Literary theory Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Personal Property
Book Synopsismarketplace economy of the early twentieth century.Trade ReviewPersonal Property represents a valuable and insightful contribution to the study of gender, commodity marketing, and aesthetics, and of their complex interplay during the first two decades in the twentieth-century United States. -- Eric Henderson American Literature
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Johns Hopkins University Press Holocaust Representation
Book SynopsisAt an extreme, all Holocaust representation must face the test of whether its referent would not be more authentically expressed by silence-that is, by the absence of representation.Trade ReviewHolocaust Representation tackles the thorny subject of ethics and art as they bear on works commemorating or referring to the Holocaust. -- James Malpas Art NewspaperTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Art Within The LimitsPart I: Image and Fact: The Problem of Holocaust Representation Chapter 1. Writing the Holocaust: Toward the Condition of HistoryChapter 2. Holocaust Texts and the Blurred Genres Chapter 3. The Limits of Representation and the Representation of LimitsChapter 4. The Facts of Fiction: Three Case Studies in Holocaust WritingChapter 5. The Importance of Holocaust Misrepresentation Part II: Eye and Mind: Reflecting the Holocaust Chapter 6. The Arts of HistoryChapter 7. Translating the Holocaust: For Whom Does One Write?Chapter 8. The Post-Holocaust vs. the Postmodern: Evil Inside and Outside HistoryChapter 9. Art Worship and Its ImagesIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Narrated Films
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAvrom Fleishman's investigative foray into the subtleties of filmic narration confronts the oversimplifications to which theoretical as well as conventional understanding can be prone. The result is a genuine pleasure: a book that combines theory and practice in often illuminating ways... He takes well-known and often-discussed films and freshens awareness of them as much by his unexpected pairings as by his narratological acuity... Narrated Films is a model of informed, generous film criticism because of its author's writerly gift for engagement with his reader. -- John Anzalone Philosophy and Literature This informative study of the various styles of storytelling ranges from straight voice-over to 'mind-screen' narration, a cinematic version of fiction's interior monologue. American Cinematographer
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Johns Hopkins University Press Visions Immanence
Book SynopsisOffering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism.Trade ReviewLurie fills a gap in Faulkner studies by looking at the influence of film and popular culture on the great Mississippian's work. Choice 2005 Well structured and elegantly written, this is one of the most important recent books on Faulkner. -- Paula Elyseu American Literature 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Adorno's Modernism and the Historicity of Popular CultureChapter 1. "Some Quality of Delicate Paradox": Sanctuary's Generative Conflict of High and LowChapter 2. "Get Me a Nigger": Master, Surveillance, and Joe Christmas's Spectral Identity Chapter 3. "Some Trashy Myth of Reality's Escape": Romance, History, and Film Viewing in Absalom, Absalom! Chapter 4. Screening Readerly Pleasures: Modernism, Melodrama, and Mass Markets in If I Forget Thee, JerusalemConclusion. Modernism, Jail Cells, and the SensesNotesWorks CitedIndex
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Kiddie Lit
Book SynopsisIn Kiddie Lit, Beverly Lyon Clark explores the marginalization of children's literature in America - and recent signs of its reintegration - within the academy and by the mainstream critical establishment. Tracing the reception of works by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L.Trade ReviewThis exemplary contribution to children's literature studies engages both general readers-those interested in Little Women or Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Wizard of Oz, Lewis Carroll, Huck Finn, even J. K. Rowling and Walt Disney-and children's literature specialists. -- Cathryn M. Mercier Horn Book Magazine 2004 This engaging book is particularly absorbing in light of the current adult fascination with the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings titles... Highly recommended. Choice 2004 Terrific and important... Clark tracks the various moves by which 'Kiddie Lit' has been diminished and kept in its place, and she does this by tracing the historical reception of a half dozen or so representative works... A 'must read' for scholars in children's literature. Children's Literature Association Quarterly 2004 [Clark's] thorough documentation of the vagaries of the reception of 'kiddie lit' proves that our negative valuations of youth culture deserve rethinking. -- Ilana Nash Women's Review of Books 2004 Offers a convincing plea for taking kiddie lit seriously, and for accepting the imaginative delight and serious literary pleasures such literature can offer. -- Michael Newton Times Literary Supplement 2005Table of ContentsContents: 1. Kids and Kiddie Lit 2. What Fauntleroy Knew 3. Kiddie Lit in the Academy 4. The Case of the Boy's Book: Whitewashing Huck 5. The Case of the Girl's Book: Jo's Girls 6. The Case of American Fantasy: There's No Place Like Oz 7. The Case of British Fantasy Imports: Alice and Harry in America 8. The Case of the Disney Version
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Structuralist Controversy
Book SynopsisThe proceedings of this event-which proved epoch-making on both sides of the Atlantic-were first published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1970 and are now available once again, with a reflective new preface by editor and symposium convener Richard Macksey.Trade ReviewAlthough its original applications were in linguistics and anthropology, structuralism has also cut across sociology, history, philosophy, psychiatry, criticism, the comparative study of arts and letters, classical studies, and other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The present volume is a full record of the proceedings of an international symposium... Participating were many of the leading figures of the structuralist dialogue-Barthes, Derrida, Lacan, Goldman, and the late Jean Hyppolite-and this is a useful demonstration of the movement, its aims and methods. Choice I have no doubt that, structuralist or not, anyone interested in literary critical theory or, more broadly, in the forms of human expressiveness will find the material presented here worth his attention. Books Abroad
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Johns Hopkins University Press Wielding the Pen Writings on Authorship by
