Literary & Cultural Theory – serie
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Studies of Imagery in Early Mediterranean and East Asian Poetry
Av Kerstin Eksell, Gunilla LIndberg-Wada
Inbunden, 2018
747 kr
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This volume consists of articles on imagery in the poetry of various literary canons. Focussing on figurative speech, the authors analyse poetry of the Near East, Greece, the Arabic world, early modern Spain, classical China and classical Japan. The articles present new research based on individual …
Ideology, Aesthetics, Literary History
Socialist Realism and its Others
Av Piotr Fast, Wojciech Kalaga
Häftad, 1999
1077 kr
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The book analyses - with reference to the Soviet socialist realism - the relations between the structure/semantics of the literary text and its ideological and political context. Focusing on works typical of the socialist realism as well as on its subversive exponents (including books by Kharms, …
Africa and Europe: En/countering Myths
Essays on Literature and Cultural Politics
Av Carlotta von Maltzan, Wojciech H. Kalaga
Häftad, 2003
1023 kr
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The contributions in this volume examine literary and other texts as well as cultural and political discourses in relation to issues of identity formation and dis-formation, of self and society and of the socially local within the global. All these issues come into play through the exploration of …
At the Threshold of Mystery: Poetic Encounters with Other(ness)
Poetic Encounters with Other(ness)
Häftad, 2004
941 kr
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The book At the Threshold of Mystery: Poetic Encounters with Other(ness) addresses the problem of literary dialogue as it appears in the philosophical, poetic and aesthetic discourses in the last two centuries. Central to the dialogue with Other(ness) is a background discussion of the idea of …
Feeding Culture: The Pleasures and Perils of Appetite
The Pleasures and Perils of Appetite
Av Wojciech Kalaga, Tadeusz Rachwal
Häftad, 2004
631 kr
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There is no sapient question: to eat or not to eat? Eating comes before culture, but with culture it becomes more than just eating. It is with the purpose of exploring the relation between culture and consuming food – a relation far more complex than it might seem at first sight – that this book …
Body Wall
Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices
Häftad, 2006
714 kr
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Contemporary materialism, in its varied configurations, persistently challenges claims that the body can be relegated to a subservient position when compared to reason. In most pertinent colonial and postcolonial studies the body is seen as a text, upon and by means of which signs of difference are …
World According to Bridget Jones
Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions
Häftad, 2007
878 kr
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The World According to Bridget Jones: Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions examines the cultural functioning of a popular contemporary strand in mainstream Anglo-American literature, known as «chicklit». Assuming that the interpretive potential of chicklit novels is connected with the …
Political Correctness
Mouth Wide Shut?
Av Wojciech Kalaga, Jacek Mydla m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1127 kr
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The book addresses and interrogates discursive and cultural practices that are (or can be seen as) related to the well-established if elusive phenomenon known as Political Correctness or PC. The individual contributors look into PC-related cases within the humanities, literature, and the media. …
Rhetoric of the City: Robinson Jeffers and A. R. Ammons
Inbunden, 2009
1127 kr
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There are many similarities in the development of urbanism and literature in the last two hundred years, resulting from a correspondence between modes of city-planning and modes of literary expression. The symbolic city, connected to the transcendental sphere of myth, evolved into the allegorical …
Critical Theory and Critical Genres
Contemporary Perspectives from Poland
Av Charles Russel, Arne Melberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
600 kr
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This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of constant intellectual …
Sense of Apocalypse
Technology, Textuality, Identity
Inbunden, 2014
528 kr
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Reaching into the depths of the collective unconscious, A Sense of Apocalypse explores and re-interprets one of the West’s primordial fears, namely that of the apocalyptic closure of both cultural praxis and individual experience. Yet, in contrast to popular connotations of the term, apocalypse is …
Language of Polish Modernism
Av Ryszard Nycz, Wojciech Kalaga
Inbunden, 2017
660 kr
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This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their …
Resistance in the Deceleration Lane
Velocentrism, Slow Culture and Everyday Practice
Inbunden, 2014
863 kr
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Motivated by a desire to reflect critically on the ways in which speeds, both high and low, and their representations affect the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of meanings around particular cultural texts, images and practices, Resistance in the Deceleration Lane uses the …
Musicality of a Literary Work
Av Andrzej Hejmej, Wojciech Kalaga
Inbunden, 2018
770 kr
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This book represents an attempt to capture different links between modern literature and music. The author examines strict intertextual correlations, the phenomena of musicality and musicality of literary works, the musical structure in literature, so-called musical literary texts. He focuses on …
Litanic Verse II
Britannia, Germania et Scandinavia
Av Witold Sadowski, Witold Sadowski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
751 kr
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The book contains comparative analyses of the development of litanic verse in European poetry, from medieval to modern times. Litanic verse is based on different syntactic devices, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora and epiphora. However, it is not to be seen merely as a convention of …
Litanic Verse I
Origines, Iberia, Slavia et Europa Media
Av Witold Sadowski, Magdalena Kowalska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
