Literary theory Books
Liverpool University Press A Reader's Guide to Yeats's A Vision
Book SynopsisW. B. Yeats is one of the most important writers in English of the twentieth century, and the system of A Vision is generally recognized as fundamental to the power and achievement of his later poetry. Yet this strange mixture of esoteric geometry, lunar symbolism, and sweeping generalization has proven frustrating to generations of readers, who have found it obscure in both matter and presentation. This book helps readers to approach and understand the origins, structure, and implications of the system. Concentrating on the 1937 revised edition of A Vision, the treatment is divided into major topic areas with several levels: a general introduction to each topic; a fuller and deeper examination of that topic, drawing on A Vision's two versions and the manuscript background, and forming the bulk of each chapter; an examination of how the topic manifests in Yeats's literary work; full notes to explore conceptual and textual problems. The first three chapters examine the background and origins of A Vision; the central seven chapters look at the major elements involved in the system; the following four at the major processes of life and history. The main treatment ends with a summary and conclusion, and is supplemented by a glossary of terms and appendices.
£33.00
Liverpool University Press Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World
Book SynopsisThis collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in relation to this life, career and status as a late Victorian. It centres on various aspects of his interests and career, such as politics, the legal system, his role as Irving's stage manager, and analyses his work in relation to these.Trade Review‘Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World provides an important and fascinating angle from which to view Stoker’s work and his fiction.’ Marion McGarry, Irish Studies Review‘Gibson and Müller bring a fresh perspective to the well-trod field of Stoker studies by examining the author in the context of the Late Victorian world he was writing… This collection of essays successfully fills in a picture of the man and his fiction, and I recommend it to anyone wanting to expand their understanding of Bram Stoker, his world, and his literary legacy.’ Jeanette Laredo, Supernatural Studies Association'Much of the pleasure and strength of this collection is in the range of Stoker’s works analyzed... Readers familiar with Stoker will find this volume filled with discussions both familiar and new that will have a positive impact on Stoker studies.'Robert Finnigan, Victorian Review'[Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World] has sustaining pockets of original research that make it a positive contribution to the critical industry now rapidly growing up around Stoker.'Roger Luckhurst, Victorian Studies'The collection overall offers a broad-based exploration of the shifting and sometimes complex historical and cultural contexts of the entire corpus of Stoker’s short fiction and novels... a valuable contribution to Gothic studies.'R. D. Morrison, Choice'The book offers enlightening insights and some fascinating detail and is a worthwhile approach when looking at the history and life of Stoker. [...] Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World provides an important and fascinating angle from which to view Stoker’s work and his fiction.'Marion McGarry, Irish Studies Review
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Liverpool University Press Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations
Book SynopsisThis book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism – literary or otherwise – can do. While it takes Roland Barthes’s encounters with Marcel Proust’s monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, the book argues that Barthes’s writing on Proust’s work between the early 1950s and 1980 (including a substantial set of unpublished notes for a series of seminars delivered at the University of Rabat in 1969–1970) proposes not only a critical culture of Proust that is productively inconsistent, but also, more generally, a fresh understanding of criticism as a creative activity that embraces insecurity and variation as it refuses to remain fixed upon reassuringly stable themes, meanings and interpretations.Trade ReviewReviews ‘Theoretically shrewd and brilliantly argued, this is the first monograph to offer a complete panorama of Barthes’s sustained engagement with the Proustian oeuvre. Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations will take its place among the best of Proust scholarship, continuing the legacy of the great Malcolm Bowie.' Marion Schmid, University of Edinburgh'Baldwin’s kaleidoscopic argument certainly comes to the fore in a monograph that is, in every sense of the word, brilliant.' Ian Ellison, Modern Humanities Research Association 'This book will appeal as much to those interested principally in Barthes as it will to those with a desire to understand his relationship with Proust ... The Proust Variations meets Barthes on his own terms, admirably demonstrating how, by accepting the inconsistency at the heart of his writings on Proust, we might open up new possibilities for criticism.' Eleanor Lischka, Barthes StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on the TextIntroduction1. Objects2. Eros, Rhythm3. Music, Discourse4. Neutral, NuanceAfterword: Insect LifeBibliographyIndex
£29.69
Liverpool University Press Henry Crabb Robinson: Romantic Comparatist,
Book SynopsisHenry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) earned his place in literary history as a perceptive diarist from 1811 onwards. Drawing substantially on hitherto unpublished manuscript sources, this book discusses his formal and informal engagement with a wide variety of English and European literature prior to this point. Robinson emerges as a pioneering literary critic whose unique philosophical erudition underpinned his activity as a cross-cultural disseminator of literature during the early Romantic period. A Dissenter barred from the English universities, Robinson educated himself thoroughly during his teenage years and began to publish in radical journals. Godwin’s philosophy subsequently inspired his first theory of literature. When in Germany from 1800 to 1805, he became the leading British scholar of Kant, whose philosophy informed his discussions of Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, and August Wilhelm Schlegel. After his return to London, Robinson aided Hazlitt’s understanding of Kant and, thus, Hazlitt’s early career as a writer. His distinctive comparative criticism further enabled him to draw compelling parallels between Wordsworth, Blake, and Herder, and to discern ‘moral excellence’ in Christian Leberecht Heyne’s Amathonte. This also prompted Robinson’s transmission of Friedrich Schlegel and Jean Paul in 1811, as well as a profound exchange of ideas with Coleridge. In this new study, Philipp Hunnekuhl finds that Robinson’s ingenious adaptation of Kantian aesthetic autonomy into a revolutionary theory of literature’s moral relevance anticipated the current ‘ethical turn’ in literary studies.Trade Review'The study of Romantic criticism has gained new dimension with Philipp Hunnekuhl’s stunning exposition of Henry Crabb Robinson’s early reviews, essays, and translations. Robinson wrote with profound insight into Kantian transcendentalism, attended Schelling’s lectures, and even met with Goethe. Hunnekuhl demonstrates how Robinson established himself as the first true comparatist among the Romantic critics.'Frederick Burwick, Emeritus Professor at the University of California Los Angeles'The genre of Hunnekuhl's superbly researched monograph is hard to pin down: it is a historical as well as a biographical work that is simultaneously a study of the development of Romantic philosophy and the study of a genuinely Romantic theory of literature that combines German aesthetic autonomy and English political ethics. What is more, Hunnekuhl unearths archival material – manuscripts such as letters and diaries – and makes it available in an appendix. Thus, this important study provides material for future investigations of early 19th-century literature at the same time that it paints a complex picture of the way that key cultural concepts are generated and disseminated in the period of European Romanticism.'Ralf Haekel, Anglistik'This monograph uses Robinson’s extensive published works to unpick the influence he had on his contemporaries and further into the nineteenth century. Through the study of an author whose interests bridged languages, this is an exceptional case study of comparative literature. This monograph leaves us excitedly awaiting future opportunities to continue exploring the complexities of not just Robinson’s critical role as literary intermediary and disseminator in the Romantic period, but also comparative literature studies.'Charlotte May, The Charles Lamb Bulletin'Henry Crabb Robinson’s diary, 1811–67, is familiar terrain for British and German Romantic scholars. Philipp Hunnekuhl’s goal in Henry Crabb Robinson, Romantic Comparatist is instead to review Robinson’s life and work in the years 1790 to 1811, thereby retracing Robinson’s emergence as a comparatist and his formative impact on British and German Romantic authors. This task covers Robinson’s publications and manuscripts as well as his social interactions.'John Claiborne Isbell, European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. Henry Crabb Robinson: Romantic Comparatist, 1790–1811 1. Radical Self-Education and First Authorship 2. The Godwinian Critic 3. Kant, Aesthetic Autonomy, and Literary Ethics 4. Moral Discourse in A.W. Schlegel, Schiller, Goethe, and Lessing 5. Hazlitt, Napoleon, and Literary Disinterestedness 6. ‘Matters of Religion & Morality’: Herder, Wordsworth, and Blake 7. Friedrich Schlegel, Coleridge, and the Ethics of Amathonte Conclusion: Or, a New Outlook for Nineteenth-Century Comparatism