Book SynopsisThis anthology of primary materials-the words of American women writers on the act of authorship and their participation in the literary cultures of the nineteenth century- offers revealing insight into Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women."Trade Review"A important addition to our library of nineteenth-century American women's writing, illuminating in their own voices their literary ambitions, frustrations, and triumphs." - Karen L. Kilcup, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro"
£30.60
Johns Hopkins University Press Cinematic Illuminations The Middle Ages on Film
Book SynopsisCinematic Illuminations offers medievalists, literary and cultural theorists, and film theorists and buffs a fresh approach to understanding how popular culture interprets and makes use of the past through the medium of film.Trade ReviewOne of the most refreshing aspects of this book is that Finke and Shichtman combine encyclopedic knowledge of and masterful control over their material-including but not limited to film studies, medieval literature and history, and popular culture-with nuanced analysis, deft prose, and a palpable enjoyment of the topic. The authors are clearly having a grand time and invite readers to join in. -- Mary K. Ramsey Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 2010 Through Finke and Shichtman's use of film theory and cinema criticism, along with their sensitive deployment of medieval historical and literary details, the Middle Ages emerges as a period production in this excellent and innovative study. -- Holly A. Crocker Speculum 2011Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsPart 1: Theory and Methods of Cinematic Medievalism1. Traversing the Fantasy: Screening the Middle Ages2. Signs of the Medieval: A Sociological Stylistics of Film3. Celluloid History: Cinematic Fidelity and InfidelityPart 2: The Politics of Cinematic Medievalism4. Mirror of Princes: Representations of Political Authority in Medieval Films5. The Politics of Hagiography: Joan of Arc on the Screen6. The Hagiography of Politics: Mourning in America7. The Crusades: War of the Cross or God's Own Bloodbath?Part 3: Cinematic Medievalism and the Anxieties of Modernity8. Looking Awry at the Grail: Mourning Becomes Modernity9. Apocalyptic Medievalism: Rape and Disease as Figures of Social Anomie10. Forever Young: The Teen Middle AgesNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press The Fiction of Narrative Essays on History
Book SynopsisThe Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies.Trade ReviewThe book will interest scholars from an array of disciplines... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsEditor's NotePrefaceEditor's IntroductionAcknowledgments1. Collingwood and Toynbee: Transitions in English Historical Thought2. Religion, Culture, and Western Civilization in Christopher Dawson's Idea of History3. The Abiding Relevance of Croce's Idea of History4. Romanticism, Historicism, and Realism: Toward a Period Concept for Early Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History5. The Tasks of Intellectual History6. The Culture of Criticism: Gombrich, Auerbach, Popper7. The Structure of Historical Narrative8. What Is a Historical System?9. The Politics of Contemporary Philosophy of History10. The Problem of Change in Literary History11. The Problem of Style in Realistic Representation: Marx and Flaubert12. The Discourse of History13. Vico and Structuralist/Poststructuralist Thought14. The Interpretation of Texts15. Historical Pluralism and Pantextualism16. The "Nineteenth Century" as Chronotope17. Ideology and Counterideology in Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism18. Writing in the Middle Voice19. Northrop Frye's Place in Contemporary Cultural Studies20. Storytelling: Historical and Ideological21. The Suppression of Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century22. Postmodernism and Textual Anxieties23. Guilty of History? The longue durée of Paul RicoeurNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Secret Histories Reading TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisAnd discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment.Trade ReviewA useful introduction to a broad canon of 20th-century authors, this book touches on important issues in literary-historical scholarship and uses clear, conversational language deliberately devoid of jargon; a distinctive feature of the discussion is Wyatt's pointed use of a first-person personal voice that blends his autobiographical insights with his critical readings... Highly recommended. Choice 2011Table of ContentsTo the ReaderAcknowledments1. The Body and the Corporation2. Double Consciousness3. Pioneering Women4. Performing Maleness5. Colored Me6. The Rumor of Race7. The Depression8. The Second World War9. Civil Rights10. Love and Separateness11. Revolt and Reaction12. The Postmodern13. Studying War14. Slavery and Memory15. Pa Not Pa16. After InnocenceA Personal NoteNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press All a Novelist Needs Colm Tibn on Henry James
Book SynopsisToibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.Trade ReviewThe book does not disappoint. The essays may be incidental-reviews, introductions, lectures-but each conveys a sense of Toibin's deep engagement with his subject and his writer's way with words. Irish Times 2010 Anyone interested in Toibin's process of transforming the life of James into a novel of immense subtlety should look carefully at a recent volume of essays. -- Jay Parini Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Susan M. GriffinChapter 1. Henry James in Ireland: A FootnoteChapter 2. The Haunting of Lamb HouseChapter 3. A More Elaborate Web: Becoming Henry JamesChapter 4. Pure Evil: "The Turn of the Screw"Chapter 5. The Lessons of the MasterChapter 6. Henry James's New YorkChapter 7. A Death, a Book, an Apartment: The Portrait of a LadyChapter 8. Reflective BiographyChapter 9. A Bundle of LettersChapter 10. All a Novelist NeedsChapter 11. The Later JamesesAfterword: SilenceIndex
£45.00
University of Toronto Press Canadian Communication Thought
Book SynopsisBabe examines the writings of ten major thinkers in the context of their physical and cultural environments and finds that there is indeed a mode of theorizing that is quintessentially Canadian.
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University of Toronto Press Rereading Frye The Published and the Unpublished
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays begins the process of reassessing Frye's thought and writings in light of extraordinary, unpublished material contained in archives at the Victoria University Library, University of Toronto.Table of ContentsThe Frye papers / Robert D. Denham -- The book of the dead : a skeleton key to Northrop Frye's notebooks / Michael Dolzani -- Frye and the art of memory / Imre Salusinszky -- The quest for the creative word / Jonathan Hart -- The treason of the clerks : Frye, ideology, and the authority of imaginative culture / Joseph Adamson -- Northrop Frye as a cultural theorist / A.C. Hamilton -- Reading Frye in Hungary / P eter P asztor -- Interpretation as a key concept in Frye's critical vision / Robert D. Denham.
