SUNY series, Literature...in Theory – serie
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57 produkter
Phrase
Inbunden, 2018
1479 kr
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The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthe's most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940–2007) is widely acknowledged in his native France and in the English-speaking world as one of the …
Revolutionary Poetics
Decolonial Poetry and the Time of Liberation
Inbunden, 2026
1694 kr
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Demonstrates the centrality of thinking about time to decolonial poetry and poetics.Revolutionary Poetics considers the role of politically engaged poetry during social revolutions and processes of decolonization. Javier Padilla argues that writers in Ireland, Central America, Africa, and the …
Literature and "Interregnum"
Globalization, War, and the Crisis of Sovereignty in Latin America
Av Patrick Dove
Inbunden, 2016
1479 kr
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Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity through readings of end-of-millennium literary texts by César Aira, Marcelo Cohen, Sergio Chejfec, Diamela …
Love of Ruins
Letters on Lovecraft
Av Scott Cutler Shershow, Scott Michaelsen
Häftad, 2018
532 kr
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Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and …
Witnessing beyond the Human
Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina
Av Kate Jenckes
Inbunden, 2017
1468 kr
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Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.This book rethinks the nature of testimony beyond the ground of the human in works produced in Chile and Argentina from the 1970s to the present. Focusing on literature by Juan Gelman, Sergio …
Figures of Time
Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry
Häftad, 2019
560 kr
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Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets-Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra …
Figures of Time
Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry
Inbunden, 2018
1834 kr
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Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets-Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra …
Echoes of a Queer Messianic
From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain
Häftad, 2019
532 kr
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Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining the two main currents …
Vocation of Writing
Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence
Av Marc Crépon
Häftad, 2019
453 kr
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Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.Within the violence our societies must confront today exists a dimension proper to language. Anyone who has been through the educational system, for example, recognizes how language not only shapes and models us, …
Vocation of Writing
Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence
Av Marc Crépon
Inbunden, 2018
1286 kr
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Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.Within the violence our societies must confront today exists a dimension proper to language. Anyone who has been through the educational system, for example, recognizes how language not only shapes and models us, …
Storytelling
The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust
Häftad, 2019
455 kr
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An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.In Storytelling, Rodolphe Gasché reexamines the muteness of Holocaust survivors, that is, their inability to tell their stories. This phenomenon has not been explained up to now …
Lily's Tongue
Figure and Authority in Kierkegaard's Lily Discourses
Häftad, 2020
449 kr
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Examines four discourses by Kierkegaard, arguing that they play a critical and surprising role in his oeuvre and contribute to the philosophy of figural language.How do texts speak with authority? That is the question at the heart of Kierkegaard's theory and practice of "indirect communication." …
Blossom Which We Are
The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds
Av Nir Evron
Inbunden, 2020
1479 kr
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Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit—in the history of the realist novel.The Blossom Which We Are traces the emergence of a distinctly modern form of human …
Blossom Which We Are
The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds
Av Nir Evron
Häftad, 2021
459 kr
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Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit—in the history of the realist novel.The Blossom Which We Are traces the emergence of a distinctly modern form of human …
Play of Light
Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and Friends
Av Ann Smock
Inbunden, 2021
1479 kr
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Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.Drawing from five contemporary French poets-Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet-Ann …
Play of Light
Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and Friends
Av Ann Smock
Häftad, 2021
711 kr
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Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.Drawing from five contemporary French poets-Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet-Ann …
Knowing It When You See It
Henry James/Cinema
Häftad, 2021
523 kr
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Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know.Perched as he was at the beginning of literary modernism and the evolution of film as a medium, Henry James addressed a cluster of epistemological and aesthetic issues …
Knowing It When You See It
Henry James/Cinema
Inbunden, 2021
1479 kr
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Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know.Perched as he was at the beginning of literary modernism and the evolution of film as a medium, Henry James addressed a cluster of epistemological and aesthetic issues …
Poetics of Breathing
Modern Literature's Syncope
Inbunden, 2021
1479 kr
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A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.Breathing and its rhythms-liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous-have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, …
Poetics of Breathing
Modern Literature's Syncope
Häftad, 2022
579 kr
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A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.Breathing and its rhythms-liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous-have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, …
Toward an African Future—Of the Limit of World
Häftad, 2022
468 kr
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Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.Widely known for his probing analysis of W. E. B. Du Bois's early work, in this book Nahum Dimitri Chandler references writing from across the whole of Du …
Toward an African Future—Of the Limit of World
Inbunden, 2021
1324 kr
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Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.Widely known for his probing analysis of W. E. B. Du Bois's early work, in this book Nahum Dimitri Chandler references writing from across the whole of Du …
Literature and Skepticism
Inbunden, 2022
1447 kr
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Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature-in particular, the narrative form and the essay. Pablo Oyarzun proposes that narrative and the …
Literature and Skepticism
Häftad, 2022
446 kr
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Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature-in particular, the narrative form and the essay. Pablo Oyarzun proposes that narrative and the …
Between Celan and Heidegger
Häftad, 2022
532 kr
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Probing reassessment of the relation between Celan's poetry and Heidegger's thought.The relevance of Martin Heidegger's thinking to Paul Celan's poetry is well known. Between Celan and Heidegger proposes that, while the relation between them is undeniable, it is also marked by irreducible discord. …
Between Celan and Heidegger
Inbunden, 2022
1479 kr
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Probing reassessment of the relation between Celan's poetry and Heidegger's thought.The relevance of Martin Heidegger's thinking to Paul Celan's poetry is well known. Between Celan and Heidegger proposes that, while the relation between them is undeniable, it is also marked by irreducible discord. …
Writing of Innocence
Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity
Inbunden, 2022
1479 kr
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An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the writing of Maurice Blanchot. Its starting point is that innocence is not a condition …
Writing of Innocence
Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity
Häftad, 2023
532 kr
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An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the writing of Maurice Blanchot. Its starting point is that innocence is not a condition …
This Side of Philosophy
Literature and Thinking in Twentieth-Century Spanish Letters
Häftad, 2023
484 kr
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Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.Struck by the contrast between the prestige of their literary tradition and their apparent philosophical …
This Side of Philosophy
Literature and Thinking in Twentieth-Century Spanish Letters
Inbunden, 2023
1447 kr
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Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.Struck by the contrast between the prestige of their literary tradition and their apparent philosophical …
