Literary theory Books
Edinburgh University Press The SpeechGesture Complex
Book SynopsisThis study examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
Book SynopsisThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Anna Kavan
Book SynopsisThe first critical study of Anna Kavan's experimental fictionTrade Review"It is fantastic to see the first monograph on Anna Kavan, and to see how it so convincingly argues for her significance. Walker's reading of Kavan as part of and alongside more familiar elements of mid-century literary culture has the paradoxical and very welcome effect of allowing us to see more fully the disturbing power of her work." -Leigh Wilson, University of Westminster
£99.22
Edinburgh University Press The Readers Joyce
Book SynopsisRethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce.
£17.99
Edinburgh University Press Alison Light Inside History
Book SynopsisA collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Landscape Poetics
Book SynopsisReassesses Scottish textual practice in the context of the natural and post-natural landscapes
£99.62
Edinburgh University Press Sarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy
Book SynopsisSarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy addresses Kofman's relations with her contemporary Jacques Derrida, but also her readings of psychoanalysis, music, Shakespeare, and more. The volume closes with a previously untranslated text of hers interpreting Nietzsche and Voltaire's responses to natural catastrophe.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Character Writing and Reputation in Victorian Law
Book SynopsisDrawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Character Writing and Reputation in Victorian Law
Book SynopsisDrawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Interrogating Lesbian Modernism
Book SynopsisA timely and original examination of lesbian modernismTrade Review"This impressive essay collection showcases the range and - perhaps more crucially - the continuing relevance of lesbian studies to scholars of literary modernism. Interrogating Lesbian Modernism invites readers to reflect on the past, present, and future of the figure of the 'lesbian' and will undoubtedly influence how we engage with modernity itself.? ??" -Laura Doan, author of Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press NeoAvantGardes
Book SynopsisA systematic transnational investigation of post-war literary experiments in Europe and the Americas.Trade Review"Neo-Avant-Gardes provides nuanced critical perspectives on the resurgent avant-gardes active in Europe and elsewhere globally during the long 1960s". With particular focus on literary intermedia and experimental writing, the authors set out new directions in the theory and history of the neo-avant-gardes, beyond previous dismissals and defenses."" -Tyrus Miller, University of California, Irvine
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press Counterpoetics of Modernity
Book SynopsisProvides a new approach to contemporary Irish poetry.
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Counterpoetics of Modernity
Book SynopsisProvides a new approach to contemporary Irish poetry.Trade Review"The new things that happen happen somewhere, not nowhere, and that which is counter, is counter to some specific set of circumstances. Lloyd's great strength here is to bring out into the light of critical examination the specifics of a distinctly Irish counterpoetics. in a book that I believe will be seen as a key moment in our understanding of what is most vital in Irish poetry." -Billy Mills
£17.99
Edinburgh University Press Women Poetry and the Voice of a Nation
Book SynopsisA pioneering study of women poets exploring the four laureate roles of the United Kingdom and Ireland.Trade Review"At once tracing the poets' careers and their self-inscription into exclusionary poetic traditions, Varty's timely book examines?their advances for literary and cultural democracies. It deftly?details?how, individually and collectively, these women reconfigure national identities while destabilising nationalisms, and how they infiltrate school curricula when sceptical of educational policies." -Dr Jane Dowson, De Montfort University, author of Carol Ann Duffy: Poet for Our Times
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Italian Gothic
Book SynopsisThe first critical study that theorises the Italian Gothic and examines its main forms and manifestations across arts, media, and disciplinesTrade Review"This imaginatively conceived volume is impeccable in its scholarship, and opens up new ways of thinking about Italian culture in the past two centuries. It does so with great critical insight and panache, dispelling long-held critical prejudices against the Gothic as genre and mode, and unsettling canonical views and critical frameworks. The volume makes for rich and compelling reading." -Giuliana Pieri, Royal Holloway University of London
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time
Book SynopsisPostcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time reveals the fundamental, constitutive role of the temporal dimensions of waiting in colonial regimes of time, as well as in postcolonial framings of time, history and agency.Trade Review"In this theoretically invigorating study, Amanda Lagji offers comparative close readings of work by authors from Conrad to Ishmael Beah, Armah to Coetzee (amongst others), that presses reset on our tendency to read waiting as stasis, instead recasting apparent impasse as productively disruptive to hegemonic temporalities. A timely and important work." -Andrew van der Vlies, University of Adelaide
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time
Book SynopsisPostcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time reveals the fundamental, constitutive role of the temporal dimensions of waiting in colonial regimes of time, as well as in postcolonial framings of time, history and agency.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Derrida Reads Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis book brings to light Derrida's rich and thought-provoking discussions of Shakespearean drama.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Formal Matters
Book SynopsisDemonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Formal Matters
Book SynopsisDemonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.
£17.99
Edinburgh University Press Beastly Modernisms
Book SynopsisA contemporary collection of scholarly essays exploring the vibrant intersections of modernist studies and critical animal studiesTrade Review"A major contribution to animal studies as well as modernist studies, Beastly Modernisms gathers international perspectives that strategically redeploy modern profusions of beastliness whether within, without, or betwixt and between (sometimes human) animals in ways geared to advance timely feminist, antiracist, and decolonial critiques." -Susan McHugh, University of New England
£110.00
Edinburgh University Press Beastly Modernisms
Book SynopsisThe intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questions about what it means to live with animals in modernity. Beastly Modernisms gathers essays from leading figures in the field alongside emerging scholars who, together, revisit canonical figures and decentre the canons and geographies of modernism. Grounded in interdisciplinary approaches, the contributions work with cultural history and theoretical frameworks to unearth the multispecies dynamics of twentieth-century literature and culture. The chapters in Beastly Modernisms present a diverse range of approaches and topics, exploring dogs in Virginia Woolf to Republican China, animals and gender in surrealism to African-American texts, Sámi reindeer to rat propaganda, modernist jellyfish to metamodernist beasts, 1940s poetry to Indian Partition stories, charting the current and future state of modernist animal studies.