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University of Toronto Press The Grasping Imagination
Book SynopsisThere has been almost no study of the American writings of Henry James, that is, the fiction, essays, and travel literature with an American setting. The great bulk of Jamesian criticism deals with the international novels, particularly his late works.This study places James’s career in a new perspective by discussing its American aspect. It gives the critic an opportunity to come to grips with the evolution of James’s technique from his second short story to his penultimate, unfinished novel, The Ivory Tower.Trade Review'Unsensational and eminently readable, it brings the best kind of "key" to a reading of James: a lucid intelligence and knowledge illumined by personal insights. It is [the author's] contention, amply documented and convincingly argued, that the more obvious international aspect of James's fiction has overshadowed its equally distinct American aspect. In charting that course for the first time, Mr. Buitenhuis does more than enforce James's American roots, which have so often been questioned; he also helps to clarify and heighten the dramatic confrontation of the Old World and New, which was the central concern of his fiction.' -- Nona Balakian The New York Times
£26.99
University of Toronto Press Essays on Chaucerian Irony
Book SynopsisThese essays, written between 1937 and 1960, have remained classics of their kind. They include important discussions on irony—its native traditions and its occurrence in early English literature, an account of critics’ appreciation of Chaucerian irony prior to this century, and a detailed examination of four of the Canterbury Tales. The illuminating analysis of the complex use of various kinds of irony in the Miller’s Tale, the Friar’s Tale, the Summoner’s Tale, and the Manciple’s Tale emphasizes aspects of Chaucer’s art that are very acceptable to contemporary. As a result, these essays lead today’s reader towards a fuller understanding of Chaucer’s achievement.
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University of Toronto Press Identity of the Literary Text
Book SynopsisLiterary criticism today is dominated by the debate about whether texts have a fixed identity with established meaning or a variable identity with changing meaning. The very nature of what the critic does and what he can provide for his readers is being questioned; the challenge to the traditional view comes especially from the various theoretical formulations which, agreeing on the need to go beyond formal analysis, have been called post-structuralism. At the core is the fundamental question of what a literary text is. Identity of the Literary Text addresses his question.In five sections – textuality and intertextuality, textual deconstruction, hermeneutics, analytical construction, and ideological perspective – fifteen scholars, many with world-wide reputations, consider such key aspects of literary criticism as the structure of texts, the relationship between text, author, and reader, the psychological and sociological implications of literary texts, and whet
£29.70
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University of Toronto Press Rereading Frye
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays begins the process of reassessing Frye's thought and writings in light of extraordinary, unpublished material contained in archives at the Victoria University Library, University of Toronto.
£26.99
University of Nebraska Press Small Worlds
Book SynopsisExamines the minimalist trend in French writing since the early 1980s. Considering the practice of minimalism in other media, such as the plastic arts and music, this book proposes a theoretical model of minimalist literature. It also focuses on the work of a variety of contemporary French writers and a diversity of literary genres.Trade Review“Motte is a brilliant art critic. He relates the work of Donald Judd and Carle Andre—whose ‘fathers’ are Malevich and Duchamp—to the literature I have mentioned. . . . Although his first chapter is less than thirty pages, it says more about ‘lessness’ than any literary study I have read.”—Irving Malin, Review of Contemporary Fiction“Warren Motte makes an attractive and useful case for the subspecies of modernism, minimalism, whose practitioners seem to mobilize an individualistic assault on norms, and on unwitting readers too. We can be grateful for this guidance through the maze toward the lively rewards that exist beyond.”—Lee Fahnestock, World Literature Today “Small Worlds is a big pleasure to read. For small and big reasons. First because the topic Warren Motte brings to us, modestly but brilliantly, is a refreshing departure from the mainstream. . . . But what firmly grounds all the works Motte presents on the side of the literary is a kind of knotting of the formal aspect with the actual story being told. . . . In a word (small), this book, just like the books it treats, should have an increasingly amplified effect. At least, that’s what this reviewer hopes.”—Sydney Lévy, L’Espirit Createur“The majority of studies so far on Minimalism have appeared in the form of articles. This book . . . is a timely and well balanced appraisal of a phenomenon which, although known, has perhaps not received the attention it deserves. . . . Indispensable for those studying this field and, generally, to be recommended.”—François Jaques, Journal of European Studies “Small Worlds has much to offer and will appeal in the first place to anyone who wishes to become better acquainted with recent French literature. Those who sample even a chapter or two are likely to be sufficiently intrigued by Motte’s stimulating presentation to want to read the original works.”—John T. Booker, French Review
£37.05
University of Nebraska Press Tiny Surrealism
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Written in a lucid and readable style appropriate even for the novice student of surrealism, Tiny Surrealism excavates a different side to Dalí: that of the empathetic, stunningly perspicacious, and vulnerable man, who is always favoring the underdog. . . . Tiny Surrealism has great potential to serve as an introduction to Dalí’s complex oeuvre.”—Abigail Susik, Modernism/Modernity"Rothman's book delves into a neglected aspect of the work of one of the most notorious surrealists: Salvador Dali."—Effie Rentzou, SubStance"Tiny Surrealism is a solid, nuanced piece of scholarly inquiry. . . . Rothman offers a fresher perspective and a richer vocabulary to rethink Dalí's place in the surrealist universe. Tiny Surrealism successfully rescues Dalí from such unfair critical isolation and sheds overdue light on the intricacies of such a multidimensional artist."—Pablo Baler, Hispania"Undergraduates and general audiences will find distinct new approaches to the well-known but inadequately analyzed artist Dalí. Rothman's book opens pathways to insert Dalí into the scholarly discourses surrounding modern art."