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17 produkter
Salome and the Dance of Writing
Portraits of Mimesis in Literature
E-bok, 2010
1089 kr
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How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait—the painted portrait, framed—appears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual …
Salome and the Dance of Writing
Portraits of Mimesis in Literature
Häftad, 1989
441 kr
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How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait—the painted portrait, framed—appears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual …
Hot Property
The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality
Inbunden, 1994
981 kr
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This text examines the anxiety of origins about the literary enterprise. Using four case studies, Meltzer reveals the tenuous status of originality as a founding principle of the critical establishment. Freud, inventor of "dream work", turns a blind eye upon the dreams that were the starting point …
Hot Property
The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality
Häftad, 1997
372 kr
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This text examines the anxiety of origins about the literary enterprise. Using four case studies, Meltzer reveals the tenuous status of originality as a founding principle of the critical establishment. Freud, inventor of "dream work", turns a blind eye upon the dreams that were the starting point …
For Fear of the Fire
Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity
Häftad, 2001
371 kr
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Why are contemporary secular theorists so frequently drawn to saints, martyrs, and questions of religion? Why has Joan of Arc fascinated some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century? In a book that faces crucial issues in both critical and feminist inquiry, Françoise Meltzer uses …
For Fear of the Fire
Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity
E-bok, 2010
805 kr
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Why are contemporary secular theorists so frequently drawn to saints, martyrs, and questions of religion? Why has Joan of Arc fascinated some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century? In a book that faces crucial issues in both critical and feminist inquiry, Françoise Meltzer uses …
Seeing Double
Baudelaire''s Modernity
E-bok, 2011
1351 kr
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The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining …
Saints
Faith without Borders
Av Jas Elsner, Francoise Meltzer
E-bok, 2011
681 kr
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While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the …
Dark Lens
Imaging Germany, 1945
Inbunden, 2019
382 kr
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The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of them force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy and raise uncomfortable questions about forgiveness and revenge? Fran oise Meltzer explores those …
Dark Lens
Imaging Germany, 1945
E-bok, 2019
654 kr
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Esteemed scholar Françoise Meltzer examines images of war ruins in Nazi Germany and the role that images play in how we construct memories of war. The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of ruins …
Dark Lens
Imaging Germany, 1945
Häftad, 2021
271 kr
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Esteemed scholar Françoise Meltzer examines images of war ruins in Nazi Germany and the role that images play in how we construct memories of war. The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of ruins …
Salome and the Dance of Writing
Portraits of Mimesis in Literature
Inbunden, 1987
675 kr
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How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait—the painted portrait, framed—appears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual …
For Fear of the Fire
Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity
Inbunden, 2001
906 kr
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Why are contemporary secular theorists so frequently drawn to saints, martyrs, and questions of religion? Why has Joan of Arc fascinated some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century? In a book that faces crucial issues in both critical and feminist inquiry, Françoise Meltzer uses …
Seeing Double
Baudelaire's Modernity
Inbunden, 2011
618 kr
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The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. "Seeing Double" reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining …
Saints
Faith without Borders
Av Francoise Meltzer, Jas Elsner
Häftad, 2011
306 kr
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While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity - categories that define the saint. In this collection, Francoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across …
Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian Notebooks, No. 6
Häftad, 2015
242 kr
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Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks publish selected papers drawn from the various advanced-level activities at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. Volume Six contains a lecture given by Jennifer Pitts entitled "La montee du liberalisme imperialiste: les penseurs liberaux et la question …
