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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today.
Imitating Authors
Plato to Futurity
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and illuminates both the theory and practice of imitation....
Institutions of World Literature
Writing, Translation, Markets
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of institutionalizationnot as...
Kafka’s Nonhuman Form
Troubling the Boundaries of the Kafkaesque
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
This book is a compact study of Kafka’s inimitable literary style, animals, and ecological thought—his nonhuman form—that proceeds through original close readings of Kafka’s oeuvre. With select engagements of Adorno, Derrida, and the literary heritage from Romanticism to Dickens that influenced...
by David Hawkes, Dr Evelyn Gajowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Over the last 20 years, the concept of 'economic' activity has come to seem inseparable from psychological, semiotic and ideological experiences. In fact, the notion of the 'economy' as a discrete area of life seems increasingly implausible. This returns us to the situation of Shakespeare's England,...
by Jonathan Dollimore
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this paradoxical position? These are just some of the...
by Mareike Hachemer
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Throughout centuries English and Scottish ballads have reached a great audience, being a link between generations, since they have...
Narcissism and the Literary Libido
Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change.
The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Arthur Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Ben...
Paul Claudel's 'Le Soulier de satin'
A Stylistic, Structuralist, and Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Claudel's most important work, Le Soulier de satin, has confused and puzzled readers since it first appeared. Joan S. Freilich's intensive examination of Claudel's imagery combined stylistic , structuralist, and psychoanalytic analyses. These are new methods that have been developed over the past...
Walking Virginia Woolf’s London
An Investigation in Literary Geography
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This innovative volume employs theoretical tools from the field of literary geography to explore Virginia Woolf’s writing and the ways in which she constructs her human subjects. It follows the routes of characters from The Voyage, Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and more as they...
Tropicopolitans
Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1999
In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, he makes a case for the agency—or the capacity to resist domination—of those oppressed. Aravamudan’s analysis...
Turning into Sterne
Viktor Shklovskii and Literary Reception
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Viktor Shklovskii (1893-1984) is best known as an inventor of Russian Formalism, the literary theorist responsible for ostranenie, defamiliarisation. Just after the 1917 Revolution, Shklovskii claimed Tristram Shandy to be 'the most typical novel in world literature'; he then proceeded to theorise...
by Kojin Karatani
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Kojin Karatani wrote the essays in History and Repetition during a time of radical historical change, triggered by the collapse of the Cold War and the death of the Showa emperor in 1989. Reading Karl Marx in an original way, Karatani developed a theory of history based on the repetitive cycle of...
Chaos Bound
Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity....