Post-Contemporary Interventions – serie
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Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity
Häftad, 2002
385 kr
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Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields-not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael LÖwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines …
Questions of Travel
Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
Av Caren Kaplan
Häftad, 1996
443 kr
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Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel-displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces …
Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine
Häftad, 1997
301 kr
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Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick fills this gap by presenting the first comprehensive study, in any language, of Deleuze’s work on film and …
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Häftad, 1992
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343 kr
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Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to …
Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns
Häftad, 2004
318 kr
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Available in English for the first time, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s thought. Domenico Losurdo, one of the world’s leading Hegelians, …
Postmodernism and Japan
Av Masao Miyoshi, Harry Harootunian
Häftad, 1989
385 kr
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Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western “enlightenment” wealth and power. This work …
Doing What Comes Naturally
Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies
Av Stanley Fish
Häftad, 1990
523 kr
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In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes …
Heterology and the Postmodern
Bataille, Baudrillard, and Lyotard
Inbunden, 1990
1183 kr
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In Heterology and the Postmodern, Julian Pefanis presents a new view of the history of poststructuralism (heterology) and the origins of postmodernism by analyzing three important French theorists, Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, and Jean-FranÇois Lyotard.Beginning with the introduction of …
Fables of Power
Aesopian Writing and Political History
Häftad, 1991
584 kr
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In this imaginative and illuminating work, Annabel Patterson traces the origins and meanings of the Aesopian fable, as well as its function in Renaissance culture and subsequently. She shows how the fable worked as a medium of political analysis and communication, especially from or on behalf of …
Criticism in the Borderlands
Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology
Av Héctor Calderón, José David Saldívar
Häftad, 1991
443 kr
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This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts-both old and new-draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new …
Dialectics of Our America
Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History
Häftad, 1991
394 kr
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Joining the current debates in American literary history, JosÉ David SaldÍvar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical conception of American …
Politics of Liberal Education
Av Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Darryl Gless
Inbunden, 1991
1286 kr
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Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform in …
Figures of Resistance
Language, Poetry, and Narrating in the Tale of the Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts
Häftad, 1991
726 kr
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In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted …
Story of Stone
Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and the Journey to the West
Av Jing Wang
Häftad, 1991
726 kr
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In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition-all concerning stones endowed with magical properties-Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang’s thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates …
Politics of Liberal Education
Av Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Darryl Gless
Häftad, 1991
547 kr
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Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform in …
Tao and the Logos
Literary Hermeneutics, East and West
Av Longxi Zhang
Häftad, 1992
443 kr
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Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation-hermeneutics-are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic …
Mutual Misunderstanding
Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation
Häftad, 1992
563 kr
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Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand, rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we understand each other. An affirmative …
Apprehending the Criminal
The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth Century Discourse
Inbunden, 1992
1457 kr
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In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how the apprehension of crime and criminals was …
Apprehending the Criminal
The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth Century Discourse
Häftad, 1992
647 kr
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In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how the apprehension of crime and criminals was …
Text
The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object
Av John Mowitt
Häftad, 1992
443 kr
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The concept of textuality in recent decades has come to designate a fundamentally contested terrain within a number of academic disciplines. How it came to occupy this position is the subject of John Mowitt's book, a critical genealogy of the social and intellectual conditions that contributed to …
Rhetoric of Empire
Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration
Av David Spurr
Häftad, 1993
348 kr
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The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survives today in writing about the Third World--are the …
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Häftad, 1993
330 kr
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Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, …
Community Without Unity
A Politics of Derridian Extravagance
Häftad, 1993
385 kr
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Winner of the 1990 Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association "First Book Award"Now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, this award-winning book breaks new ground by challenging traditional concepts of community in political theory. …
Anomalous States
Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Moment
Av David Lloyd
Häftad, 1993
394 kr
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Anomalous States is an archeology of modern Irish writing. David Lloyd commences with recent questioning of Irish identity in the wake of the northern conflict and returns to the complex terrain of nineteenth-century culture in which those questions of identity were first formed. In five linked …
Tarrying with the Negative
Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
Av Slavoj Zizek
Inbunden, 1993
1211 kr
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In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Žižek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted the …
Radical Representations
Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929–1941
Häftad, 1993
507 kr
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In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural …
Tarrying with the Negative
Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
Av Slavoj Zizek
Häftad, 1993
298 kr
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In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Žižek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted the …
Construction of Authorship
Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature
Av Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi
Häftad, 1994
507 kr
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What is an author? What is a text? At a time when the definition of "text" is expanding and the technology whereby texts are produced and disseminated is changing at an explosive rate, the ways "authorship" is defined and rights conferred upon authors must also be reconsidered. This volume argues …
House/Garden/Nation
Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women
Häftad, 1994
599 kr
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How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista’s electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center. The election signaled the end of one transition and the beginning of another, with Woman somewhere on the border between …
Still Life in Real Time
Theory After Television
Häftad, 1994
521 kr
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Television can be imagined in a number of ways: as a profuse flow of images, as a machine that produces new social relationships, as the last lingering gasp of Western metaphysical thinking, as a stuttering relay system of almost anonymous messages, as a fantastic construction of time. Richard …
