and predictable contracts between authors and readers. She shows how the modes of narration essential to elaborating crime plots—usually involving money and murder—are intimately tied to affective relations across classes, races and time, and the means by which they are expressed, involve, even commit, hidden violence. It is the work of narration to enlist readers in the narrators’ process of unraveling these crimes at the heart of family and nation.”—Paula Rabinowitz, author of American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
£56.77
The University of Michigan Press Strange Science
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£40.95
The University of Michigan Press Portraits of Violence
Book SynopsisExplores the image and idea of facial disfigurement in one of its most troubling modern formations, as a symbol and consequence of war. Suzannah Biernoff draws on a wide variety of sources mainly from WWI but also contemporary photography and computer games. Each chapter revolves around particular images.Trade ReviewA powerful and engaging study of the politics of representation of facial disfigurement in medical and mass culture, Portraits of Violence is a substantial addition to the study of visual culture and disability."" - Sander Gilman, Emory University""Portraits of Violence thus breaks new scholarly ground and also points out many directions that future research in a number of fields, including disability studies, visual culture and art history, medical humanities and the history of medicine, and the history of World War I."" - Carol Poore, Brown University
£60.95
The University of Michigan Press The Very Thought of Herbert Blau
Book SynopsisDistinguished artists and scholars offer reflections on what made Herbert Blau's contributions so visionary, transformative, and unforgettable, and why his ideas endure in both seminar rooms and studios. Contributors respond to Blau's fierce and polymorphous intellect, his relentless drive and determination, and his audacity.Trade ReviewHerbert Blau was a High Modernist to the core, a position from which he was able to critique the unruliness of the Postmodern, challenge those whose work failed to dig deeply enough into the understanding of theatre, and most importantly, to open doors into understanding Beckett, Brecht, Artaud, and others . . .These essays elucidate and further challenge Blau's body of work and will be of immense value: new generations of theatre/performance scholars will find avenues for engaging with Blau's work, while those familiar with Blau's ideas will welcome the opportunity to re-engage with them."" - John Lutterbie, Stony Brook University
£60.95
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 The Philosophy of Parochialism
Book SynopsisAn English edition of Radomir Konstantinovic's most celebrated and reviled book. First published in Belgrade in 1969, it attracted controversy through its unsparing critique of nationalism in Yugoslavia and beyond. This is a book that seems to age in reverse, as its meanings become deeper and more universal with the passage of time.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Branislav Jakovljevic: The Drone of Dialectics: On Provincialism and Deprovincialization The Philosophy of Parochialism by Radomir Konstantinovic In Lieu of an Introduction: Style, the Highest Principle of Parochialism The Ideal of Pure Poverty The Spirit of Parochialism as the Spirit of a Tribe in Agony Province, the Theater of Normativity Absence of Tragedy: Sentimentalism and Sarcasm Pamphletism against Tragedy Happiness from Unhappiness as the Primordial Cause of Determinism Atheism as the Principle of Publicness Death and the Philosophy of Parochialism Individualism as the Function of the Parochial Spirit Lasting Infantilism of the Parochial Spirit 1. Ingenious Madness 2. The End of the World 3. Infantile-Romantic Mythology of Glorious Destruction 4. Psychology, Theater of the “Youth” Realism as Tribal Sacrifice to Deified Reality Banality – The First Principle of Nothingness Sensationalism – The Second Principle of Nothingness Nihilism of The Dark Country Nihilism of the Parochial Philosophy and Language 1. Nihilism of the “Total” World 2. Nihilism of the Status Quo 3. Realistic Nihilism 4. Aristocratic Nihilism 5. Erotic Nihilism Disappointment in the Animal Autumnal Nocturno and the “Worldly Malice” of the Parochial Spirit Existence as Meaningless Work Laziness as the Work of the Closed Parochial World NaÏvetÉ of the Parochial Spirit’s Non-NaÏvetÉ Traditionalism as bad Conscience of a Non-Myth-Building Consciousness Political County Fair Staged by Boredom In Lieu of a Conclusion: No End to an End Notes I. The Ideal of Organic Culture II. Cyril the Philosopher III. Les charmes de l’horreur and the Parochial Spirit IV. From God towards Kin V. Entropy of Earth as the Entropy of the Final Response VI. Existence as “Starry Acting” VII. Experience of Poet Nastasijevic VIII. Sincerity in the Service of Hatred Towards the Genius IX. Biological Irrationalism – The Future of the Cult of Form X. “Dead Sweetheart” of the Parochial Spirit and Pornography XI. Poet Vladislav Petkovic “Dis” XII. Spirit-People against the Spirit XIII. Serbian Nazism Evil as Rejection of the Evil of Contradiction The Poetics of Serbian Nazism Serbian Nazism and Language 1. Totalitarianism and Language Reform 2. Attitude of Serbian Nazism towards Language Notes Works Cited
£68.95
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.
