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Community of One
Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Häftad, 1993
427 kr
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Complementing recent feminist studies of female self-representation, this book examines the dynamics of masculine self-representation in nineteenth-century British literature. Arguing that the category "autobiography" was a product of nineteenth-century individualism, the author analyzes the …
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science
Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life
Häftad, 1994
477 kr
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Rethinks of science through Nietzsche's philosophy, revealing knowledge as an aesthetic, life-driven act shaped by interpretation rather than absolute truth.What is the role of science when its claims to truth are no longer self-evident? In Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science, Babette Babich offers a …
Orphic Moment
Shaman to Poet-Thinker in Plato, Nietzsche, and Mallarmé
Inbunden, 1994
1677 kr
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This book examines Orpheus as a figure who bridges the experience of the Greek tribal shaman and the modern poet Stéphane Mallarmé, the father of modernism. First mentioned in 600 B.C., Orpheus was present at the moment when the Apolline forms of western culture were being encoded. He appears again …
Thematics
New Approaches
Av Claude Bremond, Joshua Landy m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
532 kr
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This book aims at refocusing critical reflection on thematics in the arts, a topic that has been neglected recently. The volume is divided into four sections: theoretical essays, applications to literature, reflections on thematics in music and the visual arts, and a conclusion.The contributors, of …
Post-Theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance
The Bulgarian Case
Häftad, 1995
419 kr
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This anthology of mixed-genre writings on East European political culture examines the aesthetic character of Eastern Europe before and after 1989, the beginning of a "post-totalitarian age."This book consists of a dialogue of genres (fiction, parables, essay, analytic, programmatic) on the topic …
Site of Our Lives
The Self and the Subject from Emerson to Foucault
Häftad, 1995
450 kr
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This book addresses the question of human uniqueness at a time when academic discourse has all but abandoned its long-held commitment to the value of individuality. Through an appraisal of the works of Emerson, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Foucault, the author establishes the ways in which …
Epic Grandeur
Toward a Comparative Poetics of the Epic
Av Masaki Mori
Häftad, 1996
427 kr
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Examines both Western and Japanese epic traditions to argue for a new concept of the epic—an epic of peace, toward which the genre is evolving globally.Epic Grandeur: Toward a Comparative Poetics of the Epic proposes a new concept of the epic. The book is based on the belief that the genre has been …
Returns of History
Russian Nietzscheans After Modernity
Häftad, 1997
371 kr
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Examines the influence of Nietzsche on Russian Formalists, Russian Modernism, and Mikhail Bakhtin, reinforcing the importance of the modernist theoreticians by reading them in the contemporary theoretical context.Throwing new light on the important thesis about the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche …
Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment
Women Writers Read Rousseau
Häftad, 1997
579 kr
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Explores the way seven women writers of the eighteenth century responded to Rousseau, and traces his crucial influence on their literary careers.Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment constitutes the first book-length feminist study of Rousseau's sexual politics and the reception of his works by …
Dancing in Damascus
Stories
Häftad, 2000
419 kr
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These nine short stories explore love and loss in contemporary Damascus, as well as the possibilities of writing ethnography as fiction.Growing out of the author's anthropological fieldwork in Syria, these nine short stories explore love and loss in contemporary Damascus. Available here together …
Aryans, Jews, Brahmins
Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity
Häftad, 2002
453 kr
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Explores the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe.In Aryans, Jews, Brahmins, Dorothy M. Figueira provides a fascinating account of the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century. The myth …
Origins of the Gods
Häftad, 1991
413 kr
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Based on Nietzsche's critique of religion and culture, and engaging the contemporary offshoots of that critique, this book assesses the myths of origins that have been used to articulate the fundamental attitude toward the relationship between shame and beauty. In reconsidering some of the myths …
Borrowed Lives
Av Stanley Corngold, Irene Giersing
Häftad, 1991
453 kr
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Borrowed Lives is a novel. It is an enactment of issues of literary philosophy and criticism, including the question of whether there can be originality, coherence, and authenticity in life and art. It deepens William Blake's point - Make your own myth or else be enslaved by another man's - by …
Pound's Epic Ambition
Dante and the Modern World
Häftad, 1991
462 kr
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This book is both an introductory overview of The Cantos and a detailed analysis advancing the knowledge of even the most sophisticated specialist. Sicari's analysis gives a clear orientation to the often bewildering but ultimately rewarding world of this difficult epic poem and shows that beneath …
Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Häftad, 1991
452 kr
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This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in …
Through the Lens of the Reader
Explorations of European Narrative
Häftad, 1991
453 kr
