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Psychoanalytic Movement
The Cunning of Unreason
Häftad, 1996
294 kr
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How did psychoanalysis become so accepted by the public? This provocative book reconstructs the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of psychoanalysis rests, describing a modern culture that has created a psychic or a spiritual void that psychoanalysis seems custom-made to fill. …
Life and Afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria
Av Tracy Adams
Inbunden, 2010
829 kr
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The fascinating history of Isabeau of Bavaria is a tale of two queens. During her lifetime, Isabeau, the long-suffering wife of mad King Charles VI of France, was respected and revered. After her death, she was reviled as an incompetent regent, depraved adulteress, and betrayer of the throne. …
Pathos of the Real
On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century
Av Robert Buch
Inbunden, 2011
872 kr
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This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real-their fascination with the spectacle of violence and suffering-and the difficulties involved in capturing this kind of excess by aesthetic means. The …
Tell Me a Story
Narrative and Intelligence
Häftad, 1995
348 kr
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How are our memories, our narratives, and our intelligence interrelated? What can artificial intelligence and narratology say to each other? In this pathbreaking study by an expert on learning and computers, Roger C. Schank argues that artificial intelligence must be based on real human …
Midrash and Theory
Ancient Jewish Exegesis and Contemporary Literary Studies
Av David Stern
Häftad, 1998
445 kr
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This is an approach to midrashic literature that is responsive to the principles of contemporary literary theory. Midrash (the literature of classic Jewish Scriptural interpretation) has undergone a recent revival in the larger Jewsih community; David Stern examines this phenomenon from the …
Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy
Language, Literature and Ethical Theory
Inbunden, 1999
1172 kr
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Bruns, perhaps one of most insightful of contemporary literary theorists, investigates the recent phenomenon of philosophers taking an interest in literature and literary theory. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and literature are internal to one another's histories, starting with Plato's …
Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy
Language, Literature and Ethical Theory
Häftad, 1999
328 kr
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Bruns, perhaps one of most insightful of contemporary literary theorists, investigates the recent phenomenon of philosophers taking an interest in literature and literary theory. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and literature are internal to one another's histories, starting with Plato's …
Springs of Liberty
The Satiric Tradition and Freedom of Speech
Inbunden, 1999
467 kr
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This text takes up questions of literary history and theory even as it explores sources of power harnessed by modern political doctrines and the journalism that conveys them to the public. These forces of opinion are traced to a tradition deeper and older than either - satire. In that tradition - …
Imagined Dialogues
Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature
Häftad, 1999
328 kr
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By conducting ""imagined dialogues"" between selected literary works - Eastern European on one hand, American and English on the other - this book proposes an effective way of reading literature, one that goes beyond the narrowing categories of contemporary critical trends. Under Gordana Crnkovic's …
Bakhtin and the Classics
Häftad, 2001
380 kr
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Mikhail Bakhtin's critical and theoretical experiments have inspired original work in the humanities and social sciences but little in the realm of classical studies, the discipline in which Bakhtin himself was trained. This volume focuses on the relationship between Bakhtin and the study of …
Literary Animal
Evolution and the Nature of Narrative
Av Jonathan Gottschall, David Sloan Wilson
Häftad, 2005
358 kr
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In recent years, articles in major periodicals from the New York Times Magazine to the Times Literary Supplement have heralded the arrival of a new school of literary studies that promises-or threatens-to profoundly shift the current paradigm. This revolutionary approach, known as Darwinian …
Literature and Human Equality
Inbunden, 2006
785 kr
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When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr. Johnson remarked in 1750, the heroes of modern fiction are ""leveled with the rest of the world"" - now that's a different story. In this ambitious …
Literature and Human Equality
Häftad, 2006
328 kr
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When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr. Johnson remarked in 1750, the heroes of modern fiction are ""leveled with the rest of the world"" - now that's a different story. In this ambitious …
Esther Regina
A Bakhtinian Reading
Inbunden, 2007
692 kr
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Readers and scholars often question the inclusion of the ""Book of Esther"" in the canon. Where, they wonder, do the book's flagrant displays of hatred, deceit, violence, and the antidotal grotesqueries of Purim figure in the biblical tradition? Such confusion, this book tells us, arises from a …