984 kr
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The book contains comparative analyses of the development of litanic verse in European poetry, from medieval to modern times. Litanic verse is based on different syntactic devices, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora and epiphora. However, it is not to be seen merely as a convention of …
Beyond the Limits of Language
Apophasis and Transgression in Contemporary Theoretical Discourse
Inbunden, 2016
782 kr
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The book explores the way in which apophatic discourse of negative theology has illuminated contemporary critical theory. It demonstrates the significance of apophasis both in Jacques Derrida’s search for a «new language», responsive to singularity and alterity, and in the analyses of the …
Introduction to Fictional Worlds Theory
Av Bohumil Fořt
Inbunden, 2015
445 kr
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The author extensively details, analyses and compares key concepts and strategies of fictional worlds theory: a theory which has, over recent years, developed rather rapidly and is connected with leading scholars in the area of literary studies, such as Lubomír Doležel, Umberto Eco, Thomas Pavel, …
Mosaic of Misunderstanding: Occident, Orient, and Facets of Mutual Misconstrual
Inbunden, 2016
774 kr
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The book investigates relations between the ‘East’ and ‘West’ which have been forming and evolving from the Enlightenment until the present times. On the basis of material covering a selection of American, British and Turkish literature, as well as examples of Western Orientalist painting and …
Melancholic Gaze
Av Piotr Śniedziewski, Wojciech Kalaga
Inbunden, 2018
754 kr
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This book consists of nine chapters devoted to representations of melancholia in 19th-century art and literature. A noteworthy feature of the book is its use of concepts from later works by Sigmund Freud, Jean Clair, Jean Starobinski, Julia Kristeva and others. Those concepts elucidate further …
Cross-Cultural Affinities
Emersonian Transcendentalism and Senghorian Negritude
Inbunden, 2016
884 kr
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The book, through textual analyses, brings concepts of Senghorian Negritude and Emersonian ideas into a cross-cultural dialogue, and thus opens up a completely new perspective in research on the history of ideas. It synthesizes the diverse cultural, literary, philosophical and religious trends …
Aspects of Reference in Literary Theory
Poetics, Rhetoric and Literary History
Av Alina Silvana Felea, Wojciech Kalaga
Inbunden, 2017
679 kr
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The book presents the various viewpoints that poetics, literary history and Western rhetoric have adopted throughout Western history. The aim of poetics is to render the specificity of the literary discourse by either highlighting the extra literary generative forces or by focusing on the intrinsic …
Mo Yan Thought
Six Critiques of Hallucinatory Realism
Av Jerry Xie, Wojciech H. Kalaga
Inbunden, 2017
984 kr
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This book analyzes Mo Yan’s writings as well as other scholarly interpretations of his writings. When Mo Yan from China was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the term «hallucinatory realism» was invented to describe his storytelling as a «merging» of folk tales, history, and the contemporary. …
Approaches to Walter Benjamin’s «The Arcades Project»
Av Paweł Stachura, Piotr Śniedziewski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
929 kr
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Walter Benjamin is one of the most important figures of modern culture. The authors focus within this book on Benjamin as a philosopher, or rather as a critic of modernism entangled in tradition (mainly Jewish), but also as a writer. Philosophical and philological readings are accompanied by essays …
Before the Trenches
A Mapping of Problems in Literary Interpretation
Inbunden, 2018
632 kr
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Throughout much of the 20th century, literary theory came to be considered the queen discipline of literary studies. It failed, though, to deliver the promises it carried from its onset as an academic field of inquiry and, came to be shrunk and side-lined in the last three or four decades. The …
Litanic Verse IV
Italia
Inbunden, 2018
929 kr
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Litanic verse is based on different syntactic and rhetorical devices, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora, and epiphora. Its Italian variants are not to be seen as a mere convention of versification, but as a multifactorial phenomenon, which involves semantic and performative aspects as …
We Need to Talk About Heidegger
Essays Situating Martin Heidegger in Contemporary Media Studies
Av Justin Michael Battin, German A. Duarte
Inbunden, 2018
848 kr
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This collection assembles a number of chapters engaging different strands of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy in order to explore issues relevant to contemporary media studies. Following the release of Heidegger’s controversial Black Notebooks and the subsequent calls to abandon the philosopher, this …
Litanic Verse III
Francia
Inbunden, 2018
1087 kr
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Despite the numerous famous examples of «les litanies» in French poetry, the manner in which the structures of this form of worship affect the versification strategies of poems has not previously been discussed thoroughly. Litanic verse, whose origins are as ancient as those of the litany genre, is …
European Litanic Verse
A Different Space-Time
Av Witold Sadowski, Wojciech H. Kalaga
Inbunden, 2018
1227 kr
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This fifth volume in the Litanic Verse series is centered upon the poetics of European litanic verse (genre structure, rhythm, rhetorical figures), as well as its philosophy and cosmology, with a particular focus on the space-time matrix within which the litanic world is depicted. The content of …
Lyric Subject
A Reconceptualization
Av Varja Balžalorsky Antić, Wojciech H. Kalaga
Inbunden, 2022
792 kr
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This book interrogates the concept of the subject in the poem, against the broader background of literary-theoretical issues related to the lyric subject. Specifically, what kind of subject is the subject in the poem? What relation does it have to other forms of subjectivation that human beings …
