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‘Am I That Name?’
Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History
Av Denise Riley
Häftad, 1988
552 kr
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Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women" in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social. Feminist movements, …
Law and the Unconscious
A Legendre Reader
Av Pierre Legendre, Peter Goodrich m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1008 kr
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Law and the Unconscious is the first work of the French legal philosopher Pierre Legendre to appear in English. Trained as a lawyer, a historian and a psychoanalyst, the work of Pierre Legendre has consistently confronted law with the teaching and methods of psychoanalysis. The present collection …
Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture
Av J. Twyning
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the self-conscious production of …
Law and the Unconscious
A Legendre Reader
Av Pierre Legendre, Peter Goodrich m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
1109 kr
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Law and the Unconscious is the first work of the French legal philosopher Pierre Legendre to appear in English. Trained as a lawyer, a historian and a psychoanalyst, the work of Pierre Legendre has consistently confronted law with the teaching and methods of psychoanalysis. The present collection …
Visual and Other Pleasures
Av Laura Mulvey
Häftad, 1989
715 kr
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The essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the women's movement shift into feminism and the development of feminism's involvement with the politics of representation, psychoanalytic film theory and avant-garde aesthetics.
Freud's Memory
Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body
Av R. White
Inbunden, 2008
1065 kr
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Rob White reconsiders Freud's controversial theory of inherited memory, referring it both to Anglo-American commentary and post-structuralist work on psychoanalysis. White proposes that this theory is evidence of an underlying haunted retrospection in Freudian theorizing, which time and again …
Laws of Love
A Brief Historical and Practical Manual
Av P. Goodrich
Inbunden, 2006
1209 kr
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Your guest at dinner kisses you. What does it mean? Where does it lead? Does kissing necessarily imply more, and if so how much? These and similar questions of amorous ethics and erotic disquisition are central to our everyday intimate public lives and they are the lost object of the law of love, …
Screen Theory Culture
Av M. Nash
Inbunden, 2007
552 kr
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This collection of essays and articles from Mark Nash, one of the former editors of Screen magazine, explores the classical period of Screen theory and film culture, as well as that of contemporary art.
Writing of Anxiety
Imagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture
Inbunden, 2007
634 kr
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This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. Thinking about anxiety, Lyndsey Stonebridge argues, was a way of imagining how it might be possible to stay within a history that frequently …
Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of …
Memory and Imagination in Film
Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch, Van Sant
Av P. Lombardo
Inbunden, 2014
585 kr
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Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo analyzes films by Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch and Van Sant as imaginative uses of the history of cinema …
Individualism, Decadence and Globalization
On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859–1920
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise.
Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
Häftad, 2008
697 kr
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Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.
Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture
Av R. Purcell
Inbunden, 2013
634 kr
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While the arms race of the post-war period has been widely discussed, Purcell explores the under-acknowledged but critical role another kind of 'race' – that is, race as a biological and sociological concept – played within the global and cultural Cold War.
Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
Inbunden, 2008
634 kr
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Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.
Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy
Reality Matters
Av M. Kavka
Inbunden, 2008
1205 kr
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Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy explains the appeal of reality television in terms of the affective power of the mediated image. In place of common objections that reality TV is 'not real', Misha Kavka argues that the feelings of intimacy engendered by unscripted drama are both real and …
Aesthetics and The Work of Art
Adorno, Kafka, Richter
Av A. Regier
Inbunden, 2008
634 kr
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Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory ), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy ), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter's …
Visual and Other Pleasures
Av L. Mulvey
Inbunden, 2009
1129 kr
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A new edition of Laura Mulvey's groundbreaking collection of essays, originally published in 1989. In an extensive introduction to this second edition, Mulvey looks back at the historical and personal contexts for her famous article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema , and reassesses her theories …
Fictions of the City
Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of …
London Dispossessed
Literature and Social Space in the Early Modern City
Av John Twyning
Inbunden, 1998
1887 kr
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In the Early Modern period, massive emigration, along with political contention between the Court and the City, reshaped London's social topography and human landscape.
Interpretation as Pragmatics
Av J. Lecercle
Häftad, 1999
804 kr
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Why is it that all interpretations are possible, and none is true? That some interpretations are just, but some are false? Lecercle draws on the resources of pragmatics, literary theory and the philosophy of language to propose a new theory of literary, but also of face-to-face, dialogue that …
Talking Cure
Essays in Psychoanalysis and Language
Av Maccabe, Colin MacCabe
Inbunden, 1981
1065 kr
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'The essays are exemplary in their stylistic clarity. One can only compliment MacCabe along with the contributors, for the readability and conceptual variability of this collection. 'E.Ragland-Sullivan, Lacan Study Notes This book, which grew out of a series of seminars at King's College, …
‘Am I That Name?’
Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History
Av Denise Riley
Inbunden, 1988
552 kr
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Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women" in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social. Feminist movements, …
Culture and Government
The Emergence of Literary Education
Av Ian Hunter
Inbunden, 1988
1594 kr
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Since the Romantics culture has been identified with the promise of a complete development of human capacities and, typically, the 'rise of English' has been viewed in terms of the (true or distorted) fulfilment of this promise in the education system. This book presents a sustained and …
On Pornography
Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law
Av David Saunders, Dugald Williamson
Inbunden, 1992
1008 kr
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The policing of pornography remains a subject of widespread controversy. On Pornography provides a history of this policing and an understanding of the current debate. The authors show that obscenity law should not be understood negatively as censorship but as part of the positive administration of …
On Pornography
Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law
Av David Saunders, Dugald Williamson
Häftad, 1992
1008 kr
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The policing of pornography remains a subject of widespread controversy. On Pornography provides a history of this policing and an understanding of the current debate. The authors show that obscenity law should not be understood negatively as censorship but as part of the positive administration of …
