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Oxford University Press Engagements with Aimé Césaire
Book SynopsisAimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Césaire''s work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between ''spirit,'' ''poetry,'' and ''knowing''. These explications, setting Césaire''s work in relation to a rigorously accounted for set of influences, reframe how we understand his writings, enhancing their philosophical, rather than merely political, aspects. Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits is about more than Negritude (which has come to mean something less than a deep poetic sensibility with its own aspirational aesthetics and metaphysics, and rather something more like a fantasy-ridden iteration of pan-Africanism). It shows an Aimé Césaire deeply relevant to today: to the crises of ecological collapse, capitalist dystopias, and ideologies predicated upon fear and the threat of foreigners; and to contemporary chatter arouTrade ReviewJason Allen-Paisant introduces us to a pedagogy of spirit in which the rigid divisions of Western thought, and the rigid Western interpretations of Aimé Césaire, are transformed into a homage to the daily inspirited materialities of African/diasporic social poiesis. The most original and inspiring reading of Césaire in decades. * Professor Stefano Harney, Academy of Media Arts Cologne - co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study *Stunning, sensuous, and urgent, Jason Allen-Paisant's poetic meditation on the ecopoetics of Aimé Cesaire is also a wholly original philosophical inquiry into the shifting ways of being human under conditions of coloniality and climate catastrophe. He gives us a vibrant new language, deeply rooted in the ancestral lands and Black vitality of his native Jamaica, to engage the vibrational intelligence of the earth, and open ourselves to a regenerative ethics of life. * Professor Kris Manjapra, Northeastern University - author of Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation *Beautifully written and propelled by a fascinating new approach and its direct intervention to Aimé Césaire's scholarship, Thinking with Spirits will cement Jason Allen-Paisant's reputation as a rigorous critical thinker. * Professor Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan - author of Race and Sex Across the French Atlantic: The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical and Theater Discourse *
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Oxford University Press The Idea of the Book and the Creation of
Book SynopsisThe Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge involving texts. Texts, however, do not need to be books-they are not even necessarily written. The oldest poems were composed to be recited, and only written down centuries later. Much of the most famous poetry of the English Renaissance was composed in manuscript form to circulate among a small social circle. Plays began as scripts for performance. What happens to a play when it becomes a book, or to a collection of poems circulated among friends when it becomes a volume of sonnets? How do essays, plays, poems, stories, become Works? How is an author imagined? In this new addition to the Oxford Textual Perspectives series, Stephen Orgel addresses such questions and considers the idea of the book not simply as a container for written work, but as an essential element in its creation.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1: Introduction 2: Some Plays 3: Some Works 4: Poetry and Drama 5: How to be a Poet 6: What is a Book? Index
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Oxford University Press Arabic Persian and Turkic Poetics
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Oxford University Press Inc How the Qur257n Works
Book SynopsisThe Qur''an is a text of extraordinary depth and complexity. In How the Qur''an Works, Leyla Ozgur Alhassen takes the reader on a journey through the Qur''an, moving from one verse to another, one story to another, focusing on narratological elements while conducting a close reading in order to understand particular Qur''anic stories and to show how the text''s literary techniques enhance its theological agenda. She unpacks the text by focusing on Qur''anic narrative, and specifically, repetition in Qur''anic stories. Repetition is an important part of the Qur''an''s literary technique. Ozgur Alhassen traces the use of repetition as a narrative device from the text''s overall structure to individual letters. She compares different Qur''anic stories and explores the kinds of repetition that occur in them and what purposes they serve. Repetition, she shows, forges patterns, connections, and layers of meaning that develop, complicate, and comment on the Qur''an''s messages.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Why Repetition? 2. Chapter Two: Repetition in Structure: Parallels, Reversals and Triangles 3. Chapter Three: Repetition in the Qur'anic Story of Musa 4. Chapter Four: Repetition and the Portrayal of Time in the Story of Musa and Harun in the Qur'an 5. Chapter Five: Echoing Phrases, Words and Actions in Qur'anic Stories: Exchange Encounters, Fasting, Feasting and Faith 6. Chapter Six: Repetition in Surat al-Shu'ara: Prophethood, Power and Inspiration 7. Chapter Seven: Repetition in Sarat al-Qamar and a Comparison with Surat al-Shu'ara 8. Conclusion: Connections, Narrative and Power 9. Appendices Appendix A: Musa Appendix B: Surat al-Shu'ara Appendix C: Surat al-Qamar and Comparisons of Surat al-Shu'ara with Surat al-Qamar
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Oxford University Press Inc The Suicidal State
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Clarendon Press Unity in Greek Poetics
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to reconstruct ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. It discusses some literary examples, but its main concern is with ancient secondary texts - literary theory and criticism, undertaking a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle down to the later Neoplatonists.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Plato; Fourth-century rhetoric; Aristotle; Epic after Aristotle; Dionysus and historiography; Later rhetoric; The Homeric Scholia; The Neoplatonist Turn; Some post-classical developments; Conclusion; Appendices: A. Epeisodion before Aristotle; B. Other poetic scholia; Bibliography; Indexes
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Oxford University Press The First Five Pages
Book SynopsisWhether you are a novice writer or a veteran who has already had your work published, rejection is often a frustrating reality. Literary agents and editors receive and reject hundreds of manuscripts each month. While it''s the job of these publishing professionals to be discriminating, it''s the job of the writer to produce a manuscript that immediately stands out among the vast competition. And those outstanding qualities, says New York literary agent Noah Lukeman, have to be apparent from the first five pages.The First Five Pages: A Writer''s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile reveals the necessary elements of good writing, whether it be fiction, nonfiction, journalism, or poetry, and points out errors to be avoided, such as:- A weak opening hook- Overuse of adjectives and adverbs- Flat or forced metaphors or similes- Undeveloped characterizations and lifeless settings- Uneven pacing and lack of progressionWith exercises at the end of each chapter, this invaluable reference wTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Intelligent, important, valuable, and entertaining instructions. . . . It should be read by all novice writers - and by those whose books are already published but intend to write more. * Richard Marek, former editorial director of Kirkus Reviews *Mr. Lukeman has written a definitive handbook on the pitfalls to avoid in your work. . . . I highly recommend The First Five Pages to anyone who is serious about their writing. * PlanetShowbiz.com *Tricks of the trade add to The First Five Pages' value, as do tips on grammar, style, voice and dialogue, and writing exercises. . . . A bargain when you consider all the information packed into [it]. * San Antonio Express-News *Novice and amateur writers alike will benefit from literary agent Lukeman's lucid advice in this handy, inexpensive little book. Carrying the craft of writing beyong Strunk and White's classic Elements of Style, this book should find a wide audience. . . . Writers' groups and workshops will want multiple copies. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: PRELIMINARY PROBLEMS; PART II: DIALOGUE; PART III: THE BIGGER PICTURE; EPILOGUE; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies applies developments in cognitive science to a wide range of literary texts that span multiple historical periods and numerous national literary traditions. The volume is divided into five parts: (1) Narrative, History, Imagination; (2) Emotions and Empathy; (3) The New Unconscious; (4) Empirical and Qualitative Studies of Literature; and (5) Cognitive Theory and Literary Experience. Most notably, the volume features case studies representing not just North American and British literary traditions, but also Argentinian (Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar), Chinese (Cao Xueqin), Colombian (García Márquez), Dominican (Junot Díaz), German (Theodore Fontane), French (Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert), Indian (Mirabai, Rabindranath Tagore, Kamala Markandaya, Mani Ratnam, Tito Mukhopadhyay), Mexican (Fernando del Paso), Polish (Krystof Kieslowski), Puerto Rican (Giannina Braschi), Russian (Lev Tolstoi), South African (J. M. Coetzee), and SpanisTable of ContentsLisa Zunshine, "Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies" ; Part I: Narrative, History, Imagination ; Cognitive Historicism ; 1. Mary Thomas Crane, "Cognitive Historicism: Intuition in Early Modern Thought" ; 2. Ellen Spolsky, "The Biology of Failure, the Forms of Rage, and the Equity of Revenge" ; 3. Natalie M. Phillips, "Literary Neuroscience and History of Mind: An Interdisciplinary fMRI Study of Attention and Jane Austen" ; Cognitive Narratology ; 4. Peter Rabinowitz, "Toward a Narratology of Cognitive Flavor" ; 5. H. Porter Abbott, "How Do We Read What Isn't There to Be Read? Shadow Stories and Permanent Gaps" ; 6. James Phelan, "Rhetorical Theory, Cognitive Theory, and Morrison's 'Recitatif': From Parallel Play to Productive Collaboration" ; 7. Alan Palmer, "Listen to the Stories!:" Narrative, Cognition and Country and Western Music" ; 8. Monika Fludernik, "Blending in Cartoons: The Production of Comedy" ; 9. Lisa Zunshine, "From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone from a Cognitive Perspective" ; Cognitive Queer Theory ; 10. J. Keith Vincent, "Sex on the Mind: Queer Theory Meets Cognitive Theory" ; Neuroaesthetics ; 11. Alan Richardson, "Imagination: Literary and Cognitive Intersections" ; 12. Gabrielle Starr, "Theorizing Imagery, Aesthetics and Doubly-Directed States" ; Part II: Emotions and Empathy ; Emotions in Literature, Film, and Theater ; 13. Patrick Colm Hogan, "What Literature Teaches Us About Emotion: Synthesizing Affective Science and Literary Study" ; 14. Carl Plantinga, "Facing Others: Close-ups of Faces in Narrative Film and in The Silence of the Lambs" ; 15. Noel Carroll, "Theater and the Emotion" ; Cognitive Postcolonial Studies ; 16. Patrick Colm Hogan, "The Psychology of Colonialism and Postcolonialism: Cognitive Approaches to Identity and Empathy" ; 17. Suzanne Keen, "Human Rights Discourse and Universals of Cognition and Emotion: Postcolonial Fiction" ; Decision Theory and Fiction ; 18. William Flesch, "Reading and Bargaining" ; Cognitive Disability Studies ; 19. Ralph James Savarese, "What Some Autistics Can Teach Us About Poetry: A Neurocosmopolitan Approach" ; Moral Emotions ; 20. Margrethe Bruun Vaage, "On the Repulsive Rapist, and the Difference Between Morality in Fiction and Real Life" ; 21. Fritz Alwin Breithaupt, "Empathic Sadism. How Readers Get Implicated" ; Part III: The New Unconscious ; 22. Blakey Vermeule, "The New Unconscious: A Literary Guided Tour" ; 23. Jeff Smith, "Filmmakers as Folk Psychologists: How Filmmakers Exploit Cognitive Biases as an Aspect of Film Narration, Characterization and Spectatorship" ; Part IV: Empirical and Qualitative Studies of Literature ; 24. Laura Otis, "The Value of Qualitative Research for Cognitive Literary Studies" ; 25. Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon, "Revisiting the Metaphor of 'Transportation'" ; 26. Peter Dixon and Marisa Bortolusi, "Fluctuation in Literary Reading: The Neglected Dimension of Time" ; Part V: Cognitive Theory and Literary Experience ; 27. Joshua Landy, "Mental Calisthenics and Self-Reflexive Fiction" ; 28. Elaine Auyoung, "Rethinking the Reality Effect: Detail and the Novel" ; 29. Mark Bruhn, "Time as Space in the Structure of (Literary) Experience: The Prelude" ; 30. Nancy Easterlin, "Thick Context: Novelty in Cognition and Literature"
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The University of Chicago Press Readings at the Edge of Literature
Book SynopsisMyra Jehlen's aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable to say more, which is also, for Jehlen, the threshold of the real.Trade Review"Readings at the Edge of Literature explores the contradictions that emerge whenever the ideal called America tries to identify itself in our literature. This collection is alert and alive, full of intellectual energy, stunning perceptions, and analytical brilliance." - Richard Poirier, author of Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances
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University of Chicago Press Lunar Voices Of Tragedy Poetry Fiction Thought
Book SynopsisThis text reflects on nine writers and philosophers, including Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Holderlin, in a personal exploration of the meaning of sensual love, language, tragedy and death. The moon provides a unifying image that guides a scene in which literature and philosophy become one.Table of ContentsPreface 1: The Sensuality of Tragedy, the Tragedy of Sensuality Antiquity and Modernity: The Epochal Suspension of Empedocles Time, Tragic Downgoing, Affirmation Sensual Tragedy, Tragic Sensuality 2: Stuff. Thread. Point. Fire: Holderlin's Dissolution The Reproductive Act The Bypassed Terminus At the Burning Point Digression on Heidegger and Innigkeit Hyperbollipsis 3: The Source of the Wave: Rhythm in the Languages of Poetry and Thinking Antiphon The Animating Wave Fetters Saxifrage Rhythms of Presencing and Absencing 4: The Lunar Voice of the Sister The Selenic Situation of the Sister Upon the Being and Breast of a Girl The Generation of the Unborn Evil Most Furious. Dissension between Brother and Sister How to Gain a Sister? In (the) Place of God One Geschlecht: (S)he-lovers, Sea-lovers 5: "I, an Animal of the Forest...": Blanchot's Kafka The Feminine World and Literary Ambiguity The Animal Kingdom of the Writer Solitude, Silence, and the Sister The Narrative Voice An Incarnation Openly Bearing Its Emptiness The Burrow The Moss 6: Lunar Solitudes: The Eternal Return of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Eternal Recurrence? of the Same? Solitudes of Love and Rancor The Solitude of Parchment Index
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The University of Chicago Press More than Cool Reason
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The University of Chicago Press The Scholars Art
Book SynopsisFor Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In this collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports.Trade Review"Jerome McGann is an internationally influential critic, with a long career not only of scholarly labor but of setting the agenda for critical adventures, theoretical reflection, and editorial precision, low-tech and hi-tech. The engaging array of informal, essayistic conversations in The Scholar's Art holds interest for everyone, from newcomers to those who have long been following and learning from his work, with illumination and gratitude." - Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University"
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The University of Chicago Press What Happens in Literature A Guide to Poetry
Book SynopsisIn this text, the author lays out the basics that can help us become sharper, more proficient readers. Looking at poems, novels and plays, this critical guide raises questions and offers suggestions designed to make us enjoy more fully what we are reading.