—Choice"Tiny Surrealism successfully dilutes the generic caricature of a camera-ready Dalí, haunting coffee-table books, wall calendars, and classroom discussions, while at the same time the study maintains an awareness of the centrality of satirical humor to Dalí’s production. Written in a lucid and readable style appropriate even for the novice student of surrealism, Tiny Surrealism excavates a different side to Dalí: that of the empathetic, stunningly perspicacious, and vulnerable man, who is always favoring the underdog. . . . Tiny Surrealism has great potential to serve as an introduction to Dalí's complex oeuvre, as it balances the investigation of the artist’s visual artworks with nearly as many of his compelling writings, and furthermore because it surveys the trajectory of his career between the 1920s and 1930s."—Abigail Susik, Modernism/Modernity“Rothman’s book is a creative, readable, and invigorating reevaluation of the early career of Salvador Dalí, one of the most recognizable figures in twentieth century art and intellectual history, yet also one of the most vexing and misunderstood. . . . Rothman’s discussions of Dalí’s texts and paintings are consistently enlightening and provocative, and the book promises to make a substantive impact in the fields of modernism and surrealism.”—Jonathan Eburne, author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime“The strength of this study—in fact, its undeniable contribution to our knowledge of Dalí—lies in its very detailed and comprehensive exposition—indeed the close and quite perceptive analysis of the ‘little things,’ as they emerge in Dalí’s early works. . . . Tiny Surrealism is a valuable contribution to a more comprehensive understanding of Dalí’s art and aesthetics.”—Haim Finkelstein, author of Salvador Dalí's Art and Writing, 1927–1942“Rothman’s book is a creative, readable, and invigorating reevaluation of the early career of Salvador Dalí, one of the most recognizable figures in twentieth century art and intellectual history, yet also one of the most vexing and misunderstood. . . . Rothman’s discussions of Dalí’s texts and paintings are consistently enlightening and provocative, and the book promises to make a substantive impact in the fields of modernism and surrealism.”—Jonathan Eburne, author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Dalí's Tininess 1. Little Things 2. Paranoia 3. Parasitism 4. Superficiality 5. Submission 6. Anachronism Afterword: Disintegration Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press The Ends of Rhetoric History Theory Practice
Book SynopsisRhetoric is an area of study without accepted certainties, not yet parcelled into subdivisions and adhering to no fixed protocols. It is a noisy field in the cybernetic sense of the term: a fertile ground for creative innovation. This text embodies the interdisciplinary character of rhetoric.Table of ContentsContents Part I BENDER JOHN WELLBERY DAVID E. Part II NAGY GREGORY PARKER PATRICIA Part III GOLDBERG JONATHAN HERTZ NEIL Part IV BORCH-JACOBSEN MIKKEL SPERBER DAN WILSON DEIRDRE ZIMMERLI WALTHER CH. Part V BERCOVITCH SACVAN SENNETT RICHARD
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Stanford University Press The Aims of Representation SubjectTextHistory
Book SynopsisTrade Review“One of the more important and original collections of theoretical essays in the field. . . . The issues it addresses are no less pertinent now than they were in 1987; they seem, indeed, to be of perennial importance.”—Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley
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Stanford University Press Thinking Bodies Irvine Studies in the Humanities
Book SynopsisThe essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the arts, and psychoanalysis.
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Stanford University Press Language Mysticism
Book SynopsisThis book examines an ambivalence to language deeply rooted in Western culture, as seen in the writings of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan, and in the context of age-old metaphysical biases against body, history, time, and the mundane as these continue to shape our system of values and moral commitments..
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Stanford University Press Unruly Examples
Book SynopsisThese 2 essays demonstrate that, beyond example's rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction Alexander Gelley 1. Take the Bible for example Daniel Boyarin 2. Example versus Historia Stephen G. Nichols 3. Circe's drink and sorbonnic wine John D. Lyons 4. The discourse of example Louis Marin 5. Fables of responsibility Thomas Keenan 6. The pragmatics of exemplary narrative Alexander Gelley 7. Parabolic exemplarity J. Hillis Miller 8. 'The Beauty of Failure' Ewa Ziarek 9. Exemplarity and the origins of legislation Irene E. Harvey 10. Kant's examples David Lloyd 11. The force of example Cathy Caruth 12. Of the eye and the law Herman Rapaport.
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Stanford University Press On the Name Meridian Crossing Aesthetics Jacques
Book SynopsisThis volume presents three essays by the French philosopher and theorist Jacques Derrida on the ethical, political and linguistic issues posed by the act of "naming"Trade Review“A major new book by Derrida that represents his most recent thinking, and includes landmark readings of Plato and the German poet-mystic Angelus Silesius. The essays are wonderfully rich and provocative, and, in spite of their apparent diversity of topic, are bound together as three ways of approaching the problematic of naming and speaking of something that exceeds ‘isness.’ ”—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine
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Stanford University Press Walter Benjamin
Book SynopsisThis collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media.In an introductory essay, David S. Ferris discusses the problem of history, aura, and resistance in Benjamin's later work and in its reception. Samuel Weber, in a reading of Benjamin's most influential essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, analyzes the status of the image and technology in Benjamin's own terms and in the shadow of Heidegger. Rodolphe Gasché devotes himself to an analysis of Benjamin's dissertation on the German Romantics, providing a valuable guide to a major text that has yet to appear in English translation.Trade Review“An excellent collection of essays on a thinker who continues to be a provocation and source of insight for a wide variety of intellectuals, teachers, and students interested in literature, philosophy, sociology, history, the visual arts, and the media.”—Ian Balfour, York University
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Stanford University Press Fascist Modernism Aesthetics Politics and the
Book SynopsisUsing the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology.Trade Review“An exciting and original discussion of the relationship between aesthetic modernism and political fascism. Hewitt draws productively from various theoretical sources—Benjamin, Derrida, Lyotard, and Brüger—without grinding any sectarian axe.”—Russell A. Berman, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Stanford University Press Text Counter Text Rereadings in Russian Literary
Book SynopsisUsing structuralist and post-structuralist methods, this book analyzes a selection of influential Russian texts--classical, modernist, and contemporary--as dialogues with earlier works, in the light of new cultural contexts.
