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Harvard University Press On the Origin of Stories
Book SynopsisBrian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer’s Odyssey and Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works.Trade ReviewThis is an insightful, erudite, and thoroughly original work. Aside from illuminating the human love of fiction, it proves that consilience between the humanities and sciences can enrich both fields of knowledge. -- Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University, and author of The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human NatureIntegrating a vast array of findings in the social and biological sciences and in the history of the arts, Boyd makes a compelling case for art as an adaptive human behavior. I can think of no similar work in contemporary literary theory; I have to go back to Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism for a work of comparable imaginative sweep and analytical precision. A monumental achievement. -- David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin-MadisonRich, intelligent and incredibly wide-ranging--from Zeus to Seuss, as one chapter title says--this book is indispensable reading for anyone who wants to think about the nature of fiction. Do we imagine that situating art within a theory of evolution must be reductive? Then we must consider, as Boyd suggests we do, the difference between solving a problem and picturing a chance of solving a problem--and imagine what it would be mean not to be able to do the second. -- Michael Wood, Princeton UniversityOn the Origin of Stories may have an impact far beyond academic circles...No one thinks on this scale anymore. Bent to the cultivation of shrinking plots of expertise, enlivened by the occasional boundary squabble, we are ill-accustomed to broad new theories even from Young Turks, let alone established critics. Ambition is in itself cause for celebration...Boyd's treatment is engrossing, as elegant in the writing as the reasoning. It offers a new insight into the question of why some works [of fiction] speak to audiences across cultures and generations...To look at a story as a naturalist looks at a leaf or a shell, not criticizing improvisations but marveling at its inventive beauty, is a refreshing experience...Whatever your opinion of Derrida, Boyd offers absolution to all lovers of fiction. Our childish taste for make-believe, it seems, is a little more serious than we thought. -- Laura Dietz * Times Literary Supplement *Brian Boyd's On the Origin of Stories, which presents itself as a work of "evocriticism," might well be a straw in the wind blowing contemporary criticism back from Culture to Nature. Given the rampant culturalism of much current literary work, which can see the natural only as an ideologically insidious "naturalizing," it is agreeable to read a work which discusses Homer cheek by jowl with allusions to dung beetles, the neocortex and cases of sexual harassment among pigeons. In sober evolutionary spirit, Boyd has no doubt that whatever more glamorous things human beings can get up to, they are in the first place natural material objects. He also insists in the teeth of postmodern orthodoxy that there is indeed a universal human nature; that culture is not unique to the human animal; and that there is a universally identifiable activity known as art. Nobody who is aware of the excesses of contemporary culturalism could doubt the subversive force of these platitudes. The word "natural," like the words "fact" and "truth," hardly ever turns up in such writings without being ceremoniously draped in scare quotes--and this in an ecological age. The point to Boyd's superbly erudite study is to offer an evolutionary theory of art...Brian Boyd has produced a challenging piece of critical theory, which might well herald the return to Nature of which cultural criticism is in such sore need. -- Terry Eagleton * London Review of Books *Like all the best stories, this one has a pleasing symmetry. It is a book in two parts, each illuminating the other. On one side stands evolutionary theory and its attempts to explain human nature. On the other is story itself, represented by two great works of fiction: Homer's Odyssey and Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!...[Boyd] has some novel and thought-provoking ideas, and his book covers an impressively wide terrain...What really matters, Boyd makes clear, is whether a story is worthy of our attention. On the Origin of Stories surely is. -- Kate Douglas * New Scientist *[Boyd's] highly intelligent, impressively learned and patiently elaborated theory of the origin of fiction and the other arts begins with the idea that art is cognitive play...Diffusion of Boyd's ideas might even, in our utilitarian and scientistic society, restore the prestige of the arts and humanities. -- William Deresiewicz * The Nation *Fascinating...Elaborate hypotheses like this one are themselves a kind of story, and Boyd tells his on a grand scale. His central arguments are prefaced by a substantial reprise of basic evolutionary theory--very useful if you're unfamiliar with it--and followed by two case studies, of Homer's Odyssey and the tales of Dr. Seuss. It is expert, though highly idiosyncratic, literary criticism..."Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive," Wordsworth wrote of the first, intoxicating years of the French Revolution. Reading [a] path-breaking book like [this], one feels something similar. -- George Scialabba * Boston Globe *This is a very important book--important in its own right, but also important as a marker for significant change in the academic study of the humanities. Basically, Boyd sees art as an adaptation, one that brings advantages in our struggle for survival and procreative success. He studies the ways in which stories focus attention (as play does) and foster collaboration and unity. This heightened form of play yields a heightened form of sociality, creates 'creativity,' refines and extends our cognitive skills, helps us to understand one another's thoughts, intentions and motives, see our world from multiple perspectives, explore possibilities and not just actualities, command attention, enjoy status and foster reciprocal altruism (among other things). Most interesting, I believe, is the fact that Boyd's position validates thousands of years of humanistic thought, from Aristotle to Horace, Sidney, Johnson, the Kant of the Critique of Pure Reason (though not perhaps the Kant of the Critique of Judgment) and the successful practice of the storyteller's art by a host of writers whose work has been not only substantive but widely popular. In short, Boyd's study of human nature, human behavior, human development and human artistic expression squares with what many of us have long believed and it does so with the leverage of contemporary, evolutionary science. -- Richard B. Schwartz, University of Missouri, ColumbiaBrian Boyd brilliantly makes the case for literature as necessary for the survival of humankind. Step by step, he builds his argument that we have evolved to engage in play and, in particular, in storytelling...Both Homer and Dr. Seuss must catch and hold our attention with their artistry, their universality, and their moral tone. Boyd forcefully and elegantly supports his view that art is not simply pleasurable for humans but crucial to our survival. -- Barbara Fisher * Boston Globe *A searching, free-wheeling book that sets forth a Darwinian view of narrative's place in human history. -- Robert Fulford * National Post *Masterful...[An] entrancing book...[Boyd] clearly invites comparison with Darwin's masterpiece. Like its namesake, Boyd's book is carefully constructed and constitutes, in Ernst Mayr's words, "one long argument."