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Taylor & Francis Textual Transgressions Essays Toward the Construction of a Biobibliography 1739 Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Surreal Entanglements
Book SynopsisThis edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer's work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer's work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which nature has become radically uncanny due to gloTable of ContentsIntroduction:Weird Ecology: VanderMeer’s Anthropocene FictionLouise Economides and Laura ShackelfordNode 1: More-than-Human Traces and Symbiotic Monsters – A Posthumanist Politics for the Anthropocene Era?Chapter 1: Home on the Strange: The Queering of Place in VanderMeer’s Borne BooksLouise EconomidesChapter 2: Acceptance and Continuation: Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and Hope in the AnthropoceneArwen SpicerChapter 3: Entangled Care and the Trouble with Making Family in BorneSamuel GormleyChapter 4: ‘Love Your Monsters:’ Anthropocene Discourse and Green" Psychoanalysis in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne and The Strange Bird: A Borne Story Sydney LaneNode 2: Materialist Speculation after Quantum PhysicsChapter 5:Microbiology and Microcosms: Ecosystem and the Body in Shriek: An AfterwordOctavia CadeChapter 6: Strange Matters: More-than-Human Entanglements and Topological Spacetimes Laura ShackelfordChapter 7: Street Smarts for Smart StreetsRob ColeyChapter 8:Tentacular Narrative Webs: Unthinking Humans in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy Dunja M. MohrNode 3: Aesthetics of Perception and Genre Sense; or Politics Made PerceptibleChapter 9: Genre Tentacular: Area X and the Southern NeogothicLee RozelleChapter 10: ‘Another World, another life:’ Humans, Monsters, and Politics in Predator: South China SeaBenjamin J. RobertsonChapter 11: Can You Describe Its Form? Annihilation and Cinematic AdaptationCameron KunzelmanChapter 12: Love in the Time of the Anthropocene: A Conversation Between Alison Sperling and Jeff VanderMeerAlison Sperling
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature
Book SynopsisAmbivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah Equiano, Catharina Maria Sedgwick, Henry James, Jamaica Kincaid, and Mohsin Hamid shape protagonists' complex transnational subjectivities, which exist between or outside national frameworks but are nevertheless interpellated through the nation-state and through particular myths about liberal, sentimental, or cosmopolitan subjects.The notion of ambivalent transnational belonging yields insights into the affective appeal of the transnational as a category of analysis, as an aesthetic experience, and as an idea of belonging. This means bringing the transnational into conversation with the aesthetic and the affective so we may fully address the new conceptual challenges faced by literary studies due to the transnational turnTrade Review"A significant contribution to the way we practice a transnational approach to literary analysis in American Studies, Schultermandl's work offers a complex and illuminating focus on the potentialities born of the reader's encounter with their ambivalent attachments to nation, identity, myths and values." Nina Morgan, Journal of Transnational American StudiesTable of Contents Introduction: Ambivalent Transnational Belonging Olaudah Equiano’s Liberal Authorial Subject of the Circum-Atlantic Middle Passage Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Clarence, Sentimental Kinship, and the Transnational American Novel of Manners Cosmo-Nationalist Aesthesis and Essentialized Womanhood in Henry James’s Daisy Miller Precarious Intimacies and Narratives of the Transnational Care Economy in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Transnational Ambivalence at the Limits of Multiculturalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Metafiction
Book SynopsisMetafiction explores the great variety and effects of this popular genre and style, variously defined as a type of literature that philosophically questions itself, that repudiates the conventions of literary realism, that questions the relationship between fiction and reality, or that lies at the border between fiction and non-fiction. Yaël Schlick surveys a wide range of metafictional writings by diverse authors, with particular focus on the contemporary period.This book asks not only what metafiction is but also what it can do, examining metafictional narratives'' usefulness for exploring the role of art in society, its role in conceptualizing the figure of author and the reader of fiction, its investigation and playfulness with respect to language and linguistic conventions, and its troubling of the boundaries between fact and fiction in historiographic metafiction, autofiction, and autotheory.Metafiction is an engaging and accessible introduction tTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Art about Art: Metafictional Narrative and the Role of Art in SocietyChapter 2: Rethinking the Author and Activating the Reader in MetafictionChapter 3: Ludic Metafiction: On Literature and Language GamesChapter 4: Historiographic Metafiction: Postmodernism and the Historical NovelChapter 5: Autofiction: Troubling Autobiographical AssumptionsGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind
