Literary theory Books
The University of Chicago Press Altered Reading Levinas Literature Levinas and
Book SynopsisExamining Levinas's texts and readings by Derrida, Blanchot, and Bataille, this text shows how the thread of the literary leads to the internal tensions of Levinas's ethical discourse. It provides a critical account of Levinas's early and mature philosophy as well as later transitional essays.
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The University of Chicago Press Academic Postmodern the Rule of Literature A
Book SynopsisThis critique of the postmodern turn discusses the distinctive aspects of postmodern scholarship: the pervasiveness of the literary and the flight from grand theory to local knowledge. Defining features of postmodern thought are also discussed here such as storytelling and localism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Academic Postmodern? 1: The Return of the Storyteller and the Circulation of "Literature" 2: Anecdotes and Conversations: The Method of Postmodernity 3: Speaking Personally: The Culture of Autobiography in the Postmodern 4: Feminisms and Feminizations in the Postmodern 5: Localism, Local Knowledge, and Literary Criticism 6: Romanticism and Localism 7: The Urge for Solutions and the Relief of Fiction Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Pictures of Romance
Book SynopsisHow do pictures tell stories? Why does the literary romance so often refer to paintings and other visual art objects? Beginning with these two seemingly unrelated questions, Wendy Steiner reveals an intricate exchange between the visual arts and the literary romance. Romances violate the casual, temporal, and logical cohesiveness of realist novels, and they do so in part by depicting love as a state of suspension, a condition outside of time. Steiner argues that because Renaissance and post-Renaissance painting also represents a suspended moment of perception with unnatural clarity and compression of meaning, it readily serves the romance as a symbol of antirealism. Yet the atemporality of stopped-action painting was actually an attempt to achieve pictorial realismthe way things really look. It is this paradox that interests Steiner: to signal their departure from realism, romances evoke the symbol of realistic visual artwork. Steiner explores this problem through analyses of Keats, Ha
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University of Chicago Press Selected Writings of an EighteenthCentury
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together Caminer's letters, poems and journalistic writings, providing an intellectual biography of this remarkable woman, as well as a glimpse into her intimate correspondence.
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University of Chicago Press White Acts Of Hope Creating Authority in
Book SynopsisThis work argues that texts by important thinkers teach us how to read and judge claims of authority made by others upon us; how to decide to which institutions and practices we should grant authority; and how to create authorities of our own through our thoughts and arguments.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments I: The Claims of the World on the Self, the Self on the World 1: Plato's CRITO: The Authority of Law and Philosophy II: Creating a Public World 2: Shakespeare's RICHARD II: Imagining the Modern World 3: Hooker's Preface to the LAWES OF ECCLESIASTICALL POLITIE: Constituting Authority in Argument 4: Hale's "Considerations Touching the Amendment or Alteration of Lawes": Determining the Authority of the Past 5: PLANNED PARENTHOOD v. CASEY: Legal Judgment as an Ethical and Cultural Art III: The Authority of the Self 6: Austen's MANSFIELD PARK: Making the Self Out of--and Against--the Culture 7: Dickinson's Poetry: Transforming the Authority of Language IV: Reconstituting Self and World: The Creation of Authority as an Act of Hope 8: Mandela's Speech from the Dock and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: Giving Meaning to Life in an Unjust World Afterword Additional Notes Index
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux ImageMusicText
Book SynopsisThese essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative and The Death of the Author are also included.
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WW Norton & Co Trains of Thought Memories of a Stateless Youth
Book Synopsis"A beautifully cadenced work of art—it will remind some readers of Nabokov's classic Speak, Memory."—Joyce Carol OatesTrade Review"Trains of Thought is a beautifully cadenced work of art... A brilliant memoir, both contemplative and sensuous; elegiac and radiant with hope." Joyce Carol Oates
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The University of Michigan Press The Novel as Event
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The University of Michigan Press Of Two Minds
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The University of Michigan Press The Instant of Knowing
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The University of Michigan Press The Novel as Event
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Cultural Conservatism Political Liberalism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis well-wrought, well-researched book tackles one of the major academic battles of our times, the culture wars. . . . It endorses a tradition going back to Samuel Johnson and Matthew Arnold. It denounces, or at least criticizes, 'contemporary cultural leftists' such as Richard Rorty, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, and Stanley Fish--all of whom agree that the past is not a corrective to the present but a source of error. The error, Seaton argues, is theirs. . . . Seaton's book . . . argues well for that 'sense of wonder' which is, by anyone's measurement, our priceless heritage and hope."--Roanoke Times & World News"This wonderful book defends a tradition of American cultural self-criticism that includes Irving Babbitt, H. L. Mencken, Dwight McDonald, the Trillings, Edmund Wilson, and Ralph Ellison from famous and formidable contemporary opponents. Seaton takes on Richard Rorty's pragmatism, the cultural radicalism of Leslie Fielder and Susan Sontag, the trendy academic cultural studies movement of Frederic Jameson, Edward Said, and Stanley Fish, and the cultural conservatism of E. D. Hirsch and Allan Bloom. . . . This book, above all, is a criticism of the pretensions of American romantic idealism, the desire to liberate the self from all constraints for its natural innocence. Because such liberation is really impossible, all that disappears is what is required for genuine self-scrutiny and self-restraint. The pursuit of the innocent self produces the imperial self and the deranged self. . . . Seaton is a most reasonable, sensible, courageous, instructive, and witty liberal, and we should count him among our most helpful friends."--University Bookman
