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

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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Chunjie Zhang
The Quest for Liberation

"Groundbreaking on a grand philosophical scale, The Quest for Liberation shows how German and Chinese thinkers drew on each other in search of emancipation from the confines of their own traditions. …

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Jan Overwijk
Cybernetic Capitalism

Cybernetic Capitalismdevelops a critical systems theory in order to conceptualize the cybernetic rationalization of contemporary capitalism. Today, the book argues, capital no longer aims at total communi…

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The Death Drive

"The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and cultural theory, this volume brings together some of the leading thinkers and t…

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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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Astrida Neimanis, Jennifer Mae Hamilton,
How to Weather Together

Developing an innovative model for climate change mitigation and adaptation, this book translates feminist theory into practice, bringing together climate justice and community engagement to demonstrate h…

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Linda Freedman
The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature offers fresh close readings of both canonical and less well-known works and is divided into two parts, fiction-making and nation-building, addressing …

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Chunjie Zhang
The Quest for Liberation

Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used classical…

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Ronald Schleifer
The Haptic Arts

This book examines how the sense of touch complements the senses of sight and hearing, expanding notions of "art" and "aesthetics" to include worldly arts such as medicine, nation buil…

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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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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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Astrida Neimanis, Jennifer Mae Hamilton,
How to Weather Together

Developing an innovative model for climate change mitigation and adaptation, this book translates feminist theory into practice, bringing together climate justice and community engagement to demonstrate h…

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Christopher Breu
In Defense of Sex

Examines the need to recenter the category of sex-theorizing sex itself as nonbinary-in contemporary studies of gender and sexualityGender has largely replaced sex as a category in critical theory, in pro…

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Christopher Breu
In Defense of Sex

Examines the need to recenter the category of sex-theorizing sex itself as nonbinary-in contemporary studies of gender and sexualityGender has largely replaced sex as a category in critical theory, in pro…

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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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Sumana Roy
Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal

This book delves into the unconventional perspectives of writers and artists from Twentieth Century Bengal, exploring their roles as 'plant thinkers.' By examining the works of figures such as Rabindranat…

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Jonathan C Williams
Melancholic Life

Argues that 18th-century British literary writers deployed melancholic feeling to draw a complex web of relations between the embodied self and its historical present.

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Marco Malvestio
Ruin Ecology

This Element discusses the presence of ruins in contemporary environmental imagination. Contemporary ruins, much more than those that served as constituents of Romantic and Gothic aesthetics, simultaneous…

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Marco Malvestio
Ruin Ecology

This Element discusses the presence of ruins in contemporary environmental imagination. Contemporary ruins, much more than those that served as constituents of Romantic and Gothic aesthetics, simultaneous…

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