Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

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  • The Strange M. Proust

    Maney Publishing The Strange M. Proust

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    Book SynopsisThis book presents a broad range of interpretations pertaining to very diverse aspects of the M. Proust's work, stemming from a number of fields of interpretations. It is based on an international symposium convened at Princeton University on 22 and 23 April 2006.Table of ContentsPreamble 1. The Disquieting Strangeness of Marcel Proust 2. The Formalist, the Spider, and the Phenomenologist: Proust in the Magic Mirror of the Twentieth Century 3. Quel Marcel!': And Other Oddities of the Narrator's Designations in A la recherche du temps perdu 4. Strange Jewishness: Essay on the Treatment of Jewish Identity in Proust 5. Proust's Singhalese Song (A Strange Little Story) 6. A Proustian 'Metterza' 7. Da capo: Accumulations and Explosions 8. Other Eyes: Proust and the Myths of Photography 9. Truth and Justice' 10. Reading Proust Between the Lines

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    £75.00

  • The Choreography of Modernism in France: La

    Taylor & Francis Ltd The Choreography of Modernism in France: La

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    Book SynopsisThis study considers the figure of the female dancer in French literary, visual, and performing art from 1830 to 1930. It explores how manifestations of the la danseuse shape notions of Modernism and asks why dance occupies a privileged position in a variety of Modernist media.Trade ReviewAn engaging and concise chronology of modernism through dance, with the danseuse constituting the correlation between performing, visual, and literary modernisms. -- French Studies French StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Choreographing the Coulisses: The Danseuse in Nineteenth-Century French Culture 2. Disembodying the Dancer/ Incorporating the Poem: The Symbolist Dance in Mallarmé and Valéry 3. Feministic' Aesthetics: Writing Dance and Performing Sex in Colette and Loïe Fuller 4. The Mechanical Dancer: Avant-Garde Performance and Film 5. Le Triangle Obligatoire': Dancer, Spectator, Narrator Coda

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    £78.84

  • Maryse Conde and the Space of Literature

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Maryse Conde and the Space of Literature

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    Book SynopsisThis book combines new readings of literary texts that have attracted significant critical attention with less widely read texts and a selection of Conde's critical essays and interviews. It situates the notions of politics, literature and space within fresh readings of the themes in Conde's work.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Performing 'the Personal' in the Interview 2. Re-writing the Journey to Africa or 'finding the wrong ancestors' in En attendant le bonheur 3. Voice, Irony and History in Moi Tituba, sorcière... Noire de Salem 4. Autobiography and Reading in Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer: Contes vrais de mon enfance 5. Literature, Art and Identity Politics in Les Derniers Rois mages 6. On the Creative Uses of Gaps: (Re)-imagining Identity in Desirada 7. Conclusion

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    £78.84

  • Scottish and International Modernisms:

    Association for Scottish Literary Studies Scottish and International Modernisms:

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    Book SynopsisThe twentieth-century Scottish renaissance the literary and artistic revival which followed the end of the First World War advanced a claim for a distinctive Scottish identity: cultural, political and national. Unlike earlier nineteenth-century Celtic revivals, this renaissance was both outward-looking and confidently contemporary; it embraced continental European influences as well as those of Anglophone writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Lawrence, and contributed to the development of what we now call modernism.This collection of fourteen essays illustrates the strongly international and modernist dimension of Scotland's interwar revival, and illuminates the relationships between Scottish and non-Scottish writers and contexts. It also includes two chapters on the contribution made to this revival by Scottish visual art and music.

    10 in stock

    £18.95

  • Edwin Morgan's Cyrano de Bergerac: (Scotnotes

    Association for Scottish Literary Studies Edwin Morgan's Cyrano de Bergerac: (Scotnotes

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisEdwin Morgan's brilliant Glasgow-based Scots translation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac is one of the most successful productions in modern Scottish theatre. Fresh, clever and dynamic, Morgan's refashioning of the play establishes a cultural bond between the classic French play and Scotland's own dramatic and literary heritage.John Corbett's SCOTNOTE provides a succinct background to Edmond Rostand and his original play first performed in Paris, 1897 as well as to Edwin Morgan and his 1992 Scots verse translation, and is a perfect introduction for senior school pupils and students of all ages.