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Columbia University Press Neorealism and Its Critics
Book SynopsisNeorealism is the school of international relations that emphasizes the role of inter-state power struggles in world affairs.This volume features essays by both its most prominent exponents and its principal critics.Table of Contents1. Realism, Neorealism and the Study of World Politics, by Robert O. Keohane 2. Laws and Theories, by Kenneth N. Waltz 3. Reductionist and Systemic Theories, by Kenneth N. Waltz 4. Political Structures, by Kenneth N. Waltz 5. Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power, by Kenneth N. Waltz 6. Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity: Toward a Neorealist Synthesis, by John Gerard Ruggie 7. Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond, by Robert O. Keohane 8. Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory, by Robert W. Cox 9. The Poverty of Neorealism, by Richard K. Ashley 10. The Richness of the Tradition of Political Realism, by Robert G. Gilpin 11. Reflections on Theory of International Politics: A Response to My Critics, by Kenneth N. Waltz
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Yale University Press Culture
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Palgrave Macmillan Postcolonial Duras
Book SynopsisThe Rise Of The Spectacle: Critical Practice in a Modern Age, 1950-1958 Going International: Creoles, Criticism, and the French Colonial Subject,1960- 1996 Rationalizing Empire: Scientific Management, Colonial Education, and Cultural Placing Holocaust and Revolution: Communist Ethics, Lol V. Stein, and La Douleur Transatlantic Connections: Wright's Black Boy and Duras's Colon Girl Diaspora and Cultural Displacement: Linda Lê and Tran Anh Hung Works CitedTable of ContentsThe Rise Of The Spectacle: Critical Practice in a Modern Age, 1950-1958 Going International: Creoles, Criticism, and the French Colonial Subject,1960- 1996 Rationalizing Empire: Scientific Management, Colonial Education, and Cultural Placing Holocaust and Revolution: Communist Ethics, Lol V. Stein, and La Douleur Transatlantic Connections: Wright's Black Boy and Duras's Colon Girl Diaspora and Cultural Displacement: Linda Lê and Tran Anh Hung Works Cited
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Palgrave MacMillan UK CGJung and Literary Theory The Challenge from Fiction
Book SynopsisJung and Literary Theory remedies a significant omission in literary studies by doing for Jung and poststructuralist literary theories what has been achieved for Freud and Lacan.Trade Review'At last Jung, immensely fruitful Jung, is being connected with contemporary literary theory and writing. About time! Susan Rowland's astute and incisive study bridges all sorts of gaps that needed bridging. And as a plus, she brings all sorts of new insights into two unlikely bedfellows but equally wonderful writers, Doris Lessing and Michèle Roberts.' - Nicole Ward Jouve 'Just as feminist thought made Freud newly useful for a much wider range of thought and literature, Susan Rowland's book is an important step in opening up Jung's thought for gender-aware criticism. It combines a thoughtful and unpolemic account of the misogyny of Jung's theory together with lucid recuperation of the theory to redress the patriarchal constructions of women and to produce a site for feminist theory in the creation of culture.' - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Senior Lecturer in English, University of LiverpoolTable of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Traditional Jungian Literary Criticism Jung for Literature and Literary Theory Jung: Political, Cultural and Historical Context A Jungian Reader Theory: Alchemy and The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke Jung and Feminist Narrative: Romantic Virgins in the Early Novels of Michèle Roberts Hysterical Jung: Michèle Roberts' The Book of Mrs Noah and In the Red Kitchen Jung, Literature and Fascism: Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley (Post)Colonial Jung: Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos C.G. Jung and Literary Theory Notes Bibliography Glossary Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Sappho History
Book SynopsisIntroduction Mary Robinson's Attitudes Picturing Sappho Fragments of an Elegy The Woman Poet Sings Sappho's Last Song Poisonous Honey Sappho's Fatal Book Speaking Spaces Epilogue: Virginia's Sapphists Bibliography IndexTrade Review'The Sappho History is a compelling and original account of Sappho's cultural transformations over the past few centuries. At once lucid, learned, and creative, Margaret Reynolds's study powerfully demonstrates why this iconic figure has held such a strong pull on the imagination and emotions of such a wide range of writers, readers, and artists.' - Professor Kate Flint, Department of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA 'Sappho as symbol, as poet and muse, as poetic and personal possibility, is wonderfully worked in this subtly allusive, academically exciting and poetically powerfuly study.' The Times '...an extremely interesting book.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Her new book is an enjoyable introduction to what has to become an essential topic for classicists interested in reception, for scholars interested in Hellenism or classicism in European vernacular literature, and especially for feminists historians and queer theorists.' - Emily Wilson, London Review of Books 'This is a beautifully written, passionate and poetic book. It has important things to say about women's writing, about love, about lyric poetry, about myth and celebrity, and about elegy and loss. And it joins a growing number of books that demonstrate that Victorian Hellenism was no dusty, dry affair but complex and fascinating' - Jennifer Wallace, The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction Mary Robinson's Attitudes Picturing Sappho Fragments of an Elegy The Woman Poet Sings Sappho's Last Song Poisonous Honey Sappho's Fatal Book Speaking Spaces Epilogue: Virginia's Sapphists Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Achille Mbembe
Book SynopsisAchille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies. Oliver Coates introduces key concepts within Mbembeâs thought in relation to African history, literature, and philosophy. This accessible guide: Considers examples from African literature in Arabic, English, French, and Yoruba, and shows the relevance of Mbembeâs thought beyond Anglophone writing; Explores how Mbembeâs work relates to contemporary global events and charts Mbembeâs intellectual development between Cameroon, France, and the USA; Discusses core concepts from across Mbembeâs career, including the positioning of Africa within Western and Afrodiasporic thought, the colony, postcolony, necropolitics, decolonization, Afropolitanism, technology, and the environment; Reveals Mbembeâs engagement with key global events, including the #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLives
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Empty Nurseries Queer Occupants Reproduction and the Future in Ibsens Late Plays Studies in Childhood 1700 to the Present
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Studying Lacans Seminar VII
