Literary Theory – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 5

Jan Overwijk
Cybernetic Capitalism

"Cybernetic Capitalism works to develop a critical systems theory on the basis of an encounter between the Frankfurt School notion of instrumental reason and the fundamental innovation of Luhmannian …

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Myka Tucker-Abramson
Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

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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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David Faflik
The Literary Gift in Early America

Some of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book. Gift exchange kept a surprising variety of lit…

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Oliver Haslam
Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020

"Building upon theories of affect and the everyday, Minimalism and Affect in American Literature provides a more inclusive and precise definition of minimalism that enables further inquiry into the m…

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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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Louis Klee
The Constellational Novel

A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature b…

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Joel Childers
The Historical Poem

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story of its precursors. For eighteenth-century and Romantic thinkers, these were poems from dista…

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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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Emmy Waldman
Filial Lines

This is the first book to place the autobiographical projects of canonical comics authors Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel alongside each other, focusing on new and neglected works (and with an epilogue …

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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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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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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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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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Maggie Nelson
Like Love

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These pr…

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Nathan Brown
Baudelaire's Shadow

Baudelaire's fame and notoriety have been established through the representation of his complex work through reductive profiles: the poet of the modern city, of erotic obsession, of Satanic revolt, of col…

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Omid Mehrgan
The Narrowest Path

A strategic reconstruction of modern German thought from the standpoint of aesthetic theory.The Narrowest Path reveals the characteristically modern, revolutionary project of freedom-as-autonomy to be unr…

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Zahid R Chaudhary
Paranoid Publics

Facts and established truths are regularly denied in contemporary life. This situation has brought paranoid politics into the mainstream, from conspiracy theories like QAnon, to sex panics and assaults on…

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Michael Chapman
Literary Transactions in South Africa

A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically content…

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