    15 in stock

    £9.33

  • Borges and Joyce: An Infinite Conversation

    Maney Publishing Borges and Joyce: An Infinite Conversation

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    Book SynopsisThis book examines the interface between two revolutionary writers of the twentieth century, James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges. It argues that Borges created himself as a 'precursor' of Joyce and discusses the way in which Borges and Joyce conjured up the ghosts of Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Towards Comparative Literature 2. Ulysses in Transit, from Paris to Buenos Aires: The Cross-Cultural Transactions of Larbaud, Borges, and Güiraldes 3. Borges's Reception of Joyce in the Argentine Press 4. James Joyce, Author of 'Funes the Memorious' 5. In Praise of Darkness: Homer, Joyce, Borges 6. Architects of Labyrinths: Dante, Joyce, Borges 7. Joyce's and Borges's Afterlives of Shakespeare 8. Conclusion: The Afterlives of James Joyce in Argentina

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    £75.00

  • Regarding Lost Time: Photography, Identity and

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Regarding Lost Time: Photography, Identity and

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    Book SynopsisThis book addresses how does autobiography transform in the age of technological reproducibility, as it relates to photography and the role of emotion in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900, and Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Photography, Life, and the Work of Art; I: Marcel Proust; 1: Writing Life Visually; 2: Picturing the Self and the Other; 3: Proust’s Visual and Emotional Cavities; II: Walter Benjamin; 4: Photography, Memory, and Representation; 5: From Sight to Site: Benjamin’s Self-Portraits; 6: Eye and Affect; III: Roland Barthes; 7: From Life to Sign, or, ‘La vie comme œuvre’ 1; 8: Transgressing Egotism: Selfhood, Vision and Affect; Conclusion: Barthes, Benjamin, Proust ‘et la Photographie’

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    £78.84

  • London Fictions

    Five Leaves Publications London Fictions

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    £14.24

  • Spanish Practices: Literature, Cinema, Television

    Maney Publishing Spanish Practices: Literature, Cinema, Television

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    Book SynopsisThis book focuses on some of the best known and most important books, feature films, and television series in contemporary Span, and addresses three pairs of linked issues central to Hispanic studies and beyond: history and memory, authority and society, and genre and transitivity.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Spanish Practices Part I: Literature: History and Memory 2. Winners and Losers in Cinema and Memoirs: Emilio Martínez Lázaro's Las 13 rosas (‘The 13 Roses’, 2007) and Esther Tusquets’ Habíamos ganado la guerra (‘We Had Won the War’, 2007) 3. Resuscitating Franco in Popular Narrative and Television: Vizcaíno Casas's ... Y al tercer año resucitó (‘And in the Third Year He Rose Again’, 1978) and Cuéntame cómo pasó (‘Tell Me How It Happened’, TVE 2001-) 4. The Audiovisual Transition: Cinema, Television, and Muñoz Molina's El jinete polaco ('The Polish Horseman', 1991) Part II: Cinema: Authority and Society 5. A Question of Queer Authorship: Almodóvar's Unpublished Short Stories (1973) 6. Spanish Cinema's Missing Children: Juan Antonio Bayona's El orfanato (‘The Orphanage', 2007) and Jaime Rosales' La soledad (‘Solitary Fragments', 2007) 7. Re-presenting the Others: Cinema and Television on Ethnicity and Immigration Part III: Television: Genre and Transitivity 8. Re-visions of Teresa: Josefina Molina's Teresa de Jesús (TVE, 1984) and Ray Loriga's Teresa: el cuerpo de Cristo (‘Teresa, the Body of Christ’, 2007) 9. Hybrid Fictions: Television Comedy between Soap Opera and Pseudo-documentary: Los Serrano (Tele 5, 2003-08] and Camera café [‘Coffee Cam’, Tele 5, 2005-09] 10. Travelling Narratives and Transitional Life Strategies: Yo soy Bea (‘I Am Bea’, Tele 5, 2006-08) and Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006-10) 11. Conclusion: Literature, Cinema, Television

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    £75.00

  • Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der

    Maney Publishing Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der

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    Book SynopsisThe book is based on the papers presented at the Mendel Friedman Yiddish conference held at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, in August 2012, revisits the rich and diverse legacy of the Yiddish writer Pinkhas Kahanovitsh, known by his penname Der Mister.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Der Nister, Real and Imaginary 1. Der Nister's 'Hamburg Score' 2. Der Nister's Hebrew Nosegay 3. Andersens Mayselekh and Der Nister's Symbolist Agenda 4. A mayse mit a hon. Dos tsigele: Marc Chagall illustrating Der Nister 5. The 'Political' Writings of an 'Unpolitical' Yiddish Symbolist 6. Watch the Throne: Allegory, Kingship and Trauerspiel in the Stories of Der Nister and Reb Nakhman 7. Turning My Soul Inside Out': Text and Context of The Family Mashber 8. Symbolist Quest and Grotesque Masks: The Family Mashber as Parable and Confession 9. The Feast Has Ended': Time in the Family Mashber 10. We are lacking "A Man Dieth in a Tent"': Der Nister's Search for Redemption in the Summer of 1947

