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Det kreativa textsamtalet : att ge och få respons i litterärt skapande
AvTherése Granwald,Malin Isaksson
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
388 kr
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Textsamtalet är en central arbetsform på skrivutbildningar, oavsett om de hålls på folkhögskola eller på universitet. Men vad är egentligen ett textsamtal och hur ger man konstruktiv respons som leder till utveckling snarare än bedömning? Hur läser man en text i process, inför och under ett textsamtal? Hur skapar man gemensamt ett samtalsklimat som präglas av nyfikenhet, kunskap och respekt? Och vilken roll har samtalsledaren?I den här boken förenas teori och praktik kring textsamtal och respons. Med utgångspunkt i den egna erfarenheten av textsamtal, och intervjuer med författare, lärare och deltagare på skrivutbildningar, diskuterar Granwald och Isaksson hur respons kan bli textnära, utvecklande och inspirerande. Boken erbjuder konkreta verktyg och reflektionsfrågor för att leda och delta i textsamtal - och för att förstå den komplexa relationen mellan text, läsare och författare.Det kreativa textsamtalet är en grundbok för skrivpedagoger, lärare och studenter i kreativt skrivande - och för alla som vill fördjupa sina kunskaper om litterära och kreativa textsamtal.
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Modern Genre Theory
An Introduction for Biblical Studies
AvAndrew Judd
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
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302 kr
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How a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text.The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware approach to genre. Different conceptions of narrative, poetry, gospel, epistle, wisdom, and apocalyptic texts lead to vastly different readings, and our disagreements about what the Bible means often boil down to different assumptions about what the biblical text is. As secular genre theory has experienced a recent renaissance, biblical studies has been left in the dark ages of rigid taxonomies and stubborn essentialism.The Bible deserves better.This book offers students in biblical studies an accessible but comprehensive introduction to modern genre theory, providing access to literary tools for understanding how writers and readers use genre to make meaning.Modern Genre Theory describes the current state of biblical genre theory (as well as the meaning of form criticism and why it needs to die). Scholar of biblical hermeneutics Andrew Judd then presents a better alternative of interpretation based on the best developments in secular literary theory, linguistics, and rhetorical studies.Drawing on advancements in modern genre theory, Judd:Proposes a working definition of genre for biblical studies.Identifies twelve tenets of modern genre theory that follow from seeing genres in their historical and social context.Offers eight case studies in biblical exegesis to show how a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the Bible. From the creation accounts of Genesis to the visions of Revelation, it is important to get a handle on genre. This book offers a way to reading the Bible better.
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Det är läsaren som skriver boken
AvKristoffer Leandoer
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
248 kr
"Kristoffer Leandoers nya bok är lärd och elegant"Aftonbladet
"Intresseväckande utan att vara tillgjord, lärd utan att vara pretentiös, infallsrik utan att bli förvirrad."Göteborgs-Posten"Oupphörligen intressant och tankeväckande läsning om fiktionens kraft"BTJ ger boken 5 av 5 i betygVad händer när vi läser?
Är litteratur något som bara finns mellan pärmarna i en bok, eller något som uppstår i själva mötet mellan läsaren och boken? Är boken alltid densamma, eller förändras den med varje ny läsning? Kan två människor överhuvudtaget läsa samma bok?
Här närmar sig Kristoffer Leandoer litteraturen från ett nytt och oväntat håll där det snart blir tydligt: Det är läsaren som skriver boken. Vi läsare är opålitliga: vi glömmer, vi minns fel. Vi hoppar över och drar ifrån, och vi lägger gärna till de detaljer som författaren glömt.
Så vad innebär medskapande läsning för kritiker och översättare, för pusseldeckare och bibeltolkare? Vad strök morfar under i Kierkegaards dagbok? Läser vi med ögonen eller öronen? Vilka böcker har diktatorn i sitt bibliotek? Dödade Oidipus verkligen sin pappa?"Den största behållningen med Leandoers bok är just de fria samtal om olika sätt att närma sig en berättelse som han leder in oss på."UNT"Intresseväckande utan att vara tillgjord, lärd utan att vara pretentiös, infallsrik utan att bli förvirrad."Göteborgs-Posten"Kristoffer Leandoer skriver vackert om samarbetet mellan författare och läsare"Dagens Nyheter
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Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
AvUrsula K. Le Guin
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
113 kr
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The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction proposes a new story of evolution by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: ‘before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.’ Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero’s long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors’ greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars. This influential essay opens a portal to terra ignota: unknown lands where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew.
