Literary theory Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Automatic
Book SynopsisA fascinating study of how behavioral science shaped twentieth-century politics and the modernist literary period. The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expressions of gender and sexuality. Yet writers and cultural critics shared a sense that modern life reduced citizens to automatons capable of interacting with the world in only the most reflexive ways. In Automatic, Timothy Wientzen asks why modernists were deeply anxious about the role of reflexive behaviorsand the susceptibility of bodies to physical stimuliin the new political structures of the twentieth century. Engaging with historical thinking about human behaviors that fundamentally changed the nature of political and literary practice, Wientzen demonstrates the ways in which a politics of reflex came to shape the intellectual and cultural life of the modernist era. Documenting some of the ways that modernist writers and Table of ContentsIntroduction: Prescribed Tracks1. Prescribed Tracks: Modernism, Modernity, and the Human Automaton2. Vibrant Bodies, Automatic Minds: Vitalism, D. H. Lawrence, and the Politics of Spontaneity3. Public Reflex: Wyndham Lewis, Public Relations, and the Invisible Government4. Pavlovian Nationalism: Rebecca West's Reflex Communities5. Higher Degrees of Automaticity: Habitus, Samuel Beckett, and Late ModernismAfterword: Choice Architects, Where Is Your Vortex? The Politics of Reflex in the Twenty-First CenturyWorks CitedNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Making Liberalism New
Book SynopsisA revisionist history of American liberalism, from the Great Depression to the Cold War. Finalist of the MSA First Book Prize by The Modernist Studies AssociationIn Making Liberalism New, Ian Afflerbach traces the rise, revision, and fall of a modern liberalism in the United States, establishing this intellectual culture as distinct from classical predecessors as well as the neoliberalism that came to power by century's end. Drawing on a diverse archive that includes political philosophy, legal texts, studies of moral psychology, government propaganda, and presidential campaign materials, Afflerbach also delves into works by Tess Slesinger, Richard Wright, James Agee, John Dewey, Lionel Trilling, and Vladimir Nabokov. Throughout the book, he shows how a reciprocal pattern of influence between modernist literature and liberal intellectuals helped drive the remarkable writing and rewriting of this keyword in American political life. From the 1930s into the 1960s, Afflerbach writes, modTable of ContentsPreface: What We Talk about When We Talk about LiberalismIntroduction: Making Liberalism NewPart 1: A Liberal Modernism1. Liberalism Incorporated: Intellectuals, Abortion, and the Critique of Possessive Individualism2. Racial Liberalism: Native Son and the Problem of "Color-Blind" LawPart 2: A Modern Liberalism3. The Inward Turn: Tragedy, Documentary, and the Making of the Postwar Liberal Imagination4. Ending in Style: JFK, Nabokov, and the Triumph of a Liberal AestheticConclusion: What's Left of Liberalism? (Or: What's So New about Neoliberalism?)Works CitedNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Making Liberalism New
Book SynopsisA revisionist history of American liberalism, from the Great Depression to the Cold War. Finalist of the MSA First Book Prize by The Modernist Studies AssociationIn Making Liberalism New, Ian Afflerbach traces the rise, revision, and fall of a modern liberalism in the United States, establishing this intellectual culture as distinct from classical predecessors as well as the neoliberalism that came to power by century's end. Drawing on a diverse archive that includes political philosophy, legal texts, studies of moral psychology, government propaganda, and presidential campaign materials, Afflerbach also delves into works by Tess Slesinger, Richard Wright, James Agee, John Dewey, Lionel Trilling, and Vladimir Nabokov. Throughout the book, he shows how a reciprocal pattern of influence between modernist literature and liberal intellectuals helped drive the remarkable writing and rewriting of this keyword in American political life. From the 1930s into the 1960s, Afflerbach writes, modTable of ContentsPreface: What We Talk about When We Talk about LiberalismIntroduction: Making Liberalism NewPart 1: A Liberal Modernism1. Liberalism Incorporated: Intellectuals, Abortion, and the Critique of Possessive Individualism2. Racial Liberalism: Native Son and the Problem of "Color-Blind" LawPart 2: A Modern Liberalism3. The Inward Turn: Tragedy, Documentary, and the Making of the Postwar Liberal Imagination4. Ending in Style: JFK, Nabokov, and the Triumph of a Liberal AestheticConclusion: What's Left of Liberalism? (Or: What's So New about Neoliberalism?)Works CitedNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Women in Wartime
Book SynopsisA revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century. During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. As the era unfolded, the theatre gradually discovered the potential in having actresses, recently introduced to the stage in the 1660s, perform as wartime women characters. As playwrights and managers began casting women in transformative roles to meet each major national need, female characters came to be central figures in bringing the war home to the nation, transforming them into deeply patriotic British subjects. Paula Backscheider's Women in Wartime is the first study of theatrical representations of women with intimate connections to military men. Drawing upon her extensive expertise in gender, performance studies, popular culture, and archival studies, BackscheTrade ReviewPaula R. Backscheider, a significant writer on the subject of eighteenth-century drama...analyses more than fifty plays in a substantial work that she acknowldges took years to write.—Times Literary SupplementWomen in Wartime is masterfully written tying together theory, historical context and a vast body of evidence....Backscheider's work is relevant far beyond the eighteenth century; she identifies quintessential themes that continue to shape perceptions of gender in theatre and literature today, and perhaps most importantly, shows how intertheatricality can impact studies of theatre, gender, representation and reception.—Gender & HistoryPaula R. Backscheider offers an expansive prehistory of this familiar gendered and generational patriotism...There is much to appreciate in this study.—Theatre SurveyParticularly valuable among the critical pieces I have thus far discussed are those that contribute to the continued recovery and recentring of women's writing and women's representation in long eighteenth-century drama.... Prime among these is Paula R. Backscheider's Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century, a tremendous undertaking that explores, as the title suggests, how the backdrop of 'intense periods of British wars' across the long eighteenth century affected playwrights' portrayals of female characters of all classes.—The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and Textual NoteIntroduction1. Prolegomenon. The Genesis of Wartime Women: Statira, Parisatis, and Roxana2. The Changing Face of War: Fidelia, Mrs. Gripe, and Clarinda 3. In the Shadow of Marlborough's War: Silvia, Rose, Belvedera, and Dorcas4. Crisis Years: Women Must Say "Go"5. From Props to Players: Nelly, Sukey, and Feridon6. Marrying Military: Gendered PatriotismCodaAppendix A: Wars, Recruiting, and Women's Responsibilities and RightsAppendix B: NewsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Women in Wartime
Book SynopsisA revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century. During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. As the era unfolded, the theatre gradually discovered the potential in having actresses, recently introduced to the stage in the 1660s, perform as wartime women characters. As playwrights and managers began casting women in transformative roles to meet each major national need, female characters came to be central figures in bringing the war home to the nation, transforming them into deeply patriotic British subjects. Paula Backscheider's Women in Wartime is the first study of theatrical representations of women with intimate connections to military men. Drawing upon her extensive expertise in gender, performance studies, popular culture, and archival studies, BackscheTrade ReviewPaula R. Backscheider, a significant writer on the subject of eighteenth-century drama...analyses more than fifty plays in a substantial work that she acknowldges took years to write.—Times Literary SupplementWomen in Wartime is masterfully written tying together theory, historical context and a vast body of evidence....Backscheider's work is relevant far beyond the eighteenth century; she identifies quintessential themes that continue to shape perceptions of gender in theatre and literature today, and perhaps most importantly, shows how intertheatricality can impact studies of theatre, gender, representation and reception.—Gender & HistoryPaula R. Backscheider offers an expansive prehistory of this familiar gendered and generational patriotism...There is much to appreciate in this study.—Theatre SurveyParticularly valuable among the critical pieces I have thus far discussed are those that contribute to the continued recovery and recentring of women's writing and women's representation in long eighteenth-century drama.... Prime among these is Paula R. Backscheider's Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century, a tremendous undertaking that explores, as the title suggests, how the backdrop of 'intense periods of British wars' across the long eighteenth century affected playwrights' portrayals of female characters of all classes.—The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and Textual NoteIntroduction1. Prolegomenon. The Genesis of Wartime Women: Statira, Parisatis, and Roxana2. The Changing Face of War: Fidelia, Mrs. Gripe, and Clarinda 3. In the Shadow of Marlborough's War: Silvia, Rose, Belvedera, and Dorcas4. Crisis Years: Women Must Say "Go"5. From Props to Players: Nelly, Sukey, and Feridon6. Marrying Military: Gendered PatriotismCodaAppendix A: Wars, Recruiting, and Women's Responsibilities and RightsAppendix B: NewsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Criminal Genius in African American and Us
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Johns Hopkins University Press Immeasurable Outcomes