...While a number of evolutionary analyses of literature, fiction, myths, folklore, and art have appeared in the last 15 years or so, this one stands out for its accessibility and genuinely integrative approach, combined with a detailed analysis of two specific fictional works...Boyd covers an astonishing range of evolutionary concepts, human evolution, cognitive and developmental psychology, human ethology, anthropology, game theory and related topics. Having done research in several of these areas, I can attest that he has selected judiciously and described the science remarkably accurately and clearly...Unlike much of the early writings by promoters of simplistic Pleistocene EEA scenarios and typological human universals, Boyd explores detailed empirical observations and experiments, realizes that human variation is the engine of evolutionary change, but--and I view this as an essential strength--eschews a single-minded, or even primary, concern with adaptation...Boyd gets so much right! -- Gordon Burghardt, University of Tennessee * The Evolutionary Review *On the Origin of Stories is a fascinating book, even a necessary book. At its best, evocriticism can help to reorient the arts and humanities, renewing (or, in some benighted quarters, sparking) our appreciation for the creative works of human minds and hands, and leading humanists to take a fresh look at the rich evolutionary record. -- Michael Bérubé * New Scientist *Boyd's book will engage and excite readers for decades to come...Reading On the Origins of Stories, I was struck with the same excitement and enthusiasm I can only imagine the readers' of Darwin's text felt in 1859. Boyd's text is itself a seminal work synthesizing various literary theories upon an evolutionary framework strong enough to hold whatever stance from which the reader comes. Boyd illustrates this by applying evolutionary thinking to the works of Homer and Dr. Seuss alike...This amazing text allows us to see art from new vantage points that may, in fact, ensure its survival within our global culture...Brian Boyd elevates the writing of criticism to an art form by indeed considering the arousal and sustained engagement of his readers. On the Origin of Stories is itself a welcomed mutation in critical writing. Boyd carries his reader along an original odyssey into science, literature, human nature, the epic landscape of Ancient Greece and the tiny world of Whoville. Like Homer and Dr. Seuss, Boyd cares about his readers and wants us to find our way home to the text without sacrificing intellectual integrity and scholarly research. -- Christine Boyko-Head * arbuturian.com *[A] richly interesting and varied book. -- Lisa Gorton * Australian Book Review *Boyd has created a compelling, erudite, and thoroughly original work about the nature of humanistic expression in art and literature. Beautifully written and wide-ranging, the book delves into social science, evolutionary biology, art, and literature to create a comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. The author argues that art derives from play and is a humanistic adaptation, offering advantages for human survival. Storytelling, he contends, fosters cooperation, social cognition, and creativity...Apropos the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, this book is a fitting tribute to Darwin. -- K. Wein * Choice *Boyd's understanding of human evolution thus leads him towards those features of literary texts that have always fascinated practical and humanist critics...Boyd alone provides us with a sophisticated literary analysis informed by an equally sophisticated understanding of human biology. Boyd demonstrates comprehensively that evolutionary literary theory is compatible with and can inform perceptive literary criticism. -- John Holmes * The British Society for Literature and Science *Table of Contents* Illustrations * Acknowledgments * Introduction: Animal, Human, Art, Story Book I: Evolution, Art, and Fiction Part 1 Evolution and Nature * Evolution and Human Nature? * Evolution, Adaptation, and Adapted Minds * The Evolution of Intelligence * The Evolution of Cooperation Part 2 Evolution and Art * Art as Adaptation? * Art as Cognitive Play * Art and Attention * From Tradition to Innovation Part 3 Evolution and Fiction * Art, Narrative, Fiction * Understanding and Recalling Events * Narrative: Representing Events * Fiction: Inventing Events * Fiction as Adaptation Book II: From Zeus to Seuss: Origins of Stories Part 4 Phylogeny: The Odyssey * Earning Attention (1): Natural Patterns: Character and Plot * Earning Attention (2): Open-Ended Patterns: Ironies of Structure * The Evolution of Intelligence (1): In the Here and Now * The Evolution of Intelligence (2): Beyond the Here and Now * The Evolution of Cooperation (1): Expanding the Circle * The Evolution of Cooperation (2): Punishment Part 5 Ontogeny: Horton Hears a Who! * Problems and Solutions: Working at Play * Levels of Explanation: Universal, Local, and Individual * Levels of Explanation: Individuality Again * Levels of Explanation: Particular * Meanings * Conclusion * Retrospect and Prospects: Evolution, Literature, Criticism * Afterword * Evolution, Art, Story, Purpose * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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Manchester University Press Staging the Old Faith Queen Henrietta Maria and
Book SynopsisExamines Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged. This title juxtaposes an analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria's performances which showcased to an elite audience her role as defender of English Catholics, against an exploration of how this community responded to such a startling vision.Trade Review‘In this energetically argued and imaginatively illustrated book Rebecca Bailey examines the interplay of religion, politics and theatre in the England of Charles I and Henrietta Maria. Her study explores in unprecedented depth and with rich archival contextualisation the ‘fears and hopes’ of the English recusant community following the arrival of the French Catholic queen consort.’Sophie Tomlinson, Literature & History, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2010)‘In six tightly argued chapters Bailey sets out the case for Henrietta Maria’s effectiveness, directly and indirectly, in pursuing her religious goals. While paying some attention to the Caroline masques, the main thrust of the argument is centred on plays […]no future discussion of Caroline drama, particularly that of Shirley and of the 1630s, should ignore this finely written and innovative study.’Kenneth Richards, University of Manchester, Theatre Research International, Vol. 35, No. 2 (July 2010)‘Rebecca Bailey’s reading of Henrietta Maria’s Catholic influence on Caroline public and court drama complements rather than contradicts earlier work on patronage, faction, and the intricate political negotiations refracted in the drama of the 1630s initiated by Martin Butler. At the same time, it extends the studies by Erica Veevers, Sophie Tomlinson, and Karen Britland of the Queen’s role in the Caroline court and the translation of its feminocentric culture into play and masque. One of the strengths of this work is Bailey’s detailed and nuanced exploration, through corres - pondence and reading matter, of the identities of the English Catholic community in the decades leading to the civil wars. As such, not only does Staging the Old Faith expand the range of meaning of Caroline drama, it offers the historian fresh in - sights into the religious dynamics of court culture.’Janet Clare, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 3 (August 2011) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction - Counter-Reformation politics and the Caroline stage1. The public discourse of religion in Stuart England2. James Shirley: the early texts, 1625-293. 'A case for conscience': Issues of allegiance and identity, 1630-334. William Davenant: the chimera of religious reunion, 1634-375. 'A broken time': The tempering of an international Catholicism, 1637-40Conclusion
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Edinburgh University Press Creative Criticism
Book SynopsisIncluding pieces by creative critics as varied as Anne Carson, Jacques Derrida, Geoff Dyer, Hélène Cixous, Ali Smith, and John Cage, this anthology and guide celebrates the formal and intellectual inventiveness of works which also demonstrate a deep fidelity to the writing or art they address. The Anthology is of interest to all students, teachers and critics of literature and creative writing, and especially those students who are required to write critical essays. All 14 texts included respond innovatively to the question: How do we write criticism? As examples of academic critical writing they are all sympathetic to works whose aim is to change the ways in which we see and describe our world.Key FeaturesUnique as an anthology of and guide to creative critical writingDemonstrates a range of ways to write critically and creatively Extensive introduction & explanatory headnotes to each textContents Roland Barthes, from A Lover''s Discourse: Fragments; John Cage, from ''Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing''; Anne Carson, ''Every Exit is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)''; Hélène Cixous, ''Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner''s taking off''; Jacques Derrida ''Aphorism Countertime''; Geoff Dyer, from Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence; Benjamin Friedlander, ''Gertrude Stein: A Retrospective Criticism''; Peter Gizzi, ''Correspondences of the Book''; Kevin Kopelson, ''Music Lessons''; Denise Riley, ''Lyric Selves''; Eve Sedgwick, ''Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl''; Ali Smith, ''Green''; John Wilkinson, ''Imperfect Pitch''; Sarah Wood, ''Anew Again''.
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Edinburgh University Press The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Adorno The Recovery of Experience SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
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MB - Cornell University Press The Practice of Theory
Book SynopsisMany art historians regard poststructuralist theory with suspicion; some even see its focus on the political dimension of language as hostile to an authentic study of the past. Keith Moxey bridges the gap between historical and theoretical...
