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  • Common Things

    Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity

    Serier serie Commonalities
    What are the relationships between the books we read and the communities we share? Common Things explores how transatlantic romance revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced—and were influenced by—emerging modern systems of community.Drawing on the work of Washington Irving, Henry Mackenzie, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Montgomery Bird, and Charles Brockden ... Læs mere

    440,89 kr.

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  • On Being Blue

    A Philosophical Inquiry

    On Being Blue is a book about everything blue—sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do.Gass writes:Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs ... Læs mere

    106,74 kr.

  • On Late Style

    Music and Literature Against the Grain

    **In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists."These studies . . . buzz with excitement and intelligence and demonstrate...the extraordinary range of Said’s intellectual interests.” —Frank Kermode, London Review of Books**Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, ... Læs mere

    88,86 kr.

  • Beyond Art

    Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues that none of the theories that have dominated philosophy since the 1960s adequately copes with these works. Whereas these theories ... Læs mere

    288,56 kr.

  • Responding to Loss

    Heideggerian Reflections on Literature, Architecture, and Film

    Serier serie Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed readings that seek to clarify the particularity of the intense force such works bring forth. ... Læs mere

    400,81 kr.

  • From Digital to Analog

    «Agrippa» and Other Hybrids in the Beginnings of Digital Culture

    Serier Bog 69 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    From Digital to Analog delves into the origins of digitization and its effects on contemporary culture. The book challenges the «common sense» assertion that digitization is just another step in the evolution of the culture of the editorial, film and recorded music industries and their enforcement of copyright laws. Digital technologies in contemporary culture have paradoxically undermined and, at ... Læs mere

    383,25 kr.

  • Melville and Aesthetics

    Redigeret af G. Sanborn, S. Otter ...
    Serier serie Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory. ... Læs mere

    466,97 kr.

  • Modernist Impersonalities

    Affect, Authority, and the Subject

    af R. Rives ...
    Serier serie Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality. ... Læs mere

    466,97 kr.

  • Dialectical Passions

    Negation in Postwar Art Theory

    af Gail Day ...
    Serier serie Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of "critical postmodernism" and beyond, Day counters the belief that recent tendencies in art fail to be ... Læs mere

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  • The Textuality of Soulwork

    Jack Kerouac's Quest for Spontaneous Prose

    af Timothy Hunt ...
    Serier serie Editorial Theory And Literary Criticism
    Tim Hunt’s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Proseexamines Kerouac’s work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the author’s unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac’s development of “Spontaneous Prose” to differentiate the preliminary experiment of On the Road from the more radical ... Læs mere

    204,11 kr.

  • Grotesque Relations

    Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State

    af Susan Edmunds ...
    In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of social housekeeping in order to call for state protection and regulation of the home. Modernists followed suit, turning the genre of domestic fiction ... Læs mere

    376,75 kr.

  • Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography

    af Juan Velasco ...
    Serier serie Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The first book length study of this genre, Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography facilitates new understandings of how people and cultures are displaced and reinvent themselves. Through the examination of visual arts and literature, Juan Velasco analyzes the space for self-expression that gave way to a new paradigm in contemporary Chicana/o ... Læs mere

    840,61 kr.