Book SynopsisThis book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, AndrÃs Laguna, AndrÃs VelÃsquez, Marsilio Ficino, and GÃmez Pereira.The editors bring together humanists and scientists: literary scholars and doctors whose interdisciplinary research integrates diverse types of sources (philosophical and medical treatises, natural histories, rhetoric manuals, pharmacopoeias, etc.) alongside Cervantesâs works to examine themes and areas including emotion, human development, animal vs. human consciousness, pathologies of the mind, and mind-altering substances. Their chapters trace the cognitive themes and points of inquiry that Cervantes shares with other early modern thinkers, showing how he both echoes and contributes to early modern views of the mind.Table of ContentsForeword: Historicizing Cognitive Approaches to CervantesHoward MancingIntroduction: A Cognitive-Historicist Approach to Cervantes’s WorkIsabel Jaén and Julien Jacques-SimonSection I – Views of the Mind in Early Modern SpainChapter 1 – Spanish Brain Science and Philosophy of Mind in the Time of Cervantes: Three Seminal ThinkersAntonio Martín AraguzSection II – Feeling, Thinking, and Remembering in Humans and BrutesChapter 2 – Emotion and Human Development in Cervantes’s Don Quijote: The Case of Sancho PanzaIsabel JaénChapter 3 – Aging, Emotion, and Cognition: El viejo zeloso and Early Modern ThoughtElena CarreraChapter 4 – Human Thinking about Thinking Animals in the Early Modern Spanish and Spanish American WorldSteven WagschalChapter 5 – Wit, Imagination, and the Goat: The Untrodden Paths of Literary Creation in Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Huarte’s Examen de ingeniosChristine OrobitgChapter 6 – Cervantes and the Mother of the Muses: Views of Memory in Early Modern SpainJulia DomínguezSection III – Altered Minds: Causes, Effects, and RemediesChapter 7 – Melancholic Consciousness: Cervantes’s Contribution to Early Modern Views of Melancholy and the Emergence of the Fictional MindIsabel Jaén and Julien Jacques-SimonChapter 8 – Mind-Altering Agents in Cervantes’s Work: Regarding His Sources on PharmacologyFrancisco López-Muñoz and Cecilio ÁlamoChapter 9 – Don Quijote and Cervantes’s Knowledge of Neurological DisordersJosé-Alberto Palma, Fermín Palma, and Julien Jacques-Simon
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Polish Literature and Genocide
Book SynopsisPolish Literature and Genocide presents the attitude of Polish literature to the 20th-century acts of genocide. This volume examines the literary representations of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the massacre in Srebrenica in a rich, detailed, and comprehensive way, expanding the existing research and, in some cases, challenging the former sometimes ossified ideas. Polish literature not only reflects the obvious extermination of Jews and Poles, but also records what had been largely overlooked: the extermination of disabled and mentally ill people, the Roma and Sinti, and the Soviet prisoners of war by the Nazis. This volume includes analysis of the literary works of Wladyslaw Szlengel, the most prominent Polish-language poet in the Warsaw ghetto; the peculiar reception of Julian Tuwim's famous poem for children Locomotive; the memoir of Leon Weliczker, a prisoner of the Janowska concentration camp in Lvov and a member of the death brigade' (Sonderkommando); the origins oTable of ContentsList of FiguresIntroduction: The HolocaustsPrologue: Echoes of the Armenian Genocide1 "Disinfection": The Extermination of the Mentally Ill2 Władysław Szlengel (in the Warsaw Ghetto)3 The Locomotive (to Bełżec)4 The Death Brigade (Leon Weliczker’s)5 Not Only Asfitz: The Destruction of the Gypsies6 "History Rounds Off Skeletons to the Nearest Zero": The Extermination of the Soviet Prisoners of War7 "Professor Spanner” by Zofia Nałkowska and "Soap from Human Fat"8 Tadeusz Różewicz’s Excursion to the Museum (and Library)Epilogue: "It Repeats Itself Before Our Eyes" –– SrebrenicaBibliographyIndex of Names
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shandean Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisThis unique book examines the psychanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the provocative eighteenth-century novel by Laurence Sterne.Trade Review"As a practicing psychoanalyst, the author of this book opens the rigorously social work of trauma psychoanalysis up to the realm of fiction, so often wrongly dismissed as escapist, and makes the relationship between the two domains mutual, in a most productive way. She demonstrates the point – for social reality – of literature, as she had already done in her two volumes edition of the seminars of Jean-Max Gaudillière. In this book on Sterne’s masterpiece, laughter is as important as grief, pursuits of love as weighty as slavery and other forms of