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Stanford University Press The Psychic Life of Power Theories in Subjection
Book SynopsisJudith Butler's new book considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. It combines social theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in novel ways, and offers a more sustained analysis of the theory of subject formation implicit in her previous books.Trade Review"The emergence of self-consciousness is rooted in paradox—for becoming a subject is intricately bound up with being subjected. This insight . . . is explored and developed as [Butler's] book unfolds, taking the reader through a tour de force of its rhetorical, linguistic, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and social and political implications." -- Modern PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Stubborn attachment, bodily subjection 2. Circuits and bad conscience 3. Subjection, resistance, resignification 4. 'Conscience doth make subjects of us all' 5. Melancholy gender/refused identification keeping it moving 6. Psychic inceptions Notes Index.
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Louisiana State University Press Modernism and Subjectivity
Book SynopsisFocusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particularly in relation to issues of ideology, spatiality, and violence. His analysis explores a selection of works published between 1904 and 1941.
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Northwestern University Press Dark Conceit
Book SynopsisThe first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory, discusses the misconceptions that have obscured the subject, and surveys the changing concept of allegory.
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Univ of Chicago Behalf of Ohio State Up Unnatural Narratology
Book SynopsisUnnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges offers a number of developments, refinements, and defenses of key aspects of unnatural narrative studies. The first section applies unnatural narrative theory and analysis to ideologically charged areas such as feminism, postcolonial studies, cultural alterity, and subaltern discourse. The book goes on to engage with and intervene in theoretical debates in several areas of both critical theory and narrative theory, including affect studies, immersion, narration, character theory, frames, and theories of reception and interpretation. Antimimetic perspectives are also extended to additional fields, including autobiography, graphic narratives, drama and film, performance studies, and interactive gamebooks. Written by an international assemblage of distinguished and emerging narrative scholars and theorists, this collection promises to greatly enhance the study of narrative and further advance the frontiers of narrati
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Ohio State University Press Narrative Bonds
Book SynopsisWhile narrative fracturing, multiplicity, and experimentalism are commonly associated with modernist and postmodern texts, they have largely been understudied in Victorian literature. Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel focuses on the centrality of these elements and address the proliferation of multiple narrators in Victorian novels. In Narrative Bonds, Alexandra Valint explores the ways in which the Victorian multi-narrator form moves toward the unity of vision across characters and provides inclusivity in an era of expanding democratic rights and a growing middle class. Integrating narrative theory, gothic theory, and disability studies with analyses of works by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Emily Brontë, and Bram Stoker, this comprehensive and illuminating study illustrates the significance and impact of the multi-narrator structure in Victorian novels.
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Wayne State University Press Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity
Book SynopsisLiterature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In this study, Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations, parameters, and articulations of US and Canadian citizenship that are enacted, renegotiated, and revised in modern literary texts, particularly during periods of emergence and crisis.
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Taylor & Francis Inc American Women Short Story Writers A Collection
Book SynopsisThis collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Others are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women''s short fiction through the years. Women''s special stylistic, formal and thematic concerns are also discussed in this study. The final essay addresses the ways our contemporary creative-writing classes are stifling the voices of emerging young female authors. The collection includes an extensive five-part bibliography.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction Julie Brown Literary Excellence and Social Reform: Lydia Maria Child's Ultraisms for the 1840s Bruce Mills Fiction as Political Discourse: Rose Terry Cooke's Antisuffrage Short Stories Sherry LeeLinkon Elizabeth Stoddard: An Examination of Her Work as Pivot Between Exploratory Fiction and the Modern Short Story Timothy Morris Who Was That Masked Woman? Gender and Form in Louisa May Alcott's Fiction Gail K. Smith Ripe Fruit: Fantastic Elements in the Short Fiction of Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton, and Eudora Welty Stephanie Branson Lady Terrorists: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Ghost Story Barbara Patrick Representations of Female Authorship in Turn of the Century American Magazine Fiction Ellen Gruber Garvey Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century Lillian Faderman Martha Wolfenstein's Isyls of the Grass and rhw Dilemma of Ethnic Self-Representation Barbara Shollar Fannie Hurst's Short Stories of Working Women--"Oats for the Woman," Sob Sister," and Contemporary Reader Responses: A meditation Susan Koppleman LostBroders and Blurred Boundaries : Mary Austin as Storyteller Linda K. Karell Ritual and Renewal: Keres Tradition sin the Short Fiction of Leslie Silko A.Lavonne Brown Ruoff "A Revolutionary Tale": In Search of African American Women's Short Story Writing Bill Mullen Society and Self in Alice Walker's inLove and Trouble Dolan Hubbard Displaced Abjection and States of Grace: Denise Chavez's The Last of theMenu Girls Douglas Anderson Dorthy Parker's Perpetual Motion Ken Johnson The "Feminine" Short Story in America: Historicizing Epiphanies Mary Burgan Joyce Carol Oates: Reimagining the Masters, Or, A Woman's Place Is in Her Own Fiction Margaret Rogza Gender and Genre: The Case of the Novel-in-Stories Margot kelly The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop Julie Brown Bibliography of primary Sources Susan Koppleman Bibliography of Secondary Sources Amy Schoenberger Contributors Index
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Wesleyan University Press Allegorical Moments
Book SynopsisConsiders allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinkingAllegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential turmoil affecting the contemporary world.
