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Brill Marking Time: Derrida Blanchot Beckett des Forêts Klossowski Laporte
Book SynopsisDrawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined. Individual chapters trace the stakes of this view of time for the status and ‘economy’ of the literary text across five 20th-century writers in French whose work is characterized by a fundamental and searching self-questioning: Maurice Blanchot, Samuel Beckett, Louis-René des Forêts, Pierre Klossowski, and Roger Laporte. A final chapter draws on these analyses to develop an inherently unstable figure of ‘saving time’, which has important repercussions for how we conceive of literary value.Trade Review"L'originalité et l'intérêt de cette étude consiste à considérer la question du temps en rapport avec une économie hétéronome qui est exemplifiée par la logique du "saving time: préserver ou réserver et sauver sans restitution ou sans salut, de manière simultanée." - Idola Quintana Domínguez, Les Lettres romanes "Ian Maclachlan's Marking Time is a very significant critical, theoretical, and scholarly achievement." - Ian James, MHRATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: Questions of literature and time Marking time with Jacques Derrida Différance and the economy of the book The gift and literature’s chance of a future Performative, event, sequence Marking time and narrative time Time returning: Maurice Blanchot Time of the récit Au moment voulu The obstinate time of testimony: Louis-René des Forêts Still time: Samuel Beckett Making time for each other: Pierre Klossowski Fugal time: Roger Laporte Saving time: an invaluable offering Bibliography Index
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Brill Reading Coetzee
Book SynopsisJust as J. M. Coetzee’s post-2003 books present essays and narrative alongside one another, this book engages with its ideas through both critical and creative writing. Reading Coetzee interleaves critical essays on Coetzee’s works with an autobiographical narrative detailing MacFarlane’s more personal response to her reading and writing. The presentation of elements of the creative with the critical, and the critical within the creative, aims to challenge the traditional boundary between the two. This kind of methodology derives from the idea (and practice) of embodiment: that an idea or philosophy does not ‘float free’, but is tied to the idiosyncrasies, divergences, and subjective ‘travel’ of its speaker or writer. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man and Diary of a Bad Year explicitly address themes which abide more surreptitiously throughout his oeuvre: the divisions and paradoxes which occur the moment pen gains page, the value of literature, and the ethics of embodiment. In revealing the dialogue between writer-self and reader-self, and between author and character, these recent novels invite a rereading of Coetzee’s previous literature. Reading Coetzee explores Coetzee’s preoccupation with the act of writing using his recent books as a lens through which to view his eight previous novels as well as his memoirs and essays.Trade Review”My impression is that this is a significant and daring work. It is a rare and refreshing pleasure to read an academic book where the writer is willing to put herself on the line, not only through her assessment of someone else, but by writing stories and creative non-fiction that relate to her main line of investigation. (It turns out that some of those who teach also can do). This makes everything matter to the reader because it all clearly matters to and affects Elizabeth MacFarlane. Her enterprise is not a pursuit of status but a pursuit of understanding and fuller living.” – Per K. Brask, University of Winnipeg, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction This Book is Irregular: On the critical-creative nexus The middle voice ‘I have beliefs but I do not believe in them’ The voice of the literary critic The critical landscape Coetzee’s recurring blank page The written is always a compromise Metaphor as Contagion: On the Postscript of Elizabeth Costello Elizabeth Costello as Postscript to Coetzee’s oeuvre Lord Chandos’s total renunciation of literary activity Lady Chandos and the problem of metaphor The Author Divided in Coetzee’s Novels A moment of rupture: The white-haired woman Time, tense, and aspect Singing birds Divided and divined ‘A going against’: Coetzee, postmodernism, and late style Where is Coetzee? Authors and characters Her man and she The Ethics of Embodiment The ethics of embodiment: Philosophy and literature Costello’s progress, human to ape The dark chamber: Ethics and ambiguity Two suspended elements: sentence, narrative, text The metaphor of the real Short fiction The Nature of It Museum The Scar Triptych Conclusions Foreground and background Late style The wrong question Postscript: A Bad Year References Index
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Brill Le roman de la création: Écrire entre mythes et pratiques
Book SynopsisUn phénomène nouveau est sur le point de modifier en profondeur la représentation traditionnelle, vieille de plus de deux siècles, de la création littéraire : l’atelier d’écriture. Entre une pratique scripturale de plus en plus ouverte et un système qui repose encore sur une conception sacrée de la littérature, du moins en France, une situation inédite s’énonce : les mythes de l’écriture et de l’écrivain sont-ils en passe d’être détrônés ? Afin de mieux comprendre la faveur dont jouissent les ateliers depuis quelques années, cet ouvrage interroge la place que nous accordons encore aux mythes et aux rites de l’écriture. Portant sur l’expérience particulière de l’écriture, de la naissance de la vocation au phénomène de l’inspiration, observant la relation que les écrivains entretiennent avec une création tissée de rituels, de représentations anciennes et de techniques, Le Roman de la création trace les changements, entre mythes et pratiques, qui s’esquissent dans le champ littéraire actuel.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Du mystère dans les Lettres Chapitre I – (Re)naissances de l’écrivain Chapitre II – L’inspiration : la visite de l’ange Chapitre III – L’atelier de l’écrivain Chapitre IV – Le roman de la création Conclusion: Ecrire et… ? Bibliographie Index
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Wissira Press From Shakespeare to Tagore Reinterpreting English Literature Through Indian Sensibility
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Canopus Editorial Digital LLC La ret rica del Imperio
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Stories of Place
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Truths Unmasked
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Les prairies numériques Can Such Things Be
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Independently Published Shadows Of Malice
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Il Pervigilium Veneris e la Primavera del Botticelli
