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Cambridge University Press Theorizing the AvantGarde Modernism Expressionism and the Problem of Postmodernity 32 Literature Culture Theory Series Number 32
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism
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Cambridge University Press Beckett and Poststructuralism
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and Postmodernism
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Cambridge University Press Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature
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Cambridge University Press Yeatss Nations
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Cambridge University Press Autobiography and Black Identity Politics Racialization in TwentiethCentury America By Mostern Kenneth Author Jun 1999 Paperback
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Cambridge University Press Literature Partition and the NationState Culture And Conflict In Ireland Israel And Palestine 10 Cultural Margins Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Faking Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Proust
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Derrida Lacan and the Trauma of History
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Effects
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Cambridge University Press The Innovations of Idealism
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers an original interpretation of the tradition of German Idealist thought. This collection will be of special interest to students of German philosophy, literary theory and the history of ideas.Trade Review'In effect the book constitutes an elaborate defense of the hermeneutical approach to philosophy through its carefully crafted elaboration of how hermeneutical thought grows out of the project of idealism. One of its real strengths is its development of certain key ideas in Hegelian thought and its attempt to take Hegel seriously while nonetheless avoiding his mistakes. In Bubner's interpretation hermeneutical thought thus completes the idealist project in a way analogous to that in which Hegel claimed to have completed the projects of his idealist predecessors … It has few counterparts in either the German or English language literature on the subject. It is far more philosophically sophisticated than the older intellectual histories of the subject.' Terry Pinkard, Northwestern University and author of Hegel: A BiographyTable of ContentsPart I. System: 1. Schelling's discovery and Schleiermacher's appropriation of Plato; 2. Aristotle and Schelling on the question of God; 3. Hegel's science of logic: the completion or the sublation of metaphysics?; 4. Hegel's political anthropology; Part II. History: 5. Transcendental philosophy and the problem of history; 6. Hegel's concept of phenomenology; 7. Rousseau, Hegel and the dialectic of enlightenment; 8. Closure and the understanding of history; Part III. Aesthetics: 9. From Fichte to Schlegel; 10. The dialectical significance of romantic irony; 11. Is there a hegelian theory of aesthetic experience?; 12. Hegel and Goethe.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Proust
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, its intellectual parameters and its humour.Trade Review'We are provided with a series of closely analysed descriptions, full of allusive and alliterative phrases with a music of their own.' Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Richard Bales; 1. From Belle Epoque to First World War: the social panorama Cynthia Gamble; 2. The vast structure of recollection: from life to literature William C. Carter; 3. Ruskin and the cathedral of lost souls Diane R. Leonard; 4. The birth and development of A la recherche du temps perdu Marion Schmid; 5. Lost and found: the structure of Proust's novel Roger Shattuck; 6. Proust's Narrator Brian Rogers; 7. The unconscious Jack Jordan; 8. The texture of Proust's novel Joshua Landy; 9. Proust's human comedy Hollie Markland Harder; 10. Proust and social spaces Edward J. Hughes; 11. Love, sexuality and friendship Alison Finch; 12. Proust and the fine arts Richard Bales; 13. Proust and posterity David Ellison; Proust and the art of brevity Malcolm Bowie.