Book SynopsisStudying Lacan's Seminar VII offers a contemporary, critically informed set of analyses of Lacan's ethics seminar and astute reflections about what Lacan's ethics offer to the field of psychoanalytic thought today. The volume interrogates the seminar with fresh voices and situated curiosities and perspectives, making for a compellingly exciting range of explorations of the crucial matters related to an ethics of psychoanalysis. The chapters question and tease out the paradoxes Lacan draws attention to in his seminar of 19591960, and in addition, they offer radical engagements with the seminar in light of theories of racism, inequality, capitalism, education, and subjectivity. The key elements in Lacan's seminar are explained, debated, and reconsidered with Antigone, das Ding, and the inevitable ne céder pas sur son désir duly unpacked, examined, and ruminated upon.Studying Lacan's Seminar VII will be of interest to psychoanalytic scholaTrade ReviewLacan’s promotion of desire as the crucial concept of an ethics for psychoanalysis, has transformed scholarly inquiry on ethics tout court. This exciting and indispensable volume brings together contributions by major theorists to offer a wealth of original approaches to the most challenging questions raised by Lacan’s seventh seminar. Far from a compilation of received wisdom on Lacan, this volume approaches the seminar with fresh perspectives and invigorating explorations of crucial matters for an ethics of psychoanalysis. Can there be an ethics without positing a sovereign good or a categorical imperative? Can an ethics of desire be anything other than hedonism? How does a theory of jouissance elucidate the relationship between good and evil? What can Lacan’s ideas on courtly love teach us about racism or the concept of das Ding help us understand about our investment in commodity fetishism? Is Antigone’s fidelity to her desire an example of a psychoanalytic ethics or a cautionary tale about the death drive? In astute and rigorously argued discussion, these essays offer both superb guidance to the seminar’s arguments and a rich demonstration of the value of psychoanalysis for contemporary thinking on ethics. - Molly Anne Rothenberg, Professor Emeritus of English, Tulane UniversityWhat are the ethics of psychoanalysis, and what is its relation to the desire to do good? This impressive and illuminating collection of essays provides not only careful readings of Lacan’s challenging seminar but also brilliant interpretations of how concepts as enigmatic and provocative as das Ding and ‘not giving ground relative to desire’ can be applied to the practice of psychoanalysis and to political problems. The authors in this book do not stop at pointing out key ways in which the desire to do good actually enacts harm, but shed fresh new light on ways ‘The Ethics of Psychoanalysis’ can illuminate radical ethical stances within psychoanalytic praxis and with respect to racism, social inequalities, and capitalist relations of production. The price to pay for following your desire to read this book is well worth it! - Stephanie Swales, Psychoanalyst, and Associate Professor University of DallasLacan’s Seminar VII is without any doubt one of his richest and most intriguing seminars. From the commentaries on Heidegger, das Ding, de Sade, Kant, courtly love, to the extensive commentary on Antigone, the seminar virtually bristles with unexpected, audacious and groundbreaking ideas that have irrevocably changed the way we look at these authors and notions. This volume not only lives up to the challenge of commenting on such a work, but also retains its exciting appeal and conceptual boldness. It is not merely an academic discussion of Lacan's ideas and concepts, but effectively brings these ideas to life in our contemporary context. What is a “Supreme-Being-in-Evil”? Why is ethics different from morality? Could courtly love be related to hysteria? Could it be related to racism and “the sublimation of race”? How does das Ding relate to the origin of value? What are the persistent paradoxes of desire? And what about the price of freedom? This panoramic overview of the contributions cannot do them justice, of course, but it can certainly alert us to the fact that something truly significant and thought-provoking is happening here. - Alenka Zupančič, Professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the Institute for Philosophy in Ljubljana and the European Graduate School, SwitzerlandIs it even possible to imagine a better team of commentators to tackle Lacan’s Seminar VII afresh? Studying Lacan’s Seminar VII comprises the top echelon of Lacan scholars, offering not only definitive but also highly original perspectives on those topics - evil, morality, courtly love, tragedy, sublimation, freedom, desire - that makes The Ethics of Psychoanalysis amongst the most impactful of all Lacan’s seminars. The retroactive influence of these essays - which traverse the domains of philosophy, culture, politics and the clinic - is such that the seminar is made newly vital, newly essential to any questioning of the ethical in the 21st century. - Derek Hook, Clinical Supervisor and Professor, Duquesne UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on the EditorNotes on ContributorsEditor’s Introduction1 Supreme Being-in-Evil, Criminal Good, and Criminal Desire: Lacan After Antigone, After Sade, After KantLorenzo Chiesa2 Ethics Contra Morality in Lacan’s Seminar VII (and Implications for Contemporary Education)Jones Irwin3 Courtly Love, the Hommosexuelle , and the Hysteric in The Ethics of LacanSheila L. Cavanagh4 The Sublimation of Race: From the Courtly Lady to the Derelict White BodySheldon George5 Ethics Amid Commodities: Das Ding and the Origin of ValueTODD Mcgowan6 On Tragedy and Desire in the Ethics of PsychoanalysisDany Nobus7 The Price of Freedom: On Not Giving Ground Relative to DesireSarah Meehan O’Callaghan8 While Not Having the Last Word . . .Calum Neill
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Wounded Researcher
Book SynopsisThe Wounded Researcher addresses the crises of epistemological violence when we fail to consider that a researcher is addressed by and drawn into a work through his or her complexes. Using a Jungian-Archetypal perspective, this book argues that the bodies of knowledge we create degenerate into ideologies, which are the death of critical thinking, if the complexity of the research process is ignored. Writing with soul in mind invites us to consider how we might write down the soul in writing up our research.Trade Review‘Soul work and academic research have been so split apart that both have been lamed – soul psychology without intellectual respectability and scholarly research utterly irrelevant to the soul’s concerns. Romanyshyn’s book not only follows from all his earlier diligent explorations in the Western history of soul, but charts a course that joins the integrity of scholarly work with devotion to the soul’s vital needs. New winds, new directions, new methods.’ – James Hillman‘In this sparkling new book, Romanyshyn re-imagines depth psychology as a praxis of "research that keeps soul in mind" in several ways at once: as a practice of mourning what has been lost in one’s experience; as an alchemical hermeneutics that consists in transference dialogues with one’s unconscious psyche; and as an ethics of self-examination by the researcher that acknowledges his or her wounded state in the complexes that underlie perception and judgment. Building on the premise that the chasm between psyche and nature must be bridged, Romanyshyn re-visions both therapy and theory. Therapy becomes much more sensitive to the imagistic in its attention to reverie; theory reinstates the archetypal, collective and psychoid unconscious as primary reality. This exciting book takes bold steps that are as original as they are timely.’ – Edward S. Casey, SUNY at Stony Brook; Pacifica Graduate Institute‘Like Orpheus who steps into the gaps of seemingly unbridgeable differences, Romanyshyn has alchemically transformed our understanding of what it means to do truly profound and ethical psychological research. This groundbreaking contribution to the field of Jungian/archetypal psychology and hermeneutic phenomenology could well begin a revolution in the way psychological research is imagined and practiced.’ – Stanton Marlan, Jungian psychoanalyst, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, Duquesne University‘Romanyshyn engagingly explores the gap between the motivation to do embodied, soulful research and the failure of language to communicate the unknowable core that can give meaning to a research project. For students on the dissertation journey, this book is a map that makes it possible to travel in territory traditionally excluded from academia. Romanyshyn defends his controversial proposition with passion and a powerful dedication to introducing eros into academic research.’ – Ginette Paris, Core Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute, author of The Wisdom of the Psyche: Beyond NeuroscienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Preface. Prologue: Falling into the Work. Introduction: Towards a Poetics of the Research Process. Part I: Theory. Soul and the Complex of Psychology. Re-search: Under the Spell of Orpheus. An Imaginal Approach to Re-search. Part II: Process. Re-search as Vocation. The Transference Field between the Researcher and the Work. The Transference Field: Student Examples. Part III: Method. Recovering the Soul of Method. Hermeneutics and the Circle of Understanding. Towards a Hermeneutics of Deep Subjectivity. Alchemical Hermeneutics: Part One. Alchemical Hermeneutics: Part Two. Part IV: Implications. Writing down the Soul. Towards an Ethical Epistemology. Prologue: Letting Go of the Work. Appendix. Notes. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry