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Liverpool University Press Searching for Japan: 20th Century Italy’s
Book SynopsisThis book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan’s relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West. Proposing the notion of ‘relational Orientalism,’ this book suggests that Italian travelogues to Japan, in many cases, pursued the goal of building imaginary transnational communities, predicated on commonalities and integration, by claiming what they perceived as ‘Oriental’ as their own. In contrast with a long history of Western representations of Japan as inferior and irrational, Searching for Japan identifies a positive overarching attitude toward the Far East country in modern Italian culture. Expanding the horizon of Italian transnational networks, normally situated within the Southern European region, this book reinstates the existence of an alternative Euro-Asian axis, operating across Italian history.Trade Review"Through a sophisticated close reading of a variety of yet untapped Italian literary sources, this thought-provoking volume sheds light on a fascinating and understudied aspect of Italian foreign relations and cultural diplomacy. An exciting read for anyone interested in Japan-Italy relations, Orientalism, and East-West relations."Rebecca Suter, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Japanese Studies, The University of SydneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Searching for Japan1. Cosmopolitan Possibilities in Translation. Views from the Russo-Japanese War2. Mussolini in Japan: Japanese Representations in the Age of Fascism3. Little Italy, Big Japan: Patterns of Continuity and Displacement among Italian Writers in Japan4. Madama Butterfly RevisedPostscript
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Liverpool University Press La Societe litteraire de Lausanne
Book SynopsisSise au croisement des principaux axes routiers du continent, dans le dernier tiers du XVIIIe siècle Lausanne accueille une florissante communauté d'étrangers plus ou moins titrés, plus ou moins brillants avec lesquels les membres de l'élite locale aiment se mêler. La vie sociale de la ville, en phase avec les dernières tendances européennes, mais régie par des logiques familières propres à un centre urbain de petite taille, attire les éloges de figures telles que Voltaire et Edward Gibbon, qui y séjournent à plusieurs reprises. Parmi les différents foyers de sociabilité lausannois, la Société littéraire se distingue par son cosmopolitisme et son engagement avec les principaux débats de l'Europe des Lumières. Cet ouvrage reconstruit la composition, les pratiques et l'activité intellectuelle de la Société littéraire de Lausanne sur la base de sa riche collection manuscrite, jusqu'ici largement inexploitée. En la mettant en perspective avec les pratiques de sociabilité et les débats de réforme de l'époque, il brosse le portrait d'une institution organisée pour accueillir des profils variés issus de l'Europe nord-occidentale, centrale et orientale et vouée aux grands thèmes du moment. Par l'analyse de ses débats autour de la sensibilité, des préjugés, du droit pénal, du luxe et de la dépopulation, il offre un aperçu des dynamiques intellectuelles des Lumières à Lausanne et invite à interroger les interprétations courantes des Lumières par la mise en évidence du rapport dialectique entre leur dimension continentale et locale. Sitting in the heart of Europe, in the last third of the 18th century Lausanne was home to a thriving community of foreigners - some titled, some brilliant - with whom members of the local elite liked to mingle. The city's social life, in tune with the latest European trends but governed by familiar logics specific to a small urban center, attracted the praise of figures such as Voltaire and Edward Gibbon, who stayed there on several occasions. Among Lausanne's societies and clubs, the Literary Society stood out for its cosmopolitanism and its involvement with the main debates of the European Enlightenment. This book reconstructs the composition, practices and intellectual activity of the Lausanne Literary Society on the basis of its rich manuscript collection, hitherto largely unexploited. By placing it in perspective with the sociability practices and reform debates of the time, it paints the portrait of an institution organized to welcome a variety of profiles from North-Western, Central and Eastern Europe and dedicated to the major themes of the day. Through an analysis of its debates on sensibility, prejudice, criminal law, luxury and depopulation, it offers a glimpse into the intellectual dynamics of the Enlightenment in Lausanne and invites us to question current interpretations of the Enlightenment by highlighting the dialectical relationship between its continental and local dimensions.
£98.30
Liverpool University Press Wallace Stevens In Theory
Book SynopsisThe modernist poetry of Wallace Stevens is replete with moments of theorizing. Stevens regarded poetry as an abstract medium through which to think about and theorize not only philosophical concepts like metaphor and reality, but also a unifying thesis about the nature of poetry itself. At the same time, literary theorists and philosophers have often turned to Stevens as a canonical reference point and influence. In the centenary year of Wallace Stevens’s first collection Harmonium (1923), this collection asks what it means to theorize with Stevens today. Through a range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this book seeks to describe the myriad kinds of thinking sponsored by Stevens’s poetry and explores how contemporary literary theory might be invigorated through readings of Stevens.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Pure Good of Theory Thomas Gould and Ian Tan I Reading Stevens Theorizing Almost Successfully Lisa M. Steinman The Reader In/Of Stevens Ariane Mildenberg The Event in Stevens as Poetic Justification: Alain Badiou, Poetic Performativity and the Implied Reader Ian Tan II Theory and Form Stevens’s Queer Ecologies Bart Eeckhout The Pursuits of Philosophy and the Sounds of Poetry: Stevens and Heidegger Wit Pietrzak Stevens, Adorno and the Worldly Poetics of Lyric Unworlding Zachary Tavlin III Experience and Affect Wider Than the Sky: Stevens, Consciousness and the Incipient Cosmos Kathryn Mudgett What Stevens’s Poetry can offer to Theorists of Consciousness Charles Altieri ‘Emotionally We Arrive all the Time’: Stevens and Affect Theory Marta Figlerowicz IV Theology and Post-Theology From Philosophy to Theology: Stevens’s Angel and the Real Stephen Sicari Two Cathedrals: Stevens and George Santayana's Sonnet Exchange Kelly MacPhail The The: Stevens’s Neighborliness Thomas Gould V Postures and Dispositions ‘A war between the mind and the sky’: Fictions, Fools, and the Consequences of Empire Johanna Skibsrud Damned Universal Cock: Stevens’s Ecstatic Present Rachel Trousdale A Collect of Style Krzysztof Ziarek
£110.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Vernacular Literary Theory from the French of
Book SynopsisExcerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory. From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, French was one of England's main languages of literature, record, diplomacy and commerce and also its only supra-national vernacular. As is now recognised, the large corpus of England'sFrench texts and records is indispensable to understanding England's literary and cultural history, the multilingualism of early England, and European medieval French-language culture in general. This volume presents a full, representative collection of texts and facing translations from England's medieval French. Through its selection of prologues and other excerpts from works composed or circulating in England, the volume presents a body of vernacular literary theory, in which some fifty-five highly various texts, from a range of genres, discuss their own origins, circumstances, strategies, source materials, purposes and audiences. Each entry, newly edited from a single manuscript, is accompanied by a headnote, annotation, and narrative bibliography, while a general introduction and section introductions provide further context and information. Also included are essays on French in England and onthe prosody and prose of insular French; Middle English versions of some of the edited French texts; and a glossary of literary terms. By giving access to a literate culture hitherto available primarily only to Anglo-Norman specialists, this book opens up new possibilities for taking English francophony into account in research and teaching. JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE is Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in Literature, English Department, Fordham University, New York, and formerly Professor of Medieval Literature, University of York; THELMA FENSTER is Professor Emerita of French and Medieval Studies, Fordham University; DELBERT RUSSELL is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French, University of Waterloo.Trade ReviewDemonstrates the wealth and vibrancy of the French of England [and] situates the French of medieval England as a vernacular that can no longer be dismissed or simply mentioned in passing if one wishes to understand the complex cultural landscape of medieval England.