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Promised End
Book SynopsisBrings Christian theology, creative literature and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'. This book also considers scientific views on the nature of time. It provides an exegesis of novels, plays and poems by such writers as John Fowles, Julian Barnes, Doris Lessing, Samuel Beckett, T S Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.Trade Review"As the field of literature and theology develops and becomes more sophisticated, so Fiddes is contributing at the cutting edge. His work is genuinely interdisciplinary, and his choice of texts is faultless. He initiates a learned and helpful dialogue with major theologians. I will certainly use this as a textbook in my teaching - it's one I have been looking for, for some time, indeed." David Jasper, Dean of Divinity and Professor of Literature and Theology, Glasgow University "This is a marvellous book which combines a variety of literatures, from the popular to the literary classics and new classics. That Fiddes can move so easily among these is impressive. Also impressive is his command of literary theory and theology, along with scientific theory. I recommend it with absolutely no reservations." Carolyn Jones Medine, Professor of Religious Studies and English, Louisiana State University "This book on eschatology is almost certainly like no other you have read. Through its dialogue between theology and literature it uniquely stimulates theological reflection and offers resources for pastoral care and preaching. It is a remarkable, if sometimes demanding, book, and a rewarding and recommended read." Regent's Reviews "A highly specialized survey of contemporary theology, literature, and critical theory dealing with the perception of endings ... No student of theology or literature should overlook this book." First Things "This book succeeds in finding fresh insights into eschatology at the interface of religion and literature and is a fine achievement. It is not always an easy book to read but is always a worthwhile one." The Baptist Ministers' Journal "In The Promised End, Fiddes offers a unique synthesis of interdisciplinary measures, offering theologically refreshing insights, on the end that is not so much perceived as promised. In the area where religion, literature and science often clash, Fiddes is remarkably clever at pointing out their potential for unification." Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology "Fiddes' clarity regarding the theorists mentioned above, and his wide-ranging knowledge of theological studies are to be commended. However, the impressive aspect of his dialogue is the truly deep and profound grasp of the theological ideas that are shown to be lurking within the literary texts. One comes away with the sense that theological issues can be powerfully demonstrated in the context of literary works, and that even works which may not immediately seem "theological" are in fact pervaded by metaphysical concerns in ways we may not have clearly imagined." Religion and Literature "It is fortunate that Fiddes' literary judgements are as acute as his theological acumen, and for both we are much in his debt." TheologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Part I: Facing the End:. 1. The Problem of Closure: John Fowles' the French Lieutenant's Woman and Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot. 2. Theology and Literature - A Dialogue. 3. The End Organizes the Human Story: Frank Kermode. 4. The End Discloses a Desired World: Northrop Frye. 5. Biblical Eschatology and Openness. 6. Closure and Openness in Ending. Part II: Deferment and Hope:. 7. The End Defers Meaning: Jacques Derrida. 8. Death and the Other. 9. Openness and Relativism. 10. The End Opens Hope: Paul Ricoeur. 11. Hope and a Passion for the Possible. 12. Hoping in the Face of Death. Part III: Taking Death Seriously:. 13. A Journey to Nothingness: Shakespeare's King Lear. 14. Human Surplus and Excess. 15. Images of a Desirable and Undesirable World. 16. The Configuring of Time. 17. Looking Upon Death. 18. Death the Last Enemy. 19. Creation from Nothing. Part IV: A Question of Identity:. 20. Resurrection and the Idea of Replication. 21. Problems About Identity. 22. Closing the Gap? A Modified Dualism. 23. The Person and the Finality of Death. 24. Survival and Relationships: Doris Lessing's Memoirs of A Survivor. 25. Corporate Resurrection. 26. The Identity of the Self: Lessing's the Making of the Representative for Planet 8. 27. The Making of the Person. Part V: the Eternal Moment:. 28. The Problem of Fragmentation By Time: T.S. Eliot's 'Ash Wednesday'. 29. The Problem of Isolation in Time: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. 30. Eliot and the Timeless Moment: the Four Quartets. 31. Eternity as Simultaneity?. 32. The Healing of Time. 33. Woolf and the Symbols of Eternity: to the Lighthouse and Between the Acts. Part VI: Expecting the Unexpected:. 34. Two Parables of Waiting. 35. The Reversal of Expectations. 36. Two Plays of Waiting: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 37. The Futility of Waiting: (A) Waiting for the 'Not Yet'. 38. Waiting For a Possible Future. 39. The Futility of Waiting: (B) A Programmed Future. Part VII: The Arrow of Time:. 40. The One-Way Flight of the Arrow. 41. The Arrow Points Backwards: Martin Amis' Time's Arrow. 42. The Counter-Movement to Evolution. 43. Cycles of Torment and Renewal: Flann O'Brien's the Third Policeman and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. 44. Preservation and Retroaction. 45. The Eternal Dance. Part VIII: A Fuller Presence:. 46. The Desire for Presence. 47. Millennium and Utopia. 48. Fictional Images of Utopia: Aldous Huxley's Island and Ursula Leguin's the Dispossessed. 49. The Postmodern Critique of Full Presence. 50. Absence at the Heart of Existence. 51. Theological Versions of Hidden Presence. 52. The Millennial Hope. Part IX: Our Eternal Dwelling-Place:. 53. Participating in Triune Relationships. 54. Dwelling in Triune Spaces. 55. Particularity and Eschatology. 56. The Eternal City. Index.