Book SynopsisComprised of contributions from leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition. This volume grounds itself in the present moment and, from it, examines the transformations of the fifteen-century Arabic poetic tradition through readings, re-readings, translations, reformulations, and co-optations. Furthermore, this collection aims to deconstruct the artificial modern/pre-modern divide and to present the Arabic poetic practice as live and urgent, shaped by the experiences and challenges of the twenty-first century and at the same time in constant conversation with its long tradition. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry actively seeks to destabilize binaries such as that of East-West in contributions that shed light on the interactions of theTable of ContentsPrefaceArabic Poetry in Late Antiquity: The Rāʾiyya of Imruʾ al-QaysPamela KlasovaParody and the Creation of the Muḥdath GhazalAhmad AlmallahDescription of Architecture in Classical Arabic Poetry from the Perspective of Interarts StudiesAkiko SumiAndalusī Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry: “Zajal 145” by Ibn Quzmān (d. AH 555 / AD 1160)James T. MonroeAndalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic TraditionRoss BrannWa-matā ilā dhāka al-maqāmi wuṣūlu: Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of MoroccoCarl DavilaIbn Khamīs and the Poetics of Nostalgia in the Tilimsāniyyāt (Poems on Tlemcen)Nizar F. HermesThe Homeland at the Threshold of World LiteratureYaseen NooraniKaʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s PoetryC. Ceyhun ArslanLewis Awad Breaks Poetry’s Back in Plutoland (1947)Levi ThompsonThe Ṣaʿālīk Poets of Modern Iraq: The Vagabonds Ḥusayn Mardān and Jān DammūSuneela MubayiCinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic ImagerySayed ElsisiDisturbing Vision: Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma and Semiotics of Denial in Modern and Contemporary Arabic PoetryClarissa BurtThe Poet as Palm Tree: Muḥammad al-Thubaytī and the Reimagining of Saudi IdentityHatem Alzahrani
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond
Book SynopsisCaught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women. As an alternative to dystopian futures that seem increasingly inevitable, ecofeminist science fiction helps us conjure utopias that promote environmental sustainability based on more egalitarian human relationships.Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction explores the fictional worlds of such canonical novelists as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Joan Slonczewski, as well as those of lesser-known science fiction writers, asTrade Review"In an era of planetary crisis, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction offers a smart, urgent alternative to our collective downward spiral, not only offering fiery critique of our selfish and self-destructive present but galvanizing, positive visions of ‘what futures we might hope for.’" --Gerry Canavan, Associate Professor of English, Marquette University and co-editor of Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction"Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond is a timely and welcome contribution to ecofeminist studies in the age of climate change and the Anthropocene, covering an impressive range of anglophone feminist speculative fictions. The spirited contributions provide powerful insights into both dystopian and utopian visions of our past, current, and future trajectories, urgently highlighting the intersection of patriarchal and anthropocentric domination of women and nature. These ecofeminist imaginaries compellingly provide us with much needed glimpses of hope." --Dunja M. Mohr, Professor of English, University of Erfurt and author of Worlds Apart?: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias"Ecofeminist writers have long used science fiction as a futuristic and sometimes other-worldly medium through which to imagine and energize social and ecological solutions in this world, the one we inhabit here and now. Doug Vakoch's latest collection encompasses a dazzling array of international scholarly voices, considering the work of eminent and less-well-known women science fiction writers from the 19th century to the present. This book is an exciting and timely contribution to the field of ecocriticism." --Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho and author of Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing"With twelve distinctive chapters that explore various ecofeminist dimensions of both dystopic fictional worlds and science fiction utopias of distant planets, this impressive new collection makes us imagine the worst and the best of times here on Earth: a world in environmental turbulence or ecological equilibrium. Only when the oppression of women and the exploitation of the more-than-human environments vanish, is the second option more likely to be our reality." --Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University and co-editor of International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism."I highly recommend this collection of insightful studies of imaginative fiction addressing human and nonhuman communities. The feminist perspective helps us envision ways to sustain our global ecosystem beyond the many threats of our present day." --Joan Slonczewski, Professor of Biology, Kenyon College and author of A Door into Ocean"Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond presents work by a diverse group of scholars whose analyses together demonstrate how feminist authors have mobilized the genre tools of science fiction both to caution and to hope. Especially at a time like ours—a time of great social and environmental distress—readers will come away from this book with a reinforced appreciation for the critical and creative insight of Octavia E. Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others in the canon of feminist and ecological science fiction. Too, readers will find adroit interpretations of works they have yet to encounter, no doubt inspiring an even deeper recognition of the historical intersections among feminism, environmentalism, and science fiction." --Eric C. Otto, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Florida Gulf Coast University and author of Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism"Situated within the broad interdisciplinary context of the environmental humanities, Dystopias and Utopias of Earth and Beyond presents an eminently useful addition to ecofeminist studies of science fiction and dystopianism. Featuring contributions from an international cohort of scholars, the collection harnesses the increasing momentum of environmental literary studies at this crucial juncture in the history of the biosphere." --John Charles Ryan, Southern Cross University and co-editor of The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal WorldTable of ContentsForeword Vandana SinghPreface Douglas A. VakochIntroduction Patrick D. MurphyI. Climate Change and Future Earth Dystopias1. An Ecofeminist Reading of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of Talents Hatice Övgü Tüzün2. An Ecofeminist Treatment of Nourishment and Feeding in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy Debra Wain3. Margaret Atwood’s Ecodystopic SF: Approaching Ethics, Gender, and Ecology Izabel F. O. Brandão and Ildney Cavalcanti4. Ecofeminist (Post) Ice-Age Ecotopia: Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann Books Julia Kuznetski5. Ecofeminist Climate Fiction: Merlinda Bobis’s Locust Girl Iris RalphII. Utopias on Earth and Beyond6. "Extinction is Forever": Ecofeminism and Apocalypse in Louise Lawrence’s Young Adult Short Fiction Michelle Deininger and Gemma Scammell7. Ecofeminist Utopian Speculations in Henrietta Augusta Dugdale’s A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883), Catherine Helen Spence’s A Week in the Future (1888), Mary Anne Moore-Bentley’s A Woman of Mars; Or, Australia’s Enfranchised Woman (1901), and Joyce Vincent’s The Celestial Hand: A Sensational Story Nicole Anae8. Alien Ecofeminist Societies: "Sharers" in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean Irene Sanz Alonso9. Re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s SF: The Daoist Yin Principle in Ecofeminist Novels Amy Chan Kit-sze10. Keeping Grows; Giving Flows: Reciprocal Relations and the Gift of Always Coming Home Karl Zuelke11. "The Revolt of the Mother": Romanticizing Nature and Rejecting Science in Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground and Other Feminist Utopias Christy Tidwell