Book SynopsisWhat is the purpose of education? The answer might be found in a Shakespeare class at a small liberal arts college. In this engaging account of teaching a Shakespeare class at a small liberal arts college, Gayle Greene illustrates what is so vital and urgent about the humanities. Follow along with Greene as she introduces us to her students and showcases their strengths, needs, and vulnerabilities, so we can experience the magic of her classroom. In Immeasurable Outcomes, Greene's class builds a complex human ecosystem that pushes students to think more deeply and discover their own interests and potential, all while recognizing the inherent dignity in other people's views and values. Grounding her analyses in half a century of teaching, Greene pushes back against the demand for measurable student learning outcomes and the standardization imposed on K-12 schools in the name of reform. Instead, she draws her conclusions about education directly from the students themselves. Alumni tesTrade ReviewGreene's book is fun.The point of Greene's performances and those of her students is not to present a final view of any of Shakespeare's characters, still less of his plays. Rather, it is to show what jargon-laden course outlines cannot encompass. It is to show that over the course of a semester, students who are willing to follow a trained, dedicated teacher develop finely tuned reading skills and link what they read to their lives.—University World News[Greene's] defense of the humanities is as philosophically rigorous as it is affectingly impassioned....an important contribution to today's education debates and a sterling example of the intellectual virtues it valorizes...edifying and inspiring.—Kirkus ReviewsA spirited work in defense of a heartfelt humanist approach to teaching and learning....This book argues for the human touch in education....A tour de force in terms of capturing a hugely complicated process on the page.—ForbesAn impassioned manifesto to revive quality, democratic education that redeems college teaching and re-seeds enlightened, disaster-averting voters.—Nation of ChangeDelightful.K-12 educators will find a great deal of common ground in Greene's book and, overall, a largely shared understanding of the goals and value of a liberal arts education, as well as a keen evaluation of contemporary problems in education more generally.—ClassicalEd ReviewGayle Greene's Immeasurable Outcomes: Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of the Algorithmoffers a provocation: Good teaching matters, but it can't be measured. No one has recently captured as well as Greene the experience of being a humanities professor—what we hope to do, what happens (and doesn't) during our classes, what gives us joy, and what makes us sad. The classroom is threatened by false understandings of what can and should be assessed, by online education, and by the world's distractions. It needs to be protected.—Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. First DayChapter 2. Once Upon A Time In The Twentieth Century: How The Humanities Took A Great FallChapter 3. What's Trust Got to Do with It?Chapter 4. "The Reading Thing": Attending, Remembering, ConnectingChapter 5. The Play's The Thing: Taming Of The Shrew, A Midsummer Night's DreamChapter 6. Teaching Is an Art, Not an AlgorithmChapter 7. De-grading the Professors: Outcomes Assessment AssessedChapter 8. Growing Up Human: Hamlet, King LearChapter 9. Ask a GraduateAcknowledgmentsNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Dorian Unbound
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Johns Hopkins University Press Dorian Unbound
Book SynopsisA bold reimagining of the literary history of Decadence through a close examination of the transnational contexts of Oscar Wilde's classic novelThe Picture of Dorian Gray. Building upon a large body of archival and critical work on Oscar Wilde's only novel, Dorian Unbound offers a new account of the importance of transnational contexts in the forging of Wilde's imagination and the wider genealogy of literary Decadence. Sean O'Toole argues that the attention critics have rightly paid to Wilde's backgrounds in Victorian Aestheticism and French Decadence has had the unintended effect of obscuring a much broader network of transnational contexts. Attention to these contexts allows us to reconsider how we read The Picture of Dorian Gray, what we believe we know about Wilde, and how we understand literary Decadence as both a persistent, highly mobile cultural mode and a precursor to global modernism. In developing a transnational framework for reading Dorian Gray, O'Toole recovers a subter
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Johns Hopkins University Press How Writing Made Us Human 3000 BCE to Now
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn enjoyable and stimulating read . . . Stephens has produced a fascinating story of twists and turns.—The Conversation
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Sound of Writing
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers have used to represent sound and how they have changed over time. Contributors consider how writing has channeled sounds as varied as the human voice and the buzzing of bees using not only alphabets but also the resources of the visual and musical arts. Cannon and Justice have assembled a constellation of classicists, medievalists, modernists, literary historians, and musicologists to trace the sound of writing from the beginning of the Western record to poetry written in the last century. This rich series of essays considers the writings of Sappho, Simonides, Aldhem, Marcabru, Dante Alighieri, William Langland, Charles Butler, Tennyson, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot as well as poems and songs in Ancient Greek, Old and Middle English, Italian, Old French, Occitan, and modern English. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChristopher Cannon and Steven Justice1. The Sounds and Matter of Women in Ancient Greek EpigramsSarah Nooter2. Reading Impressions: The Sound of the Sight of Occitan VerseSarah Kay3. Voices and Bees: The Evolution of Charles Butler's Acoustic BookJennifer Richards4. Prosodic Protocols and Interruptions of Them in Piers PlowmanIan Cornelius5. Latin Verse in Old English AccentsEmily V. Thornbury6. The Writing of SoundMeredith Martin7. Music Writing and Music History in a Thirteenth-Century SongSean Curran8. "Where the Sì Sounds": Dante's Dissonant Vernaculars and Their Sensual SignsAlison Cornish9. The Phenomenology of -eChristopher Cannon10. Writing Reading RhythmChristopher HastyContributorsIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Philadelphia Freedoms
Book SynopsisThe conflict between the nation's ideals and the racial animus that persists even into the second term of America's first black president.Trade Review"[A] searing book that captures all of the turbulent civil rights struggles that took place in the City of Brotherly Love, from the '60s to the '90s... Awkward dives right in. He brilliantly juxtaposes Philadelphia's mythic image as the city where American democracy was born with the real life, bitter struggles of African-Americans and their quest to obtain those democratic rights guaranteed by the Constitution signed here two centuries ago - and still being sought today."--Philadelphia Weekly
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Temple University Press,U.S. Philadelphia Freedoms
Book SynopsisThe conflict between the nation's ideals and the racial animus that persists even into the second term of America's first black president.Trade Review"[A] searing book that captures all of the turbulent civil rights struggles that took place in the City of Brotherly Love, from the '60s to the '90s... Awkward dives right in. He brilliantly juxtaposes Philadelphia's mythic image as the city where American democracy was born with the real life, bitter struggles of African-Americans and their quest to obtain those democratic rights guaranteed by the Constitution signed here two centuries ago - and still being sought today."--Philadelphia Weekly
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University of Toronto Press Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye
Book SynopsisMarshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe, who studied with both of these formidable and influential intellectuals, presents an exploration of their lives and work in Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy.Powe considers the existence of a unique visionary tradition of Canadian humanism and argues that McLuhan and Frye represent fraught but complementary approaches to the study of literature and to the broader engagement with culture. Examining their eloquent but often acid responses to each other, Powe exposes the scholarly controversies and personal conflicts that erupted between them, and notably the great commonalities in their writing and biographies. Using interviews, letters, notebooks, and their published texts, Powe offers a nTrade Review"Bruce Powe is a rare intellectual figure in the Canadian landscape. He has the sensibility and eloquence of a literary critic, and the power of persuasion of a cultural critic, definitely in the same league with the Canadian giants of the twentieth century." -- Francesco Guardiani, Dept. of Italian, University of Toronto 'Powe masterfully examines the theories of his teachers--Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye and finds coherence within the legendary conflict between the two, which ignited a synergy that is at once destructive and revealing.' -- J.L. Aucoin Choice vol 52:03:2014 'There will likely be many McLuhan and Frye commentaries in the future, and with any luck some will be brilliant, but no one will ever write with such passion as Powe's on the vision of these two beleaguered spiritual explorers.' -- Philip Marchand National Post, June 27, 2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: The Juncture of Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye in 1946 Intentions and Overview, Apocalypse and Alchemy in McLuhan and Frye Presences and Signatures: These Figures in their Ground The Critical Conflict Between McLuhan and Frye The Harmonies in Two Seers: Orchestrations and Complementarities Alchemy, Synergy in the Thinking of McLuhan and Frye The Lessons of Two Teachers: Guidance and Signs Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Narrative Modes in Czech Literature
Book SynopsisIn this study of the study of the linguistic approach to narrative structures, the author examines the question of point of view in fiction, drawing examples from Czech literature. He applies the methods of structural linguistics and literary studies as developed by the Prague Linguistic School, and the modern methodology of semiotics and text theory. This approach, widely used in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe, is not as well known as it should be in the English-speaking world.The essays may be read without any knowledge of the Czech language or Czech literary history. All Czech examples and materials are translated into English, preserving traits of the original texts which are relevant for structural analysis; the original Czech of all examples appears in an appendix. While the examples serve as documentation for theoretical statements, they also serve to familiarize the English-speaking reader with some of the major works of Czech fiction, especially those of Kome
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University of Toronto Press The Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic
Book SynopsisIn this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis. Literature may be described as the structured use of language: the modern linguistic analyzes language in a search for the minimal units of sound and form, phoneme and morpheme, and determines the combinations by which they can communicate meaning. The author here searches for a minimal structural unit in the literary narrative analogous to the phoneme and the morpheme in language structure.Based on a detailed analysis of the Roland and the Cid and twelve additional Romance narratives, Professor Dorfman's argument is that the structure of the medieval Romance epics may be analyzed into functional units which he calls "narremes." He divides a narrative into two types of structure: the superstructure and the substructure. A narrative, by definition, is a series of incidents. All the incidents in the narrative, taken as written, form the superstructure. Analysis, how
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University of Toronto Press The Correspondence of Erasmus
Book SynopsisMany of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus'' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530), at which the first of many attempts to achieve a negotiated settlement of the religious division in Germany came to a rancorous conclusion, thus fostering the fear that religious controversy would eventually lead to war. His other chief concerns were the continued attacks on him by Catholic critics who regarded him as a clandestine Lutheran, and the insistence of many evangelical reformers that he was their spiritual father. The literary output of the period covered includes major works aimed at members of both groups. Volume 17 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series.Trade Review'The Collected Works of Erasmus project has long since established a new standard for scholarly translation series to emulate. Not only have the English versions represented Erasmus' writings in crisp and accessible language, but meticulous editorial scholarship has placed the author's thought and work in their proper intellectual contexts.' -- Jerry H. Bentley Renaissance Quarterly 'The Toronto Erasmus project is a magnificent achievement, one of the scholarly triumphs of our time. The succession of fine volumes - both in quality of content and of design and production - has continued to fulfil the original promise of the distinguished team of editors and the equally distinguished advisory committee.' -- Lisa Jardine Common Knowledge 'Academic publishing does not get any better than this: durably bound, expertly annotated, beautifully translated editions of the works of one of the finest scholars in the illustrious history of the Christian Church.' -- Michael Bauman Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 'One of the most ambitious, meticulous, and essential scholarly projects now underway.' -- Willis G. Regier Modern Language NotesTable of ContentsIllustrations Preface Map showing the principal places mentioned in volume 17 LETTERS 2357 to 2471 Table of Correspondents Works Frequently Cited Short-Title Forms of Erasmus' Works Index
