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  1. <<The>> lives of literature
    reading, teaching, knowing
    Author: Weinstein, Arnold L.
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    "Mixing passion and humor, a personal work of literary criticism that demonstrates the power of our greatest books to illuminate our lives. Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone... more

     

    "Mixing passion and humor, a personal work of literary criticism that demonstrates the power of our greatest books to illuminate our lives. Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor's life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of literature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. As an identical twin, Weinstein experienced early the dislocation of being mistaken for another person--and of feeling that he might be someone other than he had thought. In vivid readings elucidating the classics of authors ranging from Sophocles to James Joyce and Toni Morrison, he explores what we learn by identifying with their protagonists, including those who, undone by wreckage and loss, discover that all their beliefs are illusions. Weinstein masterfully argues that literature's knowing differs entirely from what one ends up knowing when studying mathematics or physics or even history: by entering these characters' lives, readers acquire a unique form of knowledge--and come to understand its cost. In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters most because we never stop discovering who we are"--

     
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    ISBN: 9780691177304
    Subjects: Literature; Characters and characteristics in literature; Self in literature; Best books; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Literary criticism
    Other subjects: Weinstein, Arnold
    Scope: viii, 344 Seiten
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  2. D.H. Lawrence and the literary marketplace
    the early writings
    Author: Grice, Annalise
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

  3. <<The>> Cambridge companion to literature and psychoanalysis
    Contributor: Camden, Vera J. (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,

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    Contributor: Camden, Vera J. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108477482
    Series: Cambridge companions to literature
    Subjects: Psychoanalysis and literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
    Other subjects: Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
    Scope: xxi, 324 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
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    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite 305-309
  4. In stereotype
    South Asia in the global literary imaginary
    Author: Chakravorty, Mrinalini
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Columbia Univ. Press, New York

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    ISBN: 9780231537766
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    Series: Literature now
    Subjects: Literatur in anderen Sprachen; South Asian literature; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM; South Asian literature; South Asian literature; Südasien <Motiv>; Englisch; Stereotyp <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 320 S.), Illustrationen
  5. The literary Theories of August Wilhelm Schlegel
    Author: Ewton, Ralph W.
    Published: [1972]; © 1972
    Publisher:  De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin/Boston

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    ISBN: 9783111343136; 9783110991635; 9783112151754
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    Series: De Proprietatibus Litterarum. Series Practica ; 47
    Subjects: Literaturtheorie; Literatuurtheorie; Poetik; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft; Poetik; Literaturtheorie
    Other subjects: Schlegel, August Wilhelm von (1767-1845)
    Scope: 1 online resource (120pages), illustrations
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  6. In Pursuit of Power
    Heinrich von Kleist's Machiavellian Protagonists
    Author: Reeve, William C.
    Published: [2019]; © 1987
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    A number of striking parallels link the lives and careers of Machiavelli and Kleist. This study of the influence of one on the work of the other begins with an outline of those parallels, and of the Machiavellian atmosphere in Kleist's first play,... more

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    A number of striking parallels link the lives and careers of Machiavelli and Kleist. This study of the influence of one on the work of the other begins with an outline of those parallels, and of the Machiavellian atmosphere in Kleist's first play, Die Familie Schroffenstein. Reeve goes on to focus on the protagonists of Kleist's plays, beginning with Licht in Der zerbrocheme Krug. He exposes the skill of Licht's behind-the-scenes direction of the course of events to his own advantage and to the detriment of his superior, Adam. Next Reeve offers a detailed analysis of Die Hermannsschlacht, in which he demonstrates how Hermann embodies those qualities - the cunning of the fox and the strength of the lion - demanded by Machiavelli in a successful ruler. With these traits Hermann has brought the German princes, his own tribe, his rival Marbod, his wife, and even the Romans to a point where, unwittingly, the have all worked towards the establishment of a united Germany under his leadership. The chapter n Prinz Friedrich von Homburg singles out the underhand manoeuvers of the sadistic Hohenzolern who plots to embarrass publicly both the Elector and the Prince as a subtle manifestation of his personal power over the two leading contenders for political supremacy. The fragment Robert Guiskard contains two Machiavellian protagonists, an older more accomplished practitioner and an up-and-coming young threat, and treats another issue addressed in Il Principe: what occurs when an ideal leader at the height of his powers is cut down by a disabling illness? Indicative of the beginning and the end of Kleist's opus, half of his plays contain the figure of the clandestine schemer who plans the social or political elimination of a rival and, by stealth and skillful manipulation of others, directs the course of events at almost every turn. Reeve concludes with an attempt to explain the presence of the Machiavellian in Kleist's works as the indirect influence of Shakespeare's three villains, the direct example of Napoleon, or the dramatist's own independent insight into the less admirable aspects of the human mind