£18.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Walking Down the Stairs
Book SynopsisCollects Kinnell’s thoughts about poetry.
£22.75
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisPopular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialised novels and sensational penny dreadfuls. Today it remains a multi-million dollar industry giving pleasure to many, but it is also a field of growing interest for scholars and students of literature. This Companion covers the major developments in the history of popular fiction, with specially commissioned chapters on pulp fiction, bestsellers, and comics and graphic narratives. The volume also examines the public and personal everyday contexts within which popular texts are read, highlighting the ways in which such narratives have circulated across a variety of constantly changing media, including theatre, television, cinema and new computer-based digital forms. Case studies from key genres - crime fiction, romance and Gothic horror - as well as a full chronology and guide to further reading make this collection indispensable to all those interested in this complex and vibrant cultural field.Trade Review'It is a subject which stretches back (and forward) in time, across cultures, media, readers or consumers and is constantly shifting, especially now in the light of rapidly developing technology. This is a thorough survey of the current state of academic study of this area … for academics and students it is an invaluable source and guide to a subject, or subjects, of wide social, cultural and academic application.' Stuart James, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction David Glover and Scott McCracken; 1. Publishing, history, genre David Glover; 2. Fiction, theatre, and early cinema Nicholas Daly; 3. Television and serial fictions John Caughie; 4. The public sphere, popular culture and the true meaning of the Zombie Apocalypse Roger Luckhurst; 5. The reader of popular fiction Nicola Humble; 6. Reading time: popular fiction and the everyday Scott McCracken; 7. Gender and sexuality in popular fiction Kaye Mitchell; 8. Pulp sensations Erin A. Smith; 9. Bestselling fiction: machinery, economy, excess Fred Botting; 10. Comic books and graphic novels Hilary Chute and Marianne Dekoven; 11. Popular fictions in the digital age Brenda Silver; Further reading; Index.
£22.79
Faber & Faber The Faber Pocket Guide to Musicals
Book SynopsisJames Inverne provides an indispensable guide to his top one hundred greatest shows of all time - and ten of the worst. Whether you know your Pal Joey from The Producers, your West Side Story from your Witch Witch, the Faber Pocket Guide To Musicals is packed with entertaining behind-the-scenes stories, essential songlists and comprehensive recording guides. Did you know, for instance, that one of the best recordings of Les Miserables is in Hebrew? Or that Mel Brooks wasn''t the first person to want to make a musical of The Producers? (That claim goes to Eric Idle.) Or the ridiculous story of the huge purpose-built theatre constructed in Holland to house a flop about Grace Kelly? Key features include: - The hundred greatest musicals - Numbers to listen for - Snapshot plot summaries - Ten terrible musicals - Recommended recordings James Inverne has been writing about musical theatre for years and bri
£10.44
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Theory of Criticsm From Plato to the Present A Reader
Book SynopsisThis book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and periods are juxtaposed. The study of literary theory has tended to concentrate on very recent developments. This volume, however, establishes both a sense of the continuities from Plato to the present day as well as the discontinuities. These are presented through comparisons and contrasts across the entire field of critical history.Trade Review "If you seek a reader for the history of ideas...then Professor Selden's book is perfect." Modern Language Review "...an impressive feat of scholarship." Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 - Representation 1. Imaginative Representation 2. Mimesis and Realism 3. Nature and Truth 4. Language and Representation Part II - Subjectivity 1. Wit Judgement, Fancy and Imagination 2. Genius, Nature vs Art 3. Emotive Theories 4 Subjective criticism and the reader's reponse 5. Unconscious Processes Part III - Form, System and Structure 1. The Aesthetic Dimension 2. Unity and Literariness 3. Ambiguity and Polysemy 4. Impersonality and the 'death' of the author 5. Rhetoric - Style and point of view 6. Structuree and system 7. Structure and Indeterminacy Part IV - History and Society 1. Tradition and Intertextuality 2. History 3. Literature and 'life' 4. Class and Gender Index
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