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31 produkter
Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
Av Andrew Hui
Häftad, 2017
433 kr
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The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length …
Tempus
The World of Discussion and the World of Narration
Häftad, 2024
485 kr
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A foundational book by one of the most distinguished German humanists of the last half century, Tempus joins cultural linguistics and literary interpretation at the hip. Developing two controversial theses—that sentences are not truly meaningful in isolation from their contexts and that verb tenses …
Between Page and Screen
Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace
Inbunden, 2012
1380 kr
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Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to verbal–visual constellations in print and on screen, cinematic narratives, or electronic textualities that …
Between Page and Screen
Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace
Häftad, 2012
558 kr
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Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to verbal–visual constellations in print and on screen, cinematic narratives, or electronic textualities that …
Common Strangeness
Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
Av Jacob Edmond
Inbunden, 2012
1102 kr
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Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions—East and West, local and global, common and strange—that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical …
Common Strangeness
Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
Av Jacob Edmond
Häftad, 2012
404 kr
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Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions—East and West, local and global, common and strange—that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical …
Cinepoetry
Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry
Inbunden, 2013
857 kr
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Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long …
Cinepoetry
Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry
Häftad, 2015
480 kr
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Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long …
Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk
A Rhetoric of Rhythm
Av Marc Shell
Inbunden, 2015
1233 kr
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This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking …
Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk
A Rhetoric of Rhythm
Av Marc Shell
Häftad, 2015
400 kr
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This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking …
Lyric Apocalypse
Milton, Marvell, and the Nature of Events
Av Ryan Netzley
Inbunden, 2015
720 kr
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What's new about the apocalypse? Revelation does not allow us to look back after the end and enumerate pivotal turning points. It happens in an immediate encounter with the transformatively new.John Milton's and Andrew Marvell's lyrics attempt to render the experience of such an apocalyptic change …
Persistent Forms
Explorations in Historical Poetics
Inbunden, 2015
1027 kr
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Since the mid-1980s, attempts to think history and literature together have produced much exciting work in the humanities. Indeed, some form of historicism can be said to inform most of the current scholarship in literary studies, including work in poetics, yet much of this scholarship remains …
Atmospherics of the City
Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise
Inbunden, 2015
574 kr
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What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art with the hustle and noise of the city?An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles Baudelaire's evolution from a writer who practices …
Ethnography of Rhythm
Orality and Its Technologies
Av Haun Saussy
Inbunden, 2016
1445 kr
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Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary StudiesWho speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the "device"—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. …
Ethnography of Rhythm
Orality and Its Technologies
Av Haun Saussy
Häftad, 2016
498 kr
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Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary StudiesWho speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the "device"—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. …
Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
Av Andrew Hui
Inbunden, 2017
1380 kr
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The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length …
Of Stigmatology
Punctuation As Experience
Av Peter Szendy
Inbunden, 2018
1037 kr
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What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to a close, or our images by the cinematic cuts that mark them off? Are we, like Chekhov's clerk, who dreams of being pursued by …
Of Stigmatology
Punctuation As Experience
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2018
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366 kr
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What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to a close, or our images by the cinematic cuts that mark them off? Are we, like Chekhov's clerk, who dreams of being pursued by …
Critical Rhythm
The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Av Ben Glaser, Jonathan Culler
Häftad, 2019
542 kr
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This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which …
Critical Rhythm
The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Av Ben Glaser, Jonathan Culler
Inbunden, 2019
1968 kr
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This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which …
Dictionary Poetics
Toward a Radical Lexicography
Häftad, 2020
547 kr
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The new ways of writing pioneered by the literary avant-garde invite new ways of reading commensurate with their modes of composition. Dictionary Poetics examines one of those modes: book-length poems, from Louis Zukofsky to Harryette Mullen, all structured by particular editions of specific …
Dictionary Poetics
Toward a Radical Lexicography
Inbunden, 2020
1968 kr
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The new ways of writing pioneered by the literary avant-garde invite new ways of reading commensurate with their modes of composition. Dictionary Poetics examines one of those modes: book-length poems, from Louis Zukofsky to Harryette Mullen, all structured by particular editions of specific …
Tempus
The World of Discussion and the World of Narration
Inbunden, 2024
1685 kr
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A foundational book by one of the most distinguished German humanists of the last half century, Tempus joins cultural linguistics and literary interpretation at the hip. Developing two controversial theses—that sentences are not truly meaningful in isolation from their contexts and that verb tenses …
On the Colors of Vowels
Thinking Through Synesthesia
Inbunden, 2025
1445 kr
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Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary device. Synesthetes' descriptions of colors seen in connection with music, for example, are thought to differ fundamentally from common expressions that rely …
On the Colors of Vowels
Thinking Through Synesthesia
Häftad, 2025
389 kr
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Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary device. Synesthetes' descriptions of colors seen in connection with music, for example, are thought to differ fundamentally from common expressions that rely …
Noigandres
Poetry Made New in Brazil
Inbunden, 2026
1641 kr
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The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa’s account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. These include their unprecedented reevaluation of Brazilian literary history, their distinctive …
Noigandres
Poetry Made New in Brazil
Häftad, 2026
449 kr
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The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa’s account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. These include their unprecedented reevaluation of Brazilian literary history, their distinctive …
Poetic Grief
Form and Remembrance After National Socialism
Inbunden, 2026
1641 kr
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Grief is non-linear and destabilizing. It can unravel our sense of time and relation to the world. Poetic Grief follows these effects across poems written in the wake of National Socialism. Moving beyond established paradigms of trauma and representation, the book offers a formally grounded and …
Poetic Grief
Form and Remembrance After National Socialism
Häftad, 2026
419 kr
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Grief is non-linear and destabilizing. It can unravel our sense of time and relation to the world. Poetic Grief follows these effects across poems written in the wake of National Socialism. Moving beyond established paradigms of trauma and representation, the book offers a formally grounded and …
Unheard Melodies
Apophatic Poetics and Literary Reading
Inbunden, 2027
1626 kr
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Unheard Melodies is an essay in comparative poetics. The book draws together readings of fourteenth- and twenty-first-century poetry, from Chaucer and Langland to Claudia Rankine and Ben Lerner, to reframe literary methodologies. Weiskott works through the tension between lineage and family …
