Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Falling After 9/11
Crisis in American Art and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Falling After 9/11 investigates the connections between violence, trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post 9/11 figures of falling in art and literature. From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee Pozorski provides close readings of figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as Don DeLillo's...
by Slavoj Žižek
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Žižek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated.
Disparities explores contemporary 'negative'...
The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1)
Neglected Authors
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and...
Literary Impressionism
Vision and Memory in Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D. and May Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
With its new innovations in the visual arts, cinema and photography as well as the sciences of memory and perception, the early twentieth century saw a crisis in the relationship between what was seen and what was known. Literary Impressionism charts that modernist crisis of vision and the way that...
The Maximalist Novel
From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The Maximalist Novel sets out to define a new genre of contemporary fiction that developed in the United States from the early 1970s, and then gained popularity in Europe in the early twenty-first century.
The maximalist novel has a very strong symbolic and morphological identity. Ercolino...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although...
by Dr. Michael Marder
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also...
Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament
Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first book on the most pervasive religious trope in all his works: the image of sacrament, and in particular, of eucharist. Informed by postmodern theories of narrative and...
American Tantalus
Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in...
by Dr Daniel Tilles
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book explores the use of antisemitism by Britain's interwar fascists and the ways in which the country's Jews reacted to this, examining the two alongside one another for the first time and locating both within the broader context of contemporary events in Europe.
Daniel Tilles challenges...
Exceptional Technologies
A Continental Philosophy of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
A discussion of the rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of technology and the humanities, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary developments in Continental philosophy and philosophy of technology.
Philosophy of technology regularly...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth.
Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou's own words,...
France since the 1970s
History, Politics and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Until the mid-20th century, France saw itself as a great power with universalist aspirations and global ambitions. But the Second World War and decolonisation irrevocably changed France's place in the world. Despite attempts to restore the country's 'grandeur' in the 1960s, the French have been forced...
Everyday Examples
An Introduction to Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
"Free will: mental energy that poofs into existence from scratch?"
In pairing key ideas from the history of philosophy with examples from everyday life and culture, David Cunning produces a clear, incisive and engaging introduction to philosophy. Everyday Examples explores historical...