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Modernist Eroticisms
European Literature After Sexology
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust and Rilke) as well as in that of some less-well-known …
Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge
Av L. Duffy
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the …
Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature
Av T. Baldwin, J. Fowler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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This collection engages with questions of influence, a vexed and problematic concept whose intellectual history is both ancient and vast. It examines a range of texts written in French, sometimes in dialogue with visual/musical works, drawn mainly from the eighteenth century onwards. Connections …
Antonin Artaud
The Scum of the Soul
Av Ros Murray
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of Twentieth-Century France's most provocative and influential figures, spanning literature, performance, art, cinema, media and critical theory.
Writing Postcommunism
Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins
Av D. Williams
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.
Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture
Time, Politics and Class
Av C. White
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.
Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory
The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier
Av H. Meretoja
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence.
Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900 – 2015
Between Acceleration and Slowness
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900 – 2015 is an interdisciplinary volume that explores the social, psychological, and historical impact of acceleration through the medium of culture. New interpretations of modernist and contemporary works of literature, visual art, architecture, film and …
Writers as Public Intellectuals
Literature, Celebrity, Democracy
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative …
Russian Montparnasse
Transnational Writing in Interwar Paris
Av Maria Rubins
Inbunden, 2015
1262 kr
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This book reassesses the role of Russian Montparnasse writers in the articulation of transnational modernism generated by exile. Examining their production from a comparative perspective, it demonstrates that their response to urban modernity transcended the Russian master narrative and resonated …
Futurist Women
Florence, Feminism and the New Sciences
Av Paola Sica
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Futurist Women broadens current debates on Futurism and literary studies by demonstrating the expanding global impact of women Futurist artists and writers in the period succeeding the First World War. This study initially focuses on the local: the making of the self in the work by the women who …
Novel and Europe
Inbunden, 2016
635 kr
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This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire, unification, migration, and …
Lycanthropy in German Literature
Av Peter Arnds
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Lycanthropy in German Literature argues that as a symbol of both power and parasitism, the human wolf of the Germanic Middle Ages is iconic to the representation of the persecution of undesirables in the German cultural imagination from the early modern age to the post-war literary scene.
Other Capitals of the Nineteenth Century
An Alternative Mapping of Literary and Cultural Space
Inbunden, 2017
1388 kr
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This book rethinks the notion of nineteenth-century capital(s) from geographical, economic and symbolic perspectives, proposing an alternative mapping of the field by focusing on different loci and sources of capital. Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century’ identifies …
Modernist Eroticisms
European Literature After Sexology
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust and Rilke) as well as in that of some less-well-known …
Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge
Av L. Duffy
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the …
Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature
Av T. Baldwin, J. Fowler m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection engages with questions of influence, a vexed and problematic concept whose intellectual history is both ancient and vast. It examines a range of texts written in French, sometimes in dialogue with visual/musical works, drawn mainly from the eighteenth century onwards. Connections …
Antonin Artaud
The Scum of the Soul
Av Ros Murray
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of Twentieth-Century France's most provocative and influential figures, spanning literature, performance, art, cinema, media and critical theory.
Writing Postcommunism
Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins
Av D. Williams
Häftad, 2016
629 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.
Writing Postcommunism
Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins
Av D. Williams
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.
Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture
Time, Politics and Class
Av C. White
Häftad, 2016
628 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.
Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture
Time, Politics and Class
Av C. White
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.
Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory
The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier
Av H. Meretoja
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence.
Novel and Europe
Häftad, 2020
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire, unification, migration, and …
Other Capitals of the Nineteenth Century
An Alternative Mapping of Literary and Cultural Space
Häftad, 2018
1388 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book rethinks the notion of nineteenth-century capital(s) from geographical, economic and symbolic perspectives, proposing an alternative mapping of the field by focusing on different loci and sources of capital. Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century’ identifies …
Political Dandyism in Literature and Art
Genealogy of a Paradigm
Häftad, 2018
687 kr
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This book traces a genealogy of political dandyism in literature. Dandies abstain from worldly affairs, and politics in particular. As an enigmatic figure, or a being of great eccentricity, it was the dandy that haunted the literary and cultural imagination of the nineteenth century. In fact, the …
Nietzsche and Modernism
Nihilism and Suffering in Lawrence, Kafka and Beckett
Häftad, 2018
1202 kr
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Reconfiguring Nietzsche’s seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness. Arguing that modernist texts dramatize the frailty …
Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Authorship, Originality, and Intellectual Property
Häftad, 2019
1202 kr
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This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of literary property. While the reappearance of …
Beckett and Modernism
Av Olga Beloborodova, Dirk Van Hulle m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1202 kr
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This book of collected essays approaches Beckett’s work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large. It builds on current debates aiming to redefine ‘modernism’ in connection to concepts such as ‘late modernism’ or ‘postmodernism’. Instead of definitively …
Fictions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Edmund Birch
Häftad, 2019
1322 kr
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This book explores how writers responded to the rise of the newspaper over the course of the nineteenth century. Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this time, it tracks the representation of newspapers and journalists in works by Honoré de Balzac, Edmond …