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University of Toronto Press The Legendary Sources of Flauberts Saint Julien
Book SynopsisThe sources for La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier, one of Flaubert’s finest literary works, have long been the subject of numerous conflicting theories. The implications of the controversy are broad and important, not only for Flaubert’s work but also for our understanding of how writers generally use traditional material. Superficial resemblances have led critics to conclude that Flaubert relied heavily on a medieval tale of Saint Julian and that he borrowed details and specific phrases from his medieval predecessor. This book, by a world renowned specialist in Flaubert studies and a medieval philologist, demonstrates that the Légende is not medieval in structure or in spirit, and that its conception is distinctly modern; where Flaubert borrowed at all he used contemporary sources to recast the Julian legend in Romantic style. Bart and Cook establish definitely what legendary sources were and show how Flaubert came into conta
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University of Toronto Press Jacques Chessex
Book SynopsisDespite an impressive body of poems, novels, short stories, and literary criticism; high praise for his writing by French and Swiss critics; and a collection of honours that includes the prestigious Prix Goncourt, awarded for his novel L’Ogre in 1973, Jacques Chessex is relatively unknown outside France and Switzerland. With this book, David J. Bond provides the first comprehensive study of his work in any language—a study that reveals Chessex’s deep ambivalence towards his Calvinist heritage and his efforts to resolve this dilemma through his texts.Born in 1934 in Payerne, in the region of French-speaking Switzerland known as the Vaud, Chessex grew up amid the pervasive influence of the Calvinist church. His writing, which tells of Vaud society and the hypocrisy of many of its leading members, reveals his preoccupation with a rigid morality, sin, remorse, and death. Bond shows that while Chessex uses his texts to escape this heritage and affirm alt
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University of Toronto Press Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope
Book SynopsisAs a tribute to the superb teaching and exemplary literary criticism of this eminent Yale scholar, the majority of these essays deal with thematic, textual, and prosodic issues in Old English poetry, seven of them providing a valuable reassessment of some of the perennial problems of Beowulf criticism: the implications of its metaphysical and social systems as well as its rhetorical and imagistic structures; and especially the recurrent need for a careful re-examination of the text and a return to the manuscript evidence. These contributions add significantly to the debate over the meaning of the tragic element of Beowulf and to the better understanding of the character of its hero. The poetic literature is further represented by a new evaluation of the central literary problems of the Exodus, a reinterpretation of the puzzling Wulf and Eadwacer, and philological and syntactical examinations of Maldon and the Phoenix. Other inter
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University of Toronto Press Surrealism and Quebec Literature
Book SynopsisIn 1948 the Quebec artist Paul-Emile Borduas published his famous manifesto Refus global—a plea on behalf of the powers of imagination and sensibility in society and a revolt against rationalization, mechanization, and other restraining influences, including the church. Borduas and his consigners were bitterly attacked. But the message of Refus global had far-reaching and revolutionary effects on the culture of Quebec and ultimately on its politics. André Bourassa, in this important work, underlines the role played by artists and poets during the 1940s and the relationships among various groups. But his emphasis is on the literature of Quebec, from the first novel in 1837 (also the year of Quebec’s first revolution), through the Quiet Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, to the present. In manifestos, poems, articles, and theatre pieces he examines the nature of Quebec surrealism and its international context. Surrealism to
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Handbook of AngloSaxon Studies
Book SynopsisReflecting the profound impact of critical theory on the study of the humanities, this collection of original essays examines the texts and artifacts of the Anglo-Saxon period through key theoretical terms such as ethnicity' and gender'. Explores the interplay between critical theory and Anglo-Saxon studies Theoretical framework will appeal to specialist scholars as well as those new to the field Includes an afterword on the value of the dialogue between Anglo-Saxon studies and critical theory Trade Review“The essays are written in a consistently clear and informative manner that will engage students and scholars alike. Summing Up. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (Choice, 1 September 2013)Table of ContentsList of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Jacqueline Stodnick and Rene´e R. Trilling 1 Borders 9 Elaine Treharne 2 Disability 23 Christina Lee 3 Gender 39 Stacy S. Klein 4 Hegemony 55 Robin Norris 5 Historicism 69 Scott Thompson Smith 6 Law and Justice 85 Andrew Rabin 7 Literacy 99 R. M. Liuzza 8 Masculinity 115 D. M. Hadley 9 Media 133 Martin K. Foys 10 Postcolonial 149 Catherine E. Karkov 11 Race and Ethnicity 165 Stephen Harris 12 Sex and Sexuality 181 Carol Braun Pasternack 13 Space and Place 197 Andrew Scheil 14 Time 215 Kathleen Davis 15 Violence 235 Mary Louise Fellows 16 Visual Culture 251 Benjamin C. Withers 17 Women 265 Helene Scheck and Virginia Blanton 18 Writing 281 E. J. Christie Index 295
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Uses of Phobia
Book SynopsisThe essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource and one with a history. They demonstrate that enquiry into strong feelings of aversion has enabled writers and film-makers to say and show things they could not otherwise have said or shown; and in this way to get profoundly and provocatively to grips with the modern condition. Makes extensive reference to original readings of a wide range of literary texts and films, from the 1850s to the present Places a strong emphasis on the value phobia has held, in particular, for women activists, writers, and film-makers Discusses a range of writers and film-makers from Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot through Hardy, Joyce, Ford and Woolf; from Jean Renoir through Hitchcock and Truffaut to Margarethe von Trotta and Pedro Almodóvar Intervention in key debates in cultural theory and cultural history Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1. Household Clearances in Victorian Fiction. Chapter 2. The Invention of Agoraphobia. Chapter 3. Naturalism’s Phobic Picturesque. Chapter 4. Feminist Phobia. Chapter 5. Modernist Toilette. Chapter 6. British First World War Combat Fiction. Chapter 7. Ford against Joyce and Lewis. Chapter 8. Hitchcock’s Modernism. Chapter 9. Phoning It In. Chapter 10. Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher. Index.
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University of Texas Press The Limits of Identity
Book SynopsisThe Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that informs seemingly disparate theoretical projects.The Limits of Identity offers a critical reexamination of widely held conceptions of culture, ideology, interpretation, and history. The repudiation of universalism, Hatfield argues, creates a set of problems that are both theoretical and political. Even though the recognition of identity and difference is normally thought to be a form of resistance, The Limits of Identity claims that, in fact, the opposite is true.Trade Review"The Limits of Identity . . . masterfully draws from the foundational authors of modern Latin American thought to re-think Latino-Americanism and to suggest a radical departure from the ‘constraints’ of identity politics." * Cincinnati Romance Review *"[W]ith this project, Hatfield situates himself among some of the most exciting Latin Americanists in the U.S." * Latin American Literary Review *"[A]n ambitious and systematic effort to dismantle some of the predominant variations of identitarianism that feed the discursive apparatus of Latinamericanism." * Berfrois *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Culture Chapter 2: Beliefs Chapter 3: Meaning Chapter 4: Memory Coda: A New Latin Americanism? Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Cosmopolitan Minds
Book SynopsisDuring World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers—Kay Boyle, Pearl S. Buck, William Gardner Smith, Richard Wright, and Paul Bowles—who found themselves prompted to seek experiences outside of their home country, experiences that profoundly changed their self-understanding and creative imagination as they encountered alternative points of views and cultural practices in Europe, Asia, and Africa.Alexa Weik von Mossner offers a new perspective on the affective underpinnings of critical and reflexive cosmopolitanism by drawing on theories of emotion and literary imagination from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and cognitive literary studies. She analyzes how physical dislocation, and the sometimes violent shifts in understanding that result from our affective encounters wTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Literature, Emotion, and the Cosmopolitan Imagination 1. Empathetic Cosmopolitanism: Kay Boyle and the Precariousness of Human Rights 2. Sentimental Cosmopolitanism: The Transcultural Feelings of Pearl S. Buck 3. Cosmopolitan Sensitivities: Bystander Guilt and Interracial Solidarity in the Work of William Gardner Smith 4. Cosmopolitan Contradictions: Fear, Anger, and the Transgressive Heroes of Richard Wright 5. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Disgust and Intercultural Horror in the Fiction of Paul Bowles Conclusion: (Eco-)Cosmopolitan Feelings? Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Classics from Papyrus to the Internet
Book SynopsisThis major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission and the issue of reception, as well as the key reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.Trade ReviewHunt, Smith, and Stok have produced a valuable and useful book…Especially as Classics continues to be a source of interest and even contention in the public eye, the history of the field should remain of vital interest to students…The present volume offers a rich and engaging starting point. * New England Classical Journal *Table of Contents Preface Foreword by Craig Kallendorf Chapter 1. Writing and Literature in Antiquity Chapter 2. Grammar, Scholarship, and Scribal Practice from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Chapter 3. Classical Reception from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Chapter 4. Classics and Humanists Chapter 5. Classical Texts in the Age of Printing Chapter 6. Tools for the Modern Scholar Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Classics from Papyrus to the Internet
Book SynopsisThis major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission and the issue of reception, as well as the key reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.Trade ReviewHunt, Smith, and Stok have produced a valuable and useful book…Especially as Classics continues to be a source of interest and even contention in the public eye, the history of the field should remain of vital interest to students…The present volume offers a rich and engaging starting point. * New England Classical Journal *Table of Contents Preface Foreword by Craig Kallendorf Chapter 1. Writing and Literature in Antiquity Chapter 2. Grammar, Scholarship, and Scribal Practice from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Chapter 3. Classical Reception from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Chapter 4. Classics and Humanists Chapter 5. Classical Texts in the Age of Printing Chapter 6. Tools for the Modern Scholar Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
Duke University Press Essential Essays Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe first volume of the landmark two-volume collection of Stuart Hall's most important and influential essays, Foundations of Cultural Studies focuses on the first half of Hall's career, when he wrestled with questions of culture, class, representation, and politics.Trade Review"Anyone whose work is informed, 'in the last instance,' by Cultural Studies will find much that is helpfully familiar in it as well as new connections, new applications, new ways of '[penetrating] the disorderly surface of things to another level of understanding,' as Hall says, invoking Marx, in the epilogue. This seems especially urgent as the ascendancy of the far Right coincides with the wholesale neoliberalization of the humanities, as Hall predicted in his 'Theoretical Legacies' lecture. It is obviously not a question of 'going back' to Hall for a truer or more 'authentic' form of Cultural Studies than that in practice today. But there is much in his legacy that illuminates the dynamics of the present, and much to put into dialogue with contemporary scholarship and practice. Morley's collection reminds us how important it is for genuine intellectual work to articulate competing and contradictory paradigms together, to work, as Hall did, from the points of contestation and conflict rather than seek solace in abstractions. This, finally, is the 'essential' in the essays assembled here." -- Liane Tanguay * American Book Review *“Along with the other volumes that Duke University Press has published, these two books of collected essays are to be welcomed. They allow us to see a fertile mind in action, engaged in and with the real world. It is a model well worth emulating.” -- Michael W. Apple * Educational Policy *“As one of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, [Hall] has made an enormous contribution to cultural and political thought, and his work has had a lasting impact in both social sciences and the humanities…. This collection is a treasure trove of Hall’s intellectual and political offerings; I recommend it highly.” -- Avtar Brah * New West Indian Guide *"I have also narrated the effort it took for me to access his work to illustrate the importance of the Selected Writings now being released by Duke University Press. It is an event of profound historical significance that a new generation will be able to begin its political and theoretical education with systematic access to Hall’s writing. . . . The two-volume Essential Essays shows the broad scope of his work." -- Asad Haider * The Point *"It was one of Hall’s unique gifts to offer analysis of the moment as it unfolded before our eyes. I am sure I am not alone in having found his talks exhilarating in ways I could never quite understand, given that the news he relayed with such energy was almost unremittingly dire. Hall offered his readings as interpretation and self-commentary, tracing his own intellectual path." -- Jacqueline Hall * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsA Note on the Text vii Acknowledgments ix General Introduction: A Life in Essays 1 Part I. Cultural Studies: Culture, Class, and Theory Introduction 27 1. Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, and the Cultural Turn [2007] 35 2. Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms [1980] 47 3. Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies [1992] 71 Part II. Theoretical and Methodological Principles: Class, Race and Articulation 4. The Hinterland of Science: Ideology and the Sociology of Knowledge [1977] 111 5. Rethinking the "Base and Superstructure" Metaphor [1977] 143 6. Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance [1980] 172 7. On Postmodernism and Articulation: An Interview with Stuart Hall by Larry Grossberg and Others [1986] 222 Part III. Media, Communications, Ideology, and Representation 8. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse [originally 1973; republished 2007] 257 9. External Influences on Broadcasting: The External/Internal Dialectic in Broadcasting—Television's Double-Blind [1972] 277 10. Culture, the Media, and the "Ideological Effect" [1977] 298 Part IV. Political Formations: Power as Process 11. Notes on Deconstructing "the Popular" [1981] 347 12. Policing the Crisis: Preface to the 35th Anniversary Edition [2013] (with Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts) 362 13. The Great Moving Right Show [1979] 374 Index 393 Place of First Publication 411
£84.15
Duke University Press The Difference Aesthetics Makes
Book SynopsisIn The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls “illiberal humanism” instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing that the liberal humanities contribute to the reproduction of the subjugation that accompanies liberalism''s definition of the human, Chuh argues that instead of defending the humanities, as has been widely called for in recent years, we should radically remake them. Chuh proposes that the work of artists and writers like Lan Samantha Chang, Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Allan deSouza, Monique Truong, and othersbringsto bear ways of being and knowing that delegitimize liberal humanism in favor of more robust, capacious, and worldly senses of the human and the humanities. Chuh presents the aesthetics of illiberal humanism as vital to the creationTrade Review“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large.” -- Kiron Ward * Journal of American Studies *“In The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?” -- Michele Speitz * Journal Of British Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Introduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes 1 1. Knowledge under Cover 26 2. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism 51 3. Making Sense Otherwise 74 4. Mis/Taken Universals 89 Conclusion. On the Humanities "After Man" 122 Postscript 126 Notes 131 Bibliography 159 Index 175
£18.99
Duke University Press Sound Objects
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this ambitious and wide-ranging collection explore sound as an object, sound studies as a discipline, and the limits of sonic objectivity.Trade Review"The carefully curated sequence of essays and chapters makes a significant contribution to the field of sound studies." -- Aurelio Cianciotta * Neural *"Like the field of sound studies, the essays collected here are disciplinarily difficult to define or contain.… The text may well contribute to the creation of an audience through the challenges it presents. This volume moves the discussion of sound forward by recognizing its aesthetic and ideological richness as well as its ontological instability. As a whole, Sound Objects demonstrates the potential for engagement with sound to reverberate more deeply across artistic, aesthetic, and scholarly landscapes, as well as the promise of richness that comes from examining our basic assumptions." -- Maribeth Clark * Notes *"Sound Objects provides readers with a deepened exploration of the sonic field while maintaining cross-disciplinary conversations to help sound studies further congeal as an integrated field. . . . The collection will also resonate with a wide readership through the range of represented experiences of sound with which readers will identify." -- Kate Galloway * MUSICultures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow 1 I. Genealogies 1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion 23 2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack 33 3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane 53 II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification 4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager 73 5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne 94 III. Acousmatic Complications 6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow 113 7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan 130 IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations 8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann 151 9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 167 10. On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation / Georgina Born 185 V. Memory Traces 11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt 211 12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull 228 13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop 246 Bibliography 265 Contributors 281 Index 285
£98.60
Duke University Press Autonomy
Book SynopsisNicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the realm of the commodity by showing how an artist's commitment to form and by demanding interpretive attention elude the logic of capital.Trade Review"In Autonomy, Brown revitalizes a modernist commitment to form and offers a compelling vision of the work of art in the age of its commodification." -- Adam Theron-Lee Rensch * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Brown's argument feels, in the end, surprisingly liberating.… No doubt, there are questions prompted by the book that we still might want to have answered.… But these queries are obviously presented less as a critique of Autonomy than a plea to scholars to take up related questions in future volumes. Autonomy inspires such questions because this is a book that unabashedly and provocatively makes demands of us, in the way the very best scholarship, like the very best manifestos and all art, does too." -- Lisa Siraganian * Modernism/modernity *"A thorough and valuable commentary on the contemporary position of art within capitalism. Autonomy is essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in contemporary art in relation to the market, and for those interested in Marxist approaches to contemporary aesthetic form." -- Oliver Haslam * New Formations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form 1 1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography 41 2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work 79 3. Citation and Affect in Music 115 4. Modernism on TV 152 Epilogue. Taking Sides 178 Notes 183 Bibliography 207 Index 215
£103.70
Duke University Press Sexuality Disability and Aging