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Stanford University Press Inscribing Science Scientific Texts and the
Book SynopsisMetaphors of inscription and writing figure prominently in all levels of discourse in and about science. This volume of 16 essays examines the subject by juxtaposing work from historically focused science and literature studies with work inspired by poststructuralist philosophy and semiotics.Table of Contents1. Inscription practices and materialities of communication Timothy Lenoir; 2. The language of strange facts in early modern science Lorraine Daston; 3. Shaping information: mathematics, computing and typography Robin Rider; 4. The technology of mathematical persuasion Brian Rotman; 5. On the take-off of operators Friedrich Kittler; 6. Switchboards and sex: the nut(t) case Bernhard Siegert; 7. Politics on the topographer's table: the helvetic triangulation of cartography, politics, and representation David Gugerli; 8. Writing Darwin's islands: England and the insular condition Gillian Beer; 9. Illustrations as strategy in Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Phillip Prodger; 10. The Leviathan of Parsontown: literary technology and scientific representation Simon Schaffer; 11. Technology, aesthetics and the development of astrophotography at the Lick Observatory Alex Pang; 12. Standards and semiotics Robert Brain; 123. Experimental systems, graphematic spaces; Hans-Jong Rheinberger; 14. Emergent power: vitality and theology in artificial life Richard M. Doyle; 15. Science and writing: two national narratives of failure Lisa Bloom; 16. Perception versus experience: moving pictures and their resistance to interpretation Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Unspeakable Subjects
Book SynopsisIn groundbreaking readings linking works of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes with contemporary revisions of Freud and Nietzsche, Unspeakable Subjects argues that the concepts and discourses that have come to define European modernitythe subject''s extension and responsibility, genealogies of intention and of freedom, the literary, legal, and medical construction of the body, among othersarise as strategies for evading a profound redefinition of the nature of events in early modern Europe.Negotiating the often competing claims of rhetorical reading and cultural analysis, Lezra reassesses the grounds of literary and philosophical history as a materialist practice of eventful reading. His original accounts of Don Quixote, Descartes''s Second Meditation and Regulae, and Measure for Measure tack between linguistic, psychoanalytic, and cultural materialist approaches to define and discuss the double aspect of the event in early modern Trade Review"What one sees in Unspeakable Subjects is Jacques Lezra's uniquely personal conjugation of theoretical interests with the resisting pressures of history, literary history, and philology. I find no convenient label to describe his brand of reading, but I strongly suspect that he will be one of the critics who redefines and rehistoricizes literary theory in the coming decades. Lezra is, to my mind, one of the most gifted intellects of his generation of literary scholars." -- Mary Malcolm Gaylord * Harvard University *"The range of Lezra's admirable work is immense, but so is the historical scholarship. Context is never lost from view; apparent anachronisms turn out to afford brilliant reflections on the complicated temporality of reading. Unspeakable Subjects does not seek to understand, not does it seek a licence for the contemporary critic to say whatever he/she pleases. It asks what has become of Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes in our hands, and it shows, in devastating detail and often with considerable wit, how much of us was already in the texts of those early writers." -- Michael Wood, Straut Professor of English * Princeton University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: eventful reading; 1. Freud's sickle; 2. The ontology of the letter in Descartes's second meditation; 3. The matter of naming in Don Quixote; 4. Cervantes' hand; 5. The appearance of history in Measure for Measure; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Stanford University Press The Psychic Life of Power
Book SynopsisAs a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what one is, one''s very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its existence and the trajectory of its desire. Power is not simply what we depend on for our existence but that which forms reflexivity as well. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this challenging and lucid work offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power.If we take Hegel and Nietzsche seriously, then the inner life of consciousness and, indeed, of conscience, not only is fabricated by power, but becomes one of the ways in which power is anchored in subjectivity. The author considers the way in which psychic life iTrade Review"The emergence of self-consciousness is rooted in paradox—for becoming a subject is intricately bound up with being subjected. This insight . . . is explored and developed as [Butler's] book unfolds, taking the reader through a tour de force of its rhetorical, linguistic, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and social and political implications." -- Modern PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Stubborn attachment, bodily subjection 2. Circuits and bad conscience 3. Subjection, resistance, resignification 4. 'Conscience doth make subjects of us all' 5. Melancholy gender/refused identification keeping it moving 6. Psychic inceptions Notes Index.
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Stanford University Press Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism Italy
Book SynopsisThis book traces several of the most recent trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions intersect or for specific reasons fail to intersect.Trade Review“This is an important work that gives an original analytical account of prevalent modes of critical thought (deconstruction, feminism, Marxism) from the standpoint of the philosophical theories of Vico and Gramsci. Lucente’s passionate critique of the sundry narcissistic and self-enclosed shapes of modern thought in terms of the consciousness of history is fresh and persuasive, and the economy and crispness of his writing is admirable.”—Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. Recent Theory: 1. Dec onstruction, Marxism and feminism in current theory; 2. Critical pluralism in the American and European traditions; 3. History with a future(?); 4. Could you elaborate on that? (well, yes and no); Part II. The Historical Imagination: 5. Vico, Hercules and the lion; 6. Hayden White's 'the content of the form'; 7. Yesterday, today, tomorrow; 8. Rationality and myth in Priandello's later works; 9. Literary representation and sociopolitical/cultural contexts in the historical novel; Part III. 10. The exercise of silence; 11. Against theory? Yes and no; 12. Weak thought/strong thought; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Cinematograph of Words
Book SynopsisThis is an extraordinarily imaginative attempt to analyze the relations between literature and technique in Brazil from the 1880''s to the 1920''s. The author suggests that in these relations we can see more clearly the shape of a period that is otherwise usually defined from a literary perspective as pre- or post- something or other, rather than in terms of its own characteristics. One such characteristic is the intense interaction with the new technologies then arising in Brazil, the beginning of the professionalization of writers, and a revision of the concept of literature, redefined as technique.The author''s chief concern is to determine what is distinctive about the literary production of the period. Rather than focusing on literature''s relations with visual art, with a rising social class, or with the sociopolitical divisions within the educated classes of Brazilian society, the author examines the crônica (a kind of journalistic essay), poetry, and ficTrade Review"This is a stimulating little book, full of subtle and nuanced argument and of suggestive insights. . . . This survey seems to me to be indispensable as an approach to Brazilian literature of the period."—Modern Language ReviewTable of Contents1. In place of an epigraph 2. The hand and the machine 3. The traces of technology 4. Literary technique 5. Typing away Notes Bibliography Index.