[I]ts impact will be long lasting in the field of medieval studies in England. * SCRIPTORIUM *A landmark achievement in the on-going reassessment of the place of French in medieval English culture...For researchers interested in understanding medieval English literary culture in its multilingual totality, Vernacular Literary Theory from the French of Medieval England will be an indispensable resource. * ANGLIA *A notable, even monumental, achievement.The editors should be congratulated on having produced an enormously valuable work of scholarship. * MEDIUM AEVUM *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Establishment of texts and translations, and conventions used Part I Faus Franceis and Dreit Engleis: on Language De Britain ki ore est apelé Engletere / About Britain which is now called England A Nun of Barking Abbey, Le romanz de saint Edward, rei et confessur / The Vernacular Life of St Edward, King and Confessor, 1163-70, and its prose remaniement Wace, Le Roman de Rou / The Romance of Rollo and the Dukes of Normandy Hue de Rotelande, Ipomedon / The Romance of Ipomadon Robert Grosseteste, Le Chasteau d'amour / The Castle of Love Waldef / The Romance of Waldef Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de Langage / How to Speak French Manières de langage: Spoken French for Business 'Quant vus frez a seignours...': Dictaminal Training attributed to Thomas Sampson 'Pur ceo que j'estoie requis...' : Treatise on conveyancing John Barton, Donait françois / The French Donatus Andrew Horn, Qui veut bone electioun faire and La feste royale du Pui, from Liber custumarum / The Book of the Customs of London John Gower, Mirour de l'omme / The Mirror of Humanity Part II Si sa dame ne li aidast: authorship and the patron Benedeit, Le Voyage de saint Brendan / The Voyage of St Brendan Gaimar, L'Estoire des Engleis / The History of the English Adgar/William, Le Gracial / The Book of Grace Guernes de Pont-Ste-Maxence, La Vie de Saint Thomas / The Life of St Thomas Becket Simon of Walsingham, La Vie de sainte Fey virgine et martire / The Life of St Faith, virgin and martyr Robert of Greatham, Miroir ou Evangile des Domnees / Mirror or The Sunday Gospels Herman de Valenciennes, Li Romanz de Dieu et de sa mere / The Romance of God and his Mother Sir Thomas Gray of Heaton, Scalacronica / The Ladder Chronicle Part III Primes dirrum la dreyte fey: the conduct of reading, hearing and seeing Guillaume le Clerc de Normandie, Le Bestiaire divin / The Holy Bestiary La Destructioun de Rome / The Destruction of Rome Pierre d'Abernon de Fetcham, Lumere as lais / Light for Laypeople Apocalypse du manuscrit Lambeth: La Pénitence illustrée / The Lambeth Apocalypse: Penitence Diagram Les Enfaunces de Jesu Crist / The Childhood of Jesus Christ 'Par ceste figure l'en poet savoer...' / 'Using this diagram, one can find out...' John of Hoveden, Rossignos / The Nightingale St Edmund of Canterbury [ascribed], Mirour de seinte eglyse / Mirror of Holy Church Sermons on Joshua Angier of St Frideswide, Dialogues de saint Gregoire / Dialogues of St Gregory the Great William Waddington [ascribed], Le Manuel des pechiez / The Manual of Sins Part IV Ki veult oïr: forming audiences and creating textual communities Wace, La Vie de seint Nicolas / The Life of St Nicholas La Vie de seint Clement / The Life of St Clement the Pope Commentary on the Chant des chanz / Commentary on the Song of Songs Denis Piramus, La Vie Saint Edmund le Rey / The Life of St Edmund the King Thomas of Kent, Le Roman de toute chevalerie /Romance of the Best Chivalry (Alexander the Great) La Seinte Resurreccion / The Holy Resurrection Chardri, La Vie de seint Josaphaz / The Life of St Josaphat Fouke le Fitz Waryn / The Romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn 'Sicom Aristotele nous dit' / Treatise on Menstruation 'Quant Deus out la femme fete' / Ornatus mulierum Jofroi de Waterford and Servais Copale, Secré de Secrez / The Secret of Secrets Le Miracle de Sardenai / The Miracle at Sardenaia Jean de Mandeville [?], Le Livre des merveilles du monde / The Book of the Wonders of the World 'Coment la Mesun de Crabhus...comencerunt' / 'How they founded the nunnery of Crabhouse' Part V Si come en latyn trovay escrit: the lineage of the text Everart, Distichs of Cato Simund de Freine, Roman de Philosophie / The Romance of Philosophy Sanson de Nantuil, Les Proverbes de Salemon / Commentary on Solomon's Proverbs Rauf de Linham, Kalender/Calender [Robert de Boron, Walter Map, ascribed], L'Estoire del saint Graal / The History of the Holy Grail Walter de la Hove [?], Chronique / The Mohun Chronicle Poème sur l'ancien testament /Poem on the Old Testament Le Débat des hérauts d'armes de France et d'Angleterre / The Debate between the Heralds of France and England Part VI Essays and resources England and French Poetry and Prose in the French of England Middle English Versions of French Entries Lists of Alternative Arrangements of the Entries Glossary of literary terms Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press English Question: Or Academic Freedoms
Book SynopsisTo be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So argues Thomas Docherty in this new and important new study, a study that begins with the claim that the fundamental idea governing the institution of the University is a will to freedom. Tracing a history of the modern European University from Vico onwards and including Hume, Rousseau, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Newman, Alain, Benda and Jaspers, the author argues the academy's will to freedom is grounded in study of the 'eloquence' that has shaped literate and humane values. He goes on to explore the current condition of English as a literary discipline, arguing that literary studies is (or should be) a search for the unknown; and that in only that search can the academy establish the real meaning -- or meanings -- of social, political and ethical freedom.Table of ContentsThe English Question; The Fate of Culture: Die Welt ist Alles; On Reading; The Question Concerning Literature; For a Literature that is Without and Beyond Compare; Newman: The University and Universalism; The Existence of' Scotland; On Critical Humility; Clandestine English; Index.
£100.00
Liverpool University Press English Question: Or Academic Freedoms
Book SynopsisTo be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So argues Thomas Docherty in this new and important new study, a study that begins with the claim that the fundamental idea governing the institution of the University is a will to freedom. Tracing a history of the modern European University from Vico onwards and including Hume, Rousseau, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Newman, Alain, Benda and Jaspers, the author argues the academy's will to freedom is grounded in study of the 'eloquence' that has shaped literate and humane values. He goes on to explore the current condition of English as a literary discipline, arguing that literary studies is (or should be) a search for the unknown; and that in only that search can the academy establish the real meaning -- or meanings -- of social, political and ethical freedom.Table of ContentsThe English Question; The Fate of Culture: Die Welt ist Alles; On Reading; The Question Concerning Literature; For a Literature that is Without and Beyond Compare; Newman: The University and Universalism; The Existence of' Scotland; On Critical Humility; Clandestine English; Index.
£26.19
Liverpool University Press Prodigal Sign: A Parable of Criticism
Book Synopsis"The Prodigal Sign" sets out to characterise criticism as a set of prodigal practices that exceed the constraints of primary texts, history, and theory. This is not just because, as Derrida says, 'no practice is ever totally faithful to its principle', but also because critics are habitual runaways -- forever seeking to escape the jurisdiction of their forebears and of the academy. Always on the lookout for something new and distinctive to say about the same old texts or for texts that have escaped the professional attention of their peers, like the prodigal son, they live on their inheritance while trying to escape from their own disciplinary history. This work makes a case for celebrating the prodigal condition and for another escape -- breaking out of traditional constraints towards a hybrid form that combines the critical with the creative.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Parable & Criticism: The Prodigal Son; The Dwarf; Keywords: The Prodigal Daughter; The Broken Doll; The Strange Face of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde; Reason's Disciple: After Master Derrida; Father Away in the Forest of Books; The Elder Brother; Splitting the Aphorism; Skin Trunk: Literature & Resistance in Father & Son; 'I'; The Estate; Parable of the Republic; Index.
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Liverpool University Press Prodigal Sign: A Parable of Criticism
Book Synopsis"The Prodigal Sign" sets out to characterise criticism as a set of prodigal practices that exceed the constraints of primary texts, history, and theory. This is not just because, as Derrida says, 'no practice is ever totally faithful to its principle', but also because critics are habitual runaways -- forever seeking to escape the jurisdiction of their forebears and of the academy. Always on the lookout for something new and distinctive to say about the same old texts or for texts that have escaped the professional attention of their peers, like the prodigal son, they live on their inheritance while trying to escape from their own disciplinary history. This work makes a case for celebrating the prodigal condition and for another escape -- breaking out of traditional constraints towards a hybrid form that combines the critical with the creative.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Parable & Criticism: The Prodigal Son; The Dwarf; Keywords: The Prodigal Daughter; The Broken Doll; The Strange Face of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde; Reason's Disciple: After Master Derrida; Father Away in the Forest of Books; The Elder Brother; Splitting the Aphorism; Skin Trunk: Literature & Resistance in Father & Son; 'I'; The Estate; Parable of the Republic; Index.
£29.69
Liverpool University Press Habits of Distraction
Book SynopsisStarting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. Examples are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography; the book closes with a 'distracted' reading of a classic work of concentration: Milton's Paradise Lost.
£100.00
Liverpool University Press Habits of Distraction
Book SynopsisStarting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. Examples are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography; the book closes with a 'distracted' reading of a classic work of concentration: Milton's Paradise Lost.