Book SynopsisDrawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one''s sense of self. She challenges common conceptions that equate the decline of bodily potential and ability with a permanent and irretrievable loss, arguing that such a loss can be both temporary and positively transformative. With Sexuality, Disability, and Aging, Gallop explores and celebrates how sexuality transforms and becomes more queer in the lives of the no longer young and the no longer able while at the same time demonstrating how disability can generate new forms of sexual fantasy and erotic possibility.Trade Review"For Gallop, theory offers solace in the face of life’s difficulties, and the book is often quietly moving. . . . Her use of theory isn’t about blowing up previous thought; it’s about finding consolation, which literature or philosophy is often said to provide." -- Jeffrey J. Williams * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Overall, Sexuality, Disability, and Aging presents an insightful yet accessible analysis that combines wide-ranging theoretical work with rich interpretive material to carefully reveal the phallic temporalities that underpin contemporary stereotypes of aging and late-onset disability as sexual decline. The book’s cross-cutting relevance means that it will find productive readership across a wide range of scholars interested in queer, crip, gerontological, literary, feminist, or psychoanalytic theory.” -- Kazuki Yamada * Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities *"An inventive and captivating piece of scholarship. Bolstered by its original findings and the intricate theoretical maneuvers that Gallop makes throughout this text, the book is poised to be a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of queer theory, critical gerontology, and disability studies." -- Kyle Christensen * Women's Studies in Communication *"Sexuality, Disability and Aging is a vital read for those interested in disability and sexuality as it contributes to indispensable discussions whilst simultaneously offering an alternative framework with which to aid progression within the field. . . . Gallop has compiled an accomplished text which is forward-thinking, unorthodox and paves the way for further discourse within the realms of disability, and for this, she must be commended." -- Bev Pollitt * Disability & Society *“Gallop’s willingness to reflect critically on her own experiences and reactions . . . reinvigorates feminist psychoanalytic theory, but also productively bridges the silences around aging and late-onset disability endemic to both disability studies and queer theory.” -- Sarah Rainey-Smithback * Hypatia *"Gallop makes an important intervention in the study of late life sexuality by connecting it to radical, queer, and alternative temporalities. . . . It is my hope, and dare I assume Gallop’s hope as well, that this work serves as one of the foundational texts for an expanding collection of work that examines sexuality, disability, and aging through the lenses of crip, queer, aging, and feminist theory." -- Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons * Poetics Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1x Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings 1 Crip Theory 1 Aging and Queer Temporality 5 Aging and the Phallus 13 The Queer Phallus 20 Anecdotal Theory 25 1. High Heels and Wheelchairs 31 The Story 31 The Ending 36 City Sidewalks 40 Feminism and High Heels 46 Gender and Disability 52 The Phallus in the Wheelchair 58 The Ending (Reprise) 64 2. Post-prostate Sex 67 The Story 67 Strange Temporalities 74 Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative 81 Resisting the Coital Imperative 92 Longitudinal Sexuality 95 Conclusion 103 The Phallus and Its Temporalities 103 Longitudinal Identities 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 127 Index 133
£67.15
Duke University Press Essential Essays Volume 2
Book SynopsisFrom his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume set—brings together Stuart Hall''s most influential and foundational works. Spanning the whole of his career, these volumes reflect the breadth and depth of his intellectual and political projects while demonstrating their continued vitality and importance.Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora draws from Hall''s later essays, in which he investigated questions of colonialism, empire, and race. It opens with “Gramsci''s Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” which frames the volume and finds Hall rethinking received notions of racial essentialism. In addition to essays on multiculturalism and globalization, black popular cTrade Review"Anyone whose work is informed, 'in the last instance,' by Cultural Studies will find much that is helpfully familiar in it as well as new connections, new applications, new ways of '[penetrating] the disorderly surface of things to another level of understanding,' as Hall says, invoking Marx, in the epilogue. This seems especially urgent as the ascendancy of the far Right coincides with the wholesale neoliberalization of the humanities, as Hall predicted in his 'Theoretical Legacies' lecture. It is obviously not a question of 'going back' to Hall for a truer or more 'authentic' form of Cultural Studies than that in practice today. But there is much in his legacy that illuminates the dynamics of the present, and much to put into dialogue with contemporary scholarship and practice. Morley's collection reminds us how important it is for genuine intellectual work to articulate competing and contradictory paradigms together, to work, as Hall did, from the points of contestation and conflict rather than seek solace in abstractions. This, finally, is the 'essential' in the essays assembled here." -- Liane Tanguay * American Book Review *“Along with the other volumes that Duke University Press has published, these two books of collected essays are to be welcomed. They allow us to see a fertile mind in action, engaged in and with the real world. It is a model well worth emulating.” -- Michael W. Apple * Educational Policy *"I have also narrated the effort it took for me to access his work to illustrate the importance of the Selected Writings now being released by Duke University Press. It is an event of profound historical significance that a new generation will be able to begin its political and theoretical education with systematic access to Hall’s writing. . . . The two-volume Essential Essays shows the broad scope of his work." -- Asad Haider * The Point *"It was one of Hall’s unique gifts to offer analysis of the moment as it unfolded before our eyes. I am sure I am not alone in having found his talks exhilarating in ways I could never quite understand, given that the news he relayed with such energy was almost unremittingly dire. Hall offered his readings as interpretation and self-commentary, tracing his own intellectual path." -- Jacqueline Hall * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsA Note on the Text vii Acknowledgments ix General Introduction 1 Part I. Prologue: Class, Race, and Ethnicity 1. Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity [1986] 21 Part II. Deconstructing Identities: The Politics of Anti-Essentialism 2. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities [1991] 63 3. What Is This "Black" in Black Popular Culture? [1995] 83 4. The Multicultural Question [1998] 95 Part III. The Postcolonial and the Diasporic 5. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power [1992] 141 6. The Formation of a Diasporic Intellectual: An Interview with Kuan-Hsing Chen [1996] 185 7. Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad [1999] 206 Part IV. Interviews and Reflections 8. Politics, Contingency, Strategy: An Interview with David Scott [1997] 235 9. At Home and Not at Home: Stuart Hall in Conversation with Les Back [2008] 263 Part V. Epilogue: Caribbean and Other Perspectives 10. Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life [2007] 303 Index 325 Place of First Publication 341
£75.65
Duke University Press Sound Objects
Book SynopsisIs a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study?Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound’s elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution of the concept of the sound object, the commodification of sound, acousmatic listening, nonhuman sounds, and sound and memory, the contributors not only probe conceptual issues that lie in the forefront of contemporary sonic discussions but also underscore auditory experience as fundamental to sound as a critical enterprise. In so doing, they offer exciting considerations of sound within and beyond its role in meaning, communication, and information and an illuminatingly original theoretical overview of the field of sound studies itself. Contributors. Georgina Born, Michael Bull, Michel Chion, Rey Chow, John Dack, Veit Erlmann, Brian Kane, Jairo Moreno, John MowittTrade Review"The carefully curated sequence of essays and chapters makes a significant contribution to the field of sound studies." -- Aurelio Cianciotta * Neural *"Like the field of sound studies, the essays collected here are disciplinarily difficult to define or contain.… The text may well contribute to the creation of an audience through the challenges it presents. This volume moves the discussion of sound forward by recognizing its aesthetic and ideological richness as well as its ontological instability. As a whole, Sound Objects demonstrates the potential for engagement with sound to reverberate more deeply across artistic, aesthetic, and scholarly landscapes, as well as the promise of richness that comes from examining our basic assumptions." -- Maribeth Clark * Notes *"Sound Objects provides readers with a deepened exploration of the sonic field while maintaining cross-disciplinary conversations to help sound studies further congeal as an integrated field. . . . The collection will also resonate with a wide readership through the range of represented experiences of sound with which readers will identify." -- Kate Galloway * MUSICultures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow 1 I. Genealogies 1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion 23 2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack 33 3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane 53 II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification 4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager 73 5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne 94 III. Acousmatic Complications 6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow 113 7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan 130 IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations 8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann 151 9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 167 10. On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation / Georgina Born 185 V. Memory Traces 11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt 211 12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull 228 13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop 246 Bibliography 265 Contributors 281 Index 285
£25.19
Duke University Press Marxism Colonialism and Cricket
Book SynopsisMore than fifty years after the publication of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the contributors to Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket investigate its production and reception and its implication for debates about sports, gender, aesthetics, race, popular culture, politics, imperialism, and Caribbean and English identity.Trade Review"Impressively, the authors are respectful of James’ pivotal contribution to the Marxist analysis of sport but also explore aspects of his thought that fall short of a fully comprehensive materialist approach." -- Sean Ledwith * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket will likely be most appealing to specialists in British Caribbean cultural studies, and will also contribute to scholarly explorations of sport. Recommended. Researchers, faculty, and professionals." -- B. A. Lucero * Choice *"A fine and comprehensive attempt to reflect on the work of James . . . Represents the fluency of much of James’s writing and oratory as a charismatic speaker and public intellectual who sought to place himself at the forefront of public discussion. . . . Many will glean much pleasure and stimulation from a study of this text." -- Russell Holden * Nordic Sports Forum *"The most outstanding sports book of 2019, to date. . . . What the editors David Featherstone, Chistopher Gair, Christian Høgsberg and Andrew Smith have achieved is truly special mixing James’ personal and political lifestory, the context of cricket in the West Indies, the past, present and future of cricket writing. Superb, just the read whilst that old imperial encounter, The Ashes, seeks to nudge the Premier League’s off season from the back pages this sporting summer." -- Mark Perryman * Philosophy Football *“The collection takes us well beyond the boundaries of sport, of history, of politics, and of the auto/biographical self. . . . The collection is a vital contribution to and extension of our studies of, readings of, and deployment of [C.L.R.] James in sport and beyond. It is essential in grasping the limits and potentials of what remains a key text in the historical, cultural, and sociological analyses of sport.” -- Malcolm MacLean * Journal of Sport History *“Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket is a major literary and intellectual accomplishment. It is a must read, and a timely reminder that the problem of the twentieth century has returned with a vengeance as the