violence, and above all, the past, she demonstrates, incisively intervenes in the present. No other author that I know of is so skilled and refined in reading – both the literary text and the psyche of traumatized people. This book enriches the life of its readers on many levels." - Mieke Bal, Cultural Analyst and video artist"The literary wit of Sterne and the unique analytic wit of Davoine go head to head in this remarkable book, which teaches us to read in Sterne’s humor and style the workings of "Shandean psychoanalysis," a singular treatment of historical trauma and a "mad" challenge to the totalitarian politics of all centuries. Sterne takes his place, in Davoine’s surprising reading, within a dazzling array of literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic writers who "don the fool’s cap" to offer new resources for reinscribing the lost catastrophes of history and for resisting varying forms of political perversion. Davoine weaves into her reading of the book her own personal history growing up in war as well as her innovative development of a psychoanalysis of madness, one that draws on and illuminates the literary therapeutics of Sterne’s writing. Tristram Shandy ultimately provides for her, in its profound insight into history and madness, a "memory of the future" that anticipates the traumas--and the treatments--of the 20th and 21st centuries, challenging our doctrinal approaches to the understanding of catastrophic history and the treatment of historically and politically produced trauma. In Davoine’s extraordinary reading, Tristram Shandy finally speaks to our contemporary 21st century crises while offering unexpected resources, in its rich "art of storytelling," for responding to the powers of erasure and denial and for enabling the emergence of a new kind of political subject." - Cathy Caruth, Professor of English, Cornell University "Francoise Davoine is a highly respected expert in the clinical psychoanalysis of madness; she is also a respected authority in regard to the application of psychoanalytic theory to world literature, and the corollary illumination of trauma within fiction (Don Quixote, and now, Tristram Shandy). Davoine’s coverage of her subject is exhaustive and wide-ranging, drawing upon a multitude of philosophic and literary sources. Her approach is highly creative, engaging, and high-spirited – filled with surprising insights and associations. Shandean Psychoanalysis is a revelatory reinterpretation of Sterne’s novelistic masterpiece, with profound implications for the theory and treatment of trauma and other extreme states." - James E. Gorney, Ph.D."Françoise Davoine, is a highly regarded and respected psychoanalyst and author who has written at the forefront of psychoanalysis involving extreme states and literature. She is the author of numerous books in this field which are much quoted and used in both areas of expertise. In a previous book on Don Quixote, she rattled the cage of psychoanalysis to use a description from Bion allowing us to see through literary fiction how we can understand psychological trauma. This book takes Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and further rattles the cage introducing through the rhythm of her writing more psychoanalytic animals allowing them to appear from her own history and Sterne's history/fiction teaching us about forgotten wars, trauma and what it is to be a therapist/therapon and stand with those who have suffered from madness." - Alfred Gillham, MSc Consultant Clinical Psychologist'As a practicing psychoanalyst, the author of this book opens the rigorously social work of trauma psychoanalysis up to the realm of fiction, so often wrongly dismissed as escapist, and makes the relationship between the two domains mutual, in a most productive way. She demonstrates the point—for social reality—of literature, as she had already done in her two volumes edition of the seminars of Jean-Max Gaudillière. In this book on Sterne’s masterpiece, laughter is as important as grief, pursuits of love as weighty as slavery and other forms of violence, and above all, the past, she demonstrates, incisively intervenes in the present. No other author that I know of is so skilled and refined in reading—both the literary text and the psyche of traumatized people. This book enriches the life of its readers on many levels'. — Mieke Bal, Cultural Analyst and video artist'The literary wit of Sterne and the unique analytic wit of Davoine go head-to-head in this remarkable book, which teaches us to read in Sterne’s humor and style the workings of "Shandean psychoanalysis", a singular treatment of historical trauma and a "mad" challenge to the totalitarian politics of all centuries. Sterne takes his place, in Davoine’s surprising reading, within a dazzling array of literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic writers who "don the fool’s cap" to offer new resources for reinscribing the lost catastrophes of history and for resisting varying forms of political perversion. Davoine weaves into her reading of the book her own personal history growing up in