£27.92
Liverpool University Press Affective Worlds: Writing, Feeling &
Book SynopsisThis book offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of their work. Pursuing theoretically and philosophically informed close readings, John Hughes emphasizes issues of the embodied mind in literary texts, and explores the inventive and discriminating powers of thought -- as well as the projections of identity and relatedness -- staged and expressed by imaginative writing in the 'long nineteenth-century'. Within each chapter a writer is seen as investigating the physical or emotional determinants of mind, as well as the social conditions of subjectification, through the figurative, dramatic and subjective means of their art. The individual author chapters examine a singular, exemplary, instance of how acts of mind, and moments of self-awareness, are generated from emotional or physical response: musical experience in Blake; the recreational activity of walking in Wordsworth; fantasies of resentment in Poe; moments or modes of cross-gender, feminine, identification in Tennyson; bodily sensation, and self-separation, in Charlotte Bronte; eye contact and looking in Hardy. In each case, the exampled texts from these authors and poets display an affective or physical inspiration. Hughes draws on themes of ethical subjectivity in the work of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze to provide essential reading for all those involved in nineteenth-century literature.
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Liverpool University Press Deconstruction After All: Reflections and
Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris's vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Thomas Kuhn, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Fish. Alongside Norris's uncompromising critiques there emerge passages of close and careful reading of Jacques Derrida's texts, as he cites and reiterates Derrida's philosophical contexts in the works of Immanuel Kant, Gaston Bachelard, and Georges Canguilhem, and in the current discursive fields of epistemology and philosophy of science. The book also offers a coda of essays on Frank Kermode, Terry Eagleton, and Terence Hawkes. This collection, prefaced with the author's own academic memoir, provides an accessible and provocative introduction to Norris's critical thought, and highlights the wide range of his interests and philosophical engagements.
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Liverpool University Press The Butterfly Hatch: Literary Experience in the
Book SynopsisSome of H.D.s most oft-quoted lines have to do with the meaning and value of words; they are conditioned to hatch butterflies. Yet rather than seeking merely to understand how H.D. represented the meaning and value of words, this volume uses the butterfly hatch as a metaphor for thinking more broadly about the capacity of literary experience to hatch transformed persons butterflies in quest of wisdom in university English studies. Dislodging H.D. from her usual modernist context, this book positions her as a thinker and reads her autobiographical prose and recently published work of the 1940s for its ability to offer new insights into such pertinent and interconnected areas as literary contexts, imagination, and personal and social transformation. H.D. has, in her own words, always been uncanonically seated, resistant to rigid classification; the texture of her work celebrates internal, existential resonances that evidence the emergence of personality. The author capitalizes on this facet of H.D.s work and uncanonically seats her in conversation with the neglected literary theorist, Louise Rosenblatt (19042005), whose transactional contribution uniquely fuses critical theory, politics, philosophy, and educational vision. This book synthesizes the work of H.D. and Rosenblatt to create an emergent personalist theory of literary experience in the quest for wisdom, crystallizing links between philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, pedagogy, and the politics of human relations. Benefiting from access to unpublished material housed at Columbia, New York, and Yale universities, Vytniorgu combines analysis and theorizing to offer a significant, pedagogically-inflected intervention in literary studies, arguing that university English studies must incorporate critical and pedagogical vantages which open a window on wisdom as well as knowledge.
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Liverpool University Press Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and
Book SynopsisSpatial Ecologies takes a new look at the “spatial turn” in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. The book considers why French critical theorists turned away from questions of time and looked instead toward questions of space. It asks what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism. Conley links this question to the problematic of habitality, taking us back to Heidegger and showing how it informs much of French theory. Building on the author's acclaimed earlier study Ecopolitics, Spatial Ecologies argues, through the voices of the authors taken up the eight chapters, for recognition of the virtue of spatial theory and its pragmatic applications in the global milieu. It will be required reading for scholars of literary and cultural theory, and twentieth- and twenty-first century French culture.Trade ReviewReviews'This is a working of wide-ranging and deep scholarship which brings together a range of important French thinkers for the first time within a critical, comparative argument. Spatial Ecologies makes a passionate and lucidly argued case for a renewed ecological thinking and a transformative critical practice.' Ian James'Spatial Ecologies is a tour de force analysis of all the major theorists/theories of space/spatiality in the contemporary era. It will become the new benchmark for work on space in critical and cultural theory.' Ian Buchanan'A novel explanation by a perceptive critic, wherein Conley ponders the 'spatial turn' in French critical theory from 1968 to 2012, and from Henri Lefebvre and Paul Virilio to Etienne Balibar. Assessing the postmodern experience of space and politics, economics and time, this book is an extraordinary reflection on questions of space in the epoch of late capitalism.' John Armitage, Times Higher Education'This book should be read by sociologists, philosophers, designers, architects, art historians (and historians), and anyone else intent on bridging the often-yawning gap between theory and practice as regards our existence in a simultaneously expanding and contracting world.'H-France Review Vol. 14, No. 90Table of Contents Introduction: Space as a Critical Concept 1. Henri Lefebvre: Lived Spaces 2. Michael de Certeau: Anthropological Spaces 3. Jean Baudrillard: Media Places 4. Marc Auge: Non-Places 5. Paul Virilio: Speed Spaces 6. Deleuze and Guattari: Space and Becoming 7. Bruno Latour: Common Spaces 8. Etienne Balibar: Spatial Fictions Conclusion: Future Spaces Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality and
Book SynopsisMobility at Large explores a unique trajectory of travel writing. Instead of focussing on best-selling travel texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Alain de Botton and others, this book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing wherein the authors experiment with form, content and the politics of representation. In this, innovative travel texts by a range of writers – from Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips to Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller – transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of experimental textual strategies to work through questions of movement and the politics of personal identity in relation to the complex interlocutions of space, place and subjectivity. As a result, Mobility at Large challenges those critics who dismiss the genre as inherently conservative and inextricably bound up in a colonial, Eurocentric tradition. The book also documents a long and rich tradition of travel writing that existed well beyond the influence of Europe.Trade ReviewClear, interesting, provocative and well-argued ...I believe this is – surprisingly – the first book-length study of experimental travel writing. It deserves to be considered in the company of the most important critical works on contemporary travel writing. Alasdair PettingerTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Travel Revisited 1. Travelling with the Ondaatje Bros. 2. Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips: Global Travel, Then and Now 3. Unhomely Travels; or, the Haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald 4. The World, My City: Home Grounds and Global Cities 5. Travel Histories – From Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and Beyond Postscript: Still Mobile Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Locating Science Fiction
Book SynopsisLocating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to fantasy and SF in other media, especially film and television; popular fiction studies primarily in relation to other contemporary genres such as the romance and the thriller. This bold new synthesis relocates SF in relation to each of these other genres and media and also to the historical and geographic contexts of its emergence and development. Locating Science Fiction effects a series of vital shifts in the way SF theory and criticism has conceptualised its subject, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of what is actually a messy amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Inspired by Raymond Williams's cultural materialism, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture and Franco Moretti's application of world systems theory to literary studies, Locating Science Fiction draws on the disciplinary competences of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Sociology to produce a powerfully persuasive mode of analysis, engagement and argument.Trade ReviewReviews '[A book of] calm sly good sense and hard thought about SF... the finest assessment of SF theory yet published.' John Clute, Strange Horizons'Worth the attention of all sf scholars for the range and acuity of its conception of the genre as well as its theoretical rigor.' John Rieder, Science Fiction Studies * Science Fiction Studies, Volume 40 *'Milner provides a vast list of primary works... suggestive of the encyclopedic reach of this study... Locating Science Fiction also encompasses several nuanced readings of particular works, including reassessments of canonical texts... as well as discussions of less well-known... Impressively, moreover, all quotations from non-English language texts are provided both in the original and in translation.' Kate Rigby, Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology * Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology *'A consistently thoughtful account of its subject… The result never flags in offering consistently interesting insights into SF which do justice to its rich diversity.'Key Words * Key Words *Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures 1. Memories of Dan Dare Memories of Science Fiction. Literature, Genre and Popular Fiction. Memories of Dan Dare. Tales of Resonance and Wonder. 