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Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature
An Issue of Reconfiguration and Re-representation
Inbunden, 2020
1469 kr
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This book reconfigures the history of modern America, showing how multiple and, at times, vulnerable social, economic, literary, and political movements, levels, divisions, and conditions such as the emergent middle class, the labor movement, the Progressive Movement, the socialist and communist …
Reaganism in Literary Theory
Negative Moralism and Hermeneutic Suspicion
Inbunden, 2020
1516 kr
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Reaganism is a discourse of devotion and disqualification, combining a neoliberal negative theology of the market with a neoconservative demonization of opponents. Reagan’s personality cult shelters the aggressivity of a war of all against all by representing the market as a moralistic standard of …
Offering Theory
Reading in Sociography
Av John Mowitt
Inbunden, 2020
1516 kr
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A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today. Arguing against those who propose to avoid Theory in the name of its putative obsolescence, this text sets out to challenge …
Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism
Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points
Inbunden, 2020
1484 kr
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The interviewees of this volume fall into three groups: the main players who brought about the rise of theory (Fish, Gallop, Spivak, Bhabha); a younger group of post-theorists (Bérubé, Dimock, Nealon, Warren); the anti-critique theorists (Felski); and new order theorists (Puchner, Wolfe). They …
American Paraliterature and Other Theories to Hijack Communication
Inbunden, 2021
1484 kr
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American Paraliterature examines the generative encounters of post-1968 French theory with the postwar American avant-garde. The book begins with an account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference that was organized by Semiotext(e) editor Sylvère Lotringer at Columbia University. The conference was …
Raymond Federman and Samuel Beckett
Voices in the Closet
Inbunden, 2021
1516 kr
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This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist. Born in Paris in 1928, all of his immediate family perished in the Holocaust. Federman escaped thanks to …
Offering Theory
Reading in Sociography
Av John Mowitt
Häftad, 2022
486 kr
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A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today. Arguing against those who propose to avoid Theory in the name of its putative obsolescence, this text sets out to challenge …
Elegy for Literature
Häftad, 2022
402 kr
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The first chapter is an overview of the current “crisis” of literary study, brought about by downsizings following the crash of 2008 (from which literary studies never really recovered), compounded by the Covid pandemic, and rocked by the bedrock questions put to the academic study of literature by …
Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images
Av Terry Smith
Inbunden, 2022
1277 kr
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Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images argues that imagery of all kinds has become a definitive force in the shaping of contemporary life. While immersed in public politics and private imaginaries, such imagery also operates according to its own logic, potentialities, and limitations. This …
Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism
Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points
Häftad, 2022
486 kr
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The interviewees of this volume fall into three groups: the main players who brought about the rise of theory (Fish, Gallop, Spivak, Bhabha); a younger group of post-theorists (Bérubé, Dimock, Nealon, Warren); the anti-critique theorists (Felski); and new order theorists (Puchner, Wolfe). They …
Yeats and Revisionism
A Half Century of the Dancer and the Dance
Inbunden, 2022
1516 kr
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The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last …
Critical Situation
Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies
Inbunden, 2023
1484 kr
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The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies comprises a selection of essays that register the situatedness of critical theory and practice amid various intellectual, institutional, and cultural contexts. This book offers examples of situated criticism, which in turn …
From Mimetic Translation to Artistic Transduction
A Semiotic Perspective on Virginia Woolf, Hector Berlioz, and Bertolt Brecht.
Av Dinda Gorlée
Inbunden, 2023
1516 kr
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Roman Jakobson gave a literary translation of the double words and concepts of poetical hyper translation. Language can transmit verbal translation to explore new ways of thinking about music and other arts. Thomas A. Sebeok deconstructed the energy of translation into the duplicated genres of …
Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images
Av Terry Smith
Häftad, 2023
422 kr
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Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images argues that imagery of all kinds has become a definitive force in the shaping of contemporary life. While immersed in public politics and private imaginaries, such imagery also operates according to its own logic, potentialities, and limitations. This …
Colette and the Incest Taboo
That Most Disturbing of Drives
Inbunden, 2025
1516 kr
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This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2025. It argues that Colette’s fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both private and public, then and now. Informed by …
Theory Does Not Exist
Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric
Inbunden, 2024
1516 kr
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Theory Does Not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric is a collection of essays that makes a strong case for a comparative approach to what we term “theory” today. It argues that our disciplinary boundaries create artificial divisions …
Humanist Critic
Lionel Trilling and Edward Said
Inbunden, 2026
1516 kr
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Explores the humanist criticism of Lionel Trilling and Edward Said through a critical analysis of their influences and the changing landscapes of literary studies.Assessments of the history of literary criticism suffer from two errors. On one hand, they often ignore the relationship between …
Art's Visionary Moment
Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime
Av Sidney Homan
Inbunden, 2025
1484 kr
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The collection Art’s Visionary Moment: Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime was inspired by T. S. Eliot’s observation in his Dante (1929): “The experience of a poem is the experience both of a moment and of a lifetime. … There is a first, or an early moment which is unique, … which …
Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience
Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and Cusk
Inbunden, 2025
1516 kr
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This book examines the question of aesthetic experience in the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk in order to propose a reconsideration of aesthetic experience informed by literature and philosophy in equal measure. The introduction suggests an alternative …
Colors of the Concepts
Philosophers on Paintings
Häftad, 2025
410 kr
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This short monograph explores the intersection of philosophy and painting, examining how major thinkers from Hegel to Merleau-Ponty developed key concepts through their engagement with specific artworks. Unlike traditional surveys, my book focuses on philosophers’ ideas as they emerged from …
Critical Situation
Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies
Häftad, 2025
475 kr
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The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies comprises a selection of essays that register the situatedness of critical theory and practice amid various intellectual, institutional, and cultural contexts. This book offers examples of situated criticism, which in turn …
This is Not the End of Theory
Critical Perspectives on the Humanities in Dark Times
Inbunden, 2026
1484 kr
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By eliminating theory from the academy, the valiant warriors of antitheory believe that they are saving it from appreciative peril. This Is Not the End of Theory presents a host of arguments against this claim. It demonstrates that the elimination of theory from the academy has quite the opposite …
