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With a critical look at Tolstoy's persona, faith, and thought, this book treats the writer as a midwife of modern counterculture. It shows and tries to correct the metaphysical blunder on which Tolstoy's philosophy was based.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-05-25
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Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-27
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This book introduces and discusses the works of leading feminist postcolonialist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by exploring the key concepts and themes to emerge from them. Focuses on the key themes to emerge from Spivak’s work, such as ethics, literature, feminism,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-03-30
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Usinga method that combines analysis, memoir, and polemic, McGee writes experimentally about a series of thinkers who ruptured linguistic and social hierarchies, fromMarx, to Gramsci, to Badiou.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-03-30
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Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of “ecocriticism”. Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism. ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of “ecocriticism”. Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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This student-friendly text introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, as well as showing them how to perform literary analysis. Designed to be used alongside primary theoretical texts as an introduction to theory or alongside literary texts as a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
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Wiley Blackwell Guides to Literature
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Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-09-29
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A provocative and compelling book that explores the complex relationship between democracy and avant-garde art, offering a surprising new perspective on the critical role that the arts play in democratic governance at home and abroad. Covers a broad range of topics,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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This anthology presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. Presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. Offers an innovative way...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida’s complex and extensive works. This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida’s complex and extensive works. From ‘aporia’ to ‘yes’, the Dictionary suggests ways into Derrida that show what is at stake in his...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the field Includes contributions from pioneers in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida's complex and extensive works. This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida's complex and extensive works. From 'aporia' to 'yes', the Dictionary suggests ways into Derrida that show what is at stake in his...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-14
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The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-12-13
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Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-01-21
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Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism examines and interrogates recent work on nationality in literal, critical and cultural theory. Focusing on the work of Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Kristeva, Spivak, and Bhabha, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-10-28
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Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism, especially understood in the light of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, is a response to the Holocaust. This way of thinking offers new perspectives on Holocaust testimony, literature, historiography, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2004-12-09
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This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-02-21
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What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this adventurous new study of music, literature, and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins Romanticism and the blues tradition by focusing on the preoccupation with boundaries that are common to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-12-31
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