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Duke University Press The Barbara Johnson Reader
Book SynopsisOffers a historical guide through the metamorphoses and tumultuous debates that have defined literary study in recent decades, as viewed by one of critical theory's most astute thinkers.Trade Review“Johnson’s real gift was to tackle the ‘dead white males’ of the canon and re-read them, looking for the women, ever alert to what she called ‘muteness envy’ in canonical poetry. She directed her attention to popular works, too, to films such as Thelma and Louise and The Piano, happy to bring Keats into the discussion as she did so. Such essays stress critical and creative vitality in the midst of death, and are still life-giving today, still radical, angry and passionate, yet always disciplined. Johnson asks acute questions, inserts the personal into her academic essays, and gives us new ideas about ‘how to read.’” -- Lesley McDowell * TLS *“Reading these essays, one finds them as sprightly, brilliant, and revelatory as ever. Johnson’s style—famous for the clarity that paradoxically masks and illuminates the argumentative complexity of the writing—is brisk, orderly, and economical. … Perhaps this is the moment to return to the intellectual upheaval of deconstruction, that almost forgotten art of reading and rereading. There is no better place to begin rereading than right here, with Barbara Johnson’s own startling and writerly prose.” -- Judith Brown * Modernism/modernity *“Essays on abortion, corporate personhood, and many other still contemporary issues show that, for Johnson, deconstruction was always deeply intertwined with lived political reality, and many of the best essays in the collection bridge the gap between readings of poems and analysis of life in various forms of political relation, often in the context of the surprising strangeness of the textual or human encounter. For Johnson, ‘the undecidable is the political. There is politics precisely because there is undecidability. And there is also poetry’ (p.227). The forms of her own essays, intriguing in the turns they take, the conclusions they draw, and the interpretations they bring forth from the texts they examine, highlight and perform this causal relationship in consistently insightful and surprising ways.” * Forum for Modern Language Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Editors' Preface xi Personhood and Other Objects: The Figural Dispute with Philosophy / Judith Butler xvii Barbara Johnson by Barbara Johnson xxvii Part I. Reading Theory as Literature, Literature as Theory 1. The Critical Difference: BartheS/BalZac 3 2. Translator's Introduction to Dissemination (abridged) 14 3. Poetry and Syntax: What the Gypsy Knew 26 4. A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in Walden 36 5. Strange Fits: Poe and Wordsworth on the Nature of Poetic Language 44 6. The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida 57 Part II. Race, Sexuality, Gender 7. Euphemism, Understatement, and the Passive Voice: A Geneaology of Afro-American Poetry 101 8. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God 108 9. Moses and Intertextuality: Sigmund Freud, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Bible 126 10. Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula,
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Fordham University Press Form and Event
Book SynopsisDiano's Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy, anticipating the work of Deleuze, Badiou, Esposito, and Agamben. It now appears in English for the first time, with a substantial Introduction that situates the book in the genealogy of modern political philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Jacques Lezra | 1 Form and Event | 27 Illustrations | 105 Notes | 115
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Fordham University Press World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
Book SynopsisThis book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority that facilitate political recognition or national sovereignty, but rather to inexpertise and inconsequence, with the aim of replacing mastery with collective cultivation.Table of ContentsPreface | vi Introduction: Impossible Subjects | 1 1. Lala Har Dayal’s Imagination | 19 2. B. R. Ambedkar’s Sciences | 44 3. M. K. Gandhi’s Lost Debates | 67 4. Bhagat Singh’s Jail Notebook | 92 Epilogue: Stopping and Leaving | 113 Acknowledgments | 131 Notes | 135 Bibliography | 169 Index | 189
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Fordham University Press Now What Quandaries of Art and the Radical Past
Book SynopsisA profound and affecting meditation on art and revolutionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Being Afterward | 1 1 Lupe at the Mic After January 1959, Havana, Cuba, in Tatlin’s Whisper #6 | 11 2 The Tenuous Moonlight of an Unrequited Past After September 11, 1973, Santiago de Chile, in The Battle of Chile, Chile: Obstinate Memory, and Nostalgia for the Light | 35 3 Something That Opens a Wish and Closes a Door After December 1989, Romania, in Videograms of a Revolution, Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, and 12:08 East of Bucharest | 63 4 Whoever Knows the Truth Lies After October 1977, West Germany, in Germany in Autumn and October 18, 1977 | 123 Conclusion: The Undersong of Our Histories | 161 Acknowledgments | 183 Notes | 185
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University of Exeter Camus The Challenge of Dostoevsky Literary Theory
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study in English of Camus''s life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky''s thought and fiction served to stimulate and crystallize Camus''s own thinking.Trade Review 'Scholarly and thoughtfully written . . . Davison's book, which also includes a comprehensive bibliography and index, amounts to an invaluable and interesting contribution to Camus studies.' (French Studies, LIV.I, 2000) 'Ray Davison has . . . Produced an important and thought-provoking book. It would be helpful to compare it with P. Dunwoodie's Une histoire ambivalente: le dialogue Camus-Dostoïevski (Nizet, 1996) as Davison himself suggests. The widening and deepening of the notion of influence which both books are concerned with is a very worthwhile development.' (New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Volume 20, Number 2 1999) 'Davison's contextual approach is consistently rich and his ideas are elegantly and powerfully expressed. He engages with other major critics (notably Peter Dunwoodie) and establishes important links between texts.By quoting lavishly from the full range of the author's works, including speeches, letters and diaries (French translations of the original Russian texts are used), Davison allows the reader to follow at close hand the internal dynamics of the relationship…Davison's study…offers the most complete account yet of the Camus-Dostoevsky relationship.' (Journal of European Studies Vol XXVIII 1998) 'Complementing Peter Dunwoodie's recent study, Ray Davison's engaging account of Camus and Dostoevsky constitutes another invaluable contribution to Camus scholarship.' (Modern and Contemporary France, Volume 6, No 4, 1998) 'Through detailed and lucid analysis of Camus's texts, Davison traces the impact that the Russian works had on Camus's intellectual development and highlights his attempts at forging a counter-discourse. . . Readers will welcome the clarity of analysis and exposition of complex ideas in the 'world of ideas and politics' and the flexible chronology which shows Camus engaging with Dostoevsky at different stages as novelist/philosopher of the absurd, as Christian humanist and, finally, as prophet of twentieth-century political nihilism and totalitarianism. Even more welcome, perhaps, is his ability to uncover something of the complex dynamism, the excitement and the frustration in that relation. . . Camus himself claimed that one cannot understand twentieth-century French literature without reference to Dostoevsky, and in tracing the way Camus wrestled with him intellectually, Davison has, perhaps, put in place the final piece of a jigsaw which has exercised critics for fifty years.' (Times Literary Supplement, 10 April 1998) Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Camus and Dostoevsky: an Encounter in Profile 2. Dostoevsky and the Absurd Novel 3. Suicide and Logic: Camus's use of Dostoevsky's 'Judgement' and 'Moralite un peu tardive' in Le Mythe de Sisyphe. 4. Camus and Dostoevsky's Revels 5. Freedom and the Man-God: Camus and Kirilov in Le Mythe de Sisyphe 6. Two Tzars of the Absurd: Stavroguine and Ivan in Le Mythe de Sisyphe 7. Ivan and Metaphysical Revolt: the Shadow of the Grand Inquisitor 8. Camus and Les Possedes: Nihilism and Historical Revolt 9. From the Last to the First Man: The Challenge of The Underground Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to The Essay
Book SynopsisThis Companion, written by a diverse group of scholars for an audience of students and professors, considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay form from the sixteenth century to the present.Table of ContentsPart I. Forms of the Essay: 1. Remembering the essay Jeff Dolven; 2. The personal essay Merve Emre; 3. The critical essay Frances Ferguson; 4. The nature essay Daegan Miller; 5. The essay in theory Kara Wittman; Part II. The Work of the Essay: 6. Essay and experiment Julianne Werlin; 7. Essay, enlightenment, revolution Anahid Nersessian; 8. The essay, abolition, and racial blackness Jesse McCarthy; 9. The Utopian essay Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado; 10. Ethics and the essay David Russell; 11. Essay and empire Saikat Majumdar; 12. Unqueering the essay Grace Lavery; Part III. Technologies of the Essay: 13. The essay and the novel Jason Childs; 14. Lyric, essay Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young; 15. The photograph as essay Kevin Adonis Browne; 16. The essay film Nora M. Alter; 17. The essay online Jane Hu.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in
Book SynopsisThis volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary representations of Blackness and embodiment. It centers Black thinking about Black embodiment from current, diverse, and intersectional perspectives.
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Cambridge University Press The Hroswitha Club and the Impact of Women Book
Book SynopsisThe Hroswitha Club was a group of women book collectors who met from 19442004 in the Eastern United States. This Element makes their history accessible, focusing on how members shared knowledge and expertise, providing a space for legitimacy and self-growth in a period where women's access to formal education and academic institutions was limited.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hroswitha Club, Gender, and Historical Significance; 1. 'Very Serious and Very Excellent': Who Were the Hroswithians?; 2. 'Land of Bibliophilia': Women and Book Collecting; 3. 'And We're Off': Meetings and Activities; 4. 'The Abiding Love of Books': Relationships and Networks; 5. 'Of Maximum Usefulness': Publications and Projects; 6. 'No One Has Time': The Later Years; Coda: Book Collecting, Literary History, and Women's Labor; Appendix: Club Membership 1944–1994.