     
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    ISBN: 9781487575236
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    Series: Heritage
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Control (Psychology) in literature; Protagonists (Persons) in literature; Drama; Dramengestalt; Machiavellismus
    Other subjects: Kleist, Heinrich von (1777-1811)
    Scope: 1 online resource (248 pages)
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  7. World-Making
    The Literary Truth-Claim and the Interpretation of Texts
    Author: Valdes, Mario
    Published: [2019]; © 1992
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    In literary texts writers express their views on a great variety of issues, some of which they take seriously, others of which they treat with levity. Even in those statements to which cultural circumstances assign a transcendent meaning there is a... more

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    In literary texts writers express their views on a great variety of issues, some of which they take seriously, others of which they treat with levity. Even in those statements to which cultural circumstances assign a transcendent meaning there is a wide range of commitment from marginal to central concern in the discursive context. Mario J. Valdés calls these assertions truth-claims. Drawing on the works of a wide range of authors, including Proust, Tolstoy, Woolf, Lorca, Solzhenitsyn, and Fowles, Valdés explores the phenomenon of truth-claims from two perspectives. One, textual semantics, deal with the content of a given truth-claim; the other, hermeneutics, is concerned with the reader's interpretation of the truth-claim. In the reading of the text the subject making the truth-claim is not the author or a collective abstraction but rather an enunciating voice or voices. The subject enacting the truth-claim is the reader in his or her textual encounter with the discourse. Everything that happens in a text is recognizable and ultimately knowable because it is made possible as a world constituted through language by a reader. The subject-matter of truth-claims is therefore not the physical data of the world that corresponds to the statement, but rather the reader's accessibility and relationship to those data within the lived world of language

     
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    ISBN: 9781487574215
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    Series: Heritage
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Literature; Phenomenology and literature; Truth in literature; Phänomenologie; Wahrheit; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (192 pages)
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  8. Critical Theory and Poststructuralism
    In Search of a Context
    Author: Poster, Mark
    Published: [2019]; © 1989
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    In Critical Theory and Poststructuralism Mark Poster enacts a dialogue between the French poststructuralists, especially Michel Foucault, and the tradition of critical social theory as developed by the Frankfurt School and by other Continental... more

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    In Critical Theory and Poststructuralism Mark Poster enacts a dialogue between the French poststructuralists, especially Michel Foucault, and the tradition of critical social theory as developed by the Frankfurt School and by other Continental theorists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. These confrontations between poststructuralists who represent "postmodern" thought and theorists committed the "modern" project of the Enlightenment is, according to Poster, of urgent importance because of the failure of critical theory to sustain a convincing critique of today's radically changed social formation

     
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    ISBN: 9781501746185
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Kritische Theorie; Poststrukturalismus
    Other subjects: Foucault, Michel (1926-1984)
    Scope: 1 online resource (200 pages), 7 charts
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  9. The Comparative Perspective on Literature
    Approaches to Theory and Practice
    Author: Koelb, Clayton
    Published: [2019]; © 1988
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Few would deny that comparative literature is rapidly moving from the periphery toward the center of literary studies in North America, but many are still unsure just what it is. The Comparative Perspective on Literature shows by means of twenty-two... more

