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Cambridge University Press Theology and the Drama of History
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Narrative and Humanism
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures Empire Travel Modernity 136 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 136
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Cambridge University Press The Myth of Theory
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Cambridge University Press Edmund Burke and Ireland
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Cambridge University Press New Englands Crises and Cultural Memory Literature Politics History Religion 16201860 142 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 142
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Cambridge University Press Stories Theories and Things
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Cambridge University Press The Poetics of Personification 6 Literature Culture Theory Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press Lessings Laocoon Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason Anglica Germanica Series 2
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Cambridge University Press Agents and Lives
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Cambridge University Press Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust Cambridge Studies in Opera
Book SynopsisThe turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La ComÃdie humaine to Proust's à la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas pÃre's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le FantÃme de l'OpÃra. Attentive to textual and musical detail alike in the works, the study also delves deep into their reception contexts. The result is a compelling cultural-historical account: of changing ways of making sense of operatic experience from the 1820s to the 1920s, and of a perennial writerly fascination with the recording of that experience.Trade Review'With an obvious and informed enthusiasm for the subject, Newark balances literary and musicological considerations with quite and persuasive authority … casts revealing light on a significant period in the development of opera.' OperaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Balzac, Meyerbeer and science; 2. 'Tout entier?': scenes from grand opéra in Dumas and Balzac; 3. The novel in opera: residues of reading in Flaubert; 4. Knowing what happens next: opera in Verne; 5. 'Vous qui faites l'endormie': the Phantom and the buried voices of the Paris Opéra; 6. Proust and the soirée à l'Opéra chez soi; Envoi; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Modernism and the Culture of Market Society
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Cambridge University Press Theory and the Novel Narrative Reflexivity in the British Tradition 28 Literature Culture Theory Series Number 28
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Cambridge University Press Victorian Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Modernism and the Ideology of History
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Cambridge University Press The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in NineteenthCentury American Literature 139 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 139
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Cultural Production and the British AvantGarde
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Dante and the Poetics of Literary Relations Language and Meaning in Finnegans Wake
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Cambridge University Press Reading William Blake Reading Writers and their Work
Book SynopsisWilliam Blake (1757â'1827) is one of the most original and influential figures of the Romantic Age, known for his work as an artist, poet and printmaker. Grounding his ideas both in close reading and in the latest scholarship, Saree Makdisi offers an exciting and imaginative approach to reading Blake. By exploring some of the most important themes in Blake's work and connecting them to particular plates from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Makdisi highlights Blake's creative power and the important interplay between images and words. There is a consistent emphasis on the relationship between the material nature of Blake's illuminated books, including the method he used to produce them, and the interpretive readings of the texts themselves. Makdisi argues that the material and formal openness of Blake's work can be seen as the very basis for learning to read in the spirit of Blake.Trade Review'Reading William Blake is not about careless readings but the most careful, brought to life by Makdisi's own beautiful and precise critical prose.' Shirley Dent, The Times Literary Supplement'This is a brief introduction to Blake that novices and seasoned Blakeans alike will enjoy and learn from. … The book is a celebration of Blake rather than a critique. It always expresses the critic's own admiration and communicates this warmly to the reader. … It draws readers in, showing how puzzles and disjunctions can be productive, and how the play of children, reflections on the passage of time, artistic labor, ideas of eternity, and industrial work practices can be closely related in Blake's thought. It is a book that will succeed very well in starting readers on a journey.' Andrew Lincoln, Blake - An Illustrated Quarterly'One of the main strengths of Makdisi's book - and a key reason as to why its approach is so clear and effective - is that the parameters of the project have been so carefully chosen. Makdisi anchors each of the chapters in a close reading of a poem from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, given that it is both accessible and widely available - and is also by far the most likely text with which any student of Blake will begin' … I will certainly be including Reading William Blake on my reading lists for students.' Katherine Fender, The BARS ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Image; 2. Text; 3. Desire; 4. Joy; 5. Power; 6. Time; 7. Making; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press ReThinking Theory
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Cambridge University Press Schiller to Derrida Idealism in Aesthetics
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Cambridge University Press Drydens Classical Theory of Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson
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Cambridge University Press Sources of Dramatic Theory
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and Postmodernism
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Philosophical Poetics Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Confession and Complicity in Narrative
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Cambridge University Press The Postcolonial Unconscious
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Cambridge University Press Metaphor and Writing
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Cambridge University Press The Model of Poesy
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Cambridge University Press Geography and the Production of Space in NineteenthCentury American Literature 161 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 161
Book SynopsisThis book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe. It focuses on how nineteenth-century authors drew on literary tools including rhetoric, setting, and point of view to mediate between individuals and different spaces, and re-examines how local spaces were incorporated into global networks.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction: scales of identification; 1. Democratic expansionism, gothic geographies, and Charles Brockden Brown; 2. Urban apartments, global cities: the enlargement of private space in Poe and James; 3. Cultural orphans: domesticity, missionaries, and China from Stowe to Sui Sin Far; 4. 'The Checkered Globe': cosmopolitan despair in the American Pacific; 5. Literature and regional production; Epilogue: scales of resistance.
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Cambridge University Press The New Grammarians Funeral
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Cambridge University Press Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisPeter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished post-war literary critics: this is the first English translation of his important lectures on hermeneutics. He traces the historical development of hermeneutics through examination of the work of German Enlightenment theorists, and explores its relevance for the contemporary critic.Table of ContentsForeword by Joel Weinsheimer; Translator's preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Chladenius, I; 3. Chladenius, II; 4. Chladenius, III; 5. Chladenius, IV; 6. Meier, I; 7. Meier, II; 8. Ast; 9. Schleiermacher, I; 10. Schleiermacher, II; Afterword; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Critical Assumptions
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Cambridge University Press Comparative Criticism
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Cambridge University Press The End of Literary Theory
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Cambridge University Press Sartre Literature and Theory Cambridge Studies in French 7 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press Confession and Complicity in Narrative
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Cambridge University Press Genres in Discourse
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Cambridge University Press Critique of the Power of Judgment The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
Book SynopsisThis translation of Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, first published in 2000, includes: the indispensable first draft of Kant's introduction to the work; notes to the many differences between the first (1790) and second (1793) editions of the work; and relevant passages in Kant's anthropology lectures that elaborate his aesthetic views.Table of ContentsEditor's introduction; Part I. The First Draft of the Introduction: 1. The first draft of the introduction; Part II. Critique of the Power of Judgment: 2. Preface; 3. Introduction; Part III. First Part: Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment: 4. First section, first book: analytic of the beautiful; 5. First section, second book: analytic of the sublime; 6. Deduction of pure aesthetic judgments; 7. Second section: the dialectic of the aesthetic power of judgment; 8. Appendix: on the methodology of taste; Part IV. Second Part: Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment: 9. First division: analytic of the teleological power of judgment; 10. Second division: dialectic of the teleological power of judgment; 11. Appendix: methodology of the teleological power of judgment.
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Cambridge University Press Critique of the Power of Judgment The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
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Cambridge University Press Genres in Discourse
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Cambridge University Press William Empson
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Cambridge University Press Stories Theories and Things
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Cambridge University Press Derrida Heidegger Blanchot
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Rationality
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Cambridge University Press Comparative Criticism Volume 13 Literature and Science Comparative Criticism Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press Paratexts Thresholds of Interpretation 20 Literature Culture Theory Series Number 20
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