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Pluto Press For Humanism Explorations in Theory and Politics
Book SynopsisThe restoration of humanism to the radical leftTrade Review'A major intervention into contemporary discussions about the resources of political hope, this volume insists upon the continuing indispensability and, indeed, radicalness of humanism as both a critical philosophy and a moral-political template' -- Neil Lazarus, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of WarwickTable of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction: Humanism’s Other Story - Timothy Brennan 1. The Rise, Decline and Possible Revival of Socialist Humanism - Barbara Epstein 2. Marxist Humanism after Structuralism and Post-structuralism: The Case for Renewal - Kevin Anderson 3. Postcolonialism is a Humanism - Robert Spencer 4. Queer Theory, Solidarity and Bodies Political - David Alderson Conclusion - David Alderson and Robert Spencer Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Art of Alibi
Book SynopsisThe author reconstructs the relation of the novel to 19th-century law courts. He argues that the courts, newly fashioned as a site in which to orchestrate voices and reconstruct stories, arose as a cultural presence influencing the shape of the English novel.Trade ReviewAmong those texts that attend both to historical environment and formal or generic pressures, Jonathan H. Grossman's The Art of Alibi stands out. -- Andrew H. Miller Studies in English Literature 2003 [An] absorbing study of the cultural influence of the law courts on the Victorian novel... Grossman's refusal to simply draw an analogy between trials and novels distinguishes his argument from others working in the crossover territory between legal studies and literary criticism. -- David McAllister Times Literary Supplement 2003 Grossman's innovative study is a provocative reconsideration of the early nineteenth-century novel and should stimulate further exploration of the generative intersection of law and literature. -- Gareth Cordery Dickens Quarterly 2004Table of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ONE: From Scaffold to Law Court, from Criminal Broadsheet and Biography to Newspaper Novel TWO: Caleb Williams and the Novel's Forensic Form THREE: Mary Shelley's Legal Frankenstein FOUR: Victorian Courthouse Structures FIVE: Mary Barton's Telltale Evidence SIX: The Newgate Novel and Advent of Detective Fiction Conclusion Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Violence of Modernity
Book SynopsisThe result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.Trade ReviewAmbitious and thought-provoking... The Violence of Modernity is an important, enlightening book. -- Susan Blood H-France 2007 A thought-provoking and carefully researched study which offers a captivating perspective on Baudelaire's poetry. -- Nicole Fayard French Studies 2008 Offers a refreshingly innovative approach not just to Baudelaire but also to broader critical interpretations of violence, modernity, irony, politics, and form. -- Helen Abbott Modern Language Review 2008 Admirable study. -- Peter Childs Symploke 2008 A major contribution to the study of Baudelaire and his influence... It has a great deal to offer not only scholars of French literature, but to anyone interested in the complex intersections between literature and history. -- Alison James Modern Philology 2009 At a time when we are more than ever encouraged to distinguish between good guys and bad guys, it is refreshing to read a work that illustrates the impossibility of such clear-cut distinctions. -- Nicole Asquith Substance 2009 One of the most solidly critically informed works in the field. -- Michael R. Finn South Central Review 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Violence and Representation in Baudelaire1. Baudelaire's Victims and Executioners: From the Symptoms of Trauma to a Critique of Violence2. Passages from Form to Politics: Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris3. Bodies in Motion, Texts on Stage: Baudelaire's Women and the Forms of ModernityPart II: Unlikely Contestations: Baudelaire's Legacy Revisited4. Matter's Revenge on Form: Bad Girls Talk Back5. Broken Engagements: Albert Camus and the Poetics of TerrorAfterwordNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion
Book SynopsisS. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000Trade ReviewThe close reading required by these essays is well worth the time. -- Marcia G. Synnott Journal of American History 2007Table of ContentsJohn Guillory, "Who's Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General Education in the American University"; Roger L. Geiger, "Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education from the 1950s through the 1980s"; Joan Shelley Rubin, "The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers"; Martin Jay, "The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of Us) to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics"; James T. Kloppenberg, "The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and Historicism"; Bruce Kuklick, "Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States, 1929-2001"; John T. McGreevy, "Catholics, Catholicism, and the Humanities, 1945-1985"; Jonathan Scott Holloway, "The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge Since 1945"; Rosalind Rosenberg, "Women in the Humanities: Taking Their Place"; Leila Zenderland, "American Studies and the Expansion of the Humanities"; David C. Engerman, "The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies"; Andrew E. Barshay, "What is Japan to Us"?; Rolena Adorno, "Havana and Macondo: The Humanities Side of U.S. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000".