2. Science Fiction and Selective Tradition Academic Definitions of Science Fiction. Modernism, Modernity and Science Fiction. Non-Academic Definitions of Science Fiction. Rethinking Genre. Rethinking Tradition. 3. Science Fiction and the Literary Field From the French Literary Field to the Global Science Fiction Field. Ideas and Effects. Science Fiction as Drama. Science Fiction as Prose. The Restricted Economy and Institutionalised Bourgeois Art. 4. Radio Science Fiction and the Theory of Genre Cultural Materialism as Method. Radio Technology and Science Fiction. Radio Science Fiction Forms: Three Texts. Radio Institutions. 5. Science Fiction, Utopia and Fantasy The North American Argument. The European Argument. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Utopianism in Popular Science Fiction. 6. Science Fiction and Dystopia The Antipathy to Dystopia. The Strange Case of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Science Fiction as a Generic Context. Three Intertexts. An Ideal Typology and Some Hypotheses. 7. When Was Science Fiction? Long Histories of Science Fiction. Science Fiction and the Structure of Feeling. Form and History. 8. Where Was Science Fiction? Postcolonial Theory and Science Fiction. World-Systems Theory and Science Fiction: The Anglo-French Core. The European Semiperiphery. From the Semiperiphery to Core: North America and Japan. 9. The Uses of Science Fiction Future Stories and Futurologies. Antipodean Utopias. On the Beach and The Sea and Summer. Anticipations of Phil Chase. Afterword. Works Cited Index
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Liverpool University Press Roland Barthes at the Collège de France
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Roland Barthes at the Collège de France studies the four lecture courses given by Barthes in Paris between 1977 and 1980. This study, the first full-length account of this material, places Barthes’s teaching within institutional, intellectual and personal contexts. Analysing the texts and recordings of Comment vivre ensemble, Le Neutre and La Préparation du roman I et II in tandem with Barthes’s 1970s output, the book brings together for the first time all the strands of Barthes’s activity as writer, teacher and public intellectual. Theoretically wide-ranging in scope, Lucy O’Meara’s study focuses particularly on Barthes’s pedagogical style, addressing how his wilfully un-magisterial teaching links to the anti-systematic, anti-dogmatic goals of the rest of his work. Barthes’s methodology sought to negotiate the balance between singularity and universality, and central to this endeavour are aesthetic thought and techniques of essayism and fragmentation. Barthes’s strategies are here linked to broad intellectual influences, from the legacies of Montaigne, Kant, Schlegel and Adorno to the contemporary intellectual trends which Barthes sought to evade, and his attraction towards Eastern philosophies such as Zen and Tao. Barthes’s lectures discuss ideal forms of community life, ‘neutral’ modes of discourse and behaviour, and the idea of writing a novel. His consideration of these fantasies involves a profound exploration of the nature of literary creation, social interaction, subjectivity, and the possibility of a universal particular. Roland Barthes at the Collège de France reassesses the critical and ethical priorities of Barthes’s work in the decade before his death, demonstrating the vitally affirmative core of Barthes’s late thought.Trade ReviewA well-researched and well-executed study...it will gain an honorable place on the shelf of books about Barthes. Jonathan CullerLucy O’Meara’s lucid and sophisticated commentary on Roland Barthes’s rethinking of the relationship between singularity and universality will appeal to any reader with an interest in recent French intellectual history. Nikolaj Lubecker, St John's College University of OxfordTable of Contents Acknowledgements Note on abbreviations and references Introduction 1. Barthes’s Heretical Teaching 2. Leçon and ‘Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure...’ 3. Comment vivre ensemble, Le Neutre and their context 4. Japonisme and Minimal Existence in the Cours 5. La Préparation du roman: The Novel and the Fragment Afterword Appendix: List of Roland Barthes’s seminars and lecture courses at the École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, 1963–1980 Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory
Book SynopsisCaribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start indelibly marked by the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism. Chapters and sections address figures such as Toussaint Louverture, Baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, Aimé Césaire, René Ménil, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, while an extensive theoretical introduction defines the essential parameters of 'Caribbean Critique.'Trade Review'This is a very important and exciting book. Extending to the whole of the French Caribbean his previous work on the philosophical bases of the Haitian Revolution, Nesbitt has produced the first ever account of the region’s writing from a consistently philosophical, as distinct from literary or historical, standpoint.' Celia Britton'… the book fills an important gap in francophone Caribbean studies, which has always had a strong theoretical component but, arguably, has not previously been subject to such a rigorously philosophical critical treatment. … latest study will prove to be a landmark, indeed seminal, work in Caribbean Critique.' French Studies'Nesbitt’s book may be read as a survey, it also offers extremely succinct, complex, and compelling new perspectives on polemical issues that inhabit our work as professors, pedagogues, and intellectuals today…' Contemporary French Civilization'Nesbitt has made an important and highly original contribution to such debates.'New West Indian Guide Reviews 'A prodigiously researched and compelling conceptualisation of francophone Caribbean critical thought.' Gabriella Rodriguez, SX SalonTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: The Caribbean Critical Imperative I. Tropical Equality: The Politics of Principle . 1 Foundations of Caribbean Critique: From Jacobinism to Black Jacobinism . 2 Victor Schoelcher, Tocqueville, and the Abolition of Slavery . 3 Aimé Césaire and the Logic of Decolonization . 4 ‘Stepping Outside the Magic Circle’: The Critical Thought of Maryse Condé . 5 Édouard Glissant: From the Destitution of the Political to Antillean Ultra-leftism II. Critique of Caribbean Violence . 6 Jacobinism, Black Jacobinism, and the Foundations of Political Violence . 7 The Baron de Vastey and the Contradictions of Scribal Critique . 8 Revolutionary Inhumanism: Fanon’s On Violence . 9 Aristide and the Politics of Democratization III. Critique of Caribbean Relation . 10 Édouard Glissant: From the Poétique de la relation to the Transcendental Analytic of Relation . 11 Césaire and Sartre: Totalization, Relation, Responsibility . 12 Militant Universality: Absolutely Postcolonial . Conclusion: Aimé Césaire: The Incandescent I, Destroyer of Worlds Appendix: Letter of Jean-François, Belair, and Biassou/ Toussaint, July 1792 Notes Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Memoirs of a Leavisite: The Decline and Fall of
Book SynopsisIn the second half of the last century, the teaching of English literature was very much influenced and, in some places, entirely dominated by the ideas of F. R. Leavis. What was it like to be taught by this iconic figure? How and why did one become a Leavisite? In this unique book, part memoir, part study of Leavis, David Ellis takes himself as representative of that pool of lower middle class grammar school pupils from which Leavisites were largely recruited, and explores the beliefs of both the Leavises, their lasting impact on him and why ultimately they were doomed to failure. At the heart of this book are questions about what English should and can be that are by no means finally settled.Trade ReviewA beautifully written, engaging and informative work ... It gives vivid and witty accounts of both F.R. and Q.D. Leavis’s fraught and often fractious relationships with colleagues and contemporaries, but the tone is never malicious or one-sided. Above all, it is a book about the role that literature might play in a life. Laura MarcusI also enjoyed David Ellis's Memoirs of a Leavisite (Liverpool University Press), an autobiography that, while providing first-hand evidence of Leavis's influence on university English departments the world over, distinguishes itself from many a work by Leavisite hands by its note of self-deprecation. D. J. Taylor, Times Literary Supplement 'Books of the Year 2013' * Times Literary Supplement 'Books of the Year 2013' *I loved two works of non-fiction that could have been written just for me - Alwyn W Turner's A Classless Society and David Ellis's Memoirs of a Leavisite. Leo Robson, The New Statesman, 'Books of the Year 2013' * The New Statesman, 'Books of the Year 2013' *A personal memoir cannot pretend to be an easy introduction to the study of literature; yet the modest frankness with which he shows his colours, with no attempt to disguise personal preferences and standards (rather too cheerful to be strictly “Leavisian”), makes this “confession” a richly rewarding joy to read.Archive fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und LiteraturenTable of Contents Preface 1. Holloway 2. First Impressions 3. Sanctimonious prick? 4. Close reading 5. Time out 6. QDL 7. Class 8. Politics 9. France 10. The Richmond lecture 11. Loose end 12. Research 13. Theory 14. Australia 15. Shakespeare, Stendhal and James Smith 16. Teaching in the UK 17. Lawrence 18. …and Eliot 19. Epilogue Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
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Collective Ink New Philosophy of Literature, A – The Fundamental