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    Few would deny that comparative literature is rapidly moving from the periphery toward the center of literary studies in North America, but many are still unsure just what it is. The Comparative Perspective on Literature shows by means of twenty-two exemplary essays by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field how comparative literature as a discipline is conceived of and practiced in the 1980s.Nearly all of them published here for the first time, the essays discuss and themselves reflect significant changes at the core of the field as well as evolving notions as to what comparative literature is and should be. The volume editors, Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes, have included essays that address the scope and concerns of comparative literature today, historical and international contexts of the field, and the relationship of literary criticism to other disciplines, as well as affording comparative perspectives on current critical issues

     
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    Contributor: Noakes, Susan (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9781501743986
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: 1 online resource (392 pages)
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  10. The Dream of the Moving Statue
    Author: Gross, Kenneth
    Published: [2019]; © 1992
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    The fantasy of a sculpture that moves, speaks;or responds, a statue that comes to life as an oracle, lover, avenger, mocker, or monster-few images are more familiar or seductive. The living statue appears in ancient creation narratives, the myths of... more

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    The fantasy of a sculpture that moves, speaks;or responds, a statue that comes to life as an oracle, lover, avenger, mocker, or monster-few images are more familiar or seductive. The living statue appears in ancient creation narratives, the myths of Pygmalion and Don Juan, lyric poetry from the Greek Anthology to Rilke, and romantic fairy tales; it is a recurrent theme in ballet and opera, in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and film. What does it mean for the statue that stands immobile in gallery or square to step down from its pedestal or speak out of its silence? What is it in this fantasy that animates us?Kenneth Gross explores the implications of fictive statues in biblical and romantic narrative; in the poetry of Ovid, Michelangelo, Blake, Rilke, and Stevens; in the drama of Shakespeare; in the writings of Freud and Wittgenstein. He also considers their place in the poetry of such contemporaries as Richard Howard and the films of Charlie Chaplin, Frarn;ois Truffaut, and Peter Greenaway. In the motif of the moving statue, we can see how the reciprocal ambitions of writing and sculpture play off each other, often producing deeply paradoxical figures of life and voice, Stories of the living statue point to the uncertain ways in which our desires, fantasies, and memories are bound to the realm of unliving objects. Clarifying the sources of our fascination with real and imaginary statues, this book asks us to reconsider some of our most basic assumptions about the uses of fantasy and fiction.Eloquent and evocative, The Dream of the Moving Statue will capture and hold a wide audience

     
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    ISBN: 9781501734892
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    Subjects: Literary Studies; Performing Arts & Drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Belebte Statue; Kunst; Plastik <Motiv>; Geschichte; Literatur
    Other subjects: Pygmalion
    Scope: 1 online resource (272 pages), 16 halftones
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  11. Is There Truth in Art?
    Author: Rapaport, Herman
    Published: [2018]; © 1996
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    The question posed by Herman Rapaport, in the title of this book, is intended both seriously and ironically. It is not Rapaport's purpose to debate whether or not truth resides in art. The title points rather to his belief that truth needs to be... more

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    The question posed by Herman Rapaport, in the title of this book, is intended both seriously and ironically. It is not Rapaport's purpose to debate whether or not truth resides in art. The title points rather to his belief that truth needs to be reconceptualized in the light of continuing efforts to deconstruct and to discredit the notion of truthfulness in art.The question of art's truthfulness persists because truth in art is neither an entity or content that has been injected into the work, nor a transcendental concept or ground that exists outside it. Moreover, when used in relation to art, Rapaport says, truth means something quite different from conventional definitions of the term. Indeed, a central question that informs the book is the return of truth at the far side of its deconstruction.Is There Truth in Art? includes chapters on atonal music, environmental art, modern German and French poetry, contemporary French fiction, experimental French film, and a photograph taken by the National Socialists during the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. Determining how truth can be said to occur in these examples, Rapaport maintains, requires analysis in each instance. He draws chiefly upon the thinkers who have radically reformulated questions about truth-Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas-and uses their writings to explore the works under analysis