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Johns Hopkins University Press Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make
Book SynopsisPresents a discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of strange literary phenomena. This title discusses motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, and science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids. It reveals the range of key concepts from science in literary interpretation.Trade ReviewThe book is stylistically well-written and features interesting readings of various texts. -- Marcus Hartner Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2009 The author gives herself a refreshingly modest assignment: to demonstrate that a certain cognitive predisposition has contributed to the development of, and continued interest in, specific literary motifs that occur across a wide variety of cultures. This is all that she tries to do, and she does it very well. Philosophy and Literature 2009 Zunshine renders the book accessible to the general reader. -- Aristie Trendel CerclesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1: "But what am I, then?": Chasing Personal Essences across National Literatures1. Ural Mountains–Rome–London2. Essentialism, Functionalism, and Cognitive Psychology3. Possible Evolutionary Origins of Essentialist Thinking4. "A bullet's a bullet's a bullet!"5. Talk to the Door Politely or Tickle It in Exactly the Right Place6. Resisting Essentialism7. The Ever-Receding "Essence" of Sosia8. Identical Twins and Theater9. How Is Mr. Darcy Different from Colin Firth?10. Looking for the Real Mademoiselle11. "Mahatma Gandhi: war!" "But he was a pacifist." "Right! War!"Part 2: Why Robots Go Astray, or The Cognitive Foundations of the Frankenstein Complex1. What Is the Frankenstein Complex?2. On Zygoons, Thricklers, and Kerpas3. Theory of Mind4. Theory of Mind and Categorization: Preliminary Implications5. Concepts That Resist Categorization6. . . . and the Stories They Make Possible7. The Stories That Can Be Told about a Talking Needle8. Asimov's "The Bicentennial Man"9. Cognitive Construction of "Undoubted Facts": "The Bicentennial Man" and the Logic of Essentialism10. Made to Rebel11. Why Phyllis Is Still a Robot12. . . . and Why Rei Toei Is Not13. More Human Than Thou (Piercy's He, She and It)14. Made to Pray15. Made to Serve. Made to Obey. Made to Break HeartsPart 3: Some Species of Nonsense1. How Nonsense Makes Sense in The Hunting of the Snark2. "Strings of Impossibilia" and What They Tell Us about the Value of Nonsense3. "Painters of the Unimaginable," or More aboutReally Strange ConceptsConclusion: Almost beyond FictionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Theories of Memory A Reader
Book SynopsisPart III, Identities, examines the key role of memory in contemporary constructions of identity under the headings of Gender, Race/Nation, and Diaspora.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPart I: Beginnings1. Classical and Early Modern Ideas of Memory2. Enlightenment and Romantic Memory3. Memory and Late ModernityPart II: Positionings4. Collective Memory5. Jewish Memory Discourse6. TraumaPart III: Identities7. Gender8. Race/Nation9. DisaporaBiographical Details of Editors and Contributing EditorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Rethinking Tragedy
Book SynopsisReiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of EdinburghTrade Review[A] stimulating symposium. Times Literary Supplement This is a stimulating and provocative collection. Anyone interested in our cultural and political fascination with 'endless Tragedie' will find plenty of red meat here. -- Adrian Streete English 2010Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One: Defining TragedyGeorge Steiner // "Tragedy," ReconsideredSimon Goldhill // Generalizing About TragedyWai Chee Dimock // After Troy: Homer, Euripides, Total WarKathleen M. Sands // Tragedy, Theology, and Feminism in the Time After TimeJoshua Foa Dienstag // Tragedy, Pessimism, NietzschePart Two: Rethinking the History of TragedyPage duBois // Toppling the Hero: Polyphony in the Tragic CityMartha C. Nussbaum // The "Morality of Pity": Sophocles' PhiloctetesSimon Critchley // I Want to Die, I Hate My Life— Phaedra's MalaisePart Three: Tragedy and ModernityDavid Scott // Tragedy's Time: Postemancipation Futures Past and PresentStanley Corngold // Sebald's TragedyOlga Taxidou // Machines and Models for Modern Tragedy: Brecht/Berlau, Antigone- Model 1948Timothy J. Reiss // Transforming Polities and Selves:Greek Antiquity, West African ModernityPart Four: Tragedy, Film, Popular CultureElisabeth Bronfen // Femme Fatale—Negotiations of Tragic DesireHeather K. Love // Spectacular Failure: The Figure of the Lesbian in Mulholland DriveMichel Maffesoli // The Return of the Tragic in Postmodern SocietiesTerry Eagleton // CommentaryNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Gilles Deleuze Cinema and Philosophy Parallax
Book SynopsisHumanities, film studies, and social science scholars will find this book a valuable contribution to the philosophical literature on cinema and its pertinence in contemporary life.Trade ReviewMarrati's slender but incisive treatment of Deleuze's unification of philosophy with the art of cinema is an indispensable work for new and advanced Deleuze scholars grappling with the thick weave of film analyses cum philosophical expositions... Essential. Choice Beautifully written and expertly translated, Paola Marrati's Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy brings much needed clarity to Deleuze's two monumental works on cinema. -- Joe Hughes Rain Taxi Review of Books Readers looking for an introduction to Deleuze's work on cinema will find it in Marrati's evident commitment to precision and her remarkable clarity in the face of a series of notoriously complex texts. -- Alexander Thimons Scope A surprising, rewarding, and insightful text that breaks new ground, Cinema and Philosophy does a great service: it helps us believe in a 'new' and compelling future for Deleuzian studies of film and philosophy. -- Meredith C. Ward MLN Marrati's highly informative and carefully argued book touches on significant elements of the link between cinema and philosophy in Deleuze's work. This is a stimulating, sharp and keenly argued book. Analysis and MetaphysicsTable of ContentsPreface to the English-language EditionAcknowledgmentsFrequently Cited TextsIntroduction1. Images in Movement and Movement-Images2. Cinema and Perception3. The Montage of the Whole4. Postwar Cinema5. The Time0Image6. Images and Immanence: The Problem of the WorldConclusionAppendix: A Lost Everyday: Deleuze and Cavell on HollywoodNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Return of Ulysses A Cultural History of