Book SynopsisIn The New Philosophy of Universalism Nicholas Hagger outlined a new philosophy that restates the order within the universe, the oneness of humankind and an infinite Reality perceived as Light; and its applications in many disciplines, including literature. In this work of literary Universalism which carries forward the thinking in T.S. Eliot's 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' and other essays, Hagger traces the fundamental theme of world literature, which has alternating metaphysical and secular aspects: a quest for Reality and immortality; and condemnation of social vices in relation to an implied virtue. Since classical times these two antithetical traditions have periodically been synthesised by Universalists. Hagger sets out the world Universalist literary tradition: the writers who from ancient times have based their work on the fundamental Universalist theme. These can be found in the Graeco-Roman world, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, in the Baroque Age, in the Neoclassical, Romantic Victorian and Modernist periods, and in the modern time. He demonstrates that the Universalist sensibility is a synthesis of the metaphysical and secular traditions, and a combination of the Romantic inspired imagination (the inner faculty by which Romantic poets approached the Light) and the Neoclassical imitative approach to literature which emphasizes social order and proportion, a combination found in the Baroque time of the Metaphysical poets, and in Victorian and Modernist literature. Universalists express their cross-disciplinary sensibility in literary epic, as did Homer, Virgil, Dante and Milton, and in a number of genres within literature - and in history and philosophy. Universalist historians claim that every civilisation is nourished by a metaphysical vision that is expressed in its art, and when it declines secular, materialist writings lose contact with its central vision. As Universalist literary works restate the order within the universe, reveal metaphysical Being and restore the vision of Reality, Hagger excitingly argues that the Universalist sensibility renews Western civilisation's health. Literary Universalism is a movement that revives the metaphysical outlook and combines it with the secular, materialistic approach to literature that has predominated in recent times. It can carry out a revolution in thought and culture and offer a new direction in contemporary literature. This work conveys Universalism's impact on literature, and should be read by all who have concerns about the sickness and decline of contemporary European/Western culture.Trade ReviewHe hits a pace, a tilt, that really carries the reader along...Everything comes as a subordinate clause to his dramatic momentum, a hand waving out of the express train window. (Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate)
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Wits University Press The Disorder of Things: A Foucauldian approach to
Book SynopsisNuruddin Farah is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated voices in contemporary world literature. Michel Foucault is revered as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, with his discursive legacy providing inspiration for scholars working in a range of interdisciplinary fields. The Disorder of Things offers a reading of the Somali novelist through the prism of the French philosopher. The book argues that the preoccupations that have remained central throughout Farah’s forty year career, including political autocracy, female infibulation, border conflicts, international aid and development, civil war, transnational migration and the Horn of Africa’s place in a so-called ‘axis of evil’, can be mapped onto some key concerns in Foucault’s writing most notably Foucault’s theoretical turn from ‘disciplinary’ to ‘biopolitical’ power.In both the colonial past and the postcolonial present, Somalia is typically represented as an incubator of disorder: whether in relation to internecine conflict, international terrorism or contemporary piracy. Through his work, both fictional and non-fictional, Farah strives to present alternative stories to an expanding global readership. The Disorder of Things analyses the politics and poetics that underpin this literary project, beginning with Farah’s first fictional cycle, Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship (1979-1983), and ending with his Past Imperfect trilogy (2004-2011). Farah’s writing calls for a more refined, substantial reading of our current geo-political situation. As such, it both warrants and compels the kind of critical engagement foregrounded throughout The Disorder of Things.This book will appeal to students, academics and general readers with an interest in the interdisciplinary study of literature. Its engagement with theorists, drawn from postcolonial, feminist and development studies, set against the backdrop of a host of philosophical and sociological discourses, shows how such intellectual cross-fertilisation can enliven a single-author study.Trade Review... an important addition to the study of the oeuvre of Nuruddin Farah, one of this continent's leading and most original novelists. The study will be of great interest to scholars specialising in contemporary African literature [...] whilst being accessible to general readers with an especial interest in Foucault; in African politics and social developments; or in assessing the contribution of an intriguing but 'difficult' author. -Annie Gagiano, University of StellenboschTable of ContentsTaking On Foucault and Fleshing Out Farah - Opportunities for Dialogue and Reflections on Method; Quivering at the Heart of the Variations Cycle - Labyrinths of Loss in Sweet and Sour Milk; So Vast the Prison - Agonistic Power Relations in Sardines; Through the Maze Darkly - Incarceration and Insurrection in Close Sesame; From the Carceral to the Biopolitical - The Dialectical Turn Inwards in Maps; 'A Call to Alms' - Gifts and the Possibilities of a Foucauldian Reading; Trajectories of Implosion and Explosion - The Politics of Blood and Betrayal in Secrets; Bringing It All Back Home - Theorising Diaspora and War in Yesterday, Tomorrow and Links; A Woman Apart - Entanglements of Power, Disintegration and Restoration in Knots; Conclusion: Pirates of the Apocalypse - Where Next?
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Seagull Books London Ltd Conversations with JeanPaul Sartre
Book SynopsisJean-Paul Sartre was one of the greatest and most popular philosophers of the 20th Century. This work features two interviews, which take Sartre on a tour of his philosophy and politics. It is useful for anyone interested in Sartre's philosophical, political and ethical development.
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Clemson University Digital Press A Reader's Guide to Yeats's A Vision
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Rutgers University Press Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism,
Book SynopsisFrederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts—such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche—and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in both cases, how these can be applied, revised, expanded and challenged within film studies. Featuring essays by leading and emerging voices in the field, the volume probes the contours and complexities of neoliberal capitalism across the globe and explores world cinema's situation within these forces by deploying and adapting Jamesonian concepts, and placing them in dialogue with other theoretical paradigms. The result is an innovative and rigorously analytical effort that offers a range of Marxist-inspired approaches towards cinemas from Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America in the spirit of Jameson's famous rallying cry: 'always historicize!'. Trade Review"This exciting volume explicates the Jamesonian project while also extending and—sometimes—taking issue with it. It will be regarded as a major landmark in film studies." -- Carl Freedman * author of Critical Theory and Science Fiction *"This collection offers a thoughtful reckoning with the impact of Jameson's work on film studies to date while also charting a critical agenda for a Jamesonian film studies to come. Drawing on an international range of scholars Fredric Jameson and Film Theory answers Jameson's call to map the relation of individual films to the world-system of capitalism, illuminating along the way exciting new avenues for film theory and criticism." -- Derek Nystrom * author of Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men: Class in 1970s American Cinema *"The excellent essays collected here revisit some of Jameson’s explicit filmic engagements before scaling out to explore the wider utility of Jamesonian theoretical models in contexts that he did not necessarily address. In so doing, Fredric Jameson and Film Theory exemplifies one of its central claims, the importance of Jameson’s work for thinking about the 'global turn' in film studies." -- Joseph Jonghyun Jeon * author of Vicious Circuits: Korea's IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Always Historicize the Moving Image! Fredric Jameson’s Place in Film Studies MICHAEL CRAMER, JEREMI SZANIAWSKI, AND KEITH B. WAGNER 1 Feeling Film as the Pulse of the Postmodern Condition: On Jameson’s “On Diva” DUDLEY ANDREW 2 Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov’s Three Songs of Lenin (1934) as a Stalinist Film JOHN MACKAY 3 Nostalgia, Melancholy, and the Persistence of Stalin in Polish Cinema JEREMI SZANIAWSKI 4 Jameson, Angelopoulos, and the Spirit of Utopia PAUL COATES 5 Jameson and Japanese Media Theory: A Virtual Dialogue NAOKI YAMAMOTO 6 Where Jameson Meets Queer Theory: Queer Cognitive Mapping in 1990s Sinophone Cinema ALVIN K. WONG 7 A Jamesonian Reading of Parasite (2019): Homes, Real Estate Speculation, and Bubble Markets in Seoul KEITH B. WAGNER 8 Strategies of Containment in Middle-Class Films from Mexico and Brazil MERCEDES VÁZQUEZ 9 The Neoliberal Conspiracy: Jameson, New Hollywood, and All the President’s Men MICHAEL CRAMER 10 The Conspiracy Film, Hollywood’s Cultural Paradigms, and Class Consciousness MIKE WAYNE 11 A Theory of the Medium Shot: Affective Mapping and the Logic of the Encounter in Fredric Jameson’s The Geopolitical Aesthetic PANSY DUNCAN 12 “An American Utopia” and the Politics of Military Science Fiction DAN HASSLER-FOREST Afterword FREDRIC JAMESON Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the