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Taylor & Francis Fat Oppression around the World
Book SynopsisThis book offers cutting-edge, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research in the blossoming field of fat studies. The aim is to generate discussion about the complexity of fat oppression as a phenomenon and social force that permeates interactions both at an institutional and interpersonal level, impacting the lived experiences of fat people. Each chapter has been carefully selected to create a space to showcase the engaging intersectional and interdisciplinary fat studies scholarship that is taking place globally. This engaging book will take the reader around the world by examining: weight-loss classes in Ireland, Jamaican womenâs views of health and fatness, the difficulties of immigrating while fat to New Zealand, fat activism in Finnish media, being fat and pregnant in Australia, a girls' camp in the United States, and the experiences of fat hatred felt by queer fat women in Canada. This book will inspire fat-studies scholars globally to incorporate intersectional apTable of ContentsIntroduction - Theorizing fat oppression: Intersectional approaches and methodological innovationsAriane Prohaska and Jeannine A. Gailey1. Crafting weight stigma in slimming classes: A case study in IrelandJacqueline O’Toole2. Understanding fatness: Jamaican women’s constructions of healthClaudia Barned and Kieran O’Doherty3. Frozen: A fat tale of immigrationCat Pausé4. Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny’s Life ChangeAnna Puhakka5. "You will face discrimination": Fatness, motherhood, and the medical professionJennifer Lee6. Rock and rolls: Exploring body positivity at Girls Rock CampTrisha L. Crawshaw7. Mapping the circulation of fat hatredJen Rinaldi, Carla Rice, Crystal Kotow and Emma Lind
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Taylor & Francis Ltd English Literary Criticism
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1951, this volume covers the transition period between the years of Renaissance influence and the dawn of 19th Century Romanticism. The book analyses the theories and judgments of various critics and their bearing on literary appreciation. The opening chapter concentrates on the account of French doctrines of the 17th Century which is essential as the necessary background of English critical activities for the best part of two centuries. Later chapters discuss the main lines of the development and the more significant critics. Trade Review‘…this solid and useful book on this great period in English criticism should have contemporary appeal beyond the classrooms… Professor Atkins’s comments on individual authors and works are always judicious… his history is likely to be permanently valuable.’ The New Statesman‘The history of criticism is tangled, often repetitive… and Professor Atkins has once more sorted out the threads during a period, with a thoroughness readers of his volume on English Renaissance criticism will recognise…’ The Spectator‘…a scholar of wide learning and accomplishment…’ Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. The Break with Renascence Tradition: New French Influences i) Neo-Classicism ii) More Liberal Doctrines 2. The Transitional Stage: Davenant, Hobbes, Cowley, Sprat and Dryden i) Poetry ii) Prose Style iii) Drama 3. New French Influences: Rymer, Mulgrave, Temple, Wotton, Phillips, Wolseley and Collier i) Influence of Rapin and Boileau ii) Reaction to Perrault and Fontenelle iii) Interest in Early Native Literature iv) Contemporary Problems 4. ‘The Father of English Criticism’ Dryden i) Nature and Art of Poetry ii) Forms of Poetry: Epic iii) Critical Standards and Judgments 5. Neo-Classicism Challenged: Dennis, Addison, Pope, Swift, Welsted and Blackwell 6. The Widening Outlook: Lowth, Young, Gray, the Wartons, Hurd i) Influence of ‘Longinus’ ii) Antiquarian Interests 7. Shakespeare Criticism: Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Johnson, Kames, Mrs. Montagu and Morgann i) Work of Editors ii) Shakespeare Studies 8. The Great Cham of Literature: Johnson i) Critical Standards and Methods ii) Literary Theory 9. Critical Cross-Currents: Fielding, Sheridan, Cowper, Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke, Kames, Reynolds and Beattie i) Littérateurs ii) Philosophers iii) Art Critics iv)Minor Contributors 10. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Failure Conrads Fiction 20 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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Taylor & Francis Postmodernist Fiction
Book SynopsisIn this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction.Trade Review"This is one of the most lively and lucid studies of contemporary fiction around. Whether or not you agree with his provocative definition of the postmodern, McHale's argument is always engaging, bold and forceful." Linda Hutcheon"Not only does the critical jargon not get in the way of his thesis, but McHale even uses examples you've heard of ... A useful and comprehensive examination of the nature of The Beast."City Limits"McHale ... has written a brilliant, forceful and lucid defence of his own view."John Fletcher, Journal of European StudiesTable of ContentsPart 1: Preliminaries 1. From modernist to postmodernist fiction: change of dominant 2. Some ontologies of fiction Part 2: Worlds 3. In the Zone 4. Worlds in collusion 5. A world next door 6. Real, compared to what? Part 3: Construction 7. Worlds under erasure 8. Chinese-box worlds Part 5. Words 9. Tropological worlds 10. Styled worlds 11. Worlds of discourse Part 5: Groundings 12. Worlds on paper 13. Authors: dead and posthumous 14. Love and death in the post-modernist novel
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Julia Kristeva Essential Guides for Literary
Book SynopsisOne of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her ideas on:*semiotics and symbolism*abjection*melancholia*feminism*revolt.McAfee provides clear explanations of the more difficult aspects of Kristeva's theories, helpfully placing her ideas in the relevant theoretical context, be it literary theory, psychoanalysis, linguistics, gender studies or philosophy, and demonstrates the impact of her critical interventions in these areas.Julia Kristeva is the essential guide for readers who are approaching the work of this challenging thinker for the first time, and provides the ideal opportunity for those with more knowledge to re-familiarise themselves with Kristeva's key terms.Trade Review'These little books are certainly helpful study guides. They are clear, concise and complete. They are ideal for undergraduates studying for exams or writing essays and for lifelong learners wanting to expand their knowledge of a given author or idea.' - Beth Lord, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsWhy Kristeva?; Part 1 Key Ideas; Chapter 1 Semiotic And Symbolic; Chapter 2 The Subject In Process; Chapter 3 Abjection; Chapter 4 Melancholia; Chapter 5 Herethics; Chapter 6 Women’s Time; Chapter 7 Revolt; Chapter 9 After Kristeva; further Further Reading; wor Works Cited; Index;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Louis Althusser
Book SynopsisBest known for his theories of ideology and its impact on politics and culture, Louis Althusser revolutionized Marxist theory. His writing changed the face of literary and cultural studies, and continues to influence political modes of criticism such as feminism, postcolonialism and queer theory. Beginning with an introduction to the context of Marxist theory, this book goes on to explain:* how Althusser interpreted and developed Marx's work * the political implications of reading * ideology and its significance for culture and criticism * Althusser's aesthetic criticism of literature, theatre and art. Placing Althusser's key ideas in the context of earlier Marxist thought, as well as tracing their development and impact, Luke Ferretter presents a wide-ranging yet accessible guide, ideal for those new to the work of this influential critical thinker. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Why Althusser? Key Ideas 1. The Cornerstones: Marx and the Theory of Culture 2. The Revolution in Theory: Althusser’s Marxism 3. The Politics of Reading: Essays on Interpretation 4. The Politics of Culture: Essays on Ideology 5. Materialist Aesthetics: Essays on Literature and Art 6. Posthumous Confessions: The Future Lasts a Long Time After Althusser Further Reading Works Cited