Book SynopsisAccessibly written and timely, The Return of Ulysses establishes the Odyssey as the founding text of Western Civilization and offers a major contribution to the study of Homer's epic poem, as well as modern insight into its cultural reception and continuing imprint on society.Trade ReviewBritish scholar Edith Hall takes 15 aspects of the Odyssey and traces their permutations from ancient times to today. The result is engrossing and enlightening. Author Magazine 2008 Hall is the optimistic traveller par excellence and leads us on a stimulating journey, roving far and wide through both time and space in pursuit of her hero. Times Higher Education Supplement 2008 [Hall] fills her pages with sharp and often surprising observations about the 'Odyssey' and its spiritual children. She devotes much attention to film ('The Searchers,' 'The Natural,' 'Cold Mountain' and many others), but even reflected in this modern medium, she realizes, the 'Odyssey' owes a measure of its allure to its sheer, echoing antiquity. Reading her good-humored and accessible book is like conversing across the ages. New York Times Book Review 2008 Hall's study of the Odyssey is thorough, entertaining and well referenced. She offers many ways for the reader to relate Homer's epic to more modern works of literature, art and film, thus bridging the gap between old and new. Suite101.com The book sparkles with the excitement... Times Literary Supplement 2008 The Return of Ulysses is a sweeping tour of almost all one could wish to demonstrate about the spell of Homer. -- Zbigniew Janowski First Things 2008 A true cultural treat awaits readers with ears and eyes attuned to both the higher and lower reaches of culture and in want of expert crosscultural, socioliterary criticism. Nostalgia may not generally be what it used to be, but Professor Hall has made a herculean stab at convincing us that there can be exceptions. Anglo-Hellenic Review 2009 Edith Hall takes us on a tour of global culture high and low, mostly from the last hundred years, to demonstrate how Homer's great poem continues to permeate our sensibility and imagination. She is an informative and enthusiastic guide. London Review of Books 2009 Though conversant with Homeric scholarship and the imperatives of postmodern literary criticism, Hall never burdens her prose with theoretic jargon... A goldmine of fascinating information on the persistence of thematic archetypes first formulated in Homer's great epic. Highly recommended. Choice 2009 An extraordinary wide-ranging, clearly written, instructive, and engaging survey of the cultural reception of the poem from antiquity to the early twenty-first century. -- Seth L. Schein New England Classical Journal 2009 The scope of the book is breathtaking and Hall, Odysseus-like, deftly navigates across the rich landscape she unfolds before us, guiding us through its landmarks with a style that is clear, engaging, and at times outright funny. -- Silvia Montiglio Classical World 2010 A monumental overlook at the Homerian classic from all angles and a work which should keep the brain busy through just about any outer circumstance. -- Marilis Hornridge Lincoln Country News [Damariscotta, Maine] 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Generic Mutations1. Embarkation2. Turning Phrases3. Shape-Shifting4. Telling Takes5. Singing SongsPart II: World and Society6. Facing Frontiers7. Colonial Conflict8. Rites of Man9. Women's Work10. Class ConsciousnessPart III: Mind and Psyche11. Brain Power12. Exile from Ithaca13. Blood Bath14. Sex and Sexuality15. Dialogue with DeathNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Wielding the Pen Writings on Authorship by
Book SynopsisThis anthology of primary materials-the words of American women writers on the act of authorship and their participation in the literary cultures of the nineteenth century- offers revealing insight into Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women."Trade Review"An important addition to our library of nineteenth-century American women's writing, illuminating in their own voices their literary ambitions, frustrations, and triumphs." - Karen L. Kilcup, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro"
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Johns Hopkins University Press Cinematic Illuminations
Book SynopsisCinematic Illuminations offers medievalists, literary and cultural theorists, and film theorists and buffs a fresh approach to understanding how popular culture interprets and makes use of the past through the medium of film.Trade ReviewOne of the most refreshing aspects of this book is that Finke and Shichtman combine encyclopedic knowledge of and masterful control over their material-including but not limited to film studies, medieval literature and history, and popular culture-with nuanced analysis, deft prose, and a palpable enjoyment of the topic. The authors are clearly having a grand time and invite readers to join in. -- Mary K. Ramsey Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 2010 Through Finke and Shichtman's use of film theory and cinema criticism, along with their sensitive deployment of medieval historical and literary details, the Middle Ages emerges as a period production in this excellent and innovative study. -- Holly A. Crocker Speculum 2011Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsPart 1: Theory and Methods of Cinematic Medievalism1. Traversing the Fantasy: Screening the Middle Ages2. Signs of the Medieval: A Sociological Stylistics of Film3. Celluloid History: Cinematic Fidelity and InfidelityPart 2: The Politics of Cinematic Medievalism4. Mirror of Princes: Representations of Political Authority in Medieval Films5. The Politics of Hagiography: Joan of Arc on the Screen6. The Hagiography of Politics: Mourning in America7. The Crusades: War of the Cross or God's Own Bloodbath?Part 3: Cinematic Medievalism and the Anxieties of Modernity8. Looking Awry at the Grail: Mourning Becomes Modernity9. Apocalyptic Medievalism: Rape and Disease as Figures of Social Anomie10. Forever Young: The Teen Middle AgesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Neural Sublime Cognitive Theories and