problem of the twenty-first century.” -- Leslie R. James * CLR James Journal *“I enjoyed this book immensely. I have indulged in reading it cover to cover; revisiting certain chapters and ideas, seeking clarity as my mind became cloudy. … Putting Beyond a Boundary at the core, this book epitomises the interdisciplinary application of James to fields as diverse as sport, sociology, cultural studies, history, literature and the arts.” -- Thomas Fletcher * Cultural Sociology *"This fine collection of essays and reflections makes a significant contribution to the existing literature on Beyond a Boundary and C.L.R. James more generally." -- Neil Lazarus * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsForeword. Opening Up / David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg, and Andrew Smith vii Introduction. Beyond a Boundary at Fifty / David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg, and Andrew Smith 1 Part I: Cricket, Empire, and the Caribbean 1. C. L. R. James: Plumbing His Caribbean Roots / Selwyn R. Cudjoe 35 2. C. L. R. James's "British Civilization"? Exploring the "Dark Unfathomed Caves" of Beyond a Boundary / Christian Høgsbjerg 51 3. The Boundaries of Publication: The Making of Beyond a Boundary / Roy McCree 72 4. "West Indian Through and Through, and Very British": C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary, Coloniality, and Theorizing Caribbean Independence / Minkah Makalani 88 5. Looking Beyond the Boundary, or Bondmen without the Bat: Modernism and Culture in the Worldview of C. L. R. James / David Austin 103 Part II. The Politics of Representation in Beyond a Boundary 6. "Periodically I Pondered over It": Reading he Absence/Presence of Women in Beyond a Boundary / Anima Adjepong 123 7. C. L. R. James, W. G. Grace, and the Representative Claim / Neil Washbourne 137 8. Shannonism: Learie Constantine and the Origins of C. L. R. James's Worrell Captaincy Campaign of 1959–60: A Preliminary Assessment / Clem Seecharan 153 Part III: Art, History, and Culture in C. L. R. James 9. C. L. R. James and the Arts of Beyond a Boundary: Literary Lessons, Cricketing Aesthetics, and World-Historical Heroes / Claire Westall 173 10. The Very Stuff of Human Life: C. L. R. James on Cricket, History, and Human Nature / Andrew Smith 191 11. C. L. R. James: Beyond the Boundaries of Culture / Paget Henry 204 Part IV: Reflections 12. Socrates and C. L. R. James / Michael Brearley 223 13. My Journey to James: Cricket, Caribbean Identity, and Cricket Writing / Hilary McD. Beckles 240 14. Confronting Imperial Boundaries / Selma James 254 Appendix. What Do They Know of England? / C. L. R. James 263 References 276 Contributors 283 Index 287
£25.19
Duke University Press Sexuality Disability and Aging
Book SynopsisJane Gallop explores how disability and aging are commonly understood to undermine one's sense of self and challenges narratives that register the decline of bodily potential and ability as nothing but an experience of loss.Trade Review"For Gallop, theory offers solace in the face of life’s difficulties, and the book is often quietly moving. . . . Her use of theory isn’t about blowing up previous thought; it’s about finding consolation, which literature or philosophy is often said to provide." -- Jeffrey J. Williams * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Overall, Sexuality, Disability, and Aging presents an insightful yet accessible analysis that combines wide-ranging theoretical work with rich interpretive material to carefully reveal the phallic temporalities that underpin contemporary stereotypes of aging and late-onset disability as sexual decline. The book’s cross-cutting relevance means that it will find productive readership across a wide range of scholars interested in queer, crip, gerontological, literary, feminist, or psychoanalytic theory.” -- Kazuki Yamada * Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities *"An inventive and captivating piece of scholarship. Bolstered by its original findings and the intricate theoretical maneuvers that Gallop makes throughout this text, the book is poised to be a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of queer theory, critical gerontology, and disability studies." -- Kyle Christensen * Women's Studies in Communication *"Sexuality, Disability and Aging is a vital read for those interested in disability and sexuality as it contributes to indispensable discussions whilst simultaneously offering an alternative framework with which to aid progression within the field. . . . Gallop has compiled an accomplished text which is forward-thinking, unorthodox and paves the way for further discourse within the realms of disability, and for this, she must be commended." -- Bev Pollitt * Disability & Society *“Gallop’s willingness to reflect critically on her own experiences and reactions . . . reinvigorates feminist psychoanalytic theory, but also productively bridges the silences around aging and late-onset disability endemic to both disability studies and queer theory.” -- Sarah Rainey-Smithback * Hypatia *"Gallop makes an important intervention in the study of late life sexuality by connecting it to radical, queer, and alternative temporalities. . . . It is my hope, and dare I assume Gallop’s hope as well, that this work serves as one of the foundational texts for an expanding collection of work that examines sexuality, disability, and aging through the lenses of crip, queer, aging, and feminist theory." -- Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons * Poetics Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1x Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings 1 Crip Theory 1 Aging and Queer Temporality 5 Aging and the Phallus 13 The Queer Phallus 20 Anecdotal Theory 25 1. High Heels and Wheelchairs 31 The Story 31 The Ending 36 City Sidewalks 40 Feminism and High Heels 46 Gender and Disability 52 The Phallus in the Wheelchair 58 The Ending (Reprise) 64 2. Post-prostate Sex 67 The Story 67 Strange Temporalities 74 Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative 81 Resisting the Coital Imperative 92 Longitudinal Sexuality 95 Conclusion 103 The Phallus and Its Temporalities 103 Longitudinal Identities 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 127 Index 133
£17.99
Duke University Press The Hundreds
Book SynopsisThe Hundredscomposed of pieces one hundred or multiples of one hundred words longis Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart's collaborative experimental writing project in which they strive toward sensing and capturing the resonances that operate at the ordinary level of everyday experience.Trade Review"In Berlant and Stewart’s hands, affect theory provides a way of understanding the sensations and resignations of the present, the normalized exhaustion that comes with life in the new economy. It is a way of framing uniquely modern questions." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"The seemingly arbitrary parameters Berlant and Stewart put in place act out an illuminating thought experiment for the reader. . . . A haunting and thought-provoking read that asks readers to slow down and take stock of what is in front of them." -- Julia Shiota * Ploughshares *"A roving adventure in critical prose. . . . Berlant and Stewart eschew a literary focal point for a broadly questioning spirit. . . . The point is not to 'track thing into their secret lairs,' or to place them in the 'so-called big picture,' rather, it is to look again, and encourage the reader look again too." -- Michael Caines * TLS *"The Hundreds is playful and loose, it roams and discovers, only to drift elsewhere, but it works: it grounds theory, makes it real." -- Casey Dawson and Christopher Schaberg * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The Hundreds focalizes an intrinsic desire to explore the world’s simplicities as the foundation for the potentiality of the extraordinary. Berlant and Stewart show that, indeed, ordinary life is ordinary and transformative, containing so many possibilities for thinking about who we are in the world, really." -- Matt Morgenstern * Cleveland Review of Books *"The Hundreds, by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant and anthropologist Kathleen Stewart, is at once a bold thought experiment and a radical exploration of reflexive ethnographic writing. . . . The Hundreds is a must read for scholars interested in affect as another register of human experience that exists alongside the psychological and phenomenological." -- Asha L. Abeyasekera * Feminism & Psychology *"As compositions, the hundreds illuminate and obscure, defamiliarize and refamiliarize, reflect and refract (tip of the cap to Volosinov 1973) both their authors and the cultural artifacts that appear in them, and offer a way of archiving cultural moments in ways that acknowledge, even foreground, their affective power." -- Seth Kahn * Anthropological Quarterly *"A speculative and seductive book. . . . The Hundreds asks us to pay attention to the capacious and crucial smallness of our everyday, to slow down and dial in to the richness and frustrations of ordinary encounters as a grounding and creative political practice." -- Elisabeth R. Anker * Theory & Event *
£70.55
Duke University Press The Novel and Neoliberalism
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£11.39
Duke University Press Experiments with Empire
Book SynopsisIn Experiments with Empire Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, and ethnographies that combine fictive elements and anthropological methods and modes of thought, Izzo shows how empire gives ethnographic fictions the raw materials for thinking beyond empire's political and epistemological boundaries. In works by French surrealist writer Michel Leiris and filmmaker Jean Rouch, Malian writer Amadou Hampate Ba, Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau, and others, anthropology no longer functions on behalf of imperialism as a way to understand and administer colonized peoples; its relationship with imperialism gives writers and artists the opportunity for textual experimentation and political provocation. It also, Izzo contends, helps readers to better make sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.Trade Review"Experiments with Empire deserves an audience beyond the academic. Izzo makes some perceptive points about how seeing the connections between ethnography and fiction can help us reimagine the world." -- Emilie de Brigard * The Arts Fuse *“The book’s scope is bold and impressive…. Izzo’s study is an important contribution to research on the French Atlantic and on speculative forms in general, and it offers a fresh look at the crossings between ethnography and fiction that go beyond questions of truth and veracity, mimicry and resistance.” -- Christina Kullberg * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Ethnographic Fictions in the French Atlantic 1 1. Ethnographic Didacticism and Africanist Melancholy: Leiris, Hampăté Bă, and the Epistemology of Style 17 2. The Director of Modern Life: Jean Rouch's Ethnofiction 55 3. Folkore, Fiction, and Ethnographic Nation Building: Price-Mars, Alexis, Depestre, Laferrière 98 4. Creole Novels and the Ethnographic Production of Literary History: Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant 134 5. Speculative Cityscapes and Premillennial Policing: Ethnographies of the Present in Jean-Claude Izzo's Crime Trilogy 169 Conclusion: Empire, Democracy, and Nonsovereign Knowledges 203 Notes 217 Bibliography 257 Index 273
£98.60
Duke University Press Experiments with Empire
