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  • Beckett and Dialectics
    Eva Heubach
    For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand Beckett via the dialectics underpinning his work. The different chapters explore how Beckett exposes and challenges essential dialectical concepts such as objectivity, subjectivity, ...
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    154,49 €

  • Fashion as Cultural Translation
    Patrizia Calefato
    The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery. ...
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    180,59 €

  • Synapse 5
    Imogene Engine / John M. Bennett / John MBennett
    The fifth volume of the flagship periodical of mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press contains nearly 90 pages jam-packed with the most underground, anti-normative, formally exploratory, epistemologically challenging, anti-institutional, non-commercial literature and art of the (mostly) contemporary (mostly) anglophone avant-garde. Not an inch of page-space is wasted in this chaotic melange o...
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    12,69 €

  • Aesthetic Apprehensions
    Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities is a scholarly conversation about encounters between habitual customs of reading and seeing and their ruptures and ossifications. In closely connected discourses, the thirteen essays collected here set out to carefully probe the ways our aesthetic immersions are obfuscated by deep-seated epistemological and i...
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    135,92 €

  • The African Novel of Ideas
    Jeanne-Marie Jackson
    An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Afri...
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    122,22 €

  • The African Novel of Ideas
    Jeanne-Marie Jackson
    An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Afri...
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    43,35 €

  • Announcements
    Kristina Mendicino
    A study of novelty through analyses of the language of announcement in revolutionary texts. ...
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    41,98 €

  • The Space of Disappearance
    Karen Elizabeth Bishop
    Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction. ...
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    42,05 €

  • Jouissance
    Néstor A. Braunstein / Néstor ABraunstein / 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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    43,17 €

  • The Varieties of Joycean Experience
    Tim Conley
    A collection of essays on Joyce’s work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce’s oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism. ...
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    180,49 €

  • Inter-imperiality
    Laura Doyle
    In Inter-imperiality Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue durée. Weaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, she shows how inter-imperial competition has generated a systemic stratification of gendered, racialized labor, while literary and other arts have...
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    38,64 €

  • Inter-imperiality
    Laura Doyle
    In Inter-imperiality Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue durée. Weaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, she shows how inter-imperial competition has generated a systemic stratification of gendered, racialized labor, while literary and other arts have...
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    147,02 €

  • Howard Jacobson
    David Brauner
    This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson’s novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction. ...
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    157,40 €

  • Authorship’s Wake
    Philip Sayers
    Authorship’s Wake examines the aftermath of the 1960s critique of the author, epitomized by Roland Barthes’s essay, 'The Death of the Author.' This critique has given rise to a body of writing that confounds generic distinctions separating the literary and the theoretical. Its archive consists of texts by writers who either directly participated in this critique, as Barthes did...
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    160,95 €

  • Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic (1968 - 2018)
    Lisa FitzGerald
    Digital technology has transformed the way that we visualise the natural world, the art we create and the stories we tell about our environments. Exploring contemporary digital art and literature through an ecocritical lens, Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic(1968 - 2018)demonstrates the many ways in which critical ideas of the sublime, the pastoral and the picturesque...
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    154,64 €

  • Semiotics of the Christian Imagination
    Domenico Pietropaolo
    The semiotics of the Christian imagination describes the repository of signs and the logic of signification through which a community of faith envisions spiritual truths. This book analyses various examples in text, images, music, art and scientific treatise of the imaginative semiotisation of the fall of Man and the Church’s semiotic perception of the Divine plan for Redemptio...
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    173,86 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
    H. Porter Abbott / HPorter Abbott
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    37,82 €

  • 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 €


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