Book SynopsisThe Neural Sublime features an array of cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, providing an engaging and readable introduction to the emergent field of cognitive literary studies.Trade ReviewThis exemplary book may prove one of the most influential books on Romantic literature for decades to come... Essential. Choice 2011 A work of considerable variety and ambition, engagingly written, refreshingly undogmatic in its methods and generous in acknowledging related work in the field, The Neural Sublime will be essential reading for those interested in romanticism's relationship with the human sciences; it is also highly recommended for anyone in the field of romantic studies partial to interdisciplinary conversations. -- Tim Milnes Review of English Studies 2011Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Cognitive Historicism2. The Neural Sublime3. The Romantic Image, the Mind's Eye, and the History of the Senses4. Romantic Apostrophe: Everyday Discourse, Overhearing, and Poetic Address5. Reading Minds—and Bodies—in Emma6. Romantic Incest: Literary Representation and the Biology of Mind7. Language Strange: Motherese, the Semiotic, and Romantic PoetryNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Origin Of Middle Ages Pirennes Challenge to
Book SynopsisHis organization of the works and his supplementary material provide both students and scholars with a concise overview of Faulkner studies from its New Critical beginnings through its current engagements with theory and history.Trade ReviewA fine pick and a vital addition to any literary studies collection. Midwest Book Review 2011Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Myth and ReligionChapter 1. Christian Symbols in Light in AugustChapter 2. Light in August: The Calvinism of William FaulknerChapter 3. The Role of Myth in Absalom, Absalom!Part II: Temporality, History, and TraumaChapter 4. Enigmas of Being in As I Lay DyingChapter 5. "If Was Existed": Faulkner's Prophets and the Patterns of HistoryChapter 6. On Lamentation and the Redistribution of Possessions: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and the New SouthChapter 7. "So I, who had never had a war . . .": William Faulkner, War, and the Modern ImaginationChapter 8. Accounting for Slavery: Economic Narratives in Morrison and FaulknerPart III: Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and IdentityChapter 9. Faulkner's Garden: Woman and the Immemorial EarthChapter 10. "The Beautiful One": Caddy Compson as Heroine of The Sound and the FuryChapter 11. Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: A Lover's Discourse in Absalom, Absalom!Chapter 12. Linda Snopes Kohl: Faulkner's Radical WomanChapter 13. Faulkner's Return to the Freudian Father: Sanctuary ReconsideredChapter 14. The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde's Trip through Faulkner's YoknapatawphaChapter 15. Extremities of the Body: The Anoptic Corporeality of As I Lay DyingPart IV: Modernity and Modernist TechniqueChapter 16. Faulkner's Pylon and the Structure of ModernityChapter 17. Gothicism in Sanctuary: The Black Pall and the Crap TableChapter 18. Faulkner's Storied Novel: Go Down, Moses and the Translation of TimeChapter 19. From Place to Place in The Sound and the Fury: The Syntax of InterrogationAppendix A. Alternative Grouping of Essays Appendix B. Chronological Listing of All Essays on Faulkner Published in MFSList of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Secret Histories Reading TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisAnd discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment.Trade ReviewA useful introduction to a broad canon of 20th-century authors, this book touches on important issues in literary-historical scholarship and uses clear, conversational language deliberately devoid of jargon; a distinctive feature of the discussion is Wyatt's pointed use of a first-person personal voice that blends his autobiographical insights with his critical readings... Highly recommended. Choice 2011Table of ContentsTo the ReaderAcknowledments1. The Body and the Corporation2. Double Consciousness3. Pioneering Women4. Performing Maleness5. Colored Me6. The Rumor of Race7. The Depression8. The Second World War9. Civil Rights10. Love and Separateness11. Revolt and Reaction12. The Postmodern13. Studying War14. Slavery and Memory15. Pa Not Pa16. After InnocenceA Personal NoteNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
Book SynopsisIn so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors' conceptions of their own readership.Trade Review"An important book that fills significant gaps in literary and historical scholarship on the reading, reception, publishing, and interpretation of antebellum fiction." (Barbara Hochman, Ben Gurion University)"Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Reading Reading Historically1. Historical Hermeneutics, Reception Theory, and the Social Conditions of Reading in Antebellum America2. Interpretive Strategies and Informed Reading in the Antebellum Public SpherePart II: Contextual Receptions, Reading Experiences, and Patterns of Response: Four Case Studies3. "These Days of Double Dealing": Informed Response, Reader Appropriation, and the Tales of Poe4. Multiple Audiences and Melville's Fiction: Receptions, Recoveries, and Regressions5. Response as (Re)Construction: The Reception of Catharine Sedgwick's Novels6. Mercurial Readings: The Making and Unmaking of Caroline Chesebro'Conclusion: American Literary History and the Historical Study of Interpretive PracticesNotesIndex
£66.50
Northwestern University Press Essays on Gogo1 Logos and the Russian Word
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Northwestern University Press Checklist of Melville Reviews
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Northwestern University Press Gender of Rosalind Interpretations Shakespeare
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Northwestern University Press The Return of the Author Rethinking Theory
Book SynopsisThis work traces the debate of biographical criticism.