Book SynopsisIn Experiments with Empire Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, and ethnographies that combine fictive elements and anthropological methods and modes of thought, Izzo shows how empire gives ethnographic fictions the raw materials for thinking beyond empire's political and epistemological boundaries. In works by French surrealist writer Michel Leiris and filmmaker Jean Rouch, Malian writer Amadou Hampate Ba, Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau, and others, anthropology no longer functions on behalf of imperialism as a way to understand and administer colonized peoples; its relationship with imperialism gives writers and artists the opportunity for textual experimentation and political provocation. It also, Izzo contends, helps readers to better make sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.Trade Review"Experiments with Empire deserves an audience beyond the academic. Izzo makes some perceptive points about how seeing the connections between ethnography and fiction can help us reimagine the world." -- Emilie de Brigard * The Arts Fuse *“The book’s scope is bold and impressive…. Izzo’s study is an important contribution to research on the French Atlantic and on speculative forms in general, and it offers a fresh look at the crossings between ethnography and fiction that go beyond questions of truth and veracity, mimicry and resistance.” -- Christina Kullberg * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Ethnographic Fictions in the French Atlantic 1 1. Ethnographic Didacticism and Africanist Melancholy: Leiris, Hampăté Bă, and the Epistemology of Style 17 2. The Director of Modern Life: Jean Rouch's Ethnofiction 55 3. Folkore, Fiction, and Ethnographic Nation Building: Price-Mars, Alexis, Depestre, Laferrière 98 4. Creole Novels and the Ethnographic Production of Literary History: Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant 134 5. Speculative Cityscapes and Premillennial Policing: Ethnographies of the Present in Jean-Claude Izzo's Crime Trilogy 169 Conclusion: Empire, Democracy, and Nonsovereign Knowledges 203 Notes 217 Bibliography 257 Index 273
£25.19
Duke University Press Allegories of the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisElizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature by using allegorical narratives.Trade Review"DeLoughrey brings her considerable background in environmental humanities and postcolonial literature studies to bear in this volume. . . . This book is not to be missed by those interested in keeping up with recent conversations, across the environmental humanities, around issues of the Anthropocene." -- L. C. Bayne * Choice *“Allegoriesof the Anthropocene brings human histories of dispossession, toxicity, and creative survival to the fore where they might get lost in the geologic fixation on sediment. . . . It is powerful that this rich and careful book should end with a turn to the reader, showing how allegory at its most potent is about the entanglement, not leap, between part/whole or island/planet.” -- Isabel Lockhart * Journal of British Studies *“DeLoughrey’s new book is to be strongly recommended for its highly original tack: focusing upon the rising importance of allegory as a way of making sense of times of rupture and catastrophic environmental change.” -- Jonathan Pugh * Island Studies Journal *“Whenever Elizabeth DeLoughrey makes a critical intervention within a specific theoretical or literary field, established certainties, or matters of general consensus, seem suddenly in need of recalibration…. Allegories of the Anthropocene does something similar to the overburdened discourse surrounding the proposed geological epoch…. Like an exciting crossword puzzle, the book is delightfully difficult as it deconstructs the complexities and inconsistencies of the Anthropocene discourse.” -- Malcolm Sen * New West Indian Guide *“This is a meticulously researched, compellingly argued and richly suggestive book that builds on various strands in DeLoughrey’s previous research to produce an important and timely intervention into ecocritical, indigenous and literary / visual studies. DeLoughrey has an enviable ability to summarize and synthesize enormous bodies of scholarship across multiple disciplines, and to bring them into productive relation, also deploying highly nuanced close reading skills in relating (social) scientific discourses to specific literary, artistic and filmic ‘texts.’” -- Michelle Keown * Literary Research *“[DeLoughrey] shows how thinking beyond the Anthropocene . . . is now required. Then, evoking striking examples from poetry, literature, art, and philosophy, she demonstrates that allegory has been pervasive in modern times and that it remains pointedly relevant to creativity in our contemporary situation.” -- Terry Smith * Art Bulletin *“Allegories of the Anthropocene is a resounding success, one that promises to reframe and reshape the environmental humanities for decades to come.” -- Jonathan Elmore * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Allegories of the Anthropocene 1 1. Gendering Earth: Excavating Plantation Soil 33 2. Planetarity: Militarized Radiations 63 3. Accelerations: Globalization and States of Waste 98 4. Oceanic Futures: Interspecies Worldings 133 5. An Island Is a World 165 Notes 197 Index 257
£72.25
Duke University Press Animate Literacies
Book SynopsisNathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy operates at the interface of humans, nonhuman animals, and objects and has been used as a means to define the human in ways that marginalize others.Trade Review“Challenging us to discover, create, and practice modes of literacy that depart from the conventional paths that have disciplined us, Nathan Snaza puts forth significant and bracing provocations about the relationship between reading and the production of Man. In his brilliant formulation, literacy is no longer exclusively human—it happens within a thick web of animating entities that affect and bewilder. An outstanding work.” -- Stacy Alaimo, author of * Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times *“Offering stimulating readings of familiar literary texts, Nathan Snaza recasts literacy within a field of material objects and conditions by weaving new materialism together with postcolonial and posthumanist thought into meditations on literacies within and beyond the human.” -- Carla Freccero, author of * Queer/Early/Modern *"Dovetailing feminist and queer new materialism, posthumanism, affect theory, ecocriticism, and a touch of Marx and Foucault, Animate Literacies demands a lot of its reader, though it almost always, rewards strenuous attention with its rich and energizing combination of love and critique." -- Margaret Mendenhall * Ethnic and Third World Literatures *“This book is delightfully peripatetic, crisscrossing critical fields and literary texts with acuity and grace. Pulled into these movements, we become 'reading things' that cannot but feel the very bewilderment so key to building alternate futures.” -- Erica Fretwell * Studies in the Novel *"Snaza’s book provides a rich ensemble of literary accounts that illustrate his expanded notion of literacy. . . . Animate Literacies is a demonstration of both the vitality and the crisis of the humanities, sitting at a point where different roads cross, as it simultaneously takes on a speculative and a critical approach to the concept of literacy." -- Ana Marques * Expanded Literacies *"[Animate Literacies] can help us to imagine our way out of the colonial structures that order academic libraries and librarianship." -- Melissa Adler * College and Research Libraries *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. The Human(ities) In Crisis 1 2. Beloved's Dispersed Pedagogy 11 3. Haunting, Love, and Attention 19 4. Humanizing Assemblages I: What Is Man? 28 5. Slavery, the Human, and Dehumanization 38 6. Literacy, Slavery, and the Education of Desire 48 7. What Is Literacy? 55 8. Humanizing Assemblages II: Discipline and Control 66 9. Bewilderment 77 10. Toward a Literary Ethology 86 11. What Happens When I Read? 99 12. The Smell of Literature 115 13. Pleasures of the Text 124 14. Those Changeful Sites 134 15. Literacies against the State 145 16. Futures of Anima-Literature 153 Notes 165 References 193 Index 209
£90.10
Duke University Press Fictions of Land and Flesh
Book SynopsisMark Rifkin turns to black and indigenous speculative fiction to show how it offers a site to better understand black and indigenous political movements' differing orientations in ways that can foster forms of mutual engagement and cooperation without subsuming them into a single political framework in the name of solidarity.Trade Review“Fictions of Land and Flesh considers the points at which Black and Indigenous studies might relate across histories and struggles. It does so with an eye toward the necessity of that engagement and the danger of conflating the urgencies that constitute those histories and struggles. With characteristic brilliance and creativity, Mark Rifkin turns to Black and Indigenous futurist work as a way to produce that difficult but necessary dialogue.” -- Roderick A. Ferguson, author of * One-Dimensional Queer *“Anchored in the contemporary movements of #NoDAPL and Black Lives Matter, Fictions of Land and Flesh is a welcome and expert guide to thinking through the resonances and impasses that attend Black and Indigenous articulations of justice. Essential reading in American studies.” -- Beth H. Piatote, author of * Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. On the Impasse 15 2. Fungible Becoming 73 3. Carceral Space and Fugitive Motion 117 4. The Maroon Matrix 168 Coda: Diplomacy in the Undercommons 220 Notes 233 Bibliography 287 Index 313
£98.60
Duke University Press Allegories of the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisElizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature by using allegorical narratives.Trade Review"DeLoughrey brings her considerable background in environmental humanities and postcolonial literature studies to bear in this volume. . . . This book is not to be missed by those interested in keeping up with recent conversations, across the environmental humanities, around issues of the Anthropocene." -- L. C. Bayne * Choice *“Allegoriesof the Anthropocene brings human histories of dispossession, toxicity, and creative survival to the fore where they might get lost in the geologic fixation on sediment. . . . It is powerful that this rich and careful book should end with a turn to the reader, showing how allegory at its most potent is about the entanglement, not leap, between part/whole or island/planet.” -- Isabel Lockhart * Journal of British Studies *“DeLoughrey’s new book is to be strongly recommended for its highly original tack: focusing upon the rising importance of allegory as a way of making sense of times of rupture and catastrophic environmental change.” -- Jonathan Pugh * Island Studies Journal *“Whenever Elizabeth DeLoughrey makes a critical intervention within a specific theoretical or literary field, established certainties, or matters of general consensus, seem suddenly in need of recalibration…. Allegories of the Anthropocene does something similar to the overburdened discourse surrounding the proposed geological epoch…. Like an exciting crossword puzzle, the book is delightfully difficult as it deconstructs the complexities and inconsistencies of the Anthropocene discourse.” -- Malcolm Sen * New West Indian Guide *“This is a meticulously researched, compellingly argued and richly suggestive book that builds on various strands in DeLoughrey’s previous research to produce an important and timely intervention into ecocritical, indigenous and literary / visual studies. DeLoughrey has an enviable ability to summarize and synthesize enormous bodies of scholarship across multiple disciplines, and to bring them into productive relation, also deploying highly nuanced close reading skills in relating (social) scientific discourses to specific literary, artistic and filmic ‘texts.’” -- Michelle Keown * Literary Research *“[DeLoughrey] shows how thinking beyond the Anthropocene . . . is now required. Then, evoking striking examples from poetry, literature, art, and philosophy, she demonstrates that allegory has been pervasive in modern times and that it remains pointedly relevant to creativity in our contemporary situation.” -- Terry Smith * Art Bulletin *“Allegories of the Anthropocene is a resounding success, one that promises to reframe and reshape the environmental humanities for decades to come.” -- Jonathan Elmore * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Allegories of the Anthropocene 1 1. Gendering Earth: Excavating Plantation Soil 33 2. Planetarity: Militarized Radiations 63 3. Accelerations: Globalization and States of Waste 98 4. Oceanic Futures: Interspecies Worldings 133 5. An Island Is a World 165 Notes 197 Index 257
£19.79
Duke University Press Animate Literacies