war as well as her innovative development of a psychoanalysis of madness, one that draws on and illuminates the literary therapeutics of Sterne’s writing. Tristram Shandy ultimately provides for her, in its profound insight into history and madness, a "memory of the future" that anticipates the traumas—and the treatments—of the 20th and 21st centuries, challenging our doctrinal approaches to the understanding of catastrophic history and the treatment of historically and politically produced trauma. In Davoine’s extraordinary reading, Tristram Shandy finally speaks to our contemporary 21st century crises while offering unexpected resources, in its rich "art of storytelling," for responding to the powers of erasure and denial and for enabling the emergence of a new kind of political subject'. — Cathy Caruth, Professor of English, Cornell University'Francoise Davoine is a highly respected expert in the clinical psychoanalysis of madness; she is also a respected authority in regard to the application of psychoanalytic theory to world literature, and the corollary illumination of trauma within fiction (Don Quixote, and now, Tristram Shandy). Davoine’s coverage of her subject is exhaustive and wide-ranging, drawing upon a multitude of philosophic and literary sources. Her approach is highly creative, engaging, and high-spirited—filled with surprising insights and associations. Shandean Psychoanalysis is a revelatory reinterpretation of Sterne’s novelistic masterpiece, with profound implications for the theory and treatment of trauma and other extreme states'. — James E. Gorney, PhD'Françoise Davoine, is a highly regarded and respected psychoanalyst and author who has written at the forefront of psychoanalysis involving extreme states and literature. She is the author of numerous books in this field which are much quoted and used in both areas of expertise. In a previous book on Don Quixote, she rattled the cage of psychoanalysis, to use a description from Bion, allowing us to see through literary fiction how we can understand psychological trauma. This book takes Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and further rattles the cage, introducing through the rhythm of her writing more psychoanalytic animals, allowing them to appear from her own history and Sterne's history/fiction, teaching us about forgotten wars, trauma and what it is to be a therapist/therapon and stand with those who have suffered from madness'. — Alfred Gillham, MSc Consultant Clinical PsychologistTable of Contents1: The embryo’s "I wish" 2: Psychotherapy of Uncle Toby’s war traumas and the reading of a sermon on perversion 3: Theatre of fools4: Social unrest in Strasburg5: Confinement 6: Epitaph7: Journey to France8: The politics of love and slavery 9: No to perversion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lacan in the End Times
Book SynopsisThis book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be uniquely psychoanalytically theorised, in both the corresponding ferocity of the internal object and exposure to the Real.The first part of this book underlines what psychoanalysis and psi-sciences continue to overlook: who now provides what Lacan called the narrow footbridge between anxiety and death? What terror(ism) must replace the father? How can reality be stabilised once more? The second part follows the atomised world as it turns towards extremism and utopian dreams: in Ireland via Hanaghan's radical psychoanalysis; in Levinasian ethics; in Gnostic belief in an evil world; and in the clinic of the death drive. The conclusion turns finally to the God beyond God, and the overwhelming evidence for God's presence in the world.Lacan in the End Times will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists,Trade Review"Rob Weatherill asks questions based on his life’s work and research about contemporary culture and psychical organisation that few venture to ask. The provocations of this book will challenge, inspire and stimulate. Rob engages the reader with the most serious and consequential issues of our time. Read this and you will not emerge unmoved by Rob’s deep concerns about the state of our world." Dr Eve Watson, Psychoanalyst, Dublin; co-editor, Critical Essays on the Drive in Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge)"Through his books and lectures on psychoanalysis and the malaise of contemporary Western civilisation, Rob Weatherill has been among the key intellectual influences on my life. His books are frightening, urgent, dizzying in their range and erudition, and consistently willing to explore the bleakest, most harrowing corners of life in an atomised and apocalyptic culture. Moreover, by virtue of Weatherill’s insistence on the need for a moral and spiritual bulwark against the ravages of untrammelled capitalism on the psyche, his work is actively countercultural. There are precious few writers engaged with his themes and concerns."Rob Doyle, author, Threshold"I am delighted to recommend very warmly the new work of Rob Weatherill. I was very impressed with his previous work, The Anti-Oedipus, whose characteristic excellences the current work also displays. I found it illuminating in an intrepid way, courageous in an enlivening way, and wise in a discerning way. Weatherill trenchantly reminds us of ‘home-truths’ about the mess we have often made of things. That said, and not least, Weatherill, has something of the redeeming eye of the comic for our current self-incurred absurdities. Very warmly recommended." William Desmond, David Cook Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University, USA; Thomas A.F. Kelly Visiting Chair in Philosophy, Maynooth University, Ireland; Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven BelgiumTable of ContentsPart I 1. Do You Believe in Reality? 