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Northwestern University Press Tell Me a Story Narrative and Intelligence
Book SynopsisIn this study by an expert on learning and computers, the author argues that artificial intelligence must be based on real human intelligence.Table of Contents Knowledge is stories where stories come from and why we tell them understanding other people's stories indexing stories shaping memory story skeletons knowing the stories of your culture stories and intelligence.
£22.36
Northwestern University Press The Poetic Avantgarde The Groups of Borges Auden
Book SynopsisA literary and cultural study of three diverse manifestations in artistic exploration in the 1920s and 1930s - the groups surrounding Jorge Luis Borges, W.H. Auden, and Andre Breton.
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Northwestern University Press Bakhtin Ethics and Mechanics Rethinking Theory
Book SynopsisThe early work of Mikhail Bakhtin is notable for its emphasis on questions in ethics and philosophy. Focusing on these early writings, the authors in this volume explore the human and prosaic dimensions of ethical and moral dilemmas.Table of ContentsDialogics and dialectics - Bakhtin, young Hegelians and dramatic theory, David Krasner; Bakhtin's ethics and an iconographc standard in ""Crime and Punishment"", Jacqueline A. Zubeck; let us say that there is a human being before me who is suffering - empathy, exotopy and ethics in the reception of Latin American collaborative ""Testimonio"", Kimberly A. Nance; toward a philosophy of the art - Russia as a chronotope in ruralist writing, Valerie Z. Nollan.
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Northwestern University Press Bakhtin Ethics and Mechanics Rethinking Theory
Book SynopsisThe early work of Mikhail Bakhtin is notable for its emphasis on questions in ethics and philosophy. Focusing on these early writings, the authors in this volume explore the human and prosaic dimensions of ethical and moral dilemmas.Table of ContentsDialogics and dialectics - Bakhtin, young Hegelians and dramatic theory, David Krasner; Bakhtin's ethics and an iconographc standard in ""Crime and Punishment"", Jacqueline A. Zubeck; let us say that there is a human being before me who is suffering - empathy, exotopy and ethics in the reception of Latin American collaborative ""Testimonio"", Kimberly A. Nance; toward a philosophy of the art - Russia as a chronotope in ruralist writing, Valerie Z. Nollan.
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Northwestern University Press Ordinary Language Criticism Literary Thinking
Book SynopsisWhat is ordinary language criticism? In a series of essays on texts and figures ranging from Genesis to Don Quixote to Proust, Henry James, Martin Heidegger, and Robert Frost, this work sets out to recover ordinariness as the overlooked point of departure and return in literary studies.Trade ReviewRevolutionary change creates exiles, new qualifications for advancement, new forms of address, new silences. Ordinary language criticism is invoked by the editors as an avenue of liberation from what were felt to be, let's say, conformities to system, ones having the effect of a kind of inhibition... of reading, as though what was felt to be a fetishized response to texts had become transformed into a phobic response. I felt something of the sort of liberation on encountering Wittgenstein and Austin.... - STANLEY CAVELL, FROM THE AFTERWORDTable of ContentsIntroduction - The Varieties Of Ordinary Language Criticism, Kenneth Dauber And Walter Jost; Wittgenstein's Philosophizing And Literary Theorizing, Austin E. Quigley; Stanley Cavell's Redemptive Reading - A Philosophical Labor In Progress, Edward Duffy; The Window - Knowledge Of Other Minds In Virginia Woolf's ""To The Lighthouse"", Martha C. Nussbaum; Ordinary Language Brought To Grief - ""Home Burial"", Walter Jost; Reading, Writing, Remembering - What Cavell And Heidegger Call Thinking, Stephen Mulhall; The Grammar Of Telling - The Example Of ""Don Quixote"", A.J. Cascardi; The Shadow Of A Magnitude - Quotation As Canonicity In Proust And Beckett, William Flesch; The Self, Reflected - Wittgenstein, Cavell, And The Autobiographical Situation, Garry L. Hagberg; Cavell's Imperfect Perfectionism, Charles Altieri; The Poetics Of Description - Wittgenstein On The Aesthetic, Marjorie Perloff; In Which Henry James Strikes Bedrock, Ralph M. Berry; ""The Accomplishment Of Inhabitation"" - Danto, Cavell, And The Argument Of American Poetry, Gerald L. Bruns. (Part Contents).
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Northwestern University Press Time and Imagination Chronotopes in Western
Book SynopsisBart Keunen's boldly comprehensive theory of literature springs from the synthesis between narrative time and space forms called the chronotope (from the Greek chronos time and topos place). With examples and resonances both ancient and modern, Keunen's Time and Imagination will equip theorists in a wide range of fields with powerful tools for years to come.
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Northwestern University Press The Weight of a World of Feeling Reviews and
Book SynopsisElizabeth Bowen began reviewing books in August 1935. By that time she was already an experienced fiction writer with four short-story collections and four novels to her credit. This fascinating collection of reviews is filled with first impressions of novels, autobiographies, memoirs, illustrated books, biographies of politicians and artists, short-story collections, and literary criticism.Trade ReviewIn her eclectic reviews, Bowen offers a comparably generous refusal to simplify. Her loyalty is to the fiction that shows human existence to be a "fascinating (if maddening), iridescent, quivering, mysterious, and, above all, exciting affair". As she might have put it, "certainly read this book"" - Times Literary Supplement, March 17 2017.