Book SynopsisThe Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the current methods—including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism, postcritique, and others—and posits alternatives to the present state of literary studies. At a time when many aspects of current methods show a desire to adopt values from other disciplines to solve internal crises, this volume advocates a renewed focus on questions of form by means of the praxis of aesthetic study, close reading, and other modes of engaging directly with literary texts. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: “Criticism Today: Form, Critique, and the Experience of Literature”, Derek Attridge.- Chapter 2: “Is the Author Still Dead?”, Henry Staten.- Chapter 3: “Criticism and Attachment in the Neoliberal University”, Mir Ali Hosseini.- Chapter 4: “Darkness Visible: The Contingency of Critique”, Ellen Rooney.- Chapter 5: “Reading by Example: Disciplinary History for a Polemical Age”, Doug Battersby.- Chapter 6: “Does Knowledge Still Have a Home in the Humanities?”, William Rasch.- Chapter 7: “‘Our Beloved Codex’: Frank Kermode’s Modesty”, Ronan McDonald.- Chapter 8: “Polonius as Anti-Close-Reader: Towards a Poetics of the Putz”, Rachel Eisendrath.- Chapter 9: “What Kind of Person Should the Critic Be?”, Simon Grimble.- Chapter 10: “‘Slow time,’ ‘a Brooklet, scarce espied’: Close Reading, Cleanth Brooks, John Keats”, Susan J. Wolfson.- Chapter 11: “Poem as Field, Canon as Crystal”, Anirudh Sridhar.- Chapter 12: “Criticism and the Non-I, or, Rachel Cusk’s Sentences”, Tom Eyers.- Chapter 13: “Ecocide and Objectivity: Literary Thinking in How the Dead Dream”, Anna Kornbluh.- Chapter 14: Afterword, Heather Dubrow.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms
Book SynopsisThis open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the volume proposes new theoretical approaches for the study of autofiction and the autofictional, offers fresh perspectives on many of the prominent authors in the discussion, draws them into a dialogue with autofictional practice from across the globe, and brings into view texts, forms, and media that have not traditionally been considered for their autofictional dimensions. The book, in sum, expands the parameters of research on autofiction to date to allow new voices and viewpoints to emerge.Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary
Book SynopsisMobility, Space, and Resistance: Transformative Spatiality in Literary and Political Discourse draws from various disciplines—such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought—to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political action and at the same time show how literary art can resist the imposition and domination of oppressive systems of our spatial lives. The various approaches, topics, and types of literature discussed in this volume display a concern for social issues that can be addressed in and through literature. The essays address social injustice, oppression, discrimination, and their spatial representations. While offering interpretations of literature, this collection seeks to show how literary spaces contribute to understanding, changing, or challenging physical spaces of our lived world.Table of Contents1: Introduction: Resistance, the Outside, and the Creative Act, Christian Beck.- Part I: Mobility and Travel.- 1: The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.- 2: Conjuring Roots in Dystopia: Reconciling Transgenerational Conflict in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying.- 3: Matriarchal Mobility: Generational Displacement and (En)Gendered Place in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.- 4: Colonial Advertising and Tourism in the Crosscurrents of Empire.- 5: Mobility and Remapping borders in Palestinian Women’s Literature: Narratives of Resistance and Survival.- Part II: Backgrounds and Interiors.- 6: Interiorized Imperialism in Native American and Japanese American World War II Narratives.- 7: Turning the Earth, Changing the Narrative: Spatial Transformation in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892).- 9: Woolf in the Background: Distance as Visual Philosophy, Then and Now.- 10: Representing the Slum in African Literatures: The Contingency of Political Possibility.- Part III: Radical Positions.- 11: A New Cartographer: Rabih Alameddine and An Unnecessary Woman.- 12: Spaces of Resistance in Thomas Pynchon’s Later Novels.- 13: Trans(it) Spaces and Intimacy: A Literary Analysis of Chicu’s Soliloquy.- 14: “A Spring of Pure Possibility”: Harlem, Palestine, and Chester Himes’s “Literature of Combat”.- 15: Counter-narratives of Inevitability: Anti-capitalism and the Near Future in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Louise Erdrich’s The Future Home of the Living God.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, Writing,
Book SynopsisThe essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea—and also how they forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and troop transports from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first century, revealing a rich history of shipboard reading, writing, and performing. Contributors are interested both in how literary activities adapt to the maritime world, and in how individual and collective shipboard experiences are structured through—and framed by—such activities. In this respect, the volume builds on scholarship that has explored reading as a spatially situated and embodied practice. As our contributors demonstrate, the shipboard environment and the ocean beyond it place the mind and body under peculiar forms of pressure, and these determine acts of reading—and of writing and performing—in specific ways.Trade Review“I found every one of the ten chapters … absolutely fascinating. A real strength of the collection is its coherence. The extent of cross-referencing across the chapters indicates a particularly careful editing process, and helps the main themes to emerge more strongly from the book as a whole. Shipboard Literary Cultures is a formidable work of collaborative scholarship and will be of great interest to scholars across all areas of maritime studies and book history.” (Faye Hammill, The Mariner's Mirror, April 28, 2023)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Stephen R. Berry (Associate Professor of History, Simmons College, US), “The Sailing Ship as a School of Virtue”.- Chapter 2: Christian Algar (Curator, Printed Heritage Collections, British Library), “Books with Providence: The Power and Influence of a Puritan Naval Chaplain’s Library at Sea”.- Chapter 3: Tamsin Badcoe (Lecturer in English, University of Bristol, UK), “Writing the Cabin as Cloister in the Diary of Sister Mary Paul Mulquin”.- Chapter 4: Jimmy Packham (Lecturer in North American Literature, University of Birmingham, UK): “The Maritime Self on the American Whaleship”.- Chapter 5: Laurence Publicover (Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bristol, UK) and Eli Cumings (Postgraduate Researcher, University of Cambridge), “Shipboard Diaries as Navigational Instruments”.- Chapter 6: Helen Chambers (Research Associate, The Open University, UK), “The Torrens as a space of writing, reading, and performance”.- Chapter 7: Mary Isbell (Assistant Professor of English, University of New Haven, US), “Recognition and Anonymity: Shipboard Theatricals and Newspapers aboard USS Macedonian”.- Chapter 8: Susann Liebich (Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Heidelberg University, Germany), “Identity and Community in New Zealand Troopship Magazines of the First World War”.- Chapter 9: Tamson Pietsch (Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia), “The laboratory method made mobile: learning aboard the 1926-27 Floating University”.- Chapter 10: David Punter (Professor of English, University of Bristol, UK), “Down to the Sea in Ships”.- Afterword: Hester Blum (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University, USA).
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Raymond Chandler, Romantic Ideology, and the
Book SynopsisRaymond Chandler, Romantic Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Chivalry responds to the general consensus that Philip Marlowe represents a chivalric knight out of romance. The book argues that this commonplace reading requires a stunningly rosy rewriting of Marlowe, knighthood, chivalry, and romance. The book offers a history of the cultural politics of chivalry from the Middle Ages through British Romanticism to the modern United States, exposing the elitism, violent masculinism, racism, and ethno-national othering harbored within. Rizzuto also considers the survival of the chivalric ideology after World War I, and argues that the narrative of the Great War destroying chivalry rewrites the ghastly history of warfare. Touching on Chandler throughout these cultural histories, the book then directly confronts the question of knighthood and romance in the Marlowe novels. Rizzuto identifies an explicit rejection of romance in the service of hardboiled gender, class, and genre norms, including a seldom-remarked pattern of violence against women and sexual assault. The volume concludes by offering some ideas about Chandler’s motivations and the reception of the Marlowe novels.Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Elusive GameSir Philip Marlowe References 2 A Sense of the Past: A Brisk Overview of Chivalry andRomance The Medieval Imaginary 1: Actually Existing Chivalry The Medieval Imaginary 2: Actually Existing Romance The Imaginary Middle Ages References3 The Long Goodbye: World War I, Romantic Nostalgia,and Chivalry’s Endless Death Anything but Romantic The Dream Continues Isn’t It Pretty to Think So? References 4 Games with Knights: Philip Marlowe, HardboiledMasculinity, and the Ungentle Negation of Romance The Big Morte The Ill-Made Knight 1: Sex and Violence Contentsxii ContentsThe Ill-Made Knight 2: Class and Race Love and DialecticsReferences 5 Conclusion: The Mean Streets of the Dialectic
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Springer International Publishing AG Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.comChapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of Contents1. Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction: Introduction.Part I. Recovery, Revision, Ventriloquism: Imagining Historical Women.2. “Everything Is Out of Place”: Virginia Woolf, Women, and (Meta-)Historical Biofiction.3. Fictional Futures for a Buried Past: Representations of Lucia Joyce.4. Imagining Jiang Qing: The Biographer’s Truth in Anchee Min’s Becoming Madame Mao.Part II. Re-imagining the Early Modern Subject.5. From Betrayed Wife to Betraying Wife: Re-writing Katherine of Aragon as Catalina in Philippa Gregory’s The Constant Princess.6. Jean Plaidy and Philippa Gregory Fighting for Gender Equality Through Katherine Parr’s Narrative.- 7. Australian Women Writing Tudor Lives.Part III. Writing the Writer: History, Voyeurism, Victimisation.8. Biofiction, Compulsory Sexuality, and Celibate Modernism in Colm Tóibín’s The Master and David Lodge’s Author, Author.9. In Poe’s Shadow: Frances Sargent Osgood.10. Stanisława Przybyszewska as a Case of Posthumous Victimisation: On the Ethics of Biofiction.Part IV. Creativity and Gender in the Arts and Sciences.11. Re-visiting the Renaissance Virtuosa in Biofiction on Sofonisba Anguissola.12. The “Mother of the Theory of Relativity”? Re-imagining Mileva Marić in Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein (2016).Part V. Queering Biofiction.13. Visceral Biofiction: Herculine Barbin, Intersex Embodiment, and the Biological Imaginary in Aaron Apps’s Dear Herculine.14. “A Way Out of the Prison of Gender”: Interview with Novelist Patricia Duncker.
