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Suburban Ambush
Downtown Writing and the Fiction of Insurgency
Häftad, 1989
495 kr
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'Suburban Ambush' tells the story of the reinvention of American fiction. It draws its title from a piece by Ron Kolm which has appeared in several versions and nearly twenty magazines around the world: the conceit of a military strike on the heart of Suburbia has considerable resonance.
Fictional Truth
Häftad, 1990
468 kr
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"All literary genres are artifacts", writes Michael Riffaterre, "but none more blatantly so than fiction. Its very name declares its artificiality, and yet it must somehow be true to hold the interest of its readers, to tell them about experiences at once imaginary and relevant to their own lives. …
Eroticism and the Body Politic
Av Lynn Hunt
Häftad, 1990
477 kr
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By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in art and literature women's bodies continued to be represented-- and domesticated-- by men. They were still more often the object of the artist's or …
What's Wrong with Postmodernism?
Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy
Häftad, 1998
577 kr
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In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the "postmodern-pragmatist malaise" of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulse-an "enlightened or emancipatory interest"-in thinkers like Derrida, de Man, Bhaskar, and Habermas. Offering a …
New Medievalism
Av Marina S. Brownlee, Kevin Brownlee m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
379 kr
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"This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research on medieval `literature': namely, the relationship between this literature and us...This is an …
Aesthetics of Murder
A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture
Av Joel Black
Häftad, 1991
457 kr
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What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of pop star John Lennon and President Ronald Reagon? In "The Aesthetics of Murder", Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome …
Cultural Imperialism
A Critical Introduction
Häftad, 1991
455 kr
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In Cultural Imperialism, John Tomlinson deals with issues ranging from the ideological effects of imported cultural products, to the process of cultural homogenization, to the nature of cultural autonomy. He examines a number of related discourses: thedebate about "media imperialism" the discourse …
Subversive Pleasures
Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film
Av Robert Stam
Häftad, 1992
430 kr
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Subversive Pleasures offers the first extended application of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media, and cultural studies. With extraordinary interdisciplinary and multicultural range, Robert Stam explores issues that include the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics …
Office of the "Scarlet Letter"
Häftad, 1992
338 kr
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'Recipient of the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize.' "Goes a long way to proving that any literary masterpiece, read with sympathy and intelligence, works to re-establish the connections between the work of art and the life and thought of its time."--James R. Mellow, 'Times …
Well-Tempered Self
Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject
Av Toby Miller
Häftad, 1993
406 kr
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In "The Well-Tempered Self", Miller contends that the modern capitalist state musters a variety of mixed messages about the nature of citizenship and the self. Miller argues that capitalism's democratic politics requires selfless, community-minded citizens, while its economics depends on selfish, …
Death and Representation
Av Sarah Webster Goodwin, Elizabeth Bronfen
Häftad, 1994
430 kr
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Death is a subject of increasing interest in virtually all academic disciplines, yet there is surprisingly little theoretical work on the representation of death in literary contexts. Death and Representation offers a unique collection of international and interdisciplinary essays, rich in cultural …
National Culture and the New Global System
Häftad, 1994
390 kr
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"The three worlds theory is perhaps still the basis for our dominant assumptions about geopolitical and geocultural order," writes Frederick Buell, "but its hold on our imagination and faith is passing fast. In its place, a startlingly different model-the notion that the world is somehow …
Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
Häftad, 1995
523 kr
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In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful-and controversial-influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced curriculum and scholarship in the humanities, particularly in traditionally Eurocentric disciplines …
Torrid Zones
Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives
Häftad, 1996
397 kr
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How did the creation of the "Other" woman in English narratives contribute to the displacement of sexuality onto the exotic or savage woman? How did this cultural invention reinforce the cult of domesticity at home? What were the social and economic forces driving the process? Among the first books …
Fate of Carmen
Av Evlyn Gould
Häftad, 1996
467 kr
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The ongoing proliferation of new versions of Carmen presents an ideal opportunity to study both the cultural power and renewability of certain literary texts and the relationship between literature and the performing arts. Since its introduction in Prosper Merimee's 1845 novella, the Carmen …
On the Edge of the Cliff
History, Language and Practices
Häftad, 1996
467 kr
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The importance of history has been powerfully reaffirmed in recent years by the appearance of major new authors, pathbreaking works, and fresh interpretations of historical events, trends, and methods. Responding to these developments, Roger Chartier engages several of the most influential writers …
Past as Text
The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography
Häftad, 2000
426 kr
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Postmodernism has challenged historians to look at historical texts in a new way and to be skeptical of the claim that one can confidently retrieve "fact" from historical writings. In The Past as Text historian Gabrielle M. Spiegel sets out to read medieval histories and chronicles in light of the …
Kantorowicz
Stories of a Historian
Inbunden, 2001
672 kr
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Ernst Kantorowicz was a complex figure whose long incident-filled life seemed to embody many of the contradictions of the twentieth century. A Jew from a disputed area between Germany and Poland who fought on the German side in World War I, he first achieved academic success with Frederick II …
Heterocosmica
Fiction and Possible Worlds
Häftad, 2001
500 kr
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"The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and hands. Literary fiction is probably the most active experimental laboratory of the world-constructing enterprise."-from the author's Preface The standard …
Fortune's Faces
The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency
Av Daniel Heller-Roazen, Stephen G. Nichols m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
813 kr
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Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of …
France and the Holy Land
Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades
Av Daniel H. Weiss, Lisa Mahoney
Inbunden, 2004
762 kr
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Few periods in history have captured the public imagination than the Crusades. The Crusaders cut a rakish, Romantic image, as chivalrous knights go off to liberate the Holy Land, to make the world a safer place for Christian pilgrims. But who, really, were the Crusaders? In this exciting, …
Grotesque Figures
Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity
Inbunden, 2004
728 kr
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Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In Grotesque Figures, Virginia E. Swain explores how the specter …
History Out of Joint
Essays on the Use and Abuse of History
Av Sande Cohen
Inbunden, 2005
746 kr
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In History Out of Joint, Sande Cohen considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. As competing factions advance contradictory principles to validate or discredit their preferred …
Frame of Art
Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750–1815
Inbunden, 2006
676 kr
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Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlightenment authors. Arguing against the commonly held view that aesthetics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was defined by the professionalization of criticism and the disinterested contemplation and evaluation of the work of art in …
Hypertext 3.0
Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization
Häftad, 2006
560 kr
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George Landow's widely acclaimed Hypertext was the first book to bring together the worlds of literary theory and computer technology. Landow was one of the first scholars to explore the implications of giving readers instant, easy access to a virtual library of sources as well as unprecedented …
Passions of the Sign
Revolution and Language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist
Inbunden, 2006
912 kr
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Passions of the Sign traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist. Andreas Gailus examines a largely …
Styles of Enlightenment
Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France
Av Elena Russo
Häftad, 2010
607 kr
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Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression. The French philosophes tackled the issue of the …
Gilles Deleuze
Cinema and Philosophy
Häftad, 2012
528 kr
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In recent years, the recognition of Gilles Deleuze as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century has heightened attention to his brilliant and complex writings on film. What is the place of Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 in the corpus of his philosophy? How and why does Deleuze consider cinema …
Writing History, Writing Trauma
Häftad, 2014
393 kr
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Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies - …
Revolutionary Acts
Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution
Av Susan Maslan
Häftad, 2015
434 kr
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In Revolutionary Acts Susan Maslan shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which Parisian audiences, actors and playwrights, and political authorities fought to shape the newly emerging democracy. Examining the …