     
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    ISBN: 9781501729607
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    Subjects: Literary Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Truth (Aesthetics); Truth (Aesthetics); Truth; Philosophie; Kunst; Ästhetik; Wahrheit
    Scope: 1 online resource (240 pages), 3 halftones
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  12. The Incredulous Reader
    Literature and the Function of Disbelief
    Author: Koelb, Clayton
    Published: [2019]; © 1984
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

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    ISBN: 9781501743993
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Fantastische Literatur; Wirklichkeit; Rezeption; Fiktion; Rezeptionsästhetik; Geschichte; Literatur
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  13. Reception Histories
    Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics
    Author: Mailloux, Steven
    Published: [2018]; © 1998
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences—students and... more

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    In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences—students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism. Reception Histories marks a further development of Mailloux's influential critical project, as he demonstrates how rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history. Reception Histories works out in detail what rhetorical hermeneutics means in terms of poststructuralist theory (Part One), nineteenth-century U.S. cultural studies (Part Two), and the contemporary history of curricular reform within the so-called Culture Wars (Part Three). Mailloux situates, defends, and elaborates the theory he first proposed in Rhetorical Power, and he exemplifies it with a new series of provocative reception histories. He also both critiques and reconceptualizes the version of reader response criticism he developed in his first book, Interpretive Conventions. Throughout Reception Histories, Mailloux demonstrates his distinctive blend of neopragmatism and cultural rhetoric study. By tracing the rhetorical paths of thought, this book offers a new way to read the current volatile debates over higher education and contributes its own original proposals for shaping the future of the humanities

     
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    ISBN: 9781501728433
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    Subjects: American Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Criticism; Culture conflict; English language; English philology; Literature; Multiculturalism; Politics and literature; Pragmatism; Reader-response criticism; Rhetoric; Rezeptionsforschung; Literatur; Hermeneutik; Pragmatik; Englisch; Rhetorik; Kulturpolitik; Literaturwissenschaft
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  14. The Concept of Modernism
    Author: Eysteinsson, Astradur
    Published: [2018]; © 1992
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a... more

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    The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a product of critical practices relating to nontraditional literature. Intervening in these practices, and correlating them with modernist works and with modern literary theory, Eysteinsson undertakes a comprehensive reexamination of the idea of modernism.Eysteinsson critically explores various manifestations of modernism in a rich array of American, British, and European literature, criticism, and theory. He first examines many modernist paradigms, detecting in them a conflict between modernism's culturally subversive potential and its relatively conservative status as a formalist project. He then considers these paradigms as interpretations-and fabrications-of literary history. Seen in this light, modernism both signals a historical change on the literary scene and implies the context of that change. Laden with the implications of tradition and modernity, modernism fills its major function: that of highlighting and defining the complex relations between history and postrealist literature. Eysteinsson focuses on the ways in which the concept of modernism directs our understanding of literature and literary history and influences our judgment of experimental and postrealist works in literature and art. He discusses in detail the relation of modernism to the key concepts postmodernism, the avant-garde, and realism. Enacting a crisis of subject and reference, modernism is not so much a form of discourse, he asserts, as its interruption-a possible "other" modernity that reveals critical aspects of our social and linguistic experience in Western culture. Comparatists, literary theorists, cultural historians, and others interested in twentieth-century literature and art will profit from this provocative book

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Modernism (Literature); Moderne; Literatur; Literaturtheorie
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  15. Why Does Literature Matter?
    Author: Farrell, Frank B.
    Published: [2018]; © 2004
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    "Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts... more