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Springer International Publishing AG Virginia Woolf, Literary Materiality, and
Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the relationship between the material conditions of Woolf's writing practices and her work as a printer and publisher at the Hogarth Press. In bringing to light her embodied literary processes, from drafting and composition to hand-printing and binding, this study foregrounds the interactions between Woolf's modernist experimentation and the visual and material aspects of her printed works. By drawing on the field of print culture, as well as the materialist turn in Woolf scholarship, it explores how her experience in print, book-design and publishing underlines her experimental writing, and how her literary texts are conditioned by the context of their production. This book, therefore, provides new ways of reading Woolf's modernism in the context of twentieth-century print, material, and visual cultures. By suggesting that Woolf's work at the Hogarth Press sensitized her to the significant role the visual aspects of a text play in its system of representation, it also considers the extent to which materiality informs both her work, as well as her engagement with Bloomsbury formalist aesthetics, which often exaggerate the distinction between visual and verbal modes of expression.Table of ContentsPart I: Materiality.1. Introduction: Writing, Materiality, and Aesthetics.2. Conversations in Colour and Ink: Feminist Aesthetics in ‘The Mark on the Wall’ and Kew Gardens.3. ‘Fill in the sketch as you like’: Developing the Fragmentary Form of Jacob’s Room.4. ‘The cold raw edge of one’s relinquished pages’: Reading Mrs Dalloway as a Palimpsest.Part II. Aesthetics.5. Drafting Mrs Ramsay and Lily Briscoe: Feminist Aesthetics in the Manuscript of To the Lighthouse.6. ‘A succession of semblances’: Form and Feminism in The Waves.7. ‘Getting the past to shadow this broken surface’: Time, Materiality, and Aesthetics.
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Palgrave Macmillan Multimodal Poetics in Contemporary Fiction
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Relaunching the Print Novel: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.- Chapter 3. Enhancing the Print Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.- Chapter 4. Layering the Print Novel: Handwriting and Material Artifacts in J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst's S.- Chapter 5. Crafting the Print Novel: Book Design and Narrative Content in Zachary Thomas Dodson's Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel.- Chapter 6. Archiving the Print Novel: Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive.- Chapter 7. Epilogue.
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De Gruyter The Implied Author: Concept and Controversy
Book SynopsisGegenstand des Buches ist der in den Kulturwissenschaften ebenso verbreitete wie umstrittene Begriff des implied author, der seit seiner Einführung vor einem halben Jahrhundert Anlass für literaturtheoretische Kontroversen gewesen ist. Die ersten Kapitel der Studie untersuchen die Geschichte des Begriffs: die Prägung des Konzepts in Wayne C. Booths Rhetoric of Fiction, die vielstimmige Diskussion in Narratologie, Interpretationstheorie und Interpretationspraxis, und die bekanntesten Konkurrenzkonzepte wie Umberto Ecos Modell-Autor oder Wolfgang Isers impliziten Leser. Das Schlusskapitel widmet sich der Frage, wie mit dem implied author in Zukunft umgegangen werden sollte; im Vordergund steht dabei die Analyse und Evaluation von Vorschlägen der Klärung bzw. Ersetzung des Konzepts im Rahmen intentionalistischer Interpretationstheorien.Trade Review"Uber die Verdienst um den Begriff des "implied author? hinaus zahlt es daher zu den Vorzugen der vorliegenden Studie, dass sie zu weiterfuhrenden Uberlegungen im Rahmen der Autor-Debatte anregt. [...] Dem hohen Anspruch an das historische Wissen uber sein Fach und an die Reflekiertheit der eigenen Positionen wird man sich von nun an immer stellen mussen."Alice Staskova in: Arbitrium 3/2008 "Die ubersichtlich disponierte und schlussig argumentierende Monographie von Kindt und Muller zeugt von den glanzenden Aussichten, die einer erneuerten Begriffsgeschichte im Rahmen eines Explikationsprogramms heute offen stehen."Carlos Spoerhase in: Zeitschrift fur Germanistik 3/2007
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De Gruyter Fact and Fiction: Elements of a General Theory of Narrative
Book Synopsis How can we develop a cultural theory starting with the basic insight that human beings are "storytelling animals"? Within literary studies, narratology is a highly developed field. However, literary historians have not paid much attention to the large and small stories abounding in everyday discourse, guiding all kinds of social activity, and providing common ground for whole societies—but also fueling controversies and hostilities. Moreover, "narrative" is not only a scholarly category but has come into use in many fields of social activity as a tool for cultural self-fashioning. This book is based on the assumption that to a large extent, social dynamics is modeled in an aesthetic manner via narratives. It explores the narrative organization of cultural spaces and time-frames, the mythological shaping of communities and adversaries, and the co-production of narratives and institutions aimed at stabilizing social life. In this framework, the epistemological problem looms large of how an instrument as unreliable as narrative can participate in the creation of a social consensus regarding truth. This problem endows the general topics explored in this book with a particularly contemporary dimension.
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De Gruyter Peter Hacks, Heiner Müller Und Das
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De Gruyter The Transnational in Literary Studies: Potential
Book SynopsisThis volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.
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De Gruyter Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration
Book SynopsisLists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural, media and literary studies for more than a decade. These explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as their starting point, there is no comparably comprehensive study that focuses on antiquity; conversely, studies on lists and catalogues in Classics remain largely limited to individual texts, and – with some notable exceptions – offer little in terms of explicit theorising. The present volume is an attempt to close this gap and foster the dialogue between the recent theoretical re-appraisal of enumerative modes and scholarship on ancient cultures.The 16 contributions to the volume juxtapose literary forms of enumeration with an abundance of ancient non-, sub- or para-literary practices of listing and cataloguing. In their different approaches to this vast and heterogenous corpus, they offer a sense of the hermeneutic, epistemic and methodological challenges with which the study of enumeration is faced, and elucidate how pragmatics, materiality, performativity and aesthetics are mediated in lists and catalogues.
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De Gruyter Walther von der Vogelweide Wörterbuch
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De Gruyter Lessings exoterische Verteidigung der Orthodoxie
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De Gruyter Handbook of Literary Apologetics
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De Gruyter Ecce figura
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De Gruyter Rhetorik und Metarhetorik in Aufklärung und
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De Gruyter Der Tod und seine Presse
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De Gruyter The Nonnarrated
Book Synopsis Telling a story requires selecting and assembling individual elements of the events one wishes to communicate. The "nonnarrated" are the events (or parts of events) that were deliberately left out of the selection, meaning all that was not chosen to be told in the story, or chosen not to be told. Since the realm of the nonnarrated in any given story is infinitely large, studying the nonnarrated requires focusing on that which is not told but nevertheless belongs to a story. This monograph explores the phenomenon of the nonnarrated in narrative short forms from Cechov to Murakami and in novels by Dostoevskij and Robbe-Grillet.
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