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Northwestern University Press An Innocent Abroad Lectures in China Flashpoints
Book SynopsisSince 1988, J. Hillis Miller has travelled to China to lecture on literary theory. Over time, he has assisted in the development of distinctively Chinese forms of literary theory, comparative literature, and world literature. The fifteen lectures gathered in this collection span both time and geographic location, reflecting his work at universities across China for more than twenty-five years.
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Northwestern University Press The Gift of Active Empathy Scheler Bakhtin and
Book SynopsisThis innovative study brings the early writings of Mikhail Bakhtin into conversation with Max Scheler and Fyodor Dostoevsky to explore the question of what makes emotional co-experiencing ethically and spiritually productive. Applying this rich and previously neglected theoretical apparatus in a literary analysis, Wyman examines the obstacles to active empathy in Dostoevsky's fictional world.
£29.96
Northwestern University Press Judgment and Action Fragments Toward a History
Book SynopsisWritten by theologians, literary scholars, political theorists, classicists, and philosophers, the essays in Judgment and Action address the growing sense that certain key concepts in humanistic scholarship have become suspect, if not downright unintelligible, amid the current plethora of critical methods. These essays aim to reassert the normative force of judgment and action.
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press AntiBook On the Art and Politics of Radical
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anti-Book makes a significant contribution to current scholarship by expanding the theoretical contexts for artists' books and media projects."—Patrick Greaney, author of Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art"Nicholas Thoburn’s socio-material approach, rooted in political theory and critical thought, exposes the complicity between systems of signification in capitalism and books as expressive objects. Drawing on historical examples as well as those of supposedly post-digital print, Thoburn takes apart myths of avant-garde autonomy as well as worn-out claims about resistant media, showing that the ‘anti-book’ can (still) work as an alternative to commodified culture."—Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles"Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books—to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce."—Monoskop Log "Anti-Book presents a rich and convincingly argued analysis of the disparate ways in which political works engage with and subvert their materiality." —Cultural StudiesTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. One Manifesto Less: Material Text and the Anti-Book 2. Communist Objects and Small Press Pamphlets 3. Root, Fascicle, Rhizome: Forms and Passions of the Political Book 4. What Matter Who’s Speaking? The Politics of Anonymous Authorship 5. Proud to be Flesh: Diagrammatic Publishing in Mute Magazine 6. Unidentified Narrative Objects: Wu Ming’s Political Mythopoesis Notes Index
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Through The Shattering Glass Cervantes and the
Book SynopsisA provocative new interpretation and approach to the poetic, dramatic and narrative texts of Cervantes, building on the increased attention given to the writer since the 1970s when Foucault identified "Don Quixote" as the first "modernist" novel.Table of ContentsPoetry as autobiography; theatre, literature and social history; theatre as narrativity; narrativity and the dialogic world - the multiple eye.
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University of Minnesota Press The Lure of Whitehead
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: An Adventure of ThoughtNicholas Gaskill and A. J. NocekPart I. Speculation beyond the Bifurcation1. A Constructivist Reading of Process and RealityIsabelle Stengers2. Scientism and the Modern WorldJeffrey A. Bell3. What Is the Style of Matters of Concern?Bruno Latour4. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicholas BaierNathan BrownPart II. The Metaphysics of Creativity5. Whitehead’s Involution of an Outside ChancePeter Canning6. Multiplicity and Mysticism: Toward a New Mystagogy of BecomingRoland Faber7. The Event and the Occasion: Deleuze, Whitehead, and CreativityKeith Robinson8. Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and ZGraham Harman9. Whitehead’s Curse?James Williams10. Cutting away from Smooth Space: Alfred North Whitehead’s Extensive Continuum in Parametric SoftwareLuciana ParisiPart III. Process Ecology11. Possessive Subjects: A Speculative Interpretation of NonhumansDidier Debaise12. Another RegardErin Manning13. Of “Experiential Togetherness”: Toward a More Robust EmpiricismSteven Meyer14. The Order of Nature and the Creation of SocietiesMichael Halewood15. Imaginative Chemistry: Synthetic Ecologies and the Construction of LifeA. J. NocekContributorsIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press The Way Things Go
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A brilliant feat of cultural connecting: of cross-reading, from epistemology to objects and vice versa, and a perfect counterpoint to the lazy, sub-Buddhistic essentialism blighting so much contemporary thinking about things in general and things in particular."—Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder, Men in Space, and C"A page-turner."—Leonardo Reviews"Instead of a monograph, we are left with a refreshing hybrid of scholarship, speculative criticism, and reeling proclamation to which it will be a pleasure to return."—Critical Inquiry"Quirky yet surprisingly gripping."—American LiteratureTable of ContentsContentsInstruction ManualThe Way Things Go100: I Don't Know about the Coming Singularity80: Lost and Found61: That Swell New Thing37: Risky Things15: Materials and Their Methods0: Nothing but RemainsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Defining Jamaican Fiction Marronage and the
Book SynopsisMaroons - slaves who escaped servitude to establish their own hegemonies - are central characters in Jamaican heritage, even influencing literary character types in Jamaican fiction. This work focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Seduction And Betrayal
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