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Cambridge University Press Selling Books with Algorithms
Book SynopsisIn 1997 Amazon started as a small online bookseller. It is now the largest bookseller in the US and one of the largest companies in the world, due, in part, to its implementation of algorithms and access to user data. This Element explains how these algorithms work, and specifically how they recommend books and make them visible to readers. It argues that framing algorithms as felicitous or infelicitous allows us to reconsider the imagined authority of an algorithm''s recommendation as a culturally situated performance. It also explores the material effects of bookselling algorithms on the forms of labor of the bookstore. The Element ends by considering future directions for research, arguing that the bookselling industry would benefit from an investment in algorithmic literacy.
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Cambridge University Press Nonhuman Subjects
Book SynopsisThe surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers, and lakes has brought to light an ecology of nonlife. Its protagonists are 'earth-beings,' geobodies that question deep-seated Western notions of personhood.Table of Contents1. Crisis of Presence; 2. Earth beings; 3. Polemical Scenes; 4. The Invisible Landfill; 5. Being the River; 6. Coda.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
Book SynopsisThe first major critical survey on Australian poetry, this volume investigates poetry's key role in debates around colonialism, nationalism, cultural diversity, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, print culture, poetry and activism, the verse novel, performance poetries, and digital poetries.
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Cambridge University Press Zolas Dream
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to British Postmodernism
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Cambridge University Press Descartes and the NonHuman
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tragedy
Book SynopsisTragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history.Tragedy offers a concise history of tragedy tracing its evolution through key plays, prose, poetry and philosophical dimensions. John Drakakis examines a wealth of popular plays, including works from the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Sarah Kane and Tom Stoppard. He also considers the rewriting and appropriating of ancient drama though a wide range of authors, such as Chaucer, George Eliot, Ted Hughes and Colm Tóibín. Drakakis also demystifies complex philosophical interpretations of tragedy, including those of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Benjamin.This accessible resource is an invaluable guide for anyone studying tragedy in literature or theatre studies.Table of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionMyth and tragedyTragedy, myth and ritualTragedy and pleasureChapter 2. Histories, archaeologies and genealogiesAristotle’s PoeticsFate, fortune and providenceChapter 3. Ontology and dramaturgyRadical tragedyTragedy after the RenaissanceChapter 4. The philosophy of tragedyThe sublimeSchiller on tragedyHegel on tragedyBradley on HegelNietzsche on tragedyBeyond NietzscheChapter 5. From action to characterFreud, Oedipus and HamletTragedy and the linguistic turnChapter 6. Tragedy: gender, politics and aestheticsTragedy and violenceAestheticsChapter 7. Rethinking the traditionDismantling tragedyBrecht against AristotleSaint Joan of the Stockyards. Mother Courage and GallileoChapter 8. Tragedy, the post-modern and the post-humanAnti-humanism and post-humanismSamuel Beckett: Waiting for GodotSarah Kane: Phaedra’s Love (1996) Twenty-first century tragedy: Tom Stoppard’s LeopoldstadtChapter 9. ConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tragedy
Book SynopsisTragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history.Tragedy offers a concise history of tragedy tracing its evolution through key plays, prose, poetry and philosophical dimensions. John Drakakis examines a wealth of popular plays, including works from the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Sarah Kane and Tom Stoppard. He also considers the rewriting and appropriating of ancient drama though a wide range of authors, such as Chaucer, George Eliot, Ted Hughes and Colm Tóibín. Drakakis also demystifies complex philosophical interpretations of tragedy, including those of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Benjamin.This accessible resource is an invaluable guide for anyone studying tragedy in literature or theatre studies.Table of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionMyth and tragedyTragedy, myth and ritualTragedy and pleasureChapter 2. Histories, archaeologies and genealogiesAristotle’s PoeticsFate, fortune and providenceChapter 3. Ontology and dramaturgyRadical tragedyTragedy after the RenaissanceChapter 4. The philosophy of tragedyThe sublimeSchiller on tragedyHegel on tragedyBradley on HegelNietzsche on tragedyBeyond NietzscheChapter 5. From action to characterFreud, Oedipus and HamletTragedy and the linguistic turnChapter 6. Tragedy: gender, politics and aestheticsTragedy and violenceAestheticsChapter 7. Rethinking the traditionDismantling tragedyBrecht against AristotleSaint Joan of the Stockyards. Mother Courage and GallileoChapter 8. Tragedy, the post-modern and the post-humanAnti-humanism and post-humanismSamuel Beckett: Waiting for GodotSarah Kane: Phaedra’s Love (1996) Twenty-first century tragedy: Tom Stoppard’s LeopoldstadtChapter 9. ConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Asexualities
Book SynopsisAs one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives became a foundational text in the burgeoning field of asexuality studies. This revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition both celebrates the book's impact and features new scholarship at the vanguard of the field.While this edition includes some of the most-cited original chapters, it also features critical updates as well as new, innovative work by both up-and-coming and established scholars and activists from around the world. It brings in more global perspectives on asexualities, engages intersectionally with international formations of race and racialization, critiques global capital's effects on identity and kinship, examines how digital worlds shape lived realities, considers posthuman becomings, experiments with the form of the manifesto, and imagines love and relation in ecologies that exceed and even supersede the hum
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer
Book SynopsisNew directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the vastâand increasingly unchartedâintersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore.This handbook convenes an international group of experts who work on the classical world and queer theory. The discipline of Classics has been involved with, and implicated in, queer theory from the start. By placing front and center the rejection of heteronormativity, queer theory has provided Classics with a powerful tool for analyzing non-normative sexual and gender relations in the ancient West, while Classics offers queer theory ancient material (such as literature, visual arts, and social practices) that challenges a wide range of modern normative categories. The collection demonstrates the vitality of this particular moment in queer classical studies, featuring an expansive array of methodologies applieTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction - Ella Haselswerdt, Sara H. Lindheim, and Kirk Ormand; Classics and Queer Theory: Beginnings; 1. How Did We Get Here? - Kirk Ormand; Queer Subjectivities; 2. 'Wild' Achilles and the Epistemology of the Ferox in Homer’s Iliad - Melissa Mueller; 3. Black[ened] Queer Classical: Cicero’s pro Archia poeta and Seneca’s Natural Questions (and Epistulae Morales 114) in Posthuman Perspective - Patrice Rankine; 4. Priapus Unlimited: Queer(ing) Identity, Agency, and Bodies without Boundaries in Roman Art - Linnea Åshede; 5. Tribad Philaenis and Lesbian Bassa: Queer Subjectivities in Martial - Kristin Mann; 6. Queering Divine Authority and Logical Consistency in Aeschylus’ Oresteia - Giulia Maria Chesi; 7. Catullus Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Between Freud and Foucault - Paul Allen Miller; 8. A Murky Unlearning: Sophocles and the Greek Art of Failure - Francesca Spiegel; Queer Times and Places; 9. Queer Musicality in Classical Texts - Tom Sapsford; 10. Encountering Absence: Queer Traces, Ghosts, and Performance Otherwise - Marcus Bell; 11. Queerly Beloved: Nemesis, Credula Spes, and Queer Temporalities in Tibullus Book 2 - Sara H. Lindheim; 12. Time and Punishment, or Terence’s Queer Pedagogy - David Youd; 13. Narcissus and the Happy Inch: Queering Social Reproduction in the Roman House - David Fredrick; 14. 'How Could a City Become Straight?:' Aristophanes and the Trans Foundations of the Comic State - Isabel Ruffell; Queer Kinships; 15. Hippocrates the 'Father'? Disturbing Attachment Genealogies in the History of Ancient Medicine - Nicolette D’Angelo; 16. Tamquam Favus: Queer Kinship and Monetary Value in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis - Elliott Piros; 17. Nonbinary Mercury and the Queer Arts of Astrology - Hannah Silverblank; 18. Queering Kinship against Genealogy: Crip Ancestorship, Chosen Families, Alternative Intimacies and Other Ways of Refusing the Classical Tradition - Marchella Ward; 19. Queer Kinship in Ancient Literature - Jay Oliver; 20. The Greatest Generation: Golden Age, Spontaneous Generation, and Queer Kinship in Vergil’s Georgics - Martin Devecka; Queer Receptions; 21. Queering Feminine Movement: Sappho, Hồ Xuân Hýõng and Vi Khi Nao - Kelly Nguyen; 22. Les Guérillères: Sappho and the Lesbian Body - Irene Han; 23. The Rise and Fall of the Queer Male Body in Mid-Century Muscle Photography - Alastair J.L. Blanshard; 24; Destiny’s Queer Scribblings: Greek Myth and Etiologies of HIV/AIDS - Emilio Capettini; 25. Socrates and Sedgwick: Ancient Greece in Epistemology of the Closet - Daniel Orrells; 26. Shedding Light, Casting Shadows: Queerness, Club Performances, and the Faux-Natural Narratives of Classical Reception - Eleonora Colli; Ancient Pasts/Queer Futures 27. Queer Philology - Shane Butler; 28. How to Do the History of Elagabalus - Zach Herz; 29. Queer Interspeciesism, or Oppian’s Wild Love - Mario Telò; 30. Sappho’s Body, Queer Abstraction, and Lesbian Futurity - Ella Haselswerdt; 31. Medea’s Ghosts: Cherríe Moraga and Queer Ecologies - Nancy Worman; 32. Speculation on classical reception: Queer Desire and N.K. Jemisin’s 'The Effluence Engine' - Mathura Umachandran.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theories, methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies. The contributions to this volume engage with conceptual issues of scale in the Anthropocene with a focus on mediated representation and narrative. They are centered around the themes of scale and time, scale and the nonhuman and scale and space. The volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open AcTable of Contents0 The Anthropocene as an Age of Scalar Complexity: IntroductionGabriele Dürbeck (University of Vechta) / Philip Hüpkes (Heinrich-Heine University)Section I: Scale and Time 1 Geomedia and Michael Madsen’s Into EternityDerek Woods (University of British Columbia) 2 Time Travel as a Tool for Promoting Trans-Scalar Thinking Axel Goodbody (University of Bath)3 Time Depth: Jean Epstein, Michel Serres, and Operational Model TimeChristoph Rosol (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Section II: Scale and the Nonhuman 4 Planetary Multiplicity, Earthly Multitudes: Interscalar Practices for a Volatile PlanetNigel Clark (Lancaster University) / Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University) 5 Plant Scale and the AnthropoceneHeather Sullivan (Trinity University, San Antonio, TX)6 Anthropomorphism and AlterityBernhard Malkmus (University of Newcastle)7 "We Have Lost Yardsticks by Which to Measure": Arendtian Ethics and the Narration of Scale in the AnthropoceneAdeline Johns-Putra (University of Surrey)8 Sound and Silence: Punk and the AnthropoceneJohn Parham (University of Worcester)Section III: Scale and Space9 On Being the Right Size: Scale, Democracy and the AnthropoceneAysem Mert (Stockholm University) and Dougald Hine (Plurality University Network)10 Cosmos vs. Anthropocene: Multi-Scalar Praxis for Socio-Environmental Justice with Adrienne Maree Brown’s Emergent Strategy (2017)Kathrin Bartha (Goethe University, Frankfurt/Monash University, Melbourne) 11 Google-Gaia. Feedback Loops for Action with Global Forest WatchLynda Olman and Birgit Schneider (Potsdam University)12 J Henry Fair: Art, Irony, and Scaling the Anthropocene (photo-artist/environmental activist J Henry Fair, New York City/Berlin, in Conversation with Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes)13 Afterword: On Scale and Deep History in the AnthropoceneDipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice is a comprehensive and multi- purpose collection on this important topic. With contributors working in various fields, the Companion provides in- depth analyses of both the cumulative and emergent issues, obstacles, praxes, propositions, and theories of social justice. The first section offers a historical overview of major developments and debates in the field, while the following sections look in more detail at the key traditions and show how literature and theory can be applied as analytical tools to real- world inequalities and the impact of doing so. The contributors provide reviews of major theoretical traditions, including Marxism, feminism, Critical Race Theory, disability studies, and queer studies. They also share literary analyses of influential authors including W. E. B. Du Bois, Yang Kui, Edwidge Danticat, Octavia Butler, and Rivers Solomon amongst others. The final section considers future possibilities for theory and action of justice, drawing specifically from theories and knowledges in decolonial, Indigenous, environmental, and posthumanist studies. This authoritative volume draws on the intersections between literary studies and social movements in order to provide scholars, students, and activists alike with a complete collection of the most up- to- date information on both canonical and emerging texts and case studies globally.