    1 in stock

    £75.00

  • Roots and Fruits of Scottish Culture: Scottish

    Association for Scottish Literary Studies Roots and Fruits of Scottish Culture: Scottish

    Book SynopsisScotland''s culture is vigorous and vibrant, energised by questions of history and identity, by interpretations of the past and by the possibilities for the future. At this key moment, earlier identities are being re-examined and re-presented, and personal and cultural histories are being redefined and reconsidered in contemporary life and literature. It is these themes of re-examination, re-presentation, redefinition and reconsideration that the eleven essays in this volume explore. Together, they show how the multifarious roots embedded in contemporary Scottish life and letters bear fruit - often in surprising ways - and how the re-creation and reimagination of Scottish culture, its identities and its tropes, are being developed by a range of leading Scottish writers.

    £18.95

  • The Space of Fiction: Voices from Scotland in a

    Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Space of Fiction: Voices from Scotland in a

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    Book SynopsisContemporary Scottish fiction is vigorous, vivid and diverse, eschewing the straitjackets of genre and resisting categorisation as either ''mainstream'' or ''literary''. Meanwhile, Scotland itself refuses to conform to external notions of what it is, and what it can become. The literature of this post-devolution nation comes in a multitude of voices. The Space of Fiction examines how Scottish writers have responded to, and been affected by, the nation''s ongoing political discourse. Examining in detail the works of Des Dillon, Anne Donovan, Michel Faber, Laura Hird, Alison Miller, Ewan Morrison, James Robertson, Suhayl Saadi, Zoe Strachan and their contemporaries, The Space of Fiction traces their multifarious approaches to a post-national, cosmopolitan, multicultural and even globalised Scotland, and explores their notions of space, of place, and of the impact of fiction on the nature of identity.

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    £18.95

  • Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and

    Association for Scottish Literary Studies Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and

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    Book SynopsisThe European age of empires launched a process of capitalist globalisation that continues to the present day. It is also inextricably linked with the spread of revolutionary discourses in terms of race, nation, class, and gender: the quest for emancipation, democracy, political independence, and economic equality. R. B. Cunninghame Graham (18521936), in both his life and his oeuvre, most effectively represents the complex interaction between imperial and revolutionary discourses in this dramatic period. Throughout his life he was an outspoken critic of injustice and inequality, and his appreciation of the demands and customs of diverse territories and contrasting cultures were hallmarks of his life, his political ideas, and his writing. This collection explores the expression of these ideas in the works of Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers in the century between 1850 and 1950.

    15 in stock

    £18.95

  • Politics and the Individual in France 1930-1950

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Politics and the Individual in France 1930-1950

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    Book SynopsisFocusing on France, and bringing together historians of politics, literature, philosophy, art, and film, this volume sheds light on the imagination and experience of the political individual in the age of the masses between 1930 and 1950.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Individual and History 1. In the Shadow of Danton: Theatre, Politics, and Leadership in Interwar France 2. Emmanuel Mounier's Personalism: A Nonconformist Approach to the Renewal of French Political Life 3. Between the 'I' and the 'We': Jean Renoir's Films of the Popular Front Era Part II: Memory, Identity, and Responsibility 4. Wounded Identities: The Diaries of Three Jewish Lawyers in Occupied France 5. Two Trajectories in the Memory of the Resistance: The Testimonies of Agnès Humbert and Germaine Tillion 6. A Duty to Obey: The Individual and the State in the Life of Maurice Papon Part III: Toeing the Party Line: Choices and Constraints 7. Une Compagne de Route: Édith Thomas, Agency, and the Constraints of Communist Engagement 8. The Political Trajectory of Drieu la Rochelle: Between Hesitation and Incomprehension 9. A Dying Colonialism, a Dying Orientalism: Algeria 1952 10. Conclusion

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    £78.84

  • Comparative Encounters Between Artaud, Michaux

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Comparative Encounters Between Artaud, Michaux