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Independently Published Oltre le contraddizioni
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Independently Published At the Frontiers of the Possible
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Independently Published Cognitive Poetics
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Independently Published Scripture and Its Shadows
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OUP India IndoGerman Exchanges in Education
Book SynopsisIn 1930, when Rabindranath Tagore met Paul and Edith Geheeb in Germany, they formed a fruitful and long-term association resulting in the exchange of ideas and vision. Tagore''s Brahmacharya Ashram, founded in 1901 in Shantiniketan, and the Geheeb''s Odenwaldschule, established in Germany in 1910 (thereafter the Ecole d''''Humanité in Switzerland, established in 1934 after the couple fled Nazi Germany), emerged from vastly different cultural backgrounds and social exigencies. Yet, they recognized striking similarities between their educational endeavours. The meeting also initiated a close association between India and Germany, with the Geheebs attracting many Indian intellectuals and Indophile Germans to their schools. This book explores the areas where the lives of the Geheebs and Tagore, and their respective circles, overlap. Rather than being a biography, a history, or a comprehensive description, this study is a comparison of Tagore and the Geheebs and their schools. Making use ofTrade ReviewKämpchen's book is full of research insights that only come with years of experience. * Razak Khan, German Historical Institute London Bulletin *
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc The Great American Read The Book of Books Explore
Book SynopsisWhat are America''s best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America''s 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes, featured by a yet-to-be-named A-list host, will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale, America''s #1 best-loved novel will be revealed. The Great American Read: The Book of Books will present all 100 novels with fascinating information about each book, author profiles, a snapshot of the novel''s social relevance, film or television adaptations, other books and writings by the author, and little-known facts. Also included are themed articles about banned books, the most influential book illustrators, reading recommendations, the best first-lines in literature, and more.Beautifully designed with rare images of the original manuscripts, first-edit
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theory into Practice A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism A Reader In Modern Criticism
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Literary Theories A Case Study in Critical Performance
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Deconstruction Derrida Transitions
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Literary Theory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transcending the Postmodern The Singular Response
Book SynopsisTranscending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned with the issue of Transmodernity as addressed by and presented in contemporary novels hailing from various parts of the English-speaking world. Building on the theories of Transmodernity propounded by Rosa MarÃa RodrÃguez Magda, Enrique Dussel, Marc Luyckx Ghisi and Irena Ateljevic, inter alia, it investigates the links between Transmodernity and such categories as Postmodernity, Postcolonialism and Transculturalism with a view to help define a new current in contemporary literary production. The chapters either follow the main theoretical drives of the transmodern paradigm or problematise them. In so doing, they branch out towards various issues that have come to inspire contemporary novelists, among which: the presence of the past, the ascendance of new technologies, multiculturalism, terrorism, and also vulnerability, interdependence, solidarity and ecology in a globalised context. In so doing, it interrogates the ethics, aesthetics and politics of the contemporary novel in English. Trade Review"This book stands out as an unyielding and timely repositioning of paradigms in the domains of philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism and cultural theory through the lens of contemporary literature in English…the ten chapters of the book succeed in producing a close view of how themes such as postcolonialism, subalternity, eco-criticism, feminist criticism, etc. fall into the transmodern pattern." Sorin Cazacu, University of Craiova, British and American StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Transcending the PostmodernSusana Onega and Jean-Michel GanteauPART IThe Poetics of Transmodernity The Transmodern Poetics of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: Generic Hybridity, Narrative Embedding and Transindividuality Susana Onega Transnational Latino/a Literature and the Transmodern Meta-Narrative: An Alternative Reading of Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Sara Villamarín-Freire The Novel of Ideas at the Crossroads of Transmodernity: Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island Angelo Monaco PART II Ethical Perceptions Problematising the Transmodern: Jon McGregor’s Ethics of Consideration Jean-Michel Ganteau Using Transculturalism to Understand the Transmodern Paradigm: Representations of Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Matthias Stephan Transmodern Mythopoesis in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant Laura Colombino PART III Migrancy and the Possibility of Re-enchantment A Transmodern Approach to Post-9/11 Australia: Richard Flanagan’s The Unknown Terrorist as a Narrative of the Limit Bárbara Arizti Diversity, Singularity, Re-Enchantment and Relationality in a Transmodern World: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Merve Sarıkaya-Şen PART IV Perspectives on Biopolitics Transcorporeality, Fluidity and Transanimality in Monique Roffey’s Novel Archipelago Julia Kuznetski A Transmodern Approach to Biology in Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Revels History of Drama
Book SynopsisThis work provides a comprehensive account of drama written and performed in English from its roots in the medieval mystery plays to the progress of drama in Britain and America since 1945. The volumes, which are arranged chronologically, critically examine the drama, playwrights, actors and audiences of each period in their social and historical context.Key themes in The Revels History of Drama include:* the changing attitudes of audiences and public taste* the developing roles of actors, managers and directors* the evolution of acting stylesEach volume contains:* a chronological table containing historical, theatrical and other literary events* illustrations from contemporary sources* a substantial bibliography.
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