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Taylor & Francis Seamus Heaneyâs American Odyssey
Book SynopsisSeamus Heaneyâs American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some 40 years that Seamus Heaney spent in the United States as a teacher, lecturer, friend, and colleague, and as an active poet on the reading circuit. It is anchored by Heaneyâs appointments at Berkeley and Harvard, but it also follows Heaneyâs readings âœon the roadâ at three important points in his career. It argues that Heaney was initially receptive to American poetry and culture while his career was still plastic, but as he developed more assurance and fame, he became much more critical of America as a superpower, especially in the military reaction to 9/11. This study emphasizes âœthe heard Heaneyâ as much as the âœwriterly Heaneyâ by listening in on key poetry readings at different times and to recorded but unpublished lectures on American and British poets at Harvard. It includes accounts by his creative writing students, aspiring poets, who testif
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Inner Visions
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1979, Inner Visions discussion the nature of contemporary magical thought encompassing the Tarot and the Qabalah and considers its impact on the creative imagination. The author presents a fusion of the creative, magical and mythological undercurrents which are part of the new consciousness', and traces the influence of surrealist art and the expansive psychedelic period on the art and music of the 1970s. He looks, for example, at the relationship of the fantasy art on record sleeves to the electronic inner-space music which it often accompanies, and shows that this form of modern music represents one facet of the contemporary reaction against scientism and of the search for what Roszak has termed the visionary sources of our culture. The author concludes that a major mythological impulse is emerging in our culture and that magical and surreal approaches represent a profoundly invigorating and inspiring attitude linking the individual to the cosmos. This Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Counter-culture, magic and the new consciousness Part One: Magic and Cosmos 1. The magical universe 2. Archetypes and belief systems – the relevance of C. G. Jung and John Lilly 3. The Tarot and transformation Part Two: Sound and symbol 4. Surrealism and the Qabalah 5. Magic and fantasy – the new visionary art 6. The rise of cosmic music Conclusion: Where is it all going? Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Affect Power and Institutions
Book SynopsisThis volume advances a comprehensive transdisciplinary approach to the affective lives of institutions theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and critical. With this approach, the volume foregrounds the role of affect in sustaining as well as transforming institutional arrangements that are deeply problematic.As part of its analysis, this book develops a novel understanding of institutional affect. It explores how institutions produce, frame, and condition affective dynamics and emotional repertoires, in ways that engender conformance or resistance to institutional requirements. This collection of works will be important for scholars and students of interdisciplinary affect and emotion studies from a wide range of disciplines, including social sciences, cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, organizational and institution studies, media studies, social philosophy, aesthetics, and critical theory.Table of Contents1. General Introduction: The Many Lives of InstitutionsPART 1: Politics, Publics, Corporate Power2. Fabricated Feelings: Institutions, Organizations, and Emotion Repertoires3. Affective Citizenship: Differential Regimes of Belonging in Plural Societies4. Nationalism, affective recruitment and authoritarianism in post-coup Turkey5. Under Pressure: Journalism as an Affective InstitutionPART 2: Bodies, Materiality, Infrastructure6. Digital Infrastructuring as Institutional Affect(ing) in German Migration Management7. Botanical discipline: The senses and more-than-human affect8. Conflicting Imaginaries in the International AcademyPART 3: Forms, Genres, Aesthetics9. Genres as Imaginary Institutions10. Rewriting Education: Genre and Affects of Social Mobility in Contemporary German Literature11. Right Reading – Affective Institutionalisations and the Politics of Literature in the German New Right12. Glitching as Institutional CritiquePART 4: Diversity, Care, Critique13. Affective Diversity, or: Conceptualizing Institutional Change in Postmigrant Societies14. Working through Affects: Transforming and Challenging Psychosocial Care for Vietnamese Migrants15. Targeted Alienation: Reimagining the Labour of AbolitionAfterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Form and Modernity in Womens Poetry 18951922
Book SynopsisWhile W. B. Yeats's influential account of the Tragic Generation' claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by attending to the twentieth-century poetry produced by women poets Alice Meynell, Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper), Dollie Radford, and Katharine Tynan. While primarily associated with the late nineteenth century, these poets were active in the twentieth century, but their later writing is overlooked in modernist-dominated studies, partly due to this poetry's adherence to traditional form. This book reveals that these poets, far from being irrelevant to modernity, used these established forms to address contemporary concerns, including suffrage, sexuality, motherhood, and the First World War. The chapters focus on Meynell's manipulations of metre to contemplate temporality and literary tradition; Michael Field's use of blank verse to portray the conflicted modern woman; Radf
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Allegories of Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisSimultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's forms of appearance.This book offers critical discussions on the important works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, H. M. Naqvi, Mohsin Hamid, Nasreen Jahan, Samrat Upadhyay, and other writers from South Asia and South Asian diaspora.It also advances a re-reading of Karl Marx's Capital through the themes and tropes of literatureone that looks into literary representations of commoditization, monetization, class exploitation, uneven spatial relationship, financialization, and ecological devastation through the lens of the German revolutionary's critique of capitalism.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Allegorizing Neoliberalism2. "Kanna" and the Monetization of Affect 3. The White Tiger and the Subsumption of the Rural4. Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the "Empire of Finance" 5. Conclusion: In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Fiction to Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisHow can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, explores what literary fiction can bring to psychoanalysis.In this fascinating collection of essays, she draws on stories written by authors ranging from Henry James to Kazuo Ishiguro and Colm Tóibín. By investigating the possibilities for fruitful encounter and dynamic exchange' between psychoanalysis and literature, Rizq sets out to offer a fresh perspective on theoretical ideas that are often presented within the psychoanalytic literature in abstract, overly technical ways. In a remarkably fresh approach, this book explores how fiction can inform, illuminate and even transform our understanding of psychoanalysis.Written for practicing clinicians, academics and students as well as for the wider public, this book offers an original and Trade Review'From Fiction to Psychoanalysis is a brilliant exploration of the interrelations between the experience of literature and the concepts and practices of psychoanalysis. Since the 1970s, both literary critics and psychoanalysts have increasingly recognized the inadequacy of "applied psychoanalysis" to capture and illuminate the fruitful possibilities of dialogue between these ways of knowing human subjectivity. Rosemary Rizq avoids the pull of master-narratives and hierarchic insistence on fixed truths and instead provides eloquent testimony to the value of reading in the potential spaces of both fields. A winner of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture, Rizq shows how works by Kazuo Ishiguro, Colm Tóibín, Henry James, Tessa Hadley, Isak Dinesen and Alice Munro open new meanings of literature while also unfolding original uses of psychoanalytic writings by theorists such as Freud, Winnicott, Laplanche and Kristeva. Her book joins other recent works by Alicia Kristoff, Adam Phillips and others to demonstrate the great value of interdisciplinary writing. From Fiction to Psychoanalysis is deeply informed, beautifully articulate and a pleasure to read, a book that will inspire further creative thinking.'Murray Schwartz, professor emeritus at Emerson College, Boston Massachusetts, USA'Rosemary Rizq's book is an amazingly lucid exposition of the common ground occupied by two eminently creative discourses: psychoanalysis and literature. It is rare to find an author who is as much at home with literature as with psychoanalysis. Rizq accomplishes the almost impossible task of holding the tension between the enigmatic messages conveyed by literary giants such as Ishiguro, James, Munro, Dinesen, Tóibín, and Hadley and identifying their traces and possible translations in the field of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Rizq provides us with a feast of riveting offerings - not least, the fascinating claim that 'the self-as-other is structured like a short story' - that achieves a veritable 'transubstantiation' of psychoanalysis by introducing and exploring its eucharistic relation to literature.' Anastasios Gaitanidis, director, Relational Psychotherapy Ltd. and co-editor of The Sublime in Everyday Life: Psychoanalytic and Aesthetic Perspectives, Routledge (2020)'Does one get a better understanding of people through studying psychology or literature? Fortunately, as psychological therapists we can avoid the answer to this question. For here, Rosemary Rizq shows us how we can be more thoughtful practitioners by reconsidering literature, both through the magnificent examples she provides and the process she illuminates, with the help of psychoanalysis and 'ways of reading and telling'. By drawing on literary fiction, this book provides a too rare antidote to the deathly crisis in the Psychological Therapies caused by them becoming increasingly dependent on so called 'evidence-based practice' as the basis of psychotherapeutic knowledge.'Del Loewenthal, emeritus professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling, University of Roehampton, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: What do we know? 1. Copying, Cloning, and Creativity: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 2. The Wager of Faith in Fiction and Psychoanalysis: Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary 3. Psychoanalysis and Ways of Reading: Henry James's The Figure in the Carpet 4. Epistemologues of the Particular: Tessa Hadley's An Abduction 5. On Food, Faith, and Psychoanalysis: Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast 6. 'Familiar Artifiice': Alice Munro's The Moons of Jupiter