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press Blanchot Ecology and Contemporary Fiction
Book SynopsisA reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland
£99.52
Edinburgh University Press Blanchot Ecology and Contemporary Fiction
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£18.99
McFarland & Co Inc Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic
Book Synopsis In recent years horror and gothic themes have penetrated mainstream popular culture in a manner unseen since the horror boom of the 1970s. Primetime television viewers who before might not have shown interest in such late-night fare now happily settle down after dinner to watch zombie or serial killer shows. This collection of 54 biographical essays examines many overlooked and underrated figures who have played a role in the ever expanding world of horror and gothic entertainment. The contributors push the boundaries of how we define these terms, bringing into the discussion such diverse figures as singer-songwriter Tom Waits, occultist Dion Fortune, author Charles Beaumont, historian and bishop Gregory of Tours and video game designer Shinji Mikami.
£20.89
McFarland & Co Inc Following the Textual Revolution
Book Synopsis Analysis of literature and culture abounds in modern scholarship, customarily written in the familiar language of literary theory. Though the terminology today seems (more or less) straightforward, this was not always the case. The propositions for a new and active understanding of text, put forward in the 1960s by theorists like Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, profoundly influenced contemporary critical thought and were unnerving to many. This book examines how a divergent school of literary and cultural studies created French Theory, appropriated its ideas about text and texuality and altered the landscape of debate in mainstream academic discourse. The author traces the standardization of a once rebellious poststructuralism and presents contemporary critical thinking that questions the assumptions of Theory.
£32.39
McFarland & Co Inc Going Scapegoat
Book Synopsis Since 9/11, war literature has become a key element in American popular culture, spurring critical debate about depictions of combat--Who can write war literature? When can they do it? This book presents a new way to closely read war narratives, questioning the idea of combat gnosticism--the belief that the experience of war is impossible to communicate to those who have not seen it--that has dominated the discussion. Adapting Kenneth Burke''s scapegoat mechanism to the criticism of literature and film, the author examines three novels from 2012--Ben Fountain''s Billy Lynn''s Long Halftime Walk, David Abrams''s FOBBIT and Kevin Powers'' The Yellow Birds--that represent the U.S. military responses to 9/11.
£27.54
McFarland & Co Inc A Wanderer by Trade
Book Synopsis Many of Bob Dylan''s most well-known works date from the 1960s, and can be seen as critical indicators of the changes in American society then and since. This book explores the unthreading of ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality, and identity through the lens of some of Dylan''s most popular love songs. The author revealingly employs specific aspects of cultural theory to explore the appeal of Bob Dylan''s music both now and during the time it was written.
£46.07
McFarland & Co Inc The New Fiction Technologies
Book Synopsis The Internet has fundamentally altered our perceptions of narrative and its core components, including authorship, setting, characterization, reader reception and more. With new trends, tropes and conventions emerging at the speed of cyberspace, digital media like web comics, video games and fan fiction have become laboratories for experimentation on the boundaries of contemporary storytelling. While web comics, video games and fan fiction have received much scholarly study, this book focuses on the common ground they share, and how their processes, motivations and evolution may be more similar than we think. These media are all regarded as unique genres of digital fiction, and this book aims to bridge the gap between them. Understanding these phenomena as expressions of the same principles could be crucial to understanding the future of narrative storytelling.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vPreface 1Introduction A New Narratology for the Digital Age 3Communication and the Implied Author 5The Fictional World and Its Inhabitants 6Time, Space and Plot 9The Desire for Agency as a Guiding Principle of Digital Fiction 111. Fan Fiction The Impetus and Methodologies of Fan Fiction 13Competing Authorial Powers, Conflicting Implied Authors 19Ontology, Metalepsis, and Storyworld Manipulation 27New Genres, Sub-Genres, and Metafiction 37Visual Mimesis and Re-Enactment in Fan Films 53The Meaning(s) of Fan Fiction 612. Video Game Narratology Technological Refinement Throughout the History of Video Games 63Manipulation, Morality, and Multitextuality 69Love, Death, and the Avatar 81Navigating Reactive Spaces in Persistent Digital Worlds 93Metafiction and Fan Fiction Apparatuses in Video Games 101The Continuing Evolution of Diegetic Agency 1073. Webcomics Defining Webcomics in Opposition to Print 109A History of Superhero Authorship and Reactivity 113Unstable Atopias and Chronologically Fluid Characters 122Webcomics as a Digital Reaction to Superhero Fiction 134Embracing Subversion and Normalcy in the Infinite Canvas 1484. A New Way of Framing the Pursuit of Interactivity and Agency 152Bibliography 157Index 163
£27.54
University of Texas Press Literature and Social Justice
Book SynopsisDrawing insights from cognitive and social neuroscience, this book uncovers the cognitive roots of social injustice and makes a powerful case that literature can positively alter the way we view others and promote social justice.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part I. The Psychological Basis for a Cognitive Politics of Social Justice Chapter 1. Cognitive Science for a New Social Criticism Part II. The Cognitive Roots of Injustice: Four Person-Schemas Chapter 2. Autonomism versus Situationism: Responsibility for Behavior and Life Outcomes Chapter 3. Essentialism versus Malleability: Responsibility for Character Chapter 4. Atomism versus Solidarity: Relation of Self to Others Chapter 5. Homogeneity versus Heterogeneity: The Structure of Character Part III. How Protest Novels Work to Replace Faulty Person-Schemas Chapter 6. The Jungle Chapter 7. The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 8. Native Son Part IV. A Radical Cognitive Social Criticism Chapter 9. Schema Criticism: Radical Cognitive Politics Notes Works Cited Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press The Limits of Identity
