Literary Criticism And Theory – alle Bücher, LPs und CDs, Seite 4

Laura Loporcaro
Reading Quintilian

Reading Quintilian analyses how didactic authority is created in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria . Laura Loporcaro argues that the implementation in the Institutio of the same rhetorical strategies it de…

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Bruce Robbins
Atrocity

" Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity. Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, atrocity was no…

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Peter L Rudnytsky,
Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition

With a keen eye on the myths of Oedipus and the Fall*,* Rudyntsky offers original readings of canonical works in the Western tradition, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Othello , and Paradise L…

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Theory as World Literature

The first collection to consider what it means for theory to be considered as a species of world literature - and vice versa.What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just literatu…

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Holly A Yanacek,
Rethinking Feeling

Holly A. Yanacek traces a new history of emotions through the German novel, showing how long before social media existed, literature and art played important roles in negotiating emotions with moral value…

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Hee-Seung Irene Lee,
Film Adaptation and the Real

Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting media practice of adaptation from literature to film.

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Michael J Shapiro
Thinking Outside the Canon

Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop…

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Peter Dixon, Marisa Bortolussi
The Analogical Reader

"Using new empirical evidence, this book weaves together insights from a multidisciplinary review into a comprehensive theory on perspective taking. It is written for anyone interested in the phenome…

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Universality and Translation

This book collects essays that explore the relationship between translation and universality, especially in and through the traditions of deconstruction and Marxism.

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Umberto Eco
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." -The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond o…

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Evie Kendal,
Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs

Ectogenesis, or artificial wombs, is not yet a reality. But is it the future? In this revolutionary book, Evie Kendal explores the potential that ectogenesis has to promote sexual equality in human reprod…

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Universality and Translation

"Universality and Translation is a groundbreaking book that reshapes our understanding of universality, offering fresh insights and tools for bridging diverse fields and perspectives. Through thought…

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Stephen Frosh,
Freud Explained

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing the evolution of his theories within the vibrant and tumultuous climate of early-20th-century Vienna.Freud Explained presents Freud'…

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Maria Farland
Degraded Heartland

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception?What happens when rural America--long romanticized in pastoral lite…

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Robert Harvey
The Rhetoric of Manipulation

A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.The Rhetoric of Manipul…

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Travis Holloway
How to Live at the End of the World

"How do we live at the end of the world? How do we write the story of our species differently and construct a democracy that does not belong to human beings alone? As we face down a new era of climat…

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Jeffrey Berman
Freudians and Schadenfreudians

Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud's wide legacy, the reach of his ideas, their controversies, and their ability …

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Arvi Särkelä
Vicious Circles

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilize methods which disclose rather than judge the form of lif…

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