Book SynopsisIn Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the social and used as a means to define the human. Weaving new materialism with feminist, queer, and decolonial thought, Snaza theorizes literacy as a contact zone in which humans, nonhuman animals, and nonvital objects such as chairs and paper all become active participants. In readings of classic literature by Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, James Joyce, Toni Morrison, Mary Shelley, and others, Snaza emphasizes the key roles that affect and sensory experiences play in literacy. Snaza upends common conceptions of literacy and its relation to print media, showing instead how such understandings reinforce dehumanizations linked to dominant imperialist, heterosexist, and capitalist definitions of the human. The path toward disrupting such exclusionary, humanist frameworks, Snaza contends, lies in formulating alternative practices of literaTrade Review“Challenging us to discover, create, and practice modes of literacy that depart from the conventional paths that have disciplined us, Nathan Snaza puts forth significant and bracing provocations about the relationship between reading and the production of Man. In his brilliant formulation, literacy is no longer exclusively human—it happens within a thick web of animating entities that affect and bewilder. An outstanding work.” -- Stacy Alaimo, author of * Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times *“Offering stimulating readings of familiar literary texts, Nathan Snaza recasts literacy within a field of material objects and conditions by weaving new materialism together with postcolonial and posthumanist thought into meditations on literacies within and beyond the human.” -- Carla Freccero, author of * Queer/Early/Modern *"Dovetailing feminist and queer new materialism, posthumanism, affect theory, ecocriticism, and a touch of Marx and Foucault, Animate Literacies demands a lot of its reader, though it almost always, rewards strenuous attention with its rich and energizing combination of love and critique." -- Margaret Mendenhall * Ethnic and Third World Literatures *“This book is delightfully peripatetic, crisscrossing critical fields and literary texts with acuity and grace. Pulled into these movements, we become 'reading things' that cannot but feel the very bewilderment so key to building alternate futures.” -- Erica Fretwell * Studies in the Novel *"Snaza’s book provides a rich ensemble of literary accounts that illustrate his expanded notion of literacy. . . . Animate Literacies is a demonstration of both the vitality and the crisis of the humanities, sitting at a point where different roads cross, as it simultaneously takes on a speculative and a critical approach to the concept of literacy." -- Ana Marques * Expanded Literacies *"[Animate Literacies] can help us to imagine our way out of the colonial structures that order academic libraries and librarianship." -- Melissa Adler * College and Research Libraries *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. The Human(ities) In Crisis 1 2. Beloved's Dispersed Pedagogy 11 3. Haunting, Love, and Attention 19 4. Humanizing Assemblages I: What Is Man? 28 5. Slavery, the Human, and Dehumanization 38 6. Literacy, Slavery, and the Education of Desire 48 7. What Is Literacy? 55 8. Humanizing Assemblages II: Discipline and Control 66 9. Bewilderment 77 10. Toward a Literary Ethology 86 11. What Happens When I Read? 99 12. The Smell of Literature 115 13. Pleasures of the Text 124 14. Those Changeful Sites 134 15. Literacies against the State 145 16. Futures of Anima-Literature 153 Notes 165 References 193 Index 209
£22.49
Duke University Press Fictions of Land and Flesh
Book SynopsisMark Rifkin turns to black and indigenous speculative fiction to show how it offers a site to better understand black and indigenous political movements' differing orientations in ways that can foster forms of mutual engagement and cooperation without subsuming them into a single political framework in the name of solidarity.Trade Review“Fictions of Land and Flesh considers the points at which Black and Indigenous studies might relate across histories and struggles. It does so with an eye toward the necessity of that engagement and the danger of conflating the urgencies that constitute those histories and struggles. With characteristic brilliance and creativity, Mark Rifkin turns to Black and Indigenous futurist work as a way to produce that difficult but necessary dialogue.” -- Roderick A. Ferguson, author of * One-Dimensional Queer *“Anchored in the contemporary movements of #NoDAPL and Black Lives Matter, Fictions of Land and Flesh is a welcome and expert guide to thinking through the resonances and impasses that attend Black and Indigenous articulations of justice. Essential reading in American studies.” -- Beth H. Piatote, author of * Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. On the Impasse 15 2. Fungible Becoming 73 3. Carceral Space and Fugitive Motion 117 4. The Maroon Matrix 168 Coda: Diplomacy in the Undercommons 220 Notes 233 Bibliography 287 Index 313
£25.19
Duke University Press Reading Sedgwick
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on the long and influential career of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose pioneering work in queer theory has transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity.Trade Review“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing remains indispensable, never more so than now when the light of her intelligence illuminates a darkening horizon. We need her intelligence, her queer sensibility, and her way with words. Reading Sedgwick will be welcome both for those encountering her for the first time and as a reprise for those wishing to be reminded of her work's particular charm, enlivening curiosity, and power.” -- Christina Crosby, author of * A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain *"This volume is required reading in queer studies. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- D. M. Jarrett * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant 1 Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz 6 Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick 34 1. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman 37 2. Proust at the End / Judith Butler 63 3. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards 72 4. In / Denis Flannery 92 5. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop 113 6. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg 121 7. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse 132 8. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon 141 9. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / José Esteban Muñoz 152 10. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon 166 11. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker 178 12. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg 189 13. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker 203 14. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon 236 15. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman 242 Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton 274 Acknowledgments 279 Bibliography 281 Contributors 295 Index 299
£112.20
Duke University Press Urban Horror
Book SynopsisIn Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics from Engels and Merleau-Ponty to Lefebvre and Rancière, Huang traces the emergence and mediation of what she calls urban horror—a sociopolitical public affect that exceeds comprehension and provides the grounds for possible future revolutionary dissent. She shows how documentaries, blockbuster feature films, and video art from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan made between the 1990s and the present rehearse and communicate urban horror. In these films urban horror circulates through myriad urban spaces characterized by the creation of speculative crises, shifting temporalities, and dystopic environments inhospitable to the human body. The cinematic image and the aesthetics of urban horror in neoliberal post-socialist China lay the groundwork for the future to such an extent, Huang contendsTrade Review“What is ‘horror’ in the contemporary world? With reference to numerous interesting Chinese-language films, Erin Y. Huang argues that horror is a morphing assemblage of sociohistorical forces, one that creates a disjuncture between a perceived external reality and an internal frame of comprehension. An admirably timely statement on the often hypermedial—and horrific—performativity of urban public sentiments, in post-socialist China as in EuroAmerica and beyond.” -- Rey Chow, author of * Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility *“In this visionary book Erin Y. Huang lays out a new epistemology of the political, cultural, and affective present while gesturing toward desirable futures. This book will galvanize the study of Chinese cinema and interdisciplinary studies of the urban; it will be of unique interest to all those across the humanities who are striving to decipher the logics of the global, neoliberal present. Like no other book, Urban Horror makes the affective, political, and material contours of the contemporary Asian city available to social theory. A vitally innovative work.” -- Arnika Fuhrmann, author of * Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema *“What makes Urban Horror particularly valuable is Huang’s attention to historical and cultural specificity in her application of Western theories. For example, in her discussion of Li Shaohong’s films, she avoids taking feminism as a transhistorical and universal category. Rather, she excavates the nuanced and complex meanings of Chinese femininity to theorize postsocialist feminism within the context of modern and socialist Chinese history…. Huang’s theoretical approach is an excellent model for contextualizing Western theories and philosophies for Asian studies.” -- Li Zeng * Film Quarterly *“Huang’s close reading of films and theoretical texts is lucid and persuasive.... Urban Horror is suitable not only for readers who are interested in understanding the post-socialist condition in China but also those who are generally drawn to the long-standing academic tradition of theorizing the relationship between aesthetics and politics....” -- Ziwei Chen * Asiascape *“Few books can be timelier than Erin Y. Huang’s erudite and insightful Urban Horror.... Huang could not have foreseen the emergence of COVID-19 when writing, but it has certainly amplified the resonance of her work.” -- Chris Berry * The China Journal *“Huang’s study is impressive in her sophisticated theoretical analysis and innovative textual readings. I highly recommend [Urban Horror] to scholars and students in the fields of contemporary Chinese or Sinophone studies, film and media studies, urban studies, as well as studies of affect and sensuality.” -- Yu Zhang * Journal of Asian Studies *“Urban Horror is a sprawling, complex, and challenging book, full of acute theoretical insights and detailed close readings of narrative and documentary films. . . . [It] is a powerful and timely piece of speculative theory and film criticism, a pressing read for scholars of modern and contemporary China, film and media studies, and the study of postsocialist culture.” -- Hongwei Thorn Chen * MCLC Resource Center *“Urban Horror provides a fascinating read especially for those interested in bringing together economic and cultural histories of the recent past. . . . Urban Horror is an indispensable read for any historian trying to get a grasp of the relation between popular culture and public sentiment in the neoliberal era.” -- Dennis Koelling * European Review of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Urban Horror: Speculative Futures of Chinese Cinemas 1 1. Cartographies of Socialism and Post-Socialism: The Factory Gate and the Threshold of the Visible World 33 2. Intimate Dystopias: Post-Socialist Femininity and the Marxist-Feminist Interior 69 3. The Post- as Media Time: Documentary Experiments and the Rhetoric of Ruin Gazing 101 4. Post-Socialism in Hong Kong: Zone Urbanism and Marxist Phenomenology 146 5. The Ethics of Representing Precarity: Film in the Era of Global Complicity 184 Epilogue 218 Notes 223 Bibliography 245 Index 259
£98.60