2. Where Have All the Fathers Gone? 3. Loving the Father into Life. 4. Being (not) in the World without a Father Part II 5. The Mystical Origins of Psychoanalysis in Ireland. 6. Hanaghan Returns. 7. Is it Righteous to Be? 8. Tired to Death in an Evil World. 9. The Irreducible Datum. Part III 10. The Evidence.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to Poetic Forms
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Poetic Forms offers specimen discussions of poems through the lens of form. While each of its chapters does provide a standard definition of the form in question in its opening paragraphs, their main objective is to provide readings of specific examples to illustrate how individual poets have deviated from or subverted those expectations usually associated with the form under discussion. While providing the most vital information on the most widely taught forms of poetry, then, this collection will very quickly demonstrate that counting syllables and naming rhyme schemes is not the be-all and end-all of poetic form. Instead, each chapter will contain cross-references to other literary forms and periods as well as make clear the importance of the respective form to the culture at large: be it the democratising communicative power of the ballad or the objectifying male gaze of the blazon and resistance to same in the contreblazon the efficacy of form is exTable of Contents1 Introduction: Repetition and VariationPatrick GillSECTION ONEElements of Form2 RhymeStefan Blohm and Christine A. Knoop3 MetreJesper Kruse4 Toeing and Breaking the Line: On Enjambment and CaesuraHeather H. Yeung5 Persona: Its Meaning and SignificanceJames Dowthwaite6 Poetry in PerformanceJessica BundschuhSECTION TWOPoetic Forms7 The BalladCatherine Charlwood8 Blank VerseCalista McRae9 The BlazonJordan Kistler10 Concrete PoetryTymon Adamczewski11 The Dramatic MonologueGabriella Hartvig12 Ekphrastic PoetryAnja Müller-Wood13 The ElegyPatrick Gill 14 The EpicRachael Sumner15 Free VerseAndrew Rowcroft16 The Heroic CoupletAlex Streim17 The Long PoemPatrick Gill and Miguel Juan Gronow Smith18 Mock-Heroic PoetryPurificación Ribes Traver19 The OdeFlorian Klaeger20 The Prospect PoemRoslyn Irving21 The SestinaMatthew Kilbane22 The SonnetPatrick Gill23 The VillanellePatrick Gill
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Translation as a Form
This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin's 1923 essay Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers, best known in English under the title The Task of the Translator. Benjamin's essay is at once an immensely attractive work for top-flight theorists of translation and comparative literature and a frustratingly cryptic work that cries out for commentary. Almost every one of the claims he makes in it seems wildly counterintuitive, because he articulates none of the background support that would help readers place it in larger literary-historical contexts: Jewish mystical traditions from Philo Judaeus's Logos-based Neoplatonism to thirteenth-century Lurianic Kabbalah; Romantic and post-Romantic esotericisms from Novalis and the Schlegels to Hölderlin and Goethe; modernist avant-garde foreclosures on the public and generally the communicative contexts of literature.The book is divided into 78 passages, from one to a few sentences in length. Each of the passages becomes its own commentari
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Introduction to the American Novel provides a comprehensive and engaging guide to this cornerstone literary genre, reframing our understanding of the American novel and its evolving traditions. This volume aims to engage productive classroom discussion, including: What differentiates the American novel from its European predecessors and traditions from other parts of the world? How have the related myths of the American Dream and the Great American Novel affected understanding of the tradition over time? How do American novels by or about women, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and members of lower social classes challenge the American cultural monomyth? How do experimental novels and eco-conscious novels alter the American novel tradition? Rethinking historical trends and debates surrounding the American novel, this text delivers a persuasive case for why it's important to reevaluate the American nove
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