{"product_id":"thinking-in-literature-joyce-woolf-nabokov-9781441140562","title":"Thinking in Literature Joyce Woolf Nabokov","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Uhlmann is Professor of English in the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style:\" italic\u003eBeckett and Poststructuralism\u003c\/span\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 1999),\u003cspan style=\"font-style:\" italic\u003e Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image\u003c\/span\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and co-editor of \u003cspan style=\"font-style:\" italic\u003eThe Ethics of Arnold Geulincx\u003c\/span\u003e (Brill, 2006). He is chief editor of \u003cspan style=\"font-style:\" italic\u003eThe Journal of Beckett Studies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anthony Uhlmann offers an impressively original and compelling series of interpretations that will substantially alter accepted ideas not only of Joyce, Woolf and Nabokov, but also of the epistemology and aesthetics of modernism.  Uhlmann's Deleuzian approach—post-expressionist and post-representationalist—seeks to move beyond the traditional conception of modernism as an \"inward turn\" centered in subjectivity and interiority.  Thinking in Literature accomplishes its highly innovative readings with subtlety, intelligence and insight.\"  --   Richard Begam, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA\u003cbr\u003e\"In this ambitious contribution to literary theory, Anthony Uhlmann shows how a work of literature can be said to think, and thus in what sense literature helps us to understand the world. On the way he provides exemplary analyses of Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov at work, as well as useful unfoldings of difficult material from Spinoza and Leibniz.\" -- J M Coetzee\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when the humanities are increasingly under attack, Uhlmann’s  slender volume about Thinking in Literature is a much-needed study, as  it intelligently defines the value of literature and literary  studies…Uhlmann’s expanded but rigorous concept of thinking is an  essential contribution to modernist studies in general and Woolf studies  in particular, as it provides a clear pathway for going beyond those  deconstructive approaches that strand authors and readers in the abyss  of the textual gap. Uhlmann has established an excellent framework that  will enable scholars to think in new and more rigorous ways about  literature and educators to teach students how to use modernist  literature to refine their capacity to think. -- Michael Lackey, University of Minnesota, Morris * Journal of Modern Fiction *\u003cbr\u003eThinking in Literature does represent a rare and robust attempt to reformulate the aesthetic and cognitive characteristics of modernism. -- David Winters * Textual Practice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Part 1: Literature and Thought 1. Spinoza and Relation   2. Leibniz's 'perception': the Incompossible, the Viewpoint, and the Composition of Sensation 3. Composition as the Externalised Expression of Sensation  Part 2: Thought in Modernist Fiction 4. James Joyce: the art of Relation 5. Virginia Woolf: the art of Sensation 6. Vladimir Nabokov: the art of Composition  Conclusion Bibliography","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769646940503,"sku":"9781441140562","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781441140562.jpg?v=1758722041","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thinking-in-literature-joyce-woolf-nabokov-9781441140562","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}