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    Book SynopsisThis book depicts a fictional encounter between Artaud, Michaux and Zhuangzi to raise important issues about comparative literature. It shows that the themes of rationality, cosmology and ethics are particularly pertinent to bridging a comparative dialogue between them.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Cultures of Intoxication 2. Representing Drugs and Intoxication in Popular Media 3. The Mediated Regulation of Intoxication in the Age of ‘Old’ Media: The US Experience from ‘Reefer Madness’ to “Just Say No” 4. Drugs Regulation and Mediated Drugs Education in Britain 5. New Media, Popular Culture and Cultures of Intoxication 6. Virtual Intoxication: YouTube and Popular Drugs Culture 7. Conclusion: Virtual Intoxication, Drug Styles and the Way We Consume

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    £78.84

  • Uniformbooks The Small Press Model

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    £14.00

  • Edward Upward: Art and Life

    Enitharmon Press Edward Upward: Art and Life

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    Book SynopsisThe novelist and short story writer Edward Upward (1903-2009) is famous for being the unknown member of the W. H. Auden circle, though was revered by his peers -- Auden, Day Lewis, Isherwood and Spender -- for his intellect, high literary gifts and unswerving political commitment. His lifelong friendship with Christopher Isherwood was forged at school and university, with each regarding the other as the first reader of his work. At Cambridge they invented the bizarre village of Mortmere, which with its combination of reality and fantasy had an important role in shaping the dominant British literary culture of the 1930s. Upward, immortalised as 'Allen Chalmers' in Isherwood's Lions and Shadows, was an early influence on W. H. Auden and author of the influential political novel Journey to the Border, published in 1938 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. But his writing career faltered while he was devout member of the Communist Party. After leaving the party in 1948 he again wrote novels and short stories until shortly before his death at the age of 105. In this illuminating, meticulously researched biography Peter Stansky tells the fascinating story of Upward's conflict between art and life. At the same time he colourfully provides significant insight into English society during the twentieth century and explores the special nature of English radicalism.Trade Review'[Upward's] unique blending of the past, in art as well as in politics, still has lessons for the future.' - Frank Kermode; 'As a painter of hallucinatory dreamscapes - a kind of prose Magritte - Upward at his finest still has no peer.' - Independent

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    £21.25

  • University College Dublin Press James Joyce Remembered Edition 2022

    4 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's back garden. With this re-issue of Curran's book, another group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at his work, delving into the Curran-Laird collection at the James Joyce Library. Side by side with Joyce, Curran, arts critic, and Helen Laird Curran, his activist partner, come into clearer view; writer-critic adventurers Padraic and Mary Maguire Colum return again; savant Paul Leon, in Paris, takes his place too. The literary, cultural, and political context widens: the Irish wars, erupting again in 1922 as Ulysses begins circulating; the Paris-Dublin rescue operation of this group's papers at Joyce's death, suspended - and accomplished - in this time of violence. The 2022 collective edition offers an uncommon picture of this inventive and committed cohort, their work, and their worlds. With essays by Hugh Campbell, Diarmaid Ferriter, Anne Fogarty, Margaret Kelleher and Helen Solterer. The UCD Curran-Laird collection presented by Eugene Roche and Evelyn Flanagan. This is a full colour, highly illustrated book with special edition design features throughout.Trade Review'His defiance of a media ban by the then invading Russians earned the attentions of a famous general, who considered shooting him but instead became a close friend.' - Terence Killeen, The Irish Times, June 2022.; 'The collaborative book reveals some new details of their lives in Dublin at a crucial time in Ireland’s fight for independence from Great Britain, and the Civil War that erupted in the year Joyce published Ulysses.' - Duke University, June 2022.; 'Curran’s book is not only an empathetic & nuanced account of Joyce but also, in effect, of a whole galaxy of UCD graduates who contributed to the Irish Revival & to the formation of the state' - UCD Today, Spring/Summer 2022.;