Old Norse Mythology
AvJohn Lindow
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
485 kr
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An innovative and accessible overview of how ancient Scandinavians understood and made use of their mythological stories. Old Norse Mythology provides a unique survey of the mythology of Scandinavia: the gods ÃžÃ³rr (Thor) with his hammer, the wily and duplicitous Ã“Ã°inn (Odin), the sly Loki, and other fascinating figures. They create the world, battle their enemies, and die at the end of the world, which arises anew with a new generation of gods. These stories were the mythology of the Vikings, but they were not written down until long after the conversion to Christianity, mostly in Iceland. In addition to a broad overview of Nordic myths, the book presents a case study of one myth, which tells of how ÃžÃ³rr (Thor) fished up the World Serpent, analyzing the myth as a sacred text of the Vikings. Old Norse Mythology also explores the debt we owe to medieval intellectuals, who were able to incorporate the old myths into new paradigms that helped the myths to survive when they were no longer part of a religious system. This superb introduction traces the use of the mythology in ideological contexts, from the Viking Age until the twenty-first century, as well as in entertainment.
Analyzed by Lacan
A Personal Account
AvBetty Milan
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
287 kr
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Analyzed by Lacan brings together the first English translations of Why Lacan, Betty Milan's memoir of her analysis with Lacan in the 1970s, and her play, Goodbye Doctor, inspired by her experience.Why Lacan provides a unique and valuable perspective on how Lacan worked as psychoanalyst as well as his approach to psychoanalytic theory. Milan's testimony shows that Lacan’s method of working was based on the idea that the traditional way of interpreting provoked resistance.Prior to Why Lacan, Milan wrote a play, Goodbye Doctor, based on her experience as Lacan's patient. The play is structured around the sessions of Seriema with the Doctor. Through the analysis, Seriema discovers why she cannot give birth, namely, an unconscious desire to satisfy the will of her father who didn’t authorize her to conceive. She ceases to be the victim of her unconscious, grasps the possibility of choosing a father for her child and thus becoming a mother. Goodbye Doctor has been adapted into a film, Adieu Lacan, by the director Richard Ledes. Analyzed by Lacan features an Introduction by Milan to both works as well as a new interview with Mari Ruti about her writing and Lacan.
Metaphors We Live By
AvGeorge Lakoff,Mark Johnson
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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193 kr
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People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Bringing together the perspectives of linguistics and philosophy, Lakoff and Johnson offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind. And for this new edition, they supply an afterword both extending their arguments and offering a fascinating overview of the current state of thinking on the subject of the metaphor.
Postcolonialism
A Very Short Introduction
AvRobert J. C. Young
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
135 kr
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Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world.Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial thought has developed to engage with the impact of sometimes centuries of western political and cultural domination. Situating the discussion in a wide cultural and geographical context, he draws on examples such as the status of indigenous peoples, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, and global social and ecological movements. In this new edition he also includes updated material on race, slavery, and postcolonial gender politics. Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past and enables us to decolonize our own lives in the present.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable
Dark Ecology
For a Logic of Future Coexistence
AvTimothy Morton
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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252 kr
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Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are.The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think. Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis, which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful, anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten the dark, strange loop we traverse.
Del 188 - Södertörn doctoral dissertations
Nollpunkten : precisionens betydelse hos Witold Gombrowicz, Inger Christensen och Herta Müller
AvGabriel Itkes-Sznap
Kartonnage, Svenska, 2021
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78 kr
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Varje författare vet att frågan om precision och exakthet är avgörande för skrivandet. Men frågan har också ett historiskt sammanhang. Den blir akut under moderniteten: de exakta vetenskapernas och de precisa kalkylernas epok, men också de genomkalkylerade massmordens och den noggrant planerade övervakningens. Genom att gå i närkamp med tre av det moderna Europas mest inflytelserika författare -- Witold Gombrowicz, Inger Christensen och Herta Müller -- visar Gabriel Itkes-Sznap att litteraturen och poesin utmärks av en egen precision, att den skiljer sig från vetenskapens, matematikens och teknologins precision, och pekar ut en helt annan väg och erfarenhet.