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Through the Lens of the Reader is a sequence of ten essays exploring European narrative from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It covers a wide spectrum of authors ranging from Goethe through Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, George Eliot, Henry James to Rilke, Thomas Mann, and Kafka. The essays are …
Reading Old Friends
Essays, Reviews, and Poems on Poetics 1975-1990
Häftad, 1992
486 kr
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Reading Old Friends includes essays, reviews, and poems on poetics. Matthias, who has spent much time in England, concentrates on British poetry ranging from late modernist figures such as David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to contemporaries such as Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Michael Hamburger, and …
Play, Literature, Religion
Essays in Cultural Intertextuality
Av Virgil Nemoianu, Robert Royal
Häftad, 1992
462 kr
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By using the concept of play as a common denominator, this book outlines ways in which literary creativity can act as a free, open, and speculatively unburdened version of religious concerns. Contributors include Louis Dupré, Arthur Quinn, Sanford Budick, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Judah Goldin, and …
Speaking the Unspeakable
A Poetics of Obscenity
Häftad, 1992
486 kr
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This book studies the literary and cinematic functions of the pornographic as a development from a poetics of obscenity. It focuses on the developments of French, British, and American artistic pornography since the eighteenth century. Discussing female literary figures including Hall, Wharton, …
Arimaspian Eye
Inbunden, 1992
681 kr
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A philosophy professor's intellectual life unravels into a transformative journey that bridges Western thought and tantric Buddhism, blurring the line between lived experience and philosophical inquiry.Michael Evers, a philosophy professor steeped in Western thought and quiet indulgence, finds …
Gaps in Nature
Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind
Häftad, 1993
462 kr
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This book is a study of the relation between cognitive linguistics and literary theory. Theory of literary interpretation is reinterpreted in terms of current debate in cognitive science. While research in the humanities and social sciences is reasonably concerned with charting the power of culture …
Manners of Interpretation
The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies
Av Miguel Tamen
Häftad, 1993
462 kr
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Philosophy and literary theory have devoted a great deal of their analysis to the problem of the origin and modalities of argumentation, but there has been an almost total lack of interest in the question of its procedural limits. Manners of Interpretation is an essay on ways of ending …
Remaining in Light
Ant Meditations on a Painting By Edward Hopper
Av John Taggart
Häftad, 1993
373 kr
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This is the first sustained, critical examination of the work of Edward Hopper, a major twentieth-century American painter. It is a sequence of meditations on his painting "A Woman in the Sun." Each meditation, informed by Derrida's conception of the supplement, is about both the painting and about …
Restorationist: Text One
A Collaborative Fiction by Jael B. Juba
Av Joyce Elbrecht, Lydia Fakundiny
Häftad, 1994
355 kr
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This is an American novel of formed chaos playfully enacting the centrality of language in late twentieth-century art and life through the voices of two women steeped in Western traditions, one telling the story of her restoration of an ante-bellum house on the Florida Gulf Coast, the other …
Knowledge, Evolution and Paradox
The Ontology of Language
Av Koen DePryck
Häftad, 1993
406 kr
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An exploration of language, knowledge, and evolution that unifies philosophy, science, and paradox into a single transformative vision of reality.What if the deepest problems of philosophy—language, mind, time, evolution, and reality itself—were not separate puzzles, but expressions of a single …
Home and its Dislocations in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Suzanne Nash
Inbunden, 1993
1278 kr
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The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented social restructuring that disrupted traditional notions of people and place, country and city, private and public spheres. The break with the old order and the entry into the industrial age was most dramatically played out in France, with the growth …
Home and its Dislocations in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Suzanne Nash
Häftad, 1993
486 kr
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The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented social restructuring that disrupted traditional notions of people and place, country and city, private and public spheres. The break with the old order and the entry into the industrial age was most dramatically played out in France, with the growth …
Exotic
A Decadent Quest
Häftad, 1994
486 kr
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Journey into the West’s fascination with the East in The Exotic, where scholarship, philosophy, and ideology collide in a dazzling quest for understanding.What does it mean to encounter the "Other"? How have Western scholars, writers, and philosophers understood—or misunderstood—the rich traditions …
Signs of the Literary Times
Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970-1992
Häftad, 1993
405 kr
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This book is O'Rourke's first volume of nonfiction since his 1972 The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left, which Garry Wills hailed as "a clinical x-ray of our society's condition." That book prompted Herbert Mitgang to name O'Rourke "one of the finest writers of his generation." Signs of the …
Poetics of the Common Knowledge
Av Don Byrd
Häftad, 1993
502 kr
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The Poetics of Common Knowledge focuses on Descartes, Hegel, Freud, and the information theorists, on the one hand, and the poets of the American avant-garde, on the other. This book is a call literally for a new poetry, a new making, that manifests the possibility for sense-making in a postmodern …