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    "Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a manner that we owe it to past and future members of the species to keep such texts alive in our cultural traditions."—from Chapter One Frank B. Farrell defends a rich conception of the space of literature that retains its links to issues of self-formation and metaphysics and does not let that space collapse into just another reflection of social space. He maintains that recent literary theory has badly misread findings in the philosophy of language and the theory of subjectivity. That misreading, Farrell says, has tended to endorse ways of understanding literature that make one question why it matters at all. Farrell here opposes some recent theoretical trends and, through a mix of philosophical and literary studies, tells us why in his view literature does truly matter.Among the writers Farrell discusses are John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Amit Chaudhuri, Cormac McCarthy, James Merrill, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, and John Updike. The philosophers important to his arguments include Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, and Bernard Williams; G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein play roles as well. Among the literary theorists addressed are Stephen Greenblatt, Paul de Man, and Marjorie Perloff. In addition to his close readings of literary, philosophical, and critical texts, Farrell considers cultural studies and postcolonial studies more generally and speculates on the possible contributions of object-relations theory in psychology to the study of literature

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; American literature; English literature; Literature; Englisch; Literaturtheorie
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  16. Early Theories of Translation
    Author: Amos, Flora Ross
    Published: [1920]; © 1920
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Examines the theory of translation as formulated by English writers in the sixteenth century. Specifically focuses on the Medieval period, the translation of the Bible, the sixteenth century, and the evolution of theories from Cowley to Pope more

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    Examines the theory of translation as formulated by English writers in the sixteenth century. Specifically focuses on the Medieval period, the translation of the Bible, the sixteenth century, and the evolution of theories from Cowley to Pope

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Theorie; Englisch; Übersetzung; Literatur
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  17. The Imperative to Write
    Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett
    Author: Fort, Jeff
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer’s vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow... more

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    Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer’s vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from it—and that leave it in ruins?This book explores these questions through readings of three authors who bear witness to an ambiguous exigency: writing as a demanding and exclusive task, at odds with life, but also a mere compulsion, a drive without end or reason, even a kind of torture. If Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett mimic a sublime vocation in their extreme devotion to writing, they do so in full awareness that the trajectory it dictates leads not to metaphysical redemption but rather downward, into the uncanny element of fiction. As this book argues, the sublime has always been a deeply melancholy affair, even in its classical Kantian form, but it is in the attenuated speech of narrative voices progressively stripped of their resources and rewards that the true nature of this melancholy is revealed

     
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    Subjects: Franz Kafka; Immanuel Kant; Jean-Luc Nancy; Martin Heidegger; Maurice Blanchot; Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; Samuel Beckett; categorical imperative; death mask; literature and philosophy; schematism; sublime; writing; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Sublime, The, in literature
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  18. How to Be an Intellectual
    Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University
    Author: Williams, Jeffrey J.
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings... more

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    Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together noted and new essays and exemplifies Williams’s effort to bring criticism to a wider publicHow to Be an Intellectual profiles a number of critics, drawing on a unique series of interviews that give an inside look at their work and careers. The book often looks at critical thought from surprising angles, examining, for instance, the history of modern American criticism in terms of its keywords as they morphed from sound to rigorous to smart. It also puts in plain language the political travesty of higher education policies that produce student debt, which, as Williams demonstrates, all too readily follow the model of colonial indenture, not just as a metaphor but in actual point of fact.How to Be an Intellectual tells a story of intellectual life since the culture wars. Shedding academic obscurity and calling for a better critical writing, it reflects on what makes the critic and intellectual—the accidents of careers, the trends in thought, the institutions that shape us, and politics. It also includes personal views of living and working with books

     
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    ISBN: 9780823263837
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    Subjects: American Higher Education; Cultural Politics; Intellectuals; Literary Theory; Public Criticism; Student Debt; University Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Criticism; Intellectuals; Literature
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  19. In the Place of Language
    Literature and the Architecture of the Referent
    Author: Brodsky, Claudia
    Published: [2009]; © 2009
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not something first found... more