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modern American Literature and Contemporary
Book SynopsisAs an endeavor to contribute to the burgeoning field of comparative literature, this monograph addresses the dynamic yet understudied intertextual dialogism between modern American literature and contemporary Iranian Cinema, pinpointing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances of the former to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen. Drawing on Louis Montrose's catchphrase that Cultural Materialism foregrounds the textuality of history, [and] the historicity of texts, this book contends that literary texts are synchronic artifacts prone to myriad intertextual and extra-textual readings and understandings, each historically conditioned. The recontextualization of Herzog, Franny and Zooey, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Death of a Salesman into contemporary Iran provides an intertextual avenue to delineate the textuality of history and the historicity of textsTrade Review"Iranian film has become a major force in world cinema, and its sophisticated interactions with American literature have received far too little scholarly attention until now. Morteza Yazdanjoo opens up important new territory in his wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, providing fresh insights into discourses of gender, religion, identity, appropriation, narrativity, and politics as they pertain to cinema, literature, and other key areas of contemporary global culture. Scholars in many fields will welcome his work.– David Sterritt, editor in chief, Quarterly Review of Film and Video" Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Adaptation Studies, Cultural Materialism, and Cultural Studies: An Intertextual Dialogue3.Narrative Trajectories of National Identity in Iranian Cinema: A Historical Long Shot 4.Performing the Poetics of the Iranian Dream on the Silver Screen: Dariush Mehrjui’s Appropriation of Saul Bellow’s Herzog and J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey5. Watching Tennessee Williams in Iran: The Sanctity of Family Reconstituted6. Birth of a Salesman: Revisiting Willy Loman in Tehran7. ConclusionIndex
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Routledge James Malcolm Rymer Penny Fiction and the Family
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Taylor & Francis The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels
Book SynopsisThe Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved through the mid-nineteenth century in England, as seen in sensation novels. In contrast to most assumptions about the English detective, Yoon argues that the detective was more often tolerated than admired following the establishment of professional detectives in the London Metropolitan Police Force in 1842. Through studying the historical and literary contexts between the 1840s to the 1860s, Yoon argues that the detective was seen as a suspicious, even mistrusted and disdained, figure who was nonetheless viewed as necessary to combat rising levels of crime. The detective as a literary character responded to the often contradictory values and aspirations of the middle class, representing an independent masculinity and laying claim to scientific authority. This study surveys novels by Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Wilkie Collins, alongside lesser-known writers like William Russell, James Redding Ware (pseudonym Andrew Forrester), and William Stephens Hayward. This book contributes to the study of mid-nineteenth-century Victorian culture and connects with broader studies of the detective fiction genre.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd TheoryTheatre
Book SynopsisThis fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance. It is a comprehensive and accessible examination of current theoretical approaches, from semiotics and poststructuralism, through to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies, queer and feminist theories.Key updates to the new edition include further perspectives and expanded content on:- Technology, audience reception and liveness- Further examinations of feminism, transgender and gender theory, as well as queer theory- Disability studies- Critical Race Theory- Decolonization-
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Taylor & Francis Ltd World Literature as Discovery
Book SynopsisThe rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century. However, truly well-known and globally circulating works are all canonical works of European or Western literature, while non-European and even minor European literatures remain largely unknown beyond their culture of origin. World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon argues that world literature for our time must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand the canon to include great works from non-European and minor European literatures. As much of the world's literature remains untranslated and unknown, the expansion will be an exciting process of discovery. By discussing fundamental questions around canon, circulation, aesthetic values, translation, cosmopolitanism, and the literary universal, Zhang Longxi proposes a new and liberating concept of world literature that will shape world literature worthy of its name. This book speaks foTrade Review"Drawing on his deep knowledge of both Chinese and European literary traditions, Zhang Longxi advances a bracing vision of a non-Eurocentric canon of world literature, one that would build on the self-understandings of the world’s literary cultures rather than imposing Western values and concerns on them. World Literature as Discovery proposes both an expansive discovery of the world’s distinctive traditions and a rediscovery of the aesthetic pleasures that great works offer their readers." David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA, author of What Is World Literature? and Comparing the Literatures "A brilliant reconceptualization of world literature by a scholar that over the past 40 years has been one of the most active, erudite, and at the same time common sensical contributors to the field. Arguing the need for a wider inclusion of non-Western works in world literature while at the same time refusing to side-step the issues of translation and value judgments, Zhang’s volume is a must-read for all scholars and students of literature wanting to keep abreast of what really is at stake in our fast-changing world." Theo D’haen, Professor Emeritus of English, KU Leuven, Belgium, author of World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics"Zhang’s World Literature as Discovery is bound to invigorate the current debate on the importance of value judgements in the discourse of world literature. His is an impassioned and erudite intervention that urges us to reopen the question of the canon and argues for a truly plural world literature that draws its own sustainability from a body of texts far beyond the Western tradition." Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London, UK, author of The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond"Is it possible to have a worldly conversation about literary value – to free discussions of literary merit from their Eurocentric confines and to open our minds to multiple standards of literary judgement? The question is an important one for readers in our time, and Zhang Longxi, equally at home in the European and Chinese traditions (and beyond) is just the scholar to lead us towards an answer." Alexander Beecroft, Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages, University of South Carolina, USA, author of An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present DayTable of ContentsPreface Goethe and Weltliteratur The Return to (World) Literature Circulation and Value Judgment Canon and the Classic World Literature as Discoveries Language, (Un)translatability and World Literature The Challenge of Writing a World Literary History Literary Universals The Mirror of Enigma and the Mirror of Magic Potion and Poison: Chinese and Shakespearean Dialectics Conclusion: World Literature and Cosmopolitanism BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Queer Theory Lacanian Psychoanalysis Sexual
Book SynopsisQueer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics is a consideration of the relationship between LGBTQIA+ politics, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, and queer theory.The book argues, through readings of Judith Butlerâs Gender Trouble and Lee Edelmanâs No Future, that core queer categories â such as normativity and anti-normativity â sidestep questions that are crucial not only to contemporary sexual politics but also to psychoanalytic thinking and clinical work. Luiz Valle Junior attends to the queer account of the political shortcomings of the contemporary LGBTQIA+ movement, as well as to the inadequacies of the queer reception of Lacanian psychoanalysis and makes a case for the ongoing relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis to thinking through a renewed sexual politics. The book reflects on the potentiality of a Lacanian theory of sexual politics to challenge the dominance of identity in contemporary LGBTQIA+ activism and in the queer theoretical arch
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Taylor & Francis Virginia Woolfâs Microgenesis
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolfâs Microgenesis analyses Virginia Woolfâs novels through her own methodological approach to mind, to meaning, and to making whole. This volume argues that Woolfâs preoccupation with the metaphysics of âœwholeness,â a dread, indeed, of both fragmentation, and of what endures, places her writings alongside Jason Brownâs microgenesis, formulated as an unfolding, emergent, and evolutionary process of cognitive activity. However, and crucially, it is not by assembling multiple flows of sense data into more complex constructions that we might perceive the objective world, but by sculpting away the unfit to reveal the structure of the world as a surfacing reality. In so many ways, Woolfâs novels represent an enactment of microgenetic theory as they emphasise the mind/brain state as a process of continual unfolding through progressive differentiation and discrimination to a distinct configuration. That is not to say that Woolfâs writings should be understood as anticipa
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