Gabriel Itkes-Sznap, född 1985 och bosatt i Stockholm, gav 2015 ut diktsamlingen Tolvfingertal (Albert Bonniers Förlag), som nominerades till Borås Tidningsdebutantpris. Nollpunkten är hans doktorsavhandling i estetik.
»Här kommer då Itkes-Sznap in och visar hur estetisk forskning kan vara oupphörligt intressant, läsvärd och drabbande - ett lika givande kvällsfördriv som den senaste romanen eller poesisamlingen, lika sprängfylld av känslor, lika uppfylld av frågor om skapande som liv, som död.« (Valerie Kyeyune Backström, Expressen.)
How Fiction Works
AvJames Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
179 kr
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Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is realism realistic? Why do most endings of novels disappoint?In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions. Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carré, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, it incisively sums up two decades of bold, often controversial, and now classic critical work, and will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone interested in what happens on the page.'Should find a place on every novel-lover's shelf. It has the quality all useful works of criticism should have: refined taste, keen observation, and the ability to make the reader argue, passionately, with it' Financial Times
Anatomy of Criticism
Four Essays
AvNorthrop Frye,David Damrosch
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
232 kr
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A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye seeks to describe a common basis for understanding the full range of literary forms by examining archetypes, genres, poetic language, and the relations among the text, the reader, and society. Using a dazzling array of examples, he argues that understanding "the structure of literature as a total form" also allows us to see the profoundly liberating effect literature can have.
Social Construction of What?
AvIan Hacking
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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344 kr
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Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality.Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse—very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the “culture wars” in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.
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Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses
AvPatrick Hastings
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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279 kr
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From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves together plot summaries, interpretive analyses, scholarly perspectives, and historical and biographical context to create an easy-to-read, entertaining, and thorough review of Ulysses.In The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' Patrick Hastings provides comprehensive support to readers of Joyce's magnum opus by illuminating crucial details and reveling in the mischievous genius of this unparalleled novel. Written in a voice that offers encouragement and good humor, this guidebook maintains a closeness to the original text and supports the first-time reader of Ulysses with the information needed to successfully finish and appreciate the novel. Deftly weaving together spirited plot summaries, helpful interpretive analyses, scholarly criticism, and explanations of historical and biographical context, Hastings makes Joyce's famously intimidating novel—one that challenges the conventions and limits of language—more accessible and enjoyable than ever before. He unpacks each chapter of Ulysses with episode guides, which offer pointed and readable explanations of what occurs in the text. He also deals adroitly with many of the puzzles Joyce hoped would "keep the professors busy for centuries." Full of practical resources—including maps, explanations of the old British system of money, photos of places and things mentioned in the text, annotated bibliographies, and a detailed chronology of Bloomsday (June 16, 1904—the single day on which Ulysses is set)—this is an invaluable first resource about a work of art that celebrates the strength of spirit required to endure the trials of everyday existence. The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is perfect for anyone undertaking a reading of Joyce's novel, whether as a student, a member of a reading group, or a lover of literature finally crossing this novel off the bucket list.
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Wild Things
The Disorder of Desire
AvJack Halberstam
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
328 kr
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In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality against which radical queer practice and politics operate. Throughout, Halberstam engages with a wide variety of texts, practices, and cultural imaginaries-from zombies, falconry, and M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and the career of Irish anticolonial revolutionary Roger Casement-to demonstrate how wildness provides the means to know and to be in ways that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern liberal subject. With Wild Things, Halberstam opens new possibilities for queer theory and for wild thinking more broadly.
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Production of Presence
What Meaning Cannot Convey
AvHans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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314 kr
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Production of Presence is a comprehensive version of the thinking of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, one of the most consistently original literary scholars writing today. It offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in literary studies and in the humanities over the past thirty years, together with an equally personal view of a possible future. Based on this assessment of the past and the future of literary studies and the humanities, the book develops the provocative thesis that, through their exclusive dedication to interpretation, i.e. to the reconstruction and attribution of meaning, the humanities have become incapable of addressing a dimension in all cultural phenomena that is as important as the dimension of meaning. Interpretation alone cannot do justice to the dimension of "presence," a dimension in which cultural phenomena and cultural events become tangible and have an impact on our senses and our bodies. Production of Presence is a passionate plea for a rethinking and a reshaping of the intellectual practice within the humanities.
