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Literature as Cultural Ecology
Sustainable Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination...
Nabokov and Nietzsche
Problems and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives addresses the many knotted issues in the work of Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita's moral stance, Pnin's relationship with memory, Pale Fire's ambiguous internal authorship – that often frustrate interpretation. It does so by arguing that the philosophy...
by Professor Sean Latham, Dr Gayle Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
What exactly is "modernism†?? And how and why has its definition changed over time?
Modernism: Evolution of an Idea is the first book to trace the development of the term "modernism†? from cultural debates in the early twentieth century to the dynamic contemporary field of modernist...
Subject and Object
Frankfurt School Writings on Epistemology, Ontology, and Method
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Subject & Object is a thematic collection of classic works by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse, designed to foreground the authors' philosophical concerns, especially in the areas of epistemology, ontology, and method. The volume, which includes lucid introductions to all of...
Film and Video Intermediality
The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
In Film and Video Intermediality, Janna Houwen innovatively rewrites the concept of medium specificity in order to answer the questions "what is meant by video?†? and "what is meant by film?†? How are these two media (to be) understood? How can film and video be defined as distinct,...
Vienna's Dreams of Europe
Culture and Identity Beyond the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions...
Photography and Failure
One Medium's Entanglement with Flops, Underdogs and Disappointments
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Throughout photography's history, failure has played an essential, recurring part in the development and perceived value of this medium. Exploring a range of failures – individual and institutional, technological and historiographical – Photography and Failure asks what it means to fail and considers...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In the last half-century Ludwig Wittgenstein's relevance beyond analytic philosophy, to continental philosophy, to cultural studies, and to the arts has been widely acknowledged.
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was published in 1922 - the annus mirabilis of modernism - alongside...
The Visibility of the Image
History and Perspectives of Formal Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Now available in English for the first time, The Visibility of the Image explores the development of an influential aesthetic tradition through the work of six figures. Analysing their contribution to the progress of formal aesthetics, from its origins in Germany in the 1880s to semiotic interpretations...
Foucault and Nietzsche
A Critical Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Foucault's intellectual indebtedness to Nietzsche is apparent in his writing, yet the precise nature, extent, and nuances of that debt are seldom explored. Foucault himself seems sometimes to claim that his approach is essentially Nietzschean, and sometimes to insist that he amounts to a radical break...
Experimentations
John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Experimentations provides a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of the first three decades of experimental composer John Cage's aesthetic production (ca. 1940-1972). Paying particular attention to Cage's inter- and cross-disciplinary engagements with the visual arts and architecture during...
by Matthew Battles
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower over us and yet fade into background. Their...
Beastly Questions
Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Zooarchaeology, or the study of ancient animals, is a frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. This is bizarre given that the archaeological record is composed largely of debris from human–animal relationships (be they in the form of animal bones, individual artifacts or entire landscapes)...
by Dr Richard Warren
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Art Nouveau was a style for a new age, but it was also one that continued to look back to the past. This new study shows how in expressing many of their most essential concerns – sexuality, death and the nature of art – its artists drew heavily upon classical literature and the iconography of...