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Stanford University Press In Praise of Nonsense Kant and Bluebeard Meridian
Book SynopsisLudwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense.Table of Contents1. Introduction: nonsense, Victorian nonsense, Romantic nonsense 2. Kant on 'nonsense', 'laughing', and 'caprice' 3. The poetics of nonsense and the early romantic thoery of the fairy tale 4. Between the addition and subtraction of sense - Charles Perrault's La Barbe-Bleue 5. 'A book without and coherence' - Ludwig Tieck's The Seven Wives of Bluebeard 6. Suspensions of 'sense' in Genre theories of the fairy tale Notes Bibliography.
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Stanford University Press Maternal Pasts Feminist Futures Nostalgia Ethics
Book SynopsisThis book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference.Table of ContentsIntroduction: maternal pasts Part I. Nostalgia: The Lost Mother: 1. Blanchot's mother 2. Lips in the mirror: Irigaray's specular mother Part II. Nostalgia and Ethics: Approaching the Other: 3. Imperialsit nostalgia: Kristeva's maternal Chora 4. Luce et veritas: toward an ethics of performance Part III. Toward Another Model: 5. From Lesbos to Montreal: Brossards's urban fictions Afterword: feminist futures Notes Bibliography Index.
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Stanford University Press The Practice of Cultural Analysis
Book SynopsisThis volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship, one that can be situated somewhere between cultural studies and cultural history while being more specific than either. Cultural analysis as a critical practice is based on a keen awareness of the critic''s situatedness in the presentthe social and cultural present from which we look, and look back, at objects that are already of the past, objects that we take to define our present culture. Thus it can be summarized by the phrase cultural memory in the present. Far from being indifferent to history, cultural analysis is devoted to understanding the past as part of the present, as what we have around us.The essays gathered here represent the current state of an emerging field of inquiry. At the same time, they suggest to the larger academic world what cultural analysis can and should do, or be, as an interdisciplinary practice. The challenge for this volume is to counter the common assumption Table of ContentsContents Bal Mieke Lam Janneke PART I. Keller Evelyn Fox Salomon Nanette Elaesser Thomas Pollock Griselda Zemel Carol Bann Stephen PART II. Geyer-Ryan Helga van Alphen Ernst Ankersmit Frank R. Exum J. Cheryl Hoving Isabel Zielinski Siegfried PART III. Fabian Johannes Dupre Louis de Boer Theo Neubauer John Cook Jon Germano William P. Culler Jonathan
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Stanford University Press The Practice of Cultural Analysis Exposing
Book SynopsisThis volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship situated somewhere between cultural studies and cultural history. Cultural analysis as a critical practice is based on a keen awareness of the critic's situatedness in the present and devoted to understanding the past as part of the present. Thus it can be summarized as "cultural memory in the present."Table of ContentsContents Bal Mieke Lam Janneke PART I. Keller Evelyn Fox Salomon Nanette Elaesser Thomas Pollock Griselda Zemel Carol Bann Stephen PART II. Geyer-Ryan Helga van Alphen Ernst Ankersmit Frank R. Exum J. Cheryl Hoving Isabel Zielinski Siegfried PART III. Fabian Johannes Dupre Louis de Boer Theo Neubauer John Cook Jon Germano William P. Culler Jonathan
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Stanford University Press All the Difference in the World
Book SynopsisTalks about culture and comparison. This book inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. It argues that inclusiveness is not a sufficient response to postcolonial and multiculturalist challenges because it leaves the basis of equivalence unquestioned.Trade Review"In this innovative study, Melas analyzes the impact postcolonial writing has had on one discipline, comparative literature." -- CHOICE"Melas displays a thorough familiarity with the pertinent body of established contemporary theory, and her treatment of the critical corpus is unusual in its historical scope and sophistication. All the Difference in the World is an outstanding contribution to postcolonial critical studies." -- Gregson Davis, Dean of Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities * Duke University *"All the Difference in the World is an outstanding and rigorous work that reflects on the concept of comparison itself and on the history of the field of comparative literature. In her philosophically-grounded readings of the problematics of time and narrative, history and identity, trauma, and geography, Melas offers exquisitely detailed arguments that yield illuminating insights on Conrad, Walcott, Césaire, and Simone Schwarz-Bart. An innovative and rewarding book.—Françoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles"This is a subtle, intelligent book, illuminating in the insights it brings to the work of individual authors."—The Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface CHAPTER 1 Grounds for Comparison Comparative Reaches Unimagined The Time of Comparison The Space of Comparison Incommensurability : Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison CHAPTER 2 Ungrounding Comparison: Conrad and Colonial Narration Imperial Comparison Marlow and The Rhetoric of Dissimilation Foiled Communities CHAPTER 3 The Empire's Loose Ends: Dissimilated Readings Dissimilation Dissimilation and Com-paraison Relation CHAPTER 4 Ruined Comparatives: Epic Similitude and the Pedagogy of Poetic Space in Derek Walcott's Omeros History and The Place Without People: Amnesia and Analogy Forgettable Vacations and Metaphor in Ruins Homeric Similes and Omeric Similitudes: A Contingent Excursus Pedagogy of Poetic Space ("Our Last Resort As Much As Yours, Omeros") Envoi CHAPTER 5 The Gift of Belittling All Things: Catastrophic Miniaturization in Aim' C'saire and Simone Schwarz-Bart Geometries of Blood The Plenitude of Smallness Irreducibility Catastrophe and Finitude The Horizon's Hero: Monocosm to Microcosm REFERENCE LIST Index
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Stanford University Press Black Holes JHillis Miller or Boustrophedonic
Book SynopsisThis innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem-Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. Miller analyzes the changes in the contemporary research university in the West; Asensi provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Miller's work.Trade Review"J. Hillis Miller's Black Holes and Manuel Asensi's J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading are texts which occupy the same volume on facing pages, a format which aptly stages the way their book both offers readings, and reflects on the practice of reading. . . . Materialist analysis is essential to [Miller's] project, and it is here that he distinguishes his readings from much work undertaken in 'cultural studies'. . . ."—?Table of Contents1. Literary study in the transnational university; 2. The grounds of love: Anthony Trollope's Ayala's Angel; 3. Fractual proust; Coda: the excess of reading; Notes.