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Cambridge University Press Faking Literature
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Cambridge University Press Poetry Space Landscape
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Cambridge
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary and a comprehensive index, this book is an essential resource for both students and scholars of literature, literary theory and writing.Trade Review'Providing invaluable insight into the minutest formats of narrative manifestation … a comprehensive resource that cuts across multiple disciplines, illuminating perennials of homo diegesis and the condition of narrativity.' American, British and Canadian Studies'A precious addition to our library, yes, no matter what level students of narrative we are.' University of DebrecenTable of ContentsPart I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction David Herman; 2. Toward a definition of narrative Marie-Laure Ryan; Part II. Studying Narrative Fiction: A Starter-kit: 3. Story, plot, and narration H. Porter Abbott; 4. Time and space Teresa Bridgeman; 5. Character Uri Margolin; 6. Dialogue Bronwen Thomas; 7. Focalization Manfred Jahn; 8. Genre Heta Pyrhönen; Part III. Other Narrative Media (A Selection): 9. Conversational storytelling Neal R. Norrick; 10. Drama and narrative Brian Richardson; 11. Film and television narrative Jason Mittell; 12. Narrative and digital media Nick Montfort; Part IV. Further Contexts for Narrative Study: 13. Gender Ruth Page; 14. Rhetoric/ethics James Phelan; 15. Ideology Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck; 16. Language Michael Toolan; 17. Cognition, emotion, and consciousness David Herman; 18. Identity/alterity Monika Fludernik; Further reading; Glossary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Book SynopsisFrench philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine, the history of systems of knowledge, literature and literary theory, criminality and the prison system, and sexuality, has had a profound and enduring impact across the humanities and social sciences. This introductory book, written for students, offers in-depth critical and contextual perspectives on all of Foucault's major published works. It provides ways in to understanding Foucault's key concepts of subjectivity, discourse, and power and explains the problems of translation encountered in reading Foucault in English. The book also explores the critical reception of Foucault's works and acquaints the reader with the afterlives of some of his theories, particularly his influence on feminist and queer studies. This book offers the ideal introduction to a famously complex, cTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Life, texts, contexts; 2. Works: madness and medicine; 3. Works: the death of man; 4. Works: authors and texts; 5. Works: crime and punishment; 6. Works: the history of sexuality; 7. Critical receptions; Afterword; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Book SynopsisFrom the publication of More's Utopia in 1516 to present day literary evocations of terrifying futures, this Companion traces the historical development and evolution of utopianism. Covering all major themes including feminism, science fiction and non-Western utopianism, the volume presents a balanced overview of this complex and provocative genre.Table of ContentsPreface Gregory Claeys; Brief chronology of key works of utopian literature and thought; Part I. History: 1. The concept of utopia Fátima Vieira; 2. Thomas More's Utopia: sources, legacy and interpretation J. C. Davis; 3. Utopianism after More: the Renaissance and Enlightenment Nicole Pohl; 4. Varieties of nineteenth-century utopias Kenneth M. Roemer; 5. The origins of dystopia: Wells, Huxley and Orwell Gregory Claeys; Part II. Literature: 6. Utopia, dystopia and science fiction Peter Fitting; 7. Utopia and Romance Patrick Parrinder; 8. Feminism and utopianism Alessa Johns; 9. Colonial and post-colonial utopias Lyman Tower Sargent; 10. 'Non-western' utopian traditions Jacqueline Dutton; 11. Ecology and utopia Brian Stableford; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Reading Genesis
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Cambridge University Press Reading William Blake Reading Writers and their Work
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Ovid
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Cambridge University Press Poetic Form An Introduction Cambridge Introductions to Literature Hardcover
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Cambridge University Press Poetic Form An Introduction Cambridge Introductions to Literature Paperback
Book SynopsisMichael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction that will be of help to undergraduates and more advanced readers of poetry alike. The book sees form as neither ornamenting nor mimicking content, but as shaping and animating it, encouraging readers to cultivate techniques to read poems as poems. Lively and wide-ranging, engaging with poems as aesthetic experiences, the book includes a long chapter on the elements of form that throws new light on troubling terms such as rhythm and metre, as well as a detailed introduction and accessible, stimulating chapters on lyric, the sonnet, elegy, soliloquy, dramatic monologue and ballad and narrative.Trade Review'Michael Hurley and Michael O'Neill's Poetic Form: An Introduction offers an overview of the study of poetic form, including controversies. This clearly written and engaging text includes chapters on lyric; on the sonnet and elegy as subsets of lyric; on drama in the guise of the soliloquy and dramatic monologue, and finally on ballad and narrative.' Victorian PoetryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The elements of poetic form; 2. Lyric; 3. The sonnet; 4. Elegy; 5. Epic; 6. Soliloquy; 7. Dramatic monologue; 8. Ballad and narrative.
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Effects
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Cambridge University Press Virgil and the Augustan Reception
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Cambridge University Press Attributing Authorship
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Cambridge University Press Hegel Literature and the Problem of Agency
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Dante and the Poetics of Literary Relations
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Cambridge University Press John Searle
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Cambridge University Press Language and Literary Structure
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Cambridge University Press Virginia Woolf and the Visible World
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Cambridge University Press The Craft of Thought Meditation Rhetoric and the Making of Images 4001200 34 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 34
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Cambridge University Press Language and Literary Structure The Linguistic Analysis of Form in Verse and Narrative
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Cambridge University Press Camb Companion to Walter Benjamin Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Richard Rorty
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Cambridge University Press Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics
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Cambridge University Press Psychonarratology Foundations for the Empirical Study of Literary Response
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Cambridge University Press James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism
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Cambridge University Press Richard Rorty
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Race in Los Angeles
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Cambridge University Press Modernism and Eugenics
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Cambridge University Press Camb Comp Feminist Literary Theory
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Cambridge University Press Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
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