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    The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not something first found in nature and then named but a thing whose own origin joins language with materiality, a thing marked as it is made to begin with. In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent develops a theory of the "referent" that is thus also a theory of the possibility of historical knowledge, one that undermines the conventional opposition of language to the real by theories of nominalism and materialism alike, no less than it confronts the mystical conflation of language with matter, whether under the aegis of the infinite reproducibility of the image or the identification of language with "Being."Challenging these equally naive views of language - as essentially immaterial or the only essential matter - Brodsky investigates the interaction of language with the material that literature represents. For literature, Brodsky argues, seeks no refuge from its own inherently iterable, discursive medium in dreams of a technologically-induced freedom from history or an ontological history of language-being. Instead it tells the complex story of historical referents constructed and forgotten, things built into the earth upon which history "takes place" and of which, in the course of history, all visible trace is temporarily effaced. Literature represents the making of history, the building and burial of the referent, the present world of its oblivion and the future of its unearthing, and it can do this because, unlike the historical referent, it literally takes no place, is not tied to any building or performance in space. For the same reason literature can reveal the historical nature of the making of meaning, demonstrating that the shaping and experience of the real, the marking of matter that constitutes historical referents, also defers knowledge of the real to a later date.

     
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    ISBN: 9780823237753
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Literature; Reference (Linguistics); Reference (Philosophy); Semiotics and literature
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  20. Marginal Modernity
    The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce
    Author: Lisi, Leonardo F.
    Published: [2012]; © 2012
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art,... more

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    Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art, and the aesthetics of fragmentation, practiced by the avant-gardes. In this revisionary study, Leonardo Lisi argues that these models rest on assumptions about the nature of truth and existence that cannot be treated as exhaustive of modernist form.Lisi traces an alternative aesthetics of dependency that provides a different formal structure, philosophical foundation, and historical condition for modernist texts. Taking Europe's Scandinavian periphery as his point of departure, Lisi examines how Søren Kierkegaard and Henrik Ibsen imagined a response to the changing conditions of modernity different from those at the European core, one that subsequently influenced Henry James, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, and James Joyce.Combining close readings with a broader revision of the nature and genealogy of modernism, Marginal Modernity challenges what we understand by modernist aesthetics, their origins, and their implications for how we conceive of our relation to the modern world

     
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    Subjects: Aesthetics; Henrik Ibsen; Henry James; Hugo von Hofmannsthal; J.L. Heiberg; James Joyce; Modernism; Philosophy and Literature; Rainer Maria Rilke; Søren Kierkegaard; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Aesthetics in literature; Dependency (Psychology) in literature; Modernism (Literature); Philosophy in literature
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  21. Last Things
    Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar
    Author: Khalip, Jacques
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
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    The arrival of the Anthropocene brings the suggestion that we are only now beginning to speculate on an inhuman world that is not for us, only now confronting fears and anxieties of ecological, political, social, and philosophical extinction. While... more

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    The arrival of the Anthropocene brings the suggestion that we are only now beginning to speculate on an inhuman world that is not for us, only now confronting fears and anxieties of ecological, political, social, and philosophical extinction. While pointing out that reflections on disaster were not foreign to what we historically call romanticism, Last Things pushes romantic thought toward an altogether new way of conceiving the "end of things," one that treats lastness as neither privation nor conclusion. Through quieter, non-emphatic modes of thinking the end of human thought, Khalip explores lastness as what marks the limits of our life and world. Reading the fate of romanticism—and romantic studies—within the key of the last, Khalip refuses to elegize or celebrate our ends, instead positing romanticism as a negative force that exceeds theories, narratives, and figures of survival and sustainability. Each chapter explores a range of romantic and contemporary materials: poetry by John Clare, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Percy Shelley, and William Wordsworth; philosophical texts by William Godwin, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau; paintings by Hubert Robert, Caspar David Friedrich, and Paterson Ewen; installations by Tatsuo Miyajima and James Turrell; and photography by John Dugdale, Peter Hujar, and Joanna Kane. Shuttling between temporalities, Last Things undertakes an original reorganization of romantic thought for contemporary culture. It examines an archive on the side of disappearance, perishing, the inhuman, and lastness