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performativity
Book SynopsisDo our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications? Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the languages we speak might be performative' in just this way, and their thinking on the topic has had an important impact on a broad range of academic disciplines.In this accessible introduction to a sometimes complex field, James Loxley: offers a concise and original account of critical debates around the idea of performativity traces the history of the concept through the work of such influential theorists as J. L. Austin, John Searle, Stanley Fish, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man and Judith Butler examines the implications of performativity for fields such as literary and cultural theory, philosophy, performance studies, and the theory of gender and sexuality. emphasises the political and etTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. From the Performative to the Speech Act: J.L. Austin 2. Philosophy and Ordinary Language: Austin and Cavell 3. A General Theory of Speech Acts: Searle 4. Speech Acts, Fiction and Deconstruction: Searle, Fish and Derrida 5. Performativity, Iterability and Politics: Derrida and De Man 6. Being Performative: Butler 7. Performativity and Performance Theory
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Taylor & Francis Theory After Theory
Book SynopsisThis volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today.Trade Review'Arguably the most significant contribution of the volume Theory After 'Theory' to the increasingly deterritorialized debates surrounding the future of critical theory across the disciplines is to have brought before the public radical probings into fundamental concepts and modes of thinking that expose the gaps and neuralgic points both of "high theory" and of the mainstays in contemporary thought, soliciting a re-thinking of vital areas addressed by ethcial, political, and aesthetic criticism.' -Hungarian Journal of English and American StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction - Jane Elliott and Derek Attridge Assessing the Field 1. Philosophy After Theory: Transdisciplinarity and the New - Peter Osborne 2. Theory as a Research Program—the Very Idea - Cary Wolfe 3. Theory after Critical Theory - William Rasch 4. Extinct Theory - Claire Colebrook Between theory and practice: affect, will, judgment 5. Perception Attack: The Force to Own Time - Brian Massumi 6. The Will of the People: Dialectical Voluntarism and the Subject of PoliticsPeter Hallward 7. The Persistence of Hope: Critical Theory and Enduring in Late Liberalism - Elizabeth Povinelli 8. The Practice of Judgement: Hannah Arendt’s ‘Copernican Revolution’ - Linda Zerilli Rethinking the politics of representation 9. When Reflexivity Becomes Porn: Mutations of a Modernist Theoretical PracticeRey Chow 10. The Canny Subaltern - Eva Cherniavsky 11. ‘Theory After Postcolonial Theory: Rethinking the Work of Mimesis’- Simon Gikandi Biopolitics and ethics 12. After Life: Swarms, Demons, and the Antinomies of Immanence - Eugene Thacker 13. Inclining the Subject: Natality, Alterity, Ethics - Adriana Cavarero 14. The Person and Human Life- Roberto Esposito Renewing the aesthetic 15. The Wrong Turn of Aesthetics - Henry Staten 16. Literature after theory, or: the intellective turnLaurent Dubreuil 17. The Liberal Aesthetic - Amanda Anderson Philosophy after theory 18. The Arche-Materiality of Time: Deconstruction, Speculative Materialism, and Radical Atheism - Martin Hagglünd 19. Concepts, Objects, Gems - Ray Brassier 20. The Pharmacology of the Spirit - Bernard Stiegler
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Taylor & Francis Spatiality
Book SynopsisSpatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the âspatial turnâ presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history.Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today, providing: An overview of the spatial turn across literary theory, from historicism and postmodernism to postcolonialism and globalization Introductions to the major theorists of spatiality, including Michel Foucault, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Erich Auerbach, Georg LukÃcs, and Fredric Jameson Analysis of critical perspectives on spatiality, such as the writer as map-maker, literature of the city and urban space, and the concepts of literary geography, cartographics and geocriticism. This clear and engaging study presents readers with a thought provoking and illuminating guide to the literature and criticism of âspaceâ. Trade Review"Until Tally, no one had thought to explore contemporary theory more generally for the traces of spatial practice and thinking, something he has done with extraordinary thoroughness and intelligence, as well as with a good deal of originality. I would now consider his book on to the subject an indispensable introduction to the "spatial turn" of modern philosophy and criticism."Fredric Jameson, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: You Are Here 1. The Spatial Turn 2. Literary Cartography 3. Literary Geography 4. Geocriticism Conclusion: Other Spaces
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Taylor & Francis Ways of Reading
Book SynopsisWays of Reading is a best-selling textbook for undergraduate students of English Language and English Literature, providing readers with the tools to analyse and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts. Six sections, comprising twenty five self-contained units, cover: techniques of analysis and problem-solving language variation attributing meaning poetic uses of language narrative drama and performance texts The book combines the linguistic and literary background to each topic with discussion of examples from books, poems, magazines and online sources, and links those examples to follow-up practical activities and a list of titles for further reading. This fourth edition has been redesigned and updated throughout, with many fresh examples and exercises. Further reading suggestions have been brought up tTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition:'Ways of Reading is a valuable and immensely usable book ... More than fills a major gap.' – Literature & Language'This is a clear and incisive introduction to main issues in the critical study of literature.' - Robin Jarvis, University of the West of England, UKPraise for the third edition:'...ground-breaking... The academic underpinning is just where it should be, in the background, allowing prominence for the much more important idea that looking at reading in new ways gives new insights and new pleasures... This is an ideal book for teachers of English at all levels... Third editions can sometimes seem to be marginally altered versions of the previous editions. It is certainly not the case here. Do read this superb book.' - Adrian Beard, NATE'Ways of Reading is the one textbook that no undergraduate student of English can afford to do without. Whether for their essays in literary criticism or literary theory, this book is an invaluable resource providing expert guidance and relevant information. Each chapter offers clear explanations of theoretical concepts and practical applications of interpretive techniques. This richly revised fourth edition confirms its ever-rising popularity as a key textbook in English Studies, with exciting new material and fresh examples.'Jean-Jacques Weber, University of Luxembourg'Ways of Reading is by far the most lucid and lively guide to the skills of reading. Beginners and advanced students alike will find clearly set out in this book the concepts and techniques, examples and exercises, that can help them become active and critical readers of all kinds of literary and media discourse.'Douglas Kerr, Hong Kong University‘This comprehensive introduction to the study of literature deftly balances a focus on practical techniques with a considered handling of theoretical approaches. Undergraduate students – and their lecturers – will welcome in particular its clarity, topical examples and accessibility.’ Julie Scanlon, Northumbria University, UK Table of ContentsSection 1: Basic techniques and problem-solving 1. Asking Questions as a Way into Reading 2. Using Information Sources 3.Analysing Units of Structure 4. Recognizing Genre Section 2: Language variation 5. Language and Time 6. Language and Place 7. Language and Context: Register 8. Language and Gender 9. Language and Society Section 3: Attributing meaning 10. Metaphor and Figurative Language 11. Irony 12. Juxtaposition 13. Allusion and Intertextuality 14. Authorship and Intention 15. Mode of Address: Positioning the Reader Section 4: Poetic form 16. Rhyme and Sound Patterning 17. Verse, Metre and Rhythm 18. Parallelism 19. Deviation Section 5: Narrative 20. Narrative 21. Narrative Point of View 22. Speech and Narration 23. Narrative Realism Section 6: Drama and performance 24. Ways of Reading Drama 25. Performance and the Page