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Stanford University Press In the Event Reading Journalism Reading Theory
Book SynopsisAssuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility, allegorically, at a given time. Through attentive readings of a range of textsincluding theoretical writings, diaries, newspaper reports, and live television broadcastsIn the Event elaborates the ways in which allegory disrupts our presumptions of continuity and simultaneity between the image (whatever its medium) and what we take it to represent.The author demonstrates that a theoretical corpus must be understood not merely as a discrete set of arguments, but as work that takes place in time and on which time itself is at work. Against the temptation to regard a text (including a text of philosophical aesthetics or critical linguistics) as explained or defined by a fixed temporal context, this book emphasizes the texTrade Review“An event of real significance in contemporary criticism, this book is an elegant and lucid study of the constitutive role of time in theoretical speculation and the structure of television, in the making of journalism, and the composing of personal diaries.”—Forest Pyle, University of OregonTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Introduction; Part I. Journals, Theories: 1. The invasion of the corpus snatchers; 2. The work to come; Part II. In The Wake Of Television: 3. No time like the present; 4. Mission in action; 5. Fast-forward; 6. The test of time; Part III. Journals Of Survival: 7. 'Only a question of time, etc'; 8. 'The only news was then'; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Mighty Opposites From Dichotomies to Differences
Book SynopsisThis book examines the discrepancies between various Western representations of China and the reality of China. It inquires into the cultural, historical, and political contexts within which such discrepancies arise, and it points out the distortion of reality in the tendency toward cultural dichotomies, the tendency to view China as the conceptual opposite of the West.Trade Review"An important, thought-provoking work which raises questions that all comparativists and Asianists should be asking themselves. It will well repay reading by specialists in both fields." -- Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature & PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The myth of the other; 2. Montaigne, postmodernism and cultural critique; 3. Jewish and Chinese literalism; 4. Out of the cultural ghetto; 5. Western theory and Chinese reality; 6. Postmodernism and the return of the native; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity
Book SynopsisThis book examines representations of modernity in Yiddish literature between the Russian revolution of 1905 and the beginning of the First World War. Within Jewish society, and particularly Eastern European Jewish society, modernity was often experienced as a series of incursions and threats to traditional Jewish life. Writers explored these perceived crises in their work, in the process reconsidering the role and function of Yiddish literature itself.The orientation of nineteenth-century Yiddish fiction toward the shtetl came into conflict with the sense of reality of young writers, who felt themselves part of a rapidly changing modern urban environment. This opposition between the generations was reflected in their principles of plot construction. The conservatives employed cyclical patterns, producing mythological schemes for incorporating the new experience into the traditional order. Modernists emphasized the uniqueness of the new, and therefore preferred a linear organTrade Review"Krutikov's work is a welcome addition to the growing field of Yiddish literary studies." -- The Russian Review"In this remarkably readable book, Krutikov constructs, with elegance and rigor, sturdy bridges built out of the disparate offerings of Yiddish litterateurs spanning the turbulent, shifting historical terrain between the Russian revolution in 1905 and the onset of World War I in 1914 . . . .This book is requisite for scholars and students of history, literary theory and criticism, and twentieth-century Yiddish literature. It will undoubtedly be captivating for the general reader as well." -- Religious Studies Review"His sophisticated deployment of Marxist theory and modern critical methodologies, coupled with his wide reading in several languages, has ensured that his study is not only stimulating in itself, but will create a seedbed for new approaches to Yiddish fiction." -- Journal of Modern Jewish StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translitcration Introduction: Conceptual Framework and Methodology llTe Economic Crisis The Crisis of Revolution The Crisis of Immigration Love and Destiny: The Crisis of Youth Conclusion: Yiddish Fiction Faces Modernity Biblioragphy Index
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Stanford University Press Fault Lines
Book SynopsisHow can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early 20th century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde writings that challenge and break apart clear and bounded conceptions of language, poetry, and meaning.Trade Review"Miryam Sas's Fault Lines is an important contribution to an area of Japanese studies that has been largely neglected, the Japanese avant-garde. . . . Sas's close readings of Japanese surrealist translations, poetry, and criticisms are compelling. . . . Fault Lines contains no shortage of insights into a diverse international movement." -- The Journal of Asian Studies"But for those who have been baptized by the force of a peculiar language that emerged a century ago, Surrealism, with its inherent violence, fault lines, and dreams, Sas's masterful analytical performance would appear like a luminous guiding post, simultaneously pointing toward the past and the future. We will remember this work." -- Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesTable of ContentsIllustrations A note on Japanese names Prologue: what is called surrealism 1. Introduction 2. Distant realities 3. On memory and doubt 4. Poetry and visuality, poetry and actuality 5. Eternities and surrealist legacies Epilogue: physical nostalgias Appendix Selected chronology Notes Bibliography Index.