     
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    Subjects: Dugdale; Ewen; Hujar; Kant; Keats; Shelley; Wordsworth; extinction; lastness; life; photography; romanticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Literature; Romanticism
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  22. Ecological Form
    System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire
    Contributor: Hensley, Nathan K. (Publisher); Steer, Philip (Publisher)
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage... more

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    Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate "natural" questions with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a means for generating environmental—and therefore political—knowledge. Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond, Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking Britain to its global network. Yet the book’s most pressing argument is that this past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present

     
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    ISBN: 9780823282142
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Ecocriticism; Ecology in literature; English literature; Environmentalism in literature; Industrialization in literature
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  23. A Desire Called America
    Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons
    Author: Haines, Christian
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Critics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In A Desire Called America, Christian P. Haines confronts a troubling paradox: Some of the most... more

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    Critics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In A Desire Called America, Christian P. Haines confronts a troubling paradox: Some of the most provocative political projects in the United States are remarkably invested in American exceptionalism. Riding a strange current of U.S. literature that draws on American exceptionalism only to overturn it in the name of utopian desire, Haines reveals a tradition of viewing the United States as a unique and exemplary political model while rejecting exceptionalism’s commitments to nationalism, capitalism, and individualism. Through Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon, Haines brings to light a radically different version of the American dream—one in which political subjects value an organization of social life that includes democratic self-governance, egalitarian cooperation, and communal property.A Desire Called America brings utopian studies and the critical discourse of biopolitics to bear upon each other, suggesting that utopia might be less another place than our best hope for confronting authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and a resurgent exclusionary nationalism

     
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    Subjects: American exceptionalism; Biopolitics; Commons; Emily Dickinson; Thomas Pynchon; Utopia; Walt Whitman; William Burroughs; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; American literature; Exceptionalism; Politics in literature; Utopias in literature; Utopias
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  24. Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies
    Author: See, Sam
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York

    Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly... more

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    Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be considered queer. In Part II, See proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities.With essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffat

     
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    Contributor: Looby, Christopher (Publisher); North, Michael (Publisher); Herring, Scott; Love, Heather; Moffat, Wendy
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    ISBN: 9780823287017
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Homosexuality and literature; Literature, Modern; Modernism (Literature); Queer-Theorie
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  25. The Black Radical Tragic
    Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution
    Author: Glick, Jeremy Matthew
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    2017 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationAs the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion, the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable... more

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    2017 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationAs the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion, the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable range of artists and activist-intellectuals in the African Diaspora.In The Black Radical Tragic, Jeremy Matthew Glick examines twentieth-century performances engaging the revolution as laboratories for political thinking. Asking readers to consider the revolution less a fixed event than an ongoing and open-ended history resonating across the work of Atlantic world intellectuals, Glick argues that these writers use the Haitian Revolution as a watershed to chart their own radical political paths, animating, enriching, and framing their artistic and scholarly projects. Spanning the disciplines of literature, philosophy, and political thought, The Black Radical Tragic explores work from Lorraine Hansberry, Sergei Eisenstein, Edouard Glissant, Malcolm X, and others, ultimately enacting a speculative encounter between Bertolt Brecht and C.L.R. James to reconsider the relationship between tragedy and revolution. In its grand refusal to forget, The Black Radical Tragic demonstrates how the Haitian Revolution has influenced the ideas of freedom and self-determination that have propelled Black radical struggles throughout the modern era

     
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    Series: America and the Long 19th Century ; 2
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Blacks in literature; Radicalism in literature; Tragic, The, in literature
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