Thinking Literature – serie
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44 produkter
Reading Hegel
Irony, Recollection, Critique
Häftad, 2025
270 kr
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Retrieves Hegelian speculative experience for literary theory.The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has for a long time been both contested and paradoxical. On the one hand, "theory" is often skeptical of all that Hegel ostensibly stood for: idealism, systematicity, and identity at the …
Turning Away
The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture
Häftad, 2026
300 kr
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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent …
Criticism and Truth
On Method in Literary Studies
Häftad, 2023
204 kr
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A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice—close reading.Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan Kramnick offers a new and surprising account of criticism’s power by zeroing in on its singular …
Slips of the Mind
Poetry as Forgetting
Häftad, 2025
302 kr
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An audacious account of what happens when forgetting becomes a way of writing and writing becomes a way of forgetting. In Slips of the Mind, poet and critic Jennifer Soong turns away from forgetting's longstanding associations with suppression, privation, and error to argue that the absence or …
Barthes Fantastic
Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language
Av John Lurz
Häftad, 2025
278 kr
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This study of the writing of Roland Barthes breaks down the divide between lived experience and the language of a literary work.In The Barthes Fantastic, John Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life—and confronts some habits of literary study—through a reading of the work of …
Strange Likeness
Description and the Modernist Novel
Av Dora Zhang
Inbunden, 2020
1136 kr
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The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description—what Virginia Woolf called “that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool.” As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues that …
Strange Likeness
Description and the Modernist Novel
Av Dora Zhang
Häftad, 2020
302 kr
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The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description—what Virginia Woolf called “that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool.” As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues that …
Cartesian Poetics
The Art of Thinking
Inbunden, 2020
1136 kr
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What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of René Descartes and finds them in the philosopher’s implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes’s thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how …
Cartesian Poetics
The Art of Thinking
Häftad, 2020
302 kr
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What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of René Descartes and finds them in the philosopher’s implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes’s thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how …
Radium of the Word
A Poetics of Materiality
Inbunden, 2020
1136 kr
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With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations, Craig Dworkin traces hidden networks across the …
Radium of the Word
A Poetics of Materiality
Häftad, 2020
361 kr
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With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations, Craig Dworkin traces hidden networks across the …
Science of Character
Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism
Inbunden, 2022
1234 kr
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The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, “the science of the formation of …
Science of Character
Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism
Häftad, 2022
332 kr
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The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, “the science of the formation of …
Phenomenal Blackness
Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory
Inbunden, 2022
860 kr
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This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field’s debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century Black writers and thinkers, including …
Phenomenal Blackness
Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory
Häftad, 2022
239 kr
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This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field’s debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century Black writers and thinkers, including …
Joy of the Worm
Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature
Av Drew Daniel
Inbunden, 2022
1234 kr
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Consulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. In this study, Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls “joy of the worm,” after Cleopatra’s embrace of the …
Joy of the Worm
Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature
Av Drew Daniel
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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Consulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. In this study, Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls “joy of the worm,” after Cleopatra’s embrace of the …
Chinese Whispers
Toward a Transpacific Poetics
Av Yunte Huang
Inbunden, 2022
979 kr
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Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry both enables and complicates the transpacific production of meaning. In this new book, the noted critic and best-selling author Yunte Huang explores the dynamics of poetry and …
Chinese Whispers
Toward a Transpacific Poetics
Av Yunte Huang
Häftad, 2022
253 kr
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Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry both enables and complicates the transpacific production of meaning. In this new book, the noted critic and best-selling author Yunte Huang explores the dynamics of poetry and …
Blue Period
Black Writing in the Early Cold War
Inbunden, 2024
979 kr
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Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls “the Blue Period.”In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest between the Soviet Union and the United …
Criticism and Truth
On Method in Literary Studies
Inbunden, 2023
979 kr
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A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice—close reading.Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan Kramnick offers a new and surprising account of criticism’s power by zeroing in on its singular …
Sovereign Fictions
Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism
Av Ilya Kliger
Inbunden, 2024
979 kr
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An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state.The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions, Ilya Kliger asks what …
Sovereign Fictions
Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism
Av Ilya Kliger
Häftad, 2024
322 kr
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An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state.The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions, Ilya Kliger asks what …
Blue Period
Black Writing in the Early Cold War
Häftad, 2024
253 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls “the Blue Period.”In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest between the Soviet Union and the United …
Amphion
Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity
Inbunden, 2024
1136 kr
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A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition.Amphion is the figure in Greek mythology who played so skillfully on a lyre that stones moved of their own accord to build walls for Thebes. While Amphion still presides over music and architecture, he was …
Amphion
Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity
Häftad, 2024
278 kr
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A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition.Amphion is the figure in Greek mythology who played so skillfully on a lyre that stones moved of their own accord to build walls for Thebes. While Amphion still presides over music and architecture, he was …
Reading Hegel
Irony, Recollection, Critique
Inbunden, 2025
1136 kr
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Retrieves Hegelian speculative experience for literary theory.The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has for a long time been both contested and paradoxical. On the one hand, “theory” is often skeptical of all that Hegel ostensibly stood for: idealism, systematicity, and identity at the …
Slips of the Mind
Poetry as Forgetting
Inbunden, 2025
1136 kr
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An audacious account of what happens when forgetting becomes a way of writing and writing becomes a way of forgetting. In Slips of the Mind, poet and critic Jennifer Soong turns away from forgetting's longstanding associations with suppression, privation, and error to argue that the absence or …