    4 in stock

    £23.75

  • Derek Mahon: A Study of His Poetry

    Greenwich Exchange Ltd Derek Mahon: A Study of His Poetry

    3 in stock

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    £15.19

  • So Brightly at the Last

    RedDoor Press So Brightly at the Last

    Book SynopsisJimi Hendrix, Princess Diana and Syria's Asma Al-Assad rub shoulders with Auden, Eliot and Shelley - and with the Trouser Thief Clive met during ten long weeks locked up in a closed psychiatric ward - in this offbeat and affectionate poetic biography. Since 2010, when Clive was told he had three separate life-threatening conditions, he has poured out a stream of fine poems - sometimes light, witty and paradoxical, sometimes sad, heartfelt and regretful. Some, like `Japanese Maple', an instant Internet sensation, have already made it into the anthologies. Others, like his book-length epic, The River in the Sky, are more demanding. All are packed with the unexpected ideas, inventive imagery and breathtaking wordplay that have helped him achieve his avowed ambition of becoming `a fairly major minor poet'.Trade ReviewClive's verse is alive with energy, wit, craft, beauty, fire and a uniquely thrilling poetic intelligence - Stephen Fry; Long overdue - a readable, insightful celebration of Clive James's wonderful and humane lyric verse - Stuart Maconie; Terrific. I read it with astonishment and learnt a huge amount - Prof John Carey

    £17.09

  • A Letter to a Hindu

    Renard Press Ltd A Letter to a Hindu

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisDated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India’s separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian people should seek to free themselves from British rule through non-violent protests and strikes, and other forms of peaceful resistance. The letter soon gained international attention after it was published in the Free Hindustan, and it came to the attention of the young Mahatma Gandhi. Drawing on a variety of sources, cultures and teachings, Tolstoy’s letter was instrumental in forming Gandhi’s views on non-violent resistance – as Gandhi himself acknowledges in his introduction: ‘To me, as a humble follower of that great teacher whom I have long looked upon as one of my guides, it is a matter of honour to be connected with the publication of his letter’.Trade Review'One of the clearest thinkers in the western world, one of the greatest writers.' (Mahatma Gandhi) 'He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical!' (James Joyce) 'The greatest of all novelists.' (Virginia Woolf) 'What he does serves to justify all the hopes and aspirations invested in literature.' (Anton Chekhov) 'What an artist and what a psychologist!' (Gustave Flaubert)Table of ContentsIntroduction, A Letter to a Hindu, Note on the Text, Notes, Extra Material: A Brief Introduction to Leo Tolstoy, A Wider View of the Conversation

    2 in stock

    £7.14

  • Train Travel as Embodied SpaceTime in Narrative Theory

    Palgrave Macmillan Train Travel as Embodied SpaceTime in Narrative Theory

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    Book SynopsisIntroduction: The Train as Embodied Space-Time, with Case Studies of The Lady Vanishes, The Narrow Margin, and Night Train Traveling Alone on the Rails into the Future: Sanshiro, My Most Secret Council, Night Train to Lisbon, and Zone Juncture 1: Wendy and Lucy Best Friends for a While: Fugitives on the Train in Night of the Milky Way Railway, Night Passage, and The Naked Eye Juncture 2: Clouds of Sils Maria It's Not I, It's You: A Second-Person Protagonist on the Train in La Modification, Blue Journey, and Suspects on the Night Train Conclusion: Stations as an Extension of the Train Space-Time in the Romantic Narrative North Station

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    £96.29

  • Palgrave Macmillan Literary Autobiography

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    Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Aesthetics and Ethics in Autobiography.- Chapter 3: Memory, Sincerity, and the Writing Life.- Chapter 4: The Novelist and Late Style.- Chapter 5: This Age of Autobiography.

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    £98.99

  • Arno-Schmidt-Handbuch

    De Gruyter Arno-Schmidt-Handbuch

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    £171.00

  • de Gruyter Konzeptionen Des Heidnischen in Der

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  • Walter de Gruyter Der Fall Eichmann Transnational

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  • de Gruyter Gegenromantik

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  • de Gruyter Text Trifft Theorie

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  • de Gruyter Suhrkamp Und DDR

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    £27.96

  • de Gruyter Büchners Bühnen

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    £70.39

  • Walter de Gruyter Die klandestine Zeitschrift Diásporas

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    £101.96

  • V&r Academic Karl Kraus und seine späte Sprachlehre

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  • Harrassowitz Storfall Peter Weiss

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    £47.33

  • Harrassowitz Verlag Krakau Im Blickfeld Von Geschichte Kultur

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  • Harrassowitz Verlag Manche mögen Poesie ...