Time and Imagination
Chronotopes in Western Narrative Culture
Av Bart Keunen
Inbunden, 2011
1173 kr
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Bart Keunen’s boldly comprehensive theory of literature springs from the synthesis between narrative time and space forms called the chronotope (from the Greek chronos “time” and topos “place”). With examples and resonances both ancient and modern, Keunen’s Time and Imagination will equip theorists …
New History of Medieval French Literature
Av Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Inbunden, 2012
1038 kr
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Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term "literature" as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing that …
Deleuze, The Dark Precursor
Dialectic, Structure, Being
Inbunden, 2012
973 kr
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Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude Levi-Strauss, and she engages the provocative …
Writing Back
American Expatriates' Narratives of Return
Inbunden, 2013
872 kr
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The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholars have examined the aftermath of their return home. "Writing Back" focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with …
Musica Naturalis
Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France
Inbunden, 2013
1254 kr
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Musica Naturalis delivers the first systematic account of speculative music theory as a discursive horizon for literary poetics. The title refers to the late medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps, whose 1392 treatise on verse writing, L'Art de Dictier, famously casts verse as "natural music" in …
Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World
The Idea of "the Middle Ages" Outside Europe
Av Kathleen Davis, Nadia Altschul
Inbunden, 2010
752 kr
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This fascinating study explores the intersection of postcolonial theory and medievalism. While the latter has traditionally been defined primarily in terms of European nationalism, the essays in this volume discuss medievalism in regions as wide-ranging as the United States, India, Latin America, …
Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare
Disinheriting the Globe
Inbunden, 2009
727 kr
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Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare's mature plays- As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. The author pushes beyond traditional ways of thinking about tragedy, framing his readings with simple questions that have been …
Aesthetics of the Total Artwork
On Borders and Fragments
Av Anke K. Finger, Danielle Follett
Inbunden, 2011
981 kr
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In The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork, artists, curators, and scholars from many countries and fields offer new ways of understanding the history and contemporary importance of the idea of the total artwork, or Gesamtkunstwerk. The term " Gesamtkunstwerk" was introduced in the romantic period. It …
After Post-Structuralism
Interdisciplinarity and Literary Theory
Av Nancy Easterlin, Barbara Riebling
Inbunden, 1993
769 kr
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After Post-Structuralism Int Lit Theory
Av Northwestern University Press, Nancy Easterlin m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
380 kr
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Bakhtin in Contexts
Across the Disciplines
Inbunden, 1995
914 kr
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The Russian critic M.M. Bakhtin has recently become a major figure in contemporary theory beyond his traditional influence in Slavic literary studies. "Bakhtin in Contexts" explores the revolutionary impact Bakhtin's ideas have carried in contemporary discussions of language, art, culture and …
Bakhtin in Contexts
Across the Disciplines
Häftad, 1995
283 kr
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The Russian critic M.M. Bakhtin has recently become a major figure in contemporary theory beyond his traditional influence in Slavic literary studies. ""Bakhtin in Contexts"" explores the revolutionary impact Bakhtin's ideas have carried in contemporary discussions of language, art, culture and …
Return of the Author
Av Eugen Simion, James W. Newcomb
Häftad, 1996
259 kr
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This work traces the debate of biographical criticism.
Psychoanalytic Movement
The Cunning of Unreason
Inbunden, 1996
581 kr
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How did psychoanalysis become so accepted by the public? This provocative book reconstructs the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of psychoanalysis rests, describing a modern culture that has created a psychic or a spiritual void that psychoanalysis seems custom-made to fill. …
Mimesis and the Human Animal
On the Biogenetic Foundations of Literary Representation
Häftad, 1996
380 kr
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In this study, the author argues that human culture derives from human biology and that literary representation therefore must have a biological basis. As he ponders the question ""What does it mean to say that art imitates life?"" he must consider both ""What is life?"" and ""What is art?"". Part …
Bakhtin
Ethics and Mechanics
Häftad, 2004
380 kr
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The early work of Mikhail Bakhtin is notable for its emphasis on questions in ethics and philosophy. Focusing on these early writings, though also informed by Bakhtin's later works of the early 1970s, the authors in this volume explore the human and prosaic dimensions of ethical and moral dilemmas, …