Book SynopsisThe Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that informs seemingly disparate theoretical projects.The Limits of Identity offers a critical reexamination of widely held conceptions of culture, ideology, interpretation, and history. The repudiation of universalism, Hatfield argues, creates a set of problems that are both theoretical and political. Even though the recognition of identity and difference is normally thought to be a form of resistance, The Limits of Identity claims that, in fact, the opposite is true.Trade Review"The Limits of Identity . . . masterfully draws from the foundational authors of modern Latin American thought to re-think Latino-Americanism and to suggest a radical departure from the ‘constraints’ of identity politics." * Cincinnati Romance Review *"[W]ith this project, Hatfield situates himself among some of the most exciting Latin Americanists in the U.S." * Latin American Literary Review *"[A]n ambitious and systematic effort to dismantle some of the predominant variations of identitarianism that feed the discursive apparatus of Latinamericanism." * Berfrois *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Culture Chapter 2: Beliefs Chapter 3: Meaning Chapter 4: Memory Coda: A New Latin Americanism? Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press Cosmopolitan Minds
Book SynopsisDuring World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers—Kay Boyle, Pearl S. Buck, William Gardner Smith, Richard Wright, and Paul Bowles—who found themselves prompted to seek experiences outside of their home country, experiences that profoundly changed their self-understanding and creative imagination as they encountered alternative points of views and cultural practices in Europe, Asia, and Africa.Alexa Weik von Mossner offers a new perspective on the affective underpinnings of critical and reflexive cosmopolitanism by drawing on theories of emotion and literary imagination from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and cognitive literary studies. She analyzes how physical dislocation, and the sometimes violent shifts in understanding that result from our affective encounters wTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Literature, Emotion, and the Cosmopolitan Imagination 1. Empathetic Cosmopolitanism: Kay Boyle and the Precariousness of Human Rights 2. Sentimental Cosmopolitanism: The Transcultural Feelings of Pearl S. Buck 3. Cosmopolitan Sensitivities: Bystander Guilt and Interracial Solidarity in the Work of William Gardner Smith 4. Cosmopolitan Contradictions: Fear, Anger, and the Transgressive Heroes of Richard Wright 5. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Disgust and Intercultural Horror in the Fiction of Paul Bowles Conclusion: (Eco-)Cosmopolitan Feelings? Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory
Book SynopsisUsing examples from all of the Athenian orators, this innovative book considers forensic speeches as one of the premier performance genres of Classical Athens, in which vision and visuality played a central role in convincing a jury.Trade Review… this book should be welcomed as an articulate, thought-provoking exploration of a fascinating and rich topic not hitherto treated in the synoptic compass that O’Connell offers us here. It will be of interest to a wide readership. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *O'Connell's monograph offers refreshing new insights that will help enhance our appreciation of the art of persuasion in Classical Athens. It deserves to be read by a wide audience of specialists and non-specialists. * sehepunkte *Table of Contents Abbreviations of Ancient Authors Abbreviations of Modern Editions Note on Translations and the Spelling of Greek Names Acknowledgments Introduction. Vision and Performance in the Courts of Classical Athens Part One: Physical Sight Chapter 1. Visual Rhetoric and Visual Evidence Chapter 2. The Meanings of Movement Part Two: The Language of Demonstration and Visibility Chapter 3. Showing and Seeing: The Procedural Terminology of Witnessing Chapter 4. Saying as Showing, Hearing as Seeing Part Three: Imaginary Sight Chapter 5. Visualizing Civic Suffering Chapter 6. Shared Spectatorship: Bridging the Gap Between Past and Present and Here and There Conclusion Appendix of Speeches Notes Bibliography Index of Ancient Texts General Index
£40.50
University of Texas Press Classics from Papyrus to the Internet
Book SynopsisThis major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission and the issue of reception, as well as the key reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.Trade ReviewHunt, Smith, and Stok have produced a valuable and useful book…Especially as Classics continues to be a source of interest and even contention in the public eye, the history of the field should remain of vital interest to students…The present volume offers a rich and engaging starting point. * New England Classical Journal *Table of Contents Preface Foreword by Craig Kallendorf Chapter 1. Writing and Literature in Antiquity Chapter 2. Grammar, Scholarship, and Scribal Practice from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Chapter 3. Classical Reception from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Chapter 4. Classics and Humanists Chapter 5. Classical Texts in the Age of Printing Chapter 6. Tools for the Modern Scholar Notes Bibliography Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Classics from Papyrus to the Internet
Book SynopsisThis major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission and the issue of reception, as well as the key reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.Trade ReviewHunt, Smith, and Stok have produced a valuable and useful book…Especially as Classics continues to be a source of interest and even contention in the public eye, the history of the field should remain of vital interest to students…The present volume offers a rich and engaging starting point. * New England Classical Journal *Table of Contents Preface Foreword by Craig Kallendorf Chapter 1. Writing and Literature in Antiquity Chapter 2. Grammar, Scholarship, and Scribal Practice from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Chapter 3. Classical Reception from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Chapter 4. Classics and Humanists Chapter 5. Classical Texts in the Age of Printing Chapter 6. Tools for the Modern Scholar Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
Duke University Press Essential Essays Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe first volume of the landmark two-volume collection of Stuart Hall's most important and influential essays, Foundations of Cultural Studies focuses on the first half of Hall's career, when he wrestled with questions of culture, class, representation, and politics.Trade Review"Anyone whose work is informed, 'in the last instance,' by Cultural Studies will find much that is helpfully familiar in it as well as new connections, new applications, new ways of '[penetrating] the disorderly surface of things to another level of understanding,' as Hall says, invoking Marx, in the epilogue. This seems especially urgent as the ascendancy of the far Right coincides with the wholesale neoliberalization of the humanities, as Hall predicted in his 'Theoretical Legacies' lecture. It is obviously not a question of 'going back' to Hall for a truer or more 'authentic' form of Cultural Studies than that in practice today. But there is much in his legacy that illuminates the dynamics of the present, and much to put into dialogue with contemporary scholarship and practice. Morley's collection reminds us how important it is for genuine intellectual work to articulate competing and contradictory paradigms together, to work, as Hall did, from the points of contestation and conflict rather than seek solace in abstractions. This, finally, is the 'essential' in the essays assembled here." -- Liane Tanguay * American Book Review *“Along with the other