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    £57.80

  • Klostermann Vittorio GmbH Weltpolitik Weltfrieden

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  • Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Theorie Der Ironie

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    £28.80

  • Der Jasager und der Neinsager. Vorlagen,

    Suhrkamp Verlag Der Jasager und der Neinsager. Vorlagen,

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    2 in stock

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  • Die Weber

    Verlag Ullstein Die Weber

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    £12.16

  • A Sense of Apocalypse: Technology, Textuality,

    Peter Lang AG A Sense of Apocalypse: Technology, Textuality,

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    Book SynopsisReaching into the depths of the collective unconscious, A Sense of Apocalypse explores and re-interprets one of the West’s primordial fears, namely that of the apocalyptic closure of both cultural praxis and individual experience. Yet, in contrast to popular connotations of the term, apocalypse is viewed here in terms of a transitional narrative locating the subject at the intersection of technological determinism, pop-cultural imagination, postmodern urbanism and digital textuality. All these form the components of a new post-apocalyptic landscape, which not only produces a new identity informed by dissolving post-Enlightenment paradigms, but also conjures up hints at a large number of existential possibilities triggered by late-capitalist technologies and their cultural consequences.Table of ContentsContents: Apocalypse – Technology – Science Fiction – Cultural Studies – Literary Theory – Postmodernism – Rene Descartes – Jean Baudrillard – Guy Debord – Scott Bukatman – Postindustrialism – Popular Cinema – Terminal Culture – Cyberspace – Posthumanism – Textual Spaces and Spatial Textualities – Identity and Its Discontents.

    1 in stock

    £33.50

  • Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Entleerte Räume: Zur literarischen Ästhetik der Absenz bei Thomas Bernhard und Christoph Ransmayr

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    Book SynopsisVorstellungen von Absenz wirken in der Gegenwart auf breiter Basis – auch in der Literatur. Doch wie sind diese medial vermittelt? Geht man davon aus, dass Absenz-Phänomene sich nicht in einer primordialen Leere ereignen, sondern dass ihnen eher mit Vorstellungen vom Unbestimmten, Unverfügbaren und Möglichen beizukommen ist, rücken Verräumlichungsformen in den Fokus, die bewegungslogisch zu erklären sind. Um das intrikate Verhältnis von Möglichkeitsformen und ‚Wirklichkeit‘ innerhalb der Grenzen des Sagbaren zu verhandeln, begegnen ihm Thomas Bernhards und Christoph Ransmayrs Erzähltexte mit Verfahren der Verräumlichung. Aus der Perspektive einer Ästhetik der Absenz poetisieren diese Erzähltexte Wahrnehmungsschwellen, indem sie Abwesendes textphänomenal verräumlichen, es jedoch nicht im (topo-)graphischen containment absichern, sondern eine Topologie eröffnen, die auf Strategien des displacement setzt. Die Studie führt raumtheoretische Ansätze unter einer differenztheoretischen Perspektive mit einem Konzept von Virtualität zusammen, um literarische Verfahren der Verräumlichung von Absenz in Erzähltexten von Bernhard und Ransmayr zu untersuchen. Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Vom ›leeren‹ Raum zur Medialität der Absenz: Konturen eines Diskursproblems.- Texturen der Absenz: Räumlichkeit zwischen Horror Vacui und Möglichkeitsdenken.- Displacement: Zur literarischen Verräumlichung der Absenz.- Die »organisierte Form des Verschwindens« – Wüste als Experimentalraum in Christoph Ransmayrs Strahlender Untergang. Ein Entwässerungsprojekt oder Die Entdeckung des Wesentlichen.- »die Zeichen auf meinen Karten bedeuten Sperrgebiet« – ›Weiße Flecken‹ durchmessen mit Christoph Ransmayrs Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis.- »Schwarzer Schnee?« – Zur Virtualität der Leerstelle in Christoph Ransmayrs Der fliegende Berg.- Im white cube: Den ›leeren‹ Raum verhören mit Thomas Bernhards Das Kalkwerk.- »Korrektur der Korrektur der Korrektur der Korrektur« – Zur Architextur der Absenz in Thomas Bernhards Korrektur.- »..., sondern vielmehr das, was drum herum oder darin ist«: Zur epistemologischen und ästhetischen Dimension der Absenz.

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    £66.49

  • Der Campusroman

    J.B. Metzler Der Campusroman

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    Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Artikel.- Register.

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    £107.99

  • Brill U Fink Schreibformen: Georges Perecs Literarischer

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  • Brill I Fink Thomas Mann produktiv rezipiert

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  • Brill I Fink Bleiben und Treiben

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  • Brill I Fink Zwischen Theorie Und Fiktion

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