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Stanford University Press Dead Time
Book SynopsisThis book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. Inspired by Walter Benjamin''s description of the shock experience of modernity through readings of Baudelaire, the book turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade contemporary culture.Through close readings of Baudelaire''s Flowers of Evil and Flaubert''s Madame Bovary, Elissa Marder argues that these nineteenth-century texts can, paradoxically, make us aware of aspects of present-day life that are not easily described or perceived. Following reflections by Benjamin, Jameson, and Lyotard, she shows that the ability to measure time increases in inverse proportion to the human ability to express it and create meaning through it. Although we have increased our ability to record events, we have become collectivelyTrade Review"This book is stunning in its ability to range widely and effectively over some of the most important, contested, and misunderstood regions of contemporary literary and cultural theory. A major and most welcome contribution to the study of two great canonical French authors, it is also a subtle but cogent intervention in the ongoing attempt to define and theorize a relation between the catchall concepts 'modernism' and 'postmodernism.'" -- Kevin Newmark * Boston College *
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Stanford University Press Dead Time
Book SynopsisThis book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. Inspired by Walter Benjamin''s description of the shock experience of modernity through readings of Baudelaire, the book turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade contemporary culture.Through close readings of Baudelaire''s Flowers of Evil and Flaubert''s Madame Bovary, Elissa Marder argues that these nineteenth-century texts can, paradoxically, make us aware of aspects of present-day life that are not easily described or perceived. Following reflections by Benjamin, Jameson, and Lyotard, she shows that the ability to measure time increases in inverse proportion to the human ability to express it and create meaning through it. Although we have increased our ability to record events, we have become collectivelyTrade Review"This book is stunning in its ability to range widely and effectively over some of the most important, contested, and misunderstood regions of contemporary literary and cultural theory. A major and most welcome contribution to the study of two great canonical French authors, it is also a subtle but cogent intervention in the ongoing attempt to define and theorize a relation between the catchall concepts 'modernism' and 'postmodernism.'" -- Kevin Newmark * Boston College *
£21.59
Stanford University Press The Flesh of Words
Book SynopsisThis new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or is no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives.
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Stanford University Press Traces
Book SynopsisTraces, a masterwork of twentieth-century philosophy, is the most modest and beautiful proof of Bloch's utopian hermeneutics, taking as its source and its result the simplest, most familiar and yet most striking stories and anecdotes.Trade Review"...this is a literary masterpiece. Overall, it is a must for anyone interested in Bloch's work."—CHOICE"This is an important addition to the corpus of Bloch's writings in English." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus PhilosophiquesTable of Contents@fmct:Contents* @toc2:Not Enough* 000 Sleeping 000 Drawn out 000 Always in It 000 Mingling 000 Sing-Song 000 Slight Change 000 Lamp and Closet 000 Learning Good Habits 000 The "Mark!" 000 @toc1:Situation @toc2:The Poor 000 Filth 000 The Gift 000 Different Needs* 000 Games, Regrettably 000 The Useful Member 000 Shaker of Strawberries* 000 Bread and Games 000 Narrow-Minded Comrades* 000 Disturbing Whim 000 @toc1:Fate @toc2:Passing It Forward 000 The Negro 000 The Watershed 000 No Face 000 Comte de Mirabeau 000 Rich Devil, Poor Devil 000 The Kitten as David* 000 Triumphs of Misrecognition 000 Scribe at the Mairie* 000 The Beautiful Appearance 000 The Rococo of Fate 000 Spirit Still Taking Shape 000 The Motif of Parting 000 Supernaturalism, Stupid and Improved* 000 Strange Homeland, Familiar Exile* 000 Pippa Passes 000 The Long Gaze 000 Reunion Without Connection 000 The Muse of Restitution 000 Raphael Without Hands 000 @toc1:Existence @toc2:Just Now 000 Dark by Us 000 The Fall into the Now 000 The Spur of Work 000 No Free Lunch* 000 Ten Years' Jail, Seven-Meter Train* 000 Silence and Mirrors 000 Ways Not to Be Seen 000 Imminent Boredom 000 Moment and Image 000 Potemkin's Signature 000 Incognito to Oneself* 000 Motifs of Concealment 000 Just Knock 000 The Corner of the Blanket 000 Short Excursion 000 Terror and Hope 000 Excursus: Human and Wax Figure 000 Nearby: Inn of the Insane 000 Tableau with Curve* 000 Some Patterns from the Left Side 000 The Twice-Disappearing Frame 000 The Motif of the Door 000 @toc1:Things @toc2:Half Good 000 The Next Tree 000 Flower and Unflower* 000 The Leyden Jar 000 The First Locomotive 000 The Urban Peasant 000 The House of Day 000 Montages of a February Evening* 000 An Odd Fl'neur 000 Eating Olives Precisely* 000 Making a Point* 000 The Reverse of Things 000 Greeting and Appearance 000 Motifs of Temptation 000 Appendix: No Man's Land 000 A Russian Fairy Tale?* 000 The Clever Way out 000 Disappointment with Amusement* 000 The Invisible Hand 000 Tales of White Magic 000 Wonder 000 The Mountain 000 Dead and Usable* 000 The Pearl* 000 @toc4:Notes 000
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