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  • Frameworks
    William Nelles
    The structural device of the 'story within a story,' variously labeled 'frame,' 'Chinese box,' 'Russian doll,' or 'embedded' narrative, is so widely found in the literature of all cultures and periods as to approach universality. Despite its durable attraction for writers and audiences throughout history, however, embedded narrative remains a form largely unmapped by literary t...
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    41,92 €

  • Frameworks
    William Nelles
    The structural device of the 'story within a story,' variously labeled 'frame,' 'Chinese box,' 'Russian doll,' or 'embedded' narrative, is so widely found in the literature of all cultures and periods as to approach universality. Despite its durable attraction for writers and audiences throughout history, however, embedded narrative remains a form largely unmapped by literary t...
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    23,55 €

  • Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature
    Aleksandar Mijatović
    This book examines the theoretical devices of 'Yugoslav' and 'post-Yugoslav' literature. The author analyzes selected literary examples from the region through the lens of a contemporary post-Deleuzean philosophy of time, extricating discussions of post-ism from traditional chronological framing. ...
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    142,91 €

  • The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism
    H Aram Veeser / H. Aram Veeser
    A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed. The same ten questions were addressed to all the interviewees. The result is a homogeneous volume unlike most other interview projects. ...
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    182,08 €

  • Becoming Utopian
    Tom Moylan
    A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires activists, artists, and citizens alike. In this book Tom Moylan - one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies - explores the utopian process in its individual and collective trajectory from dream to realization. Drawing on theorists such as Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou and sc...
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    160,52 €

  • Philosophy as World Literature
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    What does it mean to consider philosophy as a species of not just literature but worldliterature? The authors in this collection explore philosophy through the lens of the 'worlding' of literature--that is, how philosophy is connected and reconnected through global literary networks that cross borders, mix stories, and speak in translation and dialect. Historically, much of the...
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    193,21 €

  • Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
    Robin Truth Goodman
    Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects ...
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    173,68 €

  • A New Philosophy of Discourse
    Joshua Kates
    What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkit-words, meanings, signs-were jettisoned? How would a work written in a purportedly dead language, like The Iliad, or penned in a foreign tongue be approached if deemed legible without structures such as meaning-bearing signs or grammatical rules?A New Philosophy of...
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    160,71 €

  • Hedgehogs
    Christopher Norris
    Hedgehogs is an extended sequence of poems and verse-essays about Jacques Derrida by a well-known philosopher, literary theorist, and commentator on his writings. Their topics range widely across the full span of Derrida’s work, treated here in formal (rhyming and metrical) verse of a variously witty, ironic, reflective, discursive, and narrative character. Norris’s aim is part...
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    23,34 €

  • Modernism’s Metronome
    Ben Glaser
    In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained in the archives, poems, letters, and pedagogy of modern poets and critics. In Modernism’s Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and th...
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    47,16 €

  • Western Japaneseness
    Our images of non-Western cultures are often based on stereotypes that are replicated over the years. These stereotypes often appear in popular media and are responsible for a pre-set image of otherness. The present book investigates these processes and the media representation of otherness, especially as an artificial construct based on stereotypes and their repetition, in the...
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    57,34 €

  • Architecture and ekphrasis
    Dana Arnold
    This well-illustrated, accessibly written book examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Combining original archival material with cultural theory, the book considers the idea of the past and the role of space and time in the visual ekphrasis or description of its architecture. ...
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    145,48 €

  • Humor, Psyche, and Society
    Arthur Asa Berger
    It is the age-old saying that “laughter is the best medicine”. Scientific research has substantiated the claim made by this proverb by verifying the positive effects it has on both our mind and body, but what is it about a good joke, comic, or sitcom that makes us laugh?Humor, Psyche and Society is a compilation of Berger’s previously published articles and new chapters on the ...
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    46,08 €

  • No Kids Allowed
    Michelle Ann Abate
    Children’s literature isn’t just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children’s literature--when it’s written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach’s Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park’s MA! There’s Nothing to Do Here! have in common? These large-format picture books are decidedly intended for parents rather than children. In No Kids...
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    47,40 €

  • Radical Animism
    Jemma Deer
    The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority and power. Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers - from Freud and Darwin to Latour and Derrida, from Shakespeare and Carroll to Woolf and Kafka - Radical Animism develops a new theory of life for a planet in crisis. In this original and timely work...
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    160,87 €