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Lectures on Literature
AvVladimir Nabokov,Fredson Bowers
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
269 kr
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Sexuality Beyond Consent
Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
AvAvgi Saketopoulou
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
373 kr
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Radical alternatives to consent and traumaArguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an unexpected site of flourishing. Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent, limit consent, that is not about guarding the self but about risking experience. Saketopoulou thereby shows why sexualities beyond consent may be worth risking-and how risk can solicit the future.Moving between clinical and cultural case studies, Saketopoulou takes up theatrical and cinematic works such as Slave Play and The Night Porter, to chart how trauma and sexuality join forces to surge through the aesthetic domain. Putting the psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche in conversation with queer of color critique, performance studies, and philosophy, Sexuality Beyond Consent proposes that enduring the strange in ourselves, not to master trauma but to rub up against it, can open us up to encounters with opacity. The book concludes by theorizing currents of sadism that, when pursued ethically, can animate unique forms of interpersonal and social care.
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Ecocriticism
AvGreg Garrard
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
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427 kr
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Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler. Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible volume responds to the diversity of the field today and explores its key concepts, including:pollutionpastoralwildernessapocalypseanimalsIndigeneitythe Earth.Thoroughly revised to reflect the breadth and diversity of twenty-first-century environmental writing and criticism, this edition addresses climate change and justice throughout, and features a new chapter on Indigeneity. It also presents a glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading.Concise, clear and authoritative, Ecocriticism offers the ideal introduction to this crucial subject for students of literary and cultural studies.
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
AvHélène Cixous
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
252 kr
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Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration of 'the strange science of writing.' In a magnetic, irresistible narrative, Cixous reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for 'great' writing: The School of the Dead-the notion that something or someone must die in order for good writing to be born; The School of Dreams-the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration and output; and The School of Roots-the importance of depth in the 'nether realms' in all aspects of writing. Cixous's love of language and passion for the written word is evident on every page. Her emotive style draws heavily on the writers she most admires: the Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, the Austrian novelists Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard, Dostoyevsky and, most of all, Kafka.
Critical Theory Today
A User-Friendly Guide
AvLois Tyson
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
813 kr
This thoroughly updated fourth edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today, including: feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism; reader-response theory; New Criticism; structuralism and semiotics; deconstruction; new historicism and cultural criticism; lesbian, gay, and queer theory; African American criticism; and postcolonial criticism and ecocriticism. This new edition features:• A brand new chapter on ecocriticism, including sections on deep ecology, eco-Marxism, ecofeminism (including radical, Marxist, and vegetarian ecofeminisms), and postcolonial ecocriticism and environmental justice• Considerable updates to the chapters on feminist theory, African American theory, postcolonial theory, and LGBTQ theories, including terminology and theoretical concepts• An extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and a variety of literary texts• A list of specific questions critics ask about literary texts • An interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory• A list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works• Updated and expanded bibliographies Both engaging and rigorous, this is a "how-to" book for undergraduate and graduate students new to critical theory and for college professors who want to broaden their repertoire of critical approaches to literature.
Western Canon
The Books and School of the Ages
AvHarold Bloom
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
348 kr
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The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.“An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book WorldHarold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a “heroically brave, formidably learned” defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western Canon. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the essential writers of the western literary tradition (The New York Times Book Review).Placing William Shakespeare at the “center of the canon,” Bloom examines the literary contributions of Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Pablo Neruda, and many others. Bloom's book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economist and Entertainment Weekly, offers a dazzling display of erudition and passion.
Poetry Changes Lives
Daily Thoughts on Poetry and History
AvChristopher Burn,Stephanie Wolfe Murray
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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197 kr
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The Claim of Reason
Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy
AvStanley Cavell
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
1 099 kr
This reissue of an American philosophical classic includes a new preface by Cavell, in which he discusses the work's reception and influence. The work fosters a fascinating relationship between philosophy and literature both by augmenting his philosophical discussions with examples from literature and by applying philosophical theories to literary texts. Cavell also succeeds in drawing some very important parallels between the British analytic tradition and the continental tradition, by comparing scepticism as understood in Descartes, Hume, and Kant with philosophy of language as practiced by Wittgenstein and Austin.
