The Psychological Mystique

Stewart Justman

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• This text weighs the influence of psychology on culture, traces the therapeutic model to its roots, and examines the connection between psychology and... Lees meer

The Pathos of the Real

Robert Buch

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real--... Lees meer

Postmodern Pooh

Frederick Crews

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, this sequel of sorts to the class... Lees meer

A New History of Medieval French Literature

Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term "literature" as we know it today did not appear until ... Lees meer

Deleuze, the Dark Precursor

Eleanor Kaufman

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• A thoughtful and original analysis of the writings of influential French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most impo... Lees meer

The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception

William V Spanos

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• Critics predominantly view Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor as a "testament of acceptance," the work of a man who had become politically conservat... Lees meer

Writing Back

Susan Winnett

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• Explore the shock of the new--and the familiar--experienced by well-known expatriate writers when they returned to the United States. The migration of... Lees meer

The Life and Afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria

Tracy Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• The fascinating history of Isabeau of Bavaria is a tale of two queens. During her lifetime, Isabeau, the long-suffering wife of mad King Charles VI of... Lees meer

A Stanislaw LEM Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• Polish-born Lem is one of the best-selling unknown writers of science fiction in the US. This collection assembles in-depth and insightful writings by... Lees meer

The Return of the Author

Eugen Simion

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• The Romanian critic Eugen Simion contests leading twentieth-century critics who deny the author a place in criticism by maintaining that the author's ... Lees meer

Shakespeare and the Nature of Love

Marcus Nordlund

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultu... Lees meer

Musica Naturalis

Philipp Jeserich

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• A critical study of the relationship between poetics and music theory in medieval culture and aesthetics. Musica Naturalis delivers the first systemat... Lees meer

Midrash and Theory

David Stern

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• In Midrash and Theory, David Stern presents an approach to midrashic literature through the prism of contemporary theory. As midrash--the literature o... Lees meer

Bakhtin and Religion

Susan M Felch, Paul J Contino

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• The dimension of religion in the life and work of Bakhtin has been fiercely contested--and willfully ignored--by critics. Unique in its in-depth focus... Lees meer

Imagined Dialogues

Gordana Crnkovic

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• By conducting "imagined dialogues" between selected literary works--Eastern Europeans like Kis and Borowski on one hand, American and English writers ... Lees meer

Bakhtin in Contexts

• Hardcover | Rethinking Theory
• This work explores the revolutionary impact of Bakhtin's ideas have carried in contemporary discussions of language, art, culture and social science i... Lees meer

Testimony After Catastrophe

Stevan Weine

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• Survivors of political violence give testimonies in families and communities, trials and truth commissions, religious institutions, psychotherapies, n... Lees meer

The Psychoanalytic Movement

Ernest Gellner

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• How did psychoanalysis become so accepted by the public? This provocative book reconstructs the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of ... Lees meer

A Stanislaw Lem Reader

• Hardcover | Rethinking Theory
• A dialogue with Stanislow Lem, best known for his work in science fiction. His novels and short stories have been translated into over 40 languages an... Lees meer

Bakhtin in Contexts

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• The Russian critic M. M. Bakhtin has recently become a major figure in contemporary theory beyond his traditional influence in Slavic literary studies... Lees meer

Esther Regina

Andre Lacocque

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• In Esther Regina: A Bakhtinian Reading , distinguished scriptural scholar André LaCocque deploys the analytical frameworks of Russian critic Mikhail B... Lees meer

Literature and Human Equality

Stewart Justman

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr. ... Lees meer

Esther Regina

Andre Lacocque

• Hardcover | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• In Esther Regina: A Bakhtinian Reading , distinguished scriptural scholar André LaCocque deploys the analytical frameworks of Russian critic Mikhail B... Lees meer

Of Death and Dominion

Mohammed A Bamyeh

• Paperback | Engels | Rethinking Theory
• Death is the opposite not of life, but of power. And as such, Mohammed Bamyeh argues in this original work, death has had a great and largely unexplor... Lees meer