  • J. M. Coetzee’s Poetics of the Child
    Charlotta Elmgren
    Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee’s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this book establishes the centrality of the child to Coetzee’s poetics. Through readings of novels from Dusklandsto The Schooldays of Jesus, Charlotta Elmgren shows how Coetzee’s writing stages the constant interplay between irresponsibility and responsibility-to the sel...
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    161,06 €

  • Biopoéticas para las biopolíticas
    Julieta Yelin
    Este libro aborda el estado de las investigaciones que vinculan a la literatura y a la crítica literaria latinoamericanas recientes con la corriente de pensamiento posthumanista. Para ello, pone a prueba la noción de biopoética, un dispositivo de lectura que apunta a identificar y analizar los procedimientos mediante los cuales la escritura literaria se aproxima a lo viviente. ...
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    33,86 €

  • Palabras tendidas
    Autores Varios
    La huella de Vittorio Bodini (1914-1970) brilla con luz propia en el prestigioso panorama del hispanismo italiano del siglo XX. Hombre del Sur, intelectual inquieto y escritor, profesor universitario, poeta y narrador, fue sobre todo admirador y estudioso de España, así como de su literatura y su cultura. Su legado incluye un relevante conjunto de estudios y traducciones al ita...
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    15,00 €

  • New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature
    Casey Michael Henry
    How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodern...
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    55,14 €

  • Offering Theory
    John Mowitt
    A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today. ...
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    180,37 €

  • Born Yesterday
    Stephanie Insley Hershinow
    Between the emergence of the realist novel in the early eighteenth century and the novel's subsequent alignment with self-improvement a century later lies a significant moment when novelistic characters were unlikely to mature in any meaningful way. That adolescent protagonists poised on the cusp of adulthood resisted a headlong tumble into maturity through the workings of ...
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    41,08 €

  • Jouissance
    Néstor A. Braunstein / Silvia Rosman
    A comprehensive discussion of an important but elusive Lacanian concept within the field of psychoanalysis, as well as its relevance for philosophy, literature, gender, and queer studies. ...
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    126,80 €

  • Hide and Seek
    Benson P. Fraser / Benson PFraser
    As bearers of the divine image, all of us are storytellers and artists. However, few people today believe in truth that is not empirically knowable or verifiable, the sort of truth often trafficked through direct forms of communication. Drawing on the works of Soren Kierkegaard, Benson P. Fraser challenges this penchant for direct forms of knowledge by introducing the indirect ...
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    33,85 €

  • Hide and Seek
    Benson P. Fraser / Benson PFraser
    As bearers of the divine image, all of us are storytellers and artists. However, few people today believe in truth that is not empirically knowable or verifiable, the sort of truth often trafficked through direct forms of communication. Drawing on the works of Soren Kierkegaard, Benson P. Fraser challenges this penchant for direct forms of knowledge by introducing the indirect ...
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    55,56 €

  • Reaganism in Literary Theory
    Jeremiah Bowen
    Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, supported by misrecognitions like hermeneutic suspicion, materiality, and identity p...
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    180,35 €

  • The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism
    Mary K. Holland
    Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrative structure. Yet over the last 30 years, critics have coined more than 20 new 'realisms' in their attempts to describe it. What makes this decidedly unorthodox literature 'realistic'? And if it is, then what does 'realism' mean any...
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    173,62 €

  • Approximate Gestures
    Anthony Stewart
    In Approximate Gestures, Anthony Stewart argues that the writing of Percival Everett, the acclaimed author of Erasure and more than twenty other works of fiction, compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett's fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions, consider the spaces in between categor...
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    62,94 €

  • Harley manuscript geographies
    Daniel Birkholz
    This first-ever monograph on the celebrated medieval miscellany Harley 2253 (c. 1340) uses methods derived from cultural geography to revise prevailing understandings of English literary history. The Harley manuscript’s extraordinary diversity of texts has a counterpart in the monograph’s topical range and flexibility of approach. ...
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    156,94 €

  • Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism
    Ariane Mildenberg
    Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernismbrings into dialogue Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology with modernist art, literature, music, film and neurophysiological discoveries, opening up the complexities of the philosopher’s phenomenology of perception to a broader audience across the arts.An important resource for anyone interested in the links between modernism...
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    54,55 €

  • Afterlives of Abandoned Work
    Matthew Harle
    Afterlives of Abandoned Workconsiders the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking beyond famous posthumous work to investigate the abandoned everyday, from scrapped plans and rejected ideas to half-written novels or unfinished artistic works. It traces how the reading of abandoned creative endeavor-whether arriving in the form of a rejection ...
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    54,92 €


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