Literary Theory: The Complete Guide
AvMary Klages
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
359 kr
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Bringing together Mary Klages’s bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering world of literary theory for the first time. Literary Theory: The Complete Guide includes:· Accessible chapters on all the major schools of theory from deconstruction through psychoanalytic criticism to Marxism and postcolonialism · New chapters introducing ecocriticism and biographies· Expanded and updated guides to feminist theory, queer theory, postmodernism and globalization· New and fully integrated extracts of theoretical and literary texts to guide students through their use of theory· Accessible coverage of major theorists such as Saussure, Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari and BhabhaEach chapter now includes reflection questions for class discussion or independent study and a cross-referenced glossary of key terms covered, as well as updated guides to further reading on each topic. Literary Theory: The Complete Guide is an essential starting point for students of critical theory.
Madwoman in the Attic
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
AvSandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
253 kr
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"A feminist classic."—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review“A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.”—Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book WorldA pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later.
När andra skriver : skrivande som motstånd, ansvar och tid
AvMara Lee
Häftad, Svenska, 2014
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
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Hur kan en författare beskriva ansvar inom skrivandet, och hur kan skrivande utgöra motstånd, utan att göra avkall på den konstnärliga gestaltningen? Kan Andras skrivande utgöra ett särskilt sätt att ta ansvar och hur skulle en teori om Andras skrivande i så fall kunna se ut?Dessa är några av grundfrågorna i Mara Lees studie. Svaren på frågorna bildar en tänkande och rörlig text som gör teori - poetiskt - genom att utgå från den skrivande erfarenhetens empiri och den kroppsliga, sinnliga erfarenhetens betydelse för kunskapande. Detta kräver en undersökande skrivart, i traditionen efter Hélène Cixous écriture féminine - men uppgraderad för det tredje millenniet. Vidareutvecklingen av traditionen sker särskilt i två dimensioner, som också rör sig genom varandra. Inte minst viktigt är att Mara Lee för in ett postkolonialt tänkande i skrivandets erfarenhetssfär. Här blir Trinh T Minh-ha och Gloria Anzaldúa centrala röster, med sina respektive försök att både formulera en feministisk ståndpunkt och en postkolonial kritik som är förankrad i en litterär och språklig undersökning."Kan en doktorsavhandling vara passionerad? I sin doktorsavhandling om skrivandet som motstånd, ansvar och tid går Mara Lee direkt till det som bränner. Avhandlingen vill placera sig i smärtpunkten och gör så med tankar kring den skrivande, litterära praktiken. Här möts feministisk och postkolonial teori ur det skrivande subjektets synvinkel. Mara Lee skär klarsynt och gnistrande genom identitetspolitik och vithetsdebatt. Mitt exemplar är buckligt av alla understrykningar av lysande formuleringar."Eva Ström i Sydsvenskan Mara Lee är verksam som romanförfattare, poet, essäist, lärare och översättare. När Andra skriver är hennes avhandling i Litterär gestaltning vid Göteborgs universitet.
Orality and Literacy
30th Anniversary Edition
AvWalter J. Ong
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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Walter J. Ong’s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition – coinciding with Ong’s centenary year – reproduces his best-known and most influential book in full and brings it up to date with two new exploratory essays by cultural writer and critic John Hartley. Hartley provides: A scene-setting chapter that situates Ong’s work within the historical and disciplinary context of post-war Americanism and the rise of communication and media studies; A closing chapter that follows up Ong’s work on orality and literacy in relation to evolving media forms, with a discussion of recent criticisms of Ong’s approach, and an assessment of his concept of the ‘evolution of consciousness’; Extensive references to recent scholarship on orality, literacy and the study of knowledge technologies, tracing changes in how we know what we know.These illuminating essays contextualize Ong within recent intellectual history, and display his work’s continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature and the media, as well as that of psychology, education and sociological thought.
Literary Theory
An Anthology
AvJulie Rivkin,Michael Ryan
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
531 kr
The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics. Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to PostcolonialismExpanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant. Pedagogically enhanced with detailed editorial introductions and a comprehensive glossary of terms
Art Monsters
Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
AvLauren Elkin
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
159 kr
'Destined to become a new classic' Chris KrausA dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge, Art Monsters is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body. Weaving daring links between disparate artists and writers – from Julia Margaret Cameron’s photography to Kara Walker’s silhouettes, Vanessa Bell’s portraits to Eva Hesse’s rope sculptures – Lauren Elkin shows that their work offers a potent celebration of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political.‘The Susan Sontag of her generation’ Deborah Levy