volumes that Duke University Press has published, these two books of collected essays are to be welcomed. They allow us to see a fertile mind in action, engaged in and with the real world. It is a model well worth emulating.” -- Michael W. Apple * Educational Policy *“As one of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, [Hall] has made an enormous contribution to cultural and political thought, and his work has had a lasting impact in both social sciences and the humanities…. This collection is a treasure trove of Hall’s intellectual and political offerings; I recommend it highly.” -- Avtar Brah * New West Indian Guide *"I have also narrated the effort it took for me to access his work to illustrate the importance of the Selected Writings now being released by Duke University Press. It is an event of profound historical significance that a new generation will be able to begin its political and theoretical education with systematic access to Hall’s writing. . . . The two-volume Essential Essays shows the broad scope of his work." -- Asad Haider * The Point *"It was one of Hall’s unique gifts to offer analysis of the moment as it unfolded before our eyes. I am sure I am not alone in having found his talks exhilarating in ways I could never quite understand, given that the news he relayed with such energy was almost unremittingly dire. Hall offered his readings as interpretation and self-commentary, tracing his own intellectual path." -- Jacqueline Hall * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsA Note on the Text vii Acknowledgments ix General Introduction: A Life in Essays 1 Part I. Cultural Studies: Culture, Class, and Theory Introduction 27 1. Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, and the Cultural Turn [2007] 35 2. Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms [1980] 47 3. Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies [1992] 71 Part II. Theoretical and Methodological Principles: Class, Race and Articulation 4. The Hinterland of Science: Ideology and the Sociology of Knowledge [1977] 111 5. Rethinking the "Base and Superstructure" Metaphor [1977] 143 6. Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance [1980] 172 7. On Postmodernism and Articulation: An Interview with Stuart Hall by Larry Grossberg and Others [1986] 222 Part III. Media, Communications, Ideology, and Representation 8. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse [originally 1973; republished 2007] 257 9. External Influences on Broadcasting: The External/Internal Dialectic in Broadcasting—Television's Double-Blind [1972] 277 10. Culture, the Media, and the "Ideological Effect" [1977] 298 Part IV. Political Formations: Power as Process 11. Notes on Deconstructing "the Popular" [1981] 347 12. Policing the Crisis: Preface to the 35th Anniversary Edition [2013] (with Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts) 362 13. The Great Moving Right Show [1979] 374 Index 393 Place of First Publication 411
£84.15
Duke University Press The Difference Aesthetics Makes
Book SynopsisIn The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls “illiberal humanism” instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing that the liberal humanities contribute to the reproduction of the subjugation that accompanies liberalism''s definition of the human, Chuh argues that instead of defending the humanities, as has been widely called for in recent years, we should radically remake them. Chuh proposes that the work of artists and writers like Lan Samantha Chang, Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Allan deSouza, Monique Truong, and othersbringsto bear ways of being and knowing that delegitimize liberal humanism in favor of more robust, capacious, and worldly senses of the human and the humanities. Chuh presents the aesthetics of illiberal humanism as vital to the creationTrade Review“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large.” -- Kiron Ward * Journal of American Studies *“In The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?” -- Michele Speitz * Journal Of British Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Introduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes 1 1. Knowledge under Cover 26 2. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism 51 3. Making Sense Otherwise 74 4. Mis/Taken Universals 89 Conclusion. On the Humanities "After Man" 122 Postscript 126 Notes 131 Bibliography 159 Index 175
£19.99
Duke University Press Sound Objects
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this ambitious and wide-ranging collection explore sound as an object, sound studies as a discipline, and the limits of sonic objectivity.Trade Review"The carefully curated sequence of essays and chapters makes a significant contribution to the field of sound studies." -- Aurelio Cianciotta * Neural *"Like the field of sound studies, the essays collected here are disciplinarily difficult to define or contain.… The text may well contribute to the creation of an audience through the challenges it presents. This volume moves the discussion of sound forward by recognizing its aesthetic and ideological richness as well as its ontological instability. As a whole, Sound Objects demonstrates the potential for engagement with sound to reverberate more deeply across artistic, aesthetic, and scholarly landscapes, as well as the promise of richness that comes from examining our basic assumptions." -- Maribeth Clark * Notes *"Sound Objects provides readers with a deepened exploration of the sonic field while maintaining cross-disciplinary conversations to help sound studies further congeal as an integrated field. . . . The collection will also resonate with a wide readership through the range of represented experiences of sound with which readers will identify." -- Kate Galloway * MUSICultures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow 1 I. Genealogies 1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion 23 2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack 33 3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane 53 II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification 4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager 73 5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne 94 III. Acousmatic Complications 6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow 113 7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan 130 IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations 8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann 151 9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 167 10. On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation / Georgina Born 185 V. Memory Traces 11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt 211 12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull 228 13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop 246 Bibliography 265 Contributors 281 Index 285
£98.60
Duke University Press Autonomy
