Habits of Distraction

Michael Wood

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this bo... Lees meer

Crrritic!

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Oscar Wilde famously spoke of 'the critic as artist' whilst Terry Eagleton once celebrated 'the critic as clown'. This exciting new volume brings toge... Lees meer

In Search of Vinteuil

James Holden

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Positioning himself as autobiographer, literary critic and pianist, James Holden presents an homage to Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (... Lees meer

Medium Is the Maker

J Hillis Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Inventions
• This book sets out to provide a new understanding of the nexus between the literary world and contemporary communication (iPhone et al.) in all its fa... Lees meer

Someone Called Derrida

John Schad

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead -- this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a... Lees meer

Habits of Distraction

Michael Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this bo... Lees meer

Rapture

David Punter

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Rapture': The act of seizing or carrying off as prey or plunder; the act of carrying or being carried; and the expression of ecstasy or euphoria in wo... Lees meer

Heideggers Bicycle

Roger Ebbatson

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• In the 1990s it was the French theorists such as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault who, with their stress on linguistic play and undecidability, took Victor... Lees meer

Prodigal Sign

Kevin Mills

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• "The Prodigal Sign" sets out to characterise criticism as a set of prodigal practices that exceed the constraints of primary texts, history, and theor... Lees meer

Figures of Heresy

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• God is dead, ' Nietzsche famously declared in The Gay Science; but this book will investigate God's surprising persistence and resurrection in the wor... Lees meer

English Question

Thomas Docherty

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So... Lees meer

Rapture

David Punter

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Rapture': The act of seizing or carrying off as prey or plunder; the act of carrying or being carried; and the expression of ecstasy or euphoria in wo... Lees meer

Heidegger's Bicycle

Roger Ebbatson

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Inventions
• In the 1990s it was the French theorists such as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault who, with their stress on linguistic play and undecidability, took Victor... Lees meer

Someone Called Derrida

John Schad

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead -- this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a... Lees meer

Prodigal Sign

Kevin Mills

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Inventions
• "The Prodigal Sign" sets out to characterise criticism as a set of prodigal practices that exceed the constraints of primary texts, history, and theor... Lees meer

David Daiches

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• David Daiches (1912-2005) was the first Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His distinguished career over more than half a century encom... Lees meer

Given: 1° Art 2° Crime

Jean-Michel Rabate

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Investigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and mass culture, as emblemat... Lees meer

English Question

Thomas Docherty

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Inventions
• To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So... Lees meer

Crrritic!

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Oscar Wilde famously spoke of 'the critic as artist' whilst Terry Eagleton once celebrated 'the critic as clown'. This exciting new volume brings toge... Lees meer

Given: 1° Art 2° Crime

Jean-Michel Rabate

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Inventions
• Investigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and mass culture, as emblemat... Lees meer