Essays from the English Institute – serie
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What's Left of Theory?
New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory
Av Judith Butler, John Guillory m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
727 kr
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For several years, write the editors of What's Left of Theory , a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far from clear. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory is a vigorous …
English Inside and Out
The Places of Literary Criticism
Häftad, 1992
727 kr
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Amid diverse theoretical debates about the canon in the media and in academia, in English Inside and Out leading proponents of literary studies take a close look at the discipline and the profession and envisage its future.
Borders, Boundaries, and Frames
Inbunden, 1994
2510 kr
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The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working out -- or reworking -- the problematics of the borders, the boundaries and the frameworks that structure our various and multiple notions of identity -- textual, personal, collective, generic, and disciplinary. The contributors to this …
Borders, Boundaries, and Frames
Häftad, 1994
647 kr
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The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working out -- or reworking -- the problematics of the borders, the boundaries and the frameworks that structure our various and multiple notions of identity -- textual, personal, collective, generic, and disciplinary. The contributors to this …
Performativity and Performance
Av Andrew Parker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Häftad, 1995
711 kr
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From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what "performance" is all about. At the same moment, "performativity"--a new concept in language theory--has become a ubiquitous term in literary studies. This volume grapples with the …
Human, All Too Human
Av Diana Fuss
Inbunden, 1995
2510 kr
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The question of what it means to be human has never before been more difficult and more contested. The human, with a complicated social history that his rarely been examined, remains entrenched in traditional Enlightenment thinking. Human, All Too Human considers how we might radicalize our notion …
Human, All Too Human
Av Diana Fuss
Häftad, 1995
618 kr
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The question of what it means to be human has never before been more difficult and more contested. The human, with a complicated social history that his rarely been examined, remains entrenched in traditional Enlightenment thinking. Human, All Too Human considers how we might radicalize our notion …
Language Machines
Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production
Av Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
756 kr
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Language Machines questions any easily progressive model of technological change, demonstrating the persistence rather than the obsolescence of language technologies over time, the continuous and complicated overlap of pens, presses, screens and voice. In these essays new technologies do not simply …
What's Left of Theory?
New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory
Av Judith Butler, John Guillory m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2886 kr
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For several years, write the editors of What's Left of Theory , a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far from clear. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory is a vigorous …
Cosmopolitan Geographies
New Locations in Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2000
2510 kr
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This book highlights the best new interdisciplinary research on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, with a special focus on the cosmopolitan literatures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, from medieval times to the present.
Cosmopolitan Geographies
New Locations in Literature and Culture
Häftad, 2000
633 kr
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This book highlights the best new interdisciplinary research on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, with a special focus on the cosmopolitan literatures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, from medieval times to the present.
Time and the Literary
Av Karen Newman, Jay Clayton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
3564 kr
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Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay "Literary History and Literary …
Time and the Literary
Av Karen Newman, Jay Clayton m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
744 kr
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Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay "Literary History and Literary …
Compassion
The Culture and Politics of an Emotion
Inbunden, 2004
2703 kr
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In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how "being compassionate" is shaped by historical specificity and social training, and how the idea of compassion takes …
Compassion
The Culture and Politics of an Emotion
Häftad, 2004
624 kr
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In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how "being compassionate" is shaped by historical specificity and social training, and how the idea of compassion takes …
Polemic
Critical or Uncritical
Av Jane Gallop
Inbunden, 2004
2886 kr
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These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, …
Polemic
Critical or Uncritical
Av Jane Gallop
Häftad, 2004
727 kr
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These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, …
English Inside and Out
The Places of Literary Criticism
Inbunden, 2017
2886 kr
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Amid diverse theoretical debates about the canon in the media and in academia, in English Inside and Out leading proponents of literary studies take a close look at the discipline and the profession and envisage its future.