Book SynopsisNicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the realm of the commodity by showing how an artist's commitment to form and by demanding interpretive attention elude the logic of capital.Trade Review"In Autonomy, Brown revitalizes a modernist commitment to form and offers a compelling vision of the work of art in the age of its commodification." -- Adam Theron-Lee Rensch * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Brown's argument feels, in the end, surprisingly liberating.… No doubt, there are questions prompted by the book that we still might want to have answered.… But these queries are obviously presented less as a critique of Autonomy than a plea to scholars to take up related questions in future volumes. Autonomy inspires such questions because this is a book that unabashedly and provocatively makes demands of us, in the way the very best scholarship, like the very best manifestos and all art, does too." -- Lisa Siraganian * Modernism/modernity *"A thorough and valuable commentary on the contemporary position of art within capitalism. Autonomy is essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in contemporary art in relation to the market, and for those interested in Marxist approaches to contemporary aesthetic form." -- Oliver Haslam * New Formations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form 1 1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography 41 2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work 79 3. Citation and Affect in Music 115 4. Modernism on TV 152 Epilogue. Taking Sides 178 Notes 183 Bibliography 207 Index 215
£103.70
Duke University Press Sexuality Disability and Aging
Book SynopsisDrawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one''s sense of self. She challenges common conceptions that equate the decline of bodily potential and ability with a permanent and irretrievable loss, arguing that such a loss can be both temporary and positively transformative. With Sexuality, Disability, and Aging, Gallop explores and celebrates how sexuality transforms and becomes more queer in the lives of the no longer young and the no longer able while at the same time demonstrating how disability can generate new forms of sexual fantasy and erotic possibility.Trade Review"For Gallop, theory offers solace in the face of life’s difficulties, and the book is often quietly moving. . . . Her use of theory isn’t about blowing up previous thought; it’s about finding consolation, which literature or philosophy is often said to provide." -- Jeffrey J. Williams * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Overall, Sexuality, Disability, and Aging presents an insightful yet accessible analysis that combines wide-ranging theoretical work with rich interpretive material to carefully reveal the phallic temporalities that underpin contemporary stereotypes of aging and late-onset disability as sexual decline. The book’s cross-cutting relevance means that it will find productive readership across a wide range of scholars interested in queer, crip, gerontological, literary, feminist, or psychoanalytic theory.” -- Kazuki Yamada * Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities *"An inventive and captivating piece of scholarship. Bolstered by its original findings and the intricate theoretical maneuvers that Gallop makes throughout this text, the book is poised to be a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of queer theory, critical gerontology, and disability studies." -- Kyle Christensen * Women's Studies in Communication *"Sexuality, Disability and Aging is a vital read for those interested in disability and sexuality as it contributes to indispensable discussions whilst simultaneously offering an alternative framework with which to aid progression within the field. . . . Gallop has compiled an accomplished text which is forward-thinking, unorthodox and paves the way for further discourse within the realms of disability, and for this, she must be commended." -- Bev Pollitt * Disability & Society *“Gallop’s willingness to reflect critically on her own experiences and reactions . . . reinvigorates feminist psychoanalytic theory, but also productively bridges the silences around aging and late-onset disability endemic to both disability studies and queer theory.” -- Sarah Rainey-Smithback * Hypatia *"Gallop makes an important intervention in the study of late life sexuality by connecting it to radical, queer, and alternative temporalities. . . . It is my hope, and dare I assume Gallop’s hope as well, that this work serves as one of the foundational texts for an expanding collection of work that examines sexuality, disability, and aging through the lenses of crip, queer, aging, and feminist theory." -- Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons * Poetics Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1x Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings 1 Crip Theory 1 Aging and Queer Temporality 5 Aging and the Phallus 13 The Queer Phallus 20 Anecdotal Theory 25 1. High Heels and Wheelchairs 31 The Story 31 The Ending 36 City Sidewalks 40 Feminism and High Heels 46 Gender and Disability 52 The Phallus in the Wheelchair 58 The Ending (Reprise) 64 2. Post-prostate Sex 67 The Story 67 Strange Temporalities 74 Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative 81 Resisting the Coital Imperative 92 Longitudinal Sexuality 95 Conclusion 103 The Phallus and Its Temporalities 103 Longitudinal Identities 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 127 Index 133
£67.15
Duke University Press Essential Essays Volume 2
Book SynopsisFrom his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume set—brings together Stuart Hall''s most influential and foundational works. Spanning the whole of his career, these volumes reflect the breadth and depth of his intellectual and political projects while demonstrating their continued vitality and importance.Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora draws from Hall''s later essays, in which he investigated questions of colonialism, empire, and race. It opens with “Gramsci''s Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” which frames the volume and finds Hall rethinking received notions of racial essentialism. In addition to essays on multiculturalism and globalization, black popular cTrade Review"Anyone whose work is informed, 'in the last instance,' by Cultural Studies will find much that is helpfully familiar in it as well as new connections, new applications, new ways of '[penetrating] the disorderly surface of things to another level of understanding,' as Hall says, invoking Marx, in the epilogue. This seems especially urgent as the ascendancy of the far Right coincides with the wholesale neoliberalization of the humanities, as Hall predicted in his 'Theoretical Legacies' lecture. It is obviously not a question of 'going back' to Hall for a truer or more 'authentic' form of Cultural Studies than that in practice today. But there is much in his legacy that illuminates the dynamics of the present, and much to put into dialogue with contemporary scholarship and practice. Morley's collection reminds us how important it is for genuine intellectual work to articulate competing and contradictory paradigms together, to work, as Hall did, from the points of contestation and conflict rather than seek solace in abstractions. This, finally, is the 'essential' in the essays assembled here." -- Liane Tanguay * American Book Review *“Along with the other volumes that Duke University Press has published, these two books of collected essays are to be welcomed. They allow us to see a fertile mind in action, engaged in and with the real world. It is a model well worth emulating.” -- Michael W. Apple * Educational Policy *"I have also narrated the effort it took for me to access his work to illustrate the importance of the Selected Writings now being released by Duke University Press. It is an event of profound historical significance that a new generation will be able to begin its political and theoretical education with systematic access to Hall’s writing. . . . The two-volume Essential Essays shows the broad scope of his work." -- Asad Haider * The Point *"It was one of Hall’s unique gifts to offer analysis of the moment as it unfolded before our eyes. I am sure I am not alone in having found his talks exhilarating in ways I could never quite understand, given that the news he relayed with such energy was almost unremittingly dire. Hall offered his readings as interpretation and self-commentary, tracing his own intellectual path." -- Jacqueline Hall * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsA Note on the Text vii Acknowledgments ix General Introduction 1 Part I. Prologue: Class, Race, and Ethnicity 1. Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity [1986] 21 Part II. Deconstructing Identities: The Politics of Anti-Essentialism 2. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities [1991] 63 3. What Is This "Black" in Black Popular Culture? [1995] 83 4. The Multicultural Question [1998] 95 Part III. The Postcolonial and the Diasporic 5. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power [1992] 141 6. The Formation of a Diasporic Intellectual: An Interview with Kuan-Hsing Chen [1996] 185 7. Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad [1999] 206 Part IV. Interviews and Reflections 8. Politics, Contingency, Strategy: An Interview with David Scott [1997] 235 9. At Home and Not at Home: Stuart Hall in Conversation with Les Back [2008] 263 Part V. Epilogue: Caribbean and Other Perspectives 10. Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life [2007] 303 Index 325 Place of First Publication 341
£75.65
Duke University Press Sound Objects
Book SynopsisIs a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study?Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound’s elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution of the concept of the sound object, the commodification of sound, acousmatic listening, nonhuman sounds, and sound and memory, the contributors not only probe conceptual issues that lie in the forefront of contemporary sonic discussions but also underscore auditory experience as fundamental to sound as a critical enterprise. In so doing, they offer exciting considerations of sound within and beyond its role in meaning, communication, and information and an illuminatingly original theoretical overview of the field of sound studies itself. Contributors. Georgina Born, Michael Bull, Michel Chion, Rey Chow, John Dack, Veit Erlmann, Brian Kane, Jairo Moreno, John MowittTrade Review"The carefully curated sequence of essays and chapters makes a significant contribution to the field of sound studies." -- Aurelio Cianciotta * Neural *"Like the field of sound studies, the essays collected here are disciplinarily difficult to define or contain.… The text may well contribute to the creation of an audience through the challenges it presents. This volume moves the discussion of sound forward by recognizing its aesthetic and ideological richness as well as its ontological instability. As a whole, Sound Objects demonstrates the potential for engagement with sound to reverberate more deeply across artistic, aesthetic, and scholarly landscapes, as well as the promise of richness that comes from examining our basic assumptions." -- Maribeth Clark * Notes *"Sound Objects provides readers with a deepened exploration of the sonic field while maintaining cross-disciplinary conversations to help sound studies further congeal as an integrated field. . . . The collection will also resonate with a wide readership through the range of represented experiences of sound with which readers will identify." -- Kate Galloway * MUSICultures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow 1 I. Genealogies 1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion 23 2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack 33 3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane 53 II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification 4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager 73 5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne 94 III. Acousmatic Complications 6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow 113 7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan 130 IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations 8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann 151 9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 167 10. On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation / Georgina Born 185 V. Memory Traces 11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt 211 12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull 228 13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop 246 Bibliography 265 Contributors 281 Index 285
£25.19
Duke University Press Marxism Colonialism and Cricket
Book SynopsisMore than fifty years after the publication of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the contributors to Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket investigate its production and reception and its implication for debates about sports, gender, aesthetics, race, popular culture, politics, imperialism, and Caribbean and English identity.Trade Review"Impressively, the authors are respectful of James’ pivotal contribution to the Marxist analysis of sport but also explore aspects of his thought that fall short of a fully comprehensive materialist approach." -- Sean Ledwith * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket will likely be most appealing to specialists in British Caribbean cultural studies, and will also contribute to scholarly explorations of sport. Recommended. Researchers, faculty, and professionals." -- B. A. Lucero * Choice *"A fine and comprehensive attempt to reflect on the work of James . . . Represents the fluency of much of James’s writing and oratory as a charismatic speaker and public intellectual who sought to place himself at the forefront of public discussion. . . . Many will glean much pleasure and stimulation from a study of this text." -- Russell Holden * Nordic Sports Forum *"The most outstanding sports book of 2019, to date. . . . What the editors David Featherstone, Chistopher Gair, Christian Høgsberg and Andrew Smith have achieved is truly special mixing James’ personal and political lifestory, the context of cricket in the West Indies, the past, present and future of cricket writing. Superb, just the read whilst that old imperial encounter, The Ashes, seeks to nudge the Premier League’s off season from the back pages this sporting summer." -- Mark Perryman * Philosophy Football *“The collection takes us well beyond the boundaries of sport, of history, of politics, and of the auto/biographical self. . . . The collection is a vital contribution to and extension of our studies of, readings of, and deployment of [C.L.R.] James in sport and beyond. It is essential in grasping the limits and potentials of what remains a key text in the historical, cultural, and sociological analyses of sport.” -- Malcolm MacLean * Journal of Sport History *“Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket is a major literary and intellectual accomplishment. It is a must read, and a timely reminder that the problem of the twentieth century has returned with a vengeance as the problem of the twenty-first century.” -- Leslie R. James * CLR James Journal *“I enjoyed this book immensely. I have indulged in reading it cover to cover; revisiting certain chapters and ideas, seeking clarity as my mind became cloudy. … Putting Beyond a Boundary at the core, this book epitomises the interdisciplinary application of James to fields as diverse as sport, sociology, cultural studies, history, literature and the arts.” -- Thomas Fletcher * Cultural Sociology *"This fine collection of essays and reflections makes a significant contribution to the existing literature on Beyond a Boundary and C.L.R. James more generally." -- Neil Lazarus * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsForeword. Opening Up / David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg, and Andrew Smith vii Introduction. Beyond a Boundary at Fifty / David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg, and Andrew Smith 1 Part I: Cricket, Empire, and the Caribbean 1. C. L. R. James: Plumbing His Caribbean Roots / Selwyn R. Cudjoe 35 2. C. L. R. James's "British Civilization"? Exploring the "Dark Unfathomed Caves" of Beyond a Boundary / Christian Høgsbjerg 51 3. The Boundaries of Publication: The Making of Beyond a Boundary / Roy McCree 72 4. "West Indian Through and Through, and Very British": C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary, Coloniality, and Theorizing Caribbean Independence / Minkah Makalani 88 5. Looking Beyond the Boundary, or Bondmen without the Bat: Modernism and Culture in the Worldview of C. L. R. James / David Austin 103 Part II. The Politics of Representation in Beyond a Boundary 6. "Periodically I Pondered over It": Reading he Absence/Presence of Women in Beyond a Boundary / Anima Adjepong 123 7. C. L. R. James, W. G. Grace, and the Representative Claim / Neil Washbourne 137 8. Shannonism: Learie Constantine and the Origins of C. L. R. James's Worrell Captaincy Campaign of 1959–60: A Preliminary Assessment / Clem Seecharan 153 Part III: Art, History, and Culture in C. L. R. James 9. C. L. R. James and the Arts of Beyond a Boundary: Literary Lessons, Cricketing Aesthetics, and World-Historical Heroes / Claire Westall 173 10. The Very Stuff of Human Life: C. L. R. James on Cricket, History, and Human Nature / Andrew Smith 191 11. C. L. R. James: Beyond the Boundaries of Culture / Paget Henry 204 Part IV: Reflections 12. Socrates and C. L. R. James / Michael Brearley 223 13. My Journey to James: Cricket, Caribbean Identity, and Cricket Writing / Hilary McD. Beckles 240 14. Confronting Imperial Boundaries / Selma James 254 Appendix. What Do They Know of England? / C. L. R. James 263 References 276 Contributors 283 Index 287
£25.19
Duke University Press Autonomy
Book SynopsisIn Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art''s autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations, suspend the logic of capital by demanding interpretive attention. He applies his readings of Marx, Hegel, Adorno, and Jameson to a range of literature, photography, music, television, and sculpture, from Cindy Sherman''s photography and the novels of Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan to The Wire and the music of the White Stripes. He demonstrates that through their attention and commitment to form, such artists turn aside the determination posed by the demand of the market, thereby defeating the foreclosure of meaning entailed in commodification. In so doing, he offers a new theory of art that prompts a rethinking of the relationship between art, critical theory, and cTrade Review"In Autonomy, Brown revitalizes a modernist commitment to form and offers a compelling vision of the work of art in the age of its commodification." -- Adam Theron-Lee Rensch * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Brown's argument feels, in the end, surprisingly liberating.… No doubt, there are questions prompted by the book that we still might want to have answered.… But these queries are obviously presented less as a critique of Autonomy than a plea to scholars to take up related questions in future volumes. Autonomy inspires such questions because this is a book that unabashedly and provocatively makes demands of us, in the way the very best scholarship, like the very best manifestos and all art, does too." -- Lisa Siraganian * Modernism/modernity *"A thorough and valuable commentary on the contemporary position of art within capitalism. Autonomy is essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in contemporary art in relation to the market, and for those interested in Marxist approaches to contemporary aesthetic form." -- Oliver Haslam * New Formations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form 1 1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography 41 2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work 79 3. Citation and Affect in Music 115 4. Modernism on TV 152 Epilogue. Taking Sides 178 Notes 183 Bibliography 207 Index 215
£26.09
Duke University Press Sexuality Disability and Aging
Book SynopsisJane Gallop explores how disability and aging are commonly understood to undermine one's sense of self and challenges narratives that register the decline of bodily potential and ability as nothing but an experience of loss.Trade Review"For Gallop, theory offers solace in the face of life’s difficulties, and the book is often quietly moving. . . . Her use of theory isn’t about blowing up previous thought; it’s about finding consolation, which literature or philosophy is often said to provide." -- Jeffrey J. Williams * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Overall, Sexuality, Disability, and Aging presents an insightful yet accessible analysis that combines wide-ranging theoretical work with rich interpretive material to carefully reveal the phallic temporalities that underpin contemporary stereotypes of aging and late-onset disability as sexual decline. The book’s cross-cutting relevance means that it will find productive readership across a wide range of scholars interested in queer, crip, gerontological, literary, feminist, or psychoanalytic theory.” -- Kazuki Yamada * Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities *"An inventive and captivating piece of scholarship. Bolstered by its original findings and the intricate theoretical maneuvers that Gallop makes throughout this text, the book is poised to be a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of queer theory, critical gerontology, and disability studies." -- Kyle Christensen * Women's Studies in Communication *"Sexuality, Disability and Aging is a vital read for those interested in disability and sexuality as it contributes to indispensable discussions whilst simultaneously offering an alternative framework with which to aid progression within the field. . . . Gallop has compiled an accomplished text which is forward-thinking, unorthodox and paves the way for further discourse within the realms of disability, and for this, she must be commended." -- Bev Pollitt * Disability & Society *“Gallop’s willingness to reflect critically on her own experiences and reactions . . . reinvigorates feminist psychoanalytic theory, but also productively bridges the silences around aging