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Taylor & Francis Rebirth of Rhetoric
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Critical Theory The Key Concepts Routledge Key
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction KEY CONCEPTS A-Z Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading Lacans Écrits From The Freudian Thing to
Book SynopsisThe Ãcrits was Jacques Lacanâs single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading Lacanâs Ãcrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacanâs Ãcrits to be published in English. An invaluable document in the history of psychoanalysis, and one of the most challenging intellectual works of the 20th Century, Lacanâs Ãcrits still today begs the interpretative engagement of clinicians, scholars, philosophers and cultural theorists. The three volumes of Reading Lacanâs Ãcrits offer just this: a series of systematic paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries â by some of the worldâs most renowned Lacanian analysts and scholars â on the complete edition of the Ãcrits, inclusive of lesser known articles such as âKant with Sadeâ, âThe Youth of Gideâ, âScience and Truthâ, âPresentation on Transferenceâ and âBeyond the Reality Principle'. The originality and importance of Lacanâs Ãcrits to psychoanalysis and intellectual history is matched only by the textâs notorious inaccessibility. Reading Lacanâs Ãcrits is an indispensable companion piece and reference-text for clinicians and scholars exploring Lacan's magnum opus. Not only does it contextualize, explain and interrogate Lacan's arguments, it provides multiple interpretative routes through this most labyrinthine of texts. Reading Lacanâs Ãcrits provides an incisive and accessible companion for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice, as well as philosophers, cultural theorists and literary, social science and humanities researchers who wish to draw upon Lacanâs pivotal work.Trade Review"It all began with an improbable wager: ask 35 scholars to each write something intelligible about every single paragraph in one of the texts included in Jacques Lacan's magnum opus, Écrits, so as to generate a commentary on the entire 800-page volume. And yet, after years of preparation, the wager has paid off: we have here useful and at times brilliant examples of textual explication! Cryptic formulations are lucidly unpacked, and mysterious references are provided, giving the serious reader myriad keys to fascinating texts"-Bruce Fink, translator of Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English"Let’s face it: Lacan’s Écrits, one of the classical texts of modern thought are unreadable - they remain impenetrable if we just pick the thick volume up and start to read it. Neill, Vanheule and Hook provide what we were all waiting for: a detailed commentary which does not aim to replace reading ECRITS but to render it possible. The three volumes do wonder, their effect is no less than magic: when, after getting stuck at a particularly dense page of Écrits, we turn to the corresponding pages in the commentary and then return to the page of Écrits which pushed us to madness, the same lines appear in all the clarity of their line of thought. It is thus a safe prediction that Neill, Vanheule and Hook’s commentary will become a kind of permanent companion of the English translation of Écrits, indispensable for everyone who wants to find her or his way in its complex texture."-Slavoj Zizek"Lacan’s teaching is notoriously hard to access and comprehend. But this is done on purpose: to understanding the psyche, the subject and its interaction with socio-political reality cannot be a piecemeal operation. One needs to take into account the paradoxical and often counterintuitive effects of unconscious mechanisms, and of the extimate operation of the real within and beyond the symbolic and the imaginary. Coupling exegesis with multi-level interpretations, the numerous texts in this volume advance a commentary, both informative and suggestive, that will immensely help readers navigate the archipelago of the Lacanian Écrits, without reducing in the least their complexity and inspirational value, without sacrificing their ability to surprise, provoke and jolt us out of our complacency."-Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki"These essays will be an invaluable resource not only for those approaching the Écrits for the first time but also for seasoned readers. Broad in scope yet following the detail of the text, they help guide us through Lacan's difficult prose, elucidating, contextualising and clarifying, and reminding us time and time again of the precision, power and originality of his rethinking of psychoanalysis".-Darian LeaderTable of ContentsList of Jacques Lacan’s Seminars; Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l'écriture Derek Hook, Calum Neill & Stijn Vanheule 1 The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis Adrian Johnston 2 Psychoanalysis and Its Teaching Michael Miller 3 The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956 Patricia Gherovici & Manya Steinkoler 4 The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud Calum Matheson 5 On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis Stijn Vanheule 6 The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power Reitske Meganck & Ruth Inslegers 7 Remarks on Daniel Lagache's Presentation: "Psychoanalysis and Personality Structure" Ed Pluth
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Aphorism and Other Short Forms
Book SynopsisThe aphorism captures a huge amount of truth, meaning or wit in a very short statement. It has been used and studied from classical times to contemporary theory and takes on a new relevance when we look at today's communication media such as text messages and twitter. This concise guide offers an overview of: The history of the aphorism to the present day Its relation to other short forms, including the fragment, the proverb, the maxim, the haiku, the epigram and the quotation The use of the aphorism by authors such as Heraclitus, Bacon, La Rochefoucauld, Chuang Tzu, Blake, Schlegel, Emerson, Nietzsche, Wilde, Woolf and Barthes The interdisciplinary nature of the aphorism, bringing together science, philosophy, literature and religion Exploring all the key aspects of the form, Ben Grant guides readers through this large and lively area in a wide-ranging and critically informed study of the aphorism.Trade Review"This book has no shortage of spark. Grant combines his (exceptionally good) historical overview with cross-cultural comparisons." -- Noreen Masud, The Cambridge Quartley "Deft, short, sharp, concise, often witty, crammed with scholarship, and instict with wisdom, The Aphorism and Other Short Forms certainly shares many of the qualities of the object(s) of its attention." -- Clare Connors, Oxford Literary Review"It is worth emphasizing the high quality and wide range of this research: Chapter 7, for example, offers an in-depth discussion of Blanchot, Baudrillard, and Jacques Derrida's views of the fragment and its relation to the aphorism." -- Alexandra Sattler, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: An Historical Overview Chapter 2: Brevity Chapter 3: Wisdom Chapter 4: Authority Chapter 5: Thoughts and Impressions Chapter 6: Enigma and Paradox Chapter 7: Singularity and Multiplicity Chapter 8: The Aphorism Today Glossary
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