Witnessing Beyond the Human

Kate Jenckes

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• This book rethinks the nature of testimony beyond the ground of the human in works produced in Chile and Argentina from the 1970s to the present. Focu... Lees meer

The Blossom Which We Are

Nir Evron

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• The Blossom Which We Are traces the emergence of a distinctly modern form of human vulnerability--our intimate dependence on the fragile and time-boun... Lees meer

Toward an African Future--Of the Limit of World

Nahum Dimitri Chandler

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Widely known for his probing analysis of W. E. B. Du Bois's early work, in this book Nahum Dimitri Chandler references writing from across the whole o... Lees meer

Echoes of a Queer Messianic

Richard O Block

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly com... Lees meer

Poetics of Breathing

Stefanie Heine

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Breathing and its rhythms--liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous--have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Exami... Lees meer

The Other Synaesthesia

Susan Bernstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• This book investigates synaesthesia in philosophy and literature, from Aristotle to Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Luc Nancy and beyond. Its central claim... Lees meer

The Love of Ruins

Scott Cutler Shershow, Scott Michaelsen

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his c... Lees meer

This Side of Philosophy

Stephen Gingerich

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Struck by the contrast between the prestige of their literary tradition and their apparent philosophical insignificance, modern writers from Spain hav... Lees meer

The Vocation of Writing

Marc Crépon

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Within the violence our societies must confront today exists a dimension proper to language. Anyone who has been through the educational system, for e... Lees meer

Figures of Time

David Ben-Merre

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets--Wallace St... Lees meer

The Vocation of Writing

Marc Crépon

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Within the violence our societies must confront today exists a dimension proper to language. Anyone who has been through the educational system, for e... Lees meer

Between Celan and Heidegger

Pablo Oyarzun

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• The relevance of Martin Heidegger's thinking to Paul Celan's poetry is well known. Between Celan and Heidegger proposes that, while the relation betwe... Lees meer

The Writing of Innocence

Aïcha Liviana Messina

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the writing of Maurice Blanchot. Its startin... Lees meer

Thresholds, Encounters

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Paul Celan's works dwell on the threshold between the extremes of poetic expression and philosophical reflection. The divergent literary and critical ... Lees meer

Knowing It When You See It

Patrick O'Donnell

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Perched as he was at the beginning of literary modernism and the evolution of film as a medium, Henry James addressed a cluster of epistemological and... Lees meer

Literature and Skepticism

Pablo Oyarzun

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature--in particular, the narrative form and th... Lees meer

Literature and Interregnum

Patrick Dove

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity through readings of end-of-millennium literary texts by César... Lees meer

Phrase

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007) is widely acknowledged in his native France and in the English-speaking world as one of the most important philos... Lees meer

Between Celan and Heidegger

Pablo Oyarzun

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• The relevance of Martin Heidegger's thinking to Paul Celan's poetry is well known. Between Celan and Heidegger proposes that, while the relation betwe... Lees meer

The Play of Light

Ann Smock

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Drawing from five contemporary French poets--Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet--Ann Smock juxta... Lees meer

The Writing of Innocence

Aïcha Liviana Messina

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the writing of Maurice Blanchot. Its startin... Lees meer

Literature and Skepticism

Pablo Oyarzun

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature--in particular, the narrative form and th... Lees meer

Echoes of a Queer Messianic

Richard O Block

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly com... Lees meer

The Lily's Tongue

Frances Maughan-Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory
• How do texts speak with authority? That is the question at the heart of Kierkegaard's theory and practice of "indirect communication." None of Kierkeg... Lees meer