and late-onset disability endemic to both disability studies and queer theory.” -- Sarah Rainey-Smithback * Hypatia *"Gallop makes an important intervention in the study of late life sexuality by connecting it to radical, queer, and alternative temporalities. . . . It is my hope, and dare I assume Gallop’s hope as well, that this work serves as one of the foundational texts for an expanding collection of work that examines sexuality, disability, and aging through the lenses of crip, queer, aging, and feminist theory." -- Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons * Poetics Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1x Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings 1 Crip Theory 1 Aging and Queer Temporality 5 Aging and the Phallus 13 The Queer Phallus 20 Anecdotal Theory 25 1. High Heels and Wheelchairs 31 The Story 31 The Ending 36 City Sidewalks 40 Feminism and High Heels 46 Gender and Disability 52 The Phallus in the Wheelchair 58 The Ending (Reprise) 64 2. Post-prostate Sex 67 The Story 67 Strange Temporalities 74 Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative 81 Resisting the Coital Imperative 92 Longitudinal Sexuality 95 Conclusion 103 The Phallus and Its Temporalities 103 Longitudinal Identities 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 127 Index 133
£17.99
Duke University Press The Hundreds
Book SynopsisThe Hundredscomposed of pieces one hundred or multiples of one hundred words longis Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart's collaborative experimental writing project in which they strive toward sensing and capturing the resonances that operate at the ordinary level of everyday experience.Trade Review"In Berlant and Stewart’s hands, affect theory provides a way of understanding the sensations and resignations of the present, the normalized exhaustion that comes with life in the new economy. It is a way of framing uniquely modern questions." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"The seemingly arbitrary parameters Berlant and Stewart put in place act out an illuminating thought experiment for the reader. . . . A haunting and thought-provoking read that asks readers to slow down and take stock of what is in front of them." -- Julia Shiota * Ploughshares *"A roving adventure in critical prose. . . . Berlant and Stewart eschew a literary focal point for a broadly questioning spirit. . . . The point is not to 'track thing into their secret lairs,' or to place them in the 'so-called big picture,' rather, it is to look again, and encourage the reader look again too." -- Michael Caines * TLS *"The Hundreds is playful and loose, it roams and discovers, only to drift elsewhere, but it works: it grounds theory, makes it real." -- Casey Dawson and Christopher Schaberg * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The Hundreds focalizes an intrinsic desire to explore the world’s simplicities as the foundation for the potentiality of the extraordinary. Berlant and Stewart show that, indeed, ordinary life is ordinary and transformative, containing so many possibilities for thinking about who we are in the world, really." -- Matt Morgenstern * Cleveland Review of Books *"The Hundreds, by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant and anthropologist Kathleen Stewart, is at once a bold thought experiment and a radical exploration of reflexive ethnographic writing. . . . The Hundreds is a must read for scholars interested in affect as another register of human experience that exists alongside the psychological and phenomenological." -- Asha L. Abeyasekera * Feminism & Psychology *"As compositions, the hundreds illuminate and obscure, defamiliarize and refamiliarize, reflect and refract (tip of the cap to Volosinov 1973) both their authors and the cultural artifacts that appear in them, and offer a way of archiving cultural moments in ways that acknowledge, even foreground, their affective power." -- Seth Kahn * Anthropological Quarterly *"A speculative and seductive book. . . . The Hundreds asks us to pay attention to the capacious and crucial smallness of our everyday, to slow down and dial in to the richness and frustrations of ordinary encounters as a grounding and creative political practice." -- Elisabeth R. Anker * Theory & Event *
£70.55
Duke University Press The Hundreds
Book SynopsisIn The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What''s an encounter with anything once it''s seen as an incitement to composition? What''s a concept or a theory if they''re no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four indexes in whichAndrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respondwith their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.Trade Review"In Berlant and Stewart’s hands, affect theory provides a way of understanding the sensations and resignations of the present, the normalized exhaustion that comes with life in the new economy. It is a way of framing uniquely modern questions." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"The seemingly arbitrary parameters Berlant and Stewart put in place act out an illuminating thought experiment for the reader. . . . A haunting and thought-provoking read that asks readers to slow down and take stock of what is in front of them." -- Julia Shiota * Ploughshares *"A roving adventure in critical prose. . . . Berlant and Stewart eschew a literary focal point for a broadly questioning spirit. . . . The point is not to 'track thing into their secret lairs,' or to place them in the 'so-called big picture,' rather, it is to look again, and encourage the reader look again too." -- Michael Caines * TLS *"The Hundreds is playful and loose, it roams and discovers, only to drift elsewhere, but it works: it grounds theory, makes it real." -- Casey Dawson and Christopher Schaberg * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The Hundreds focalizes an intrinsic desire to explore the world’s simplicities as the foundation for the potentiality of the extraordinary. Berlant and Stewart show that, indeed, ordinary life is ordinary and transformative, containing so many possibilities for thinking about who we are in the world, really." -- Matt Morgenstern * Cleveland Review of Books *"The Hundreds, by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant and anthropologist Kathleen Stewart, is at once a bold thought experiment and a radical exploration of reflexive ethnographic writing. . . . The Hundreds is a must read for scholars interested in affect as another register of human experience that exists alongside the psychological and phenomenological." -- Asha L. Abeyasekera * Feminism & Psychology *"As compositions, the hundreds illuminate and obscure, defamiliarize and refamiliarize, reflect and refract (tip of the cap to Volosinov 1973) both their authors and the cultural artifacts that appear in them, and offer a way of archiving cultural moments in ways that acknowledge, even foreground, their affective power." -- Seth Kahn * Anthropological Quarterly *"A speculative and seductive book. . . . The Hundreds asks us to pay attention to the capacious and crucial smallness of our everyday, to slow down and dial in to the richness and frustrations of ordinary encounters as a grounding and creative political practice." -- Elisabeth R. Anker * Theory & Event *
£17.99
Duke University Press The Novel and Neoliberalism
Book Synopsis
£11.39
