The Biography of the Idea of Literature

Adrian Marino

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• The "idea of literature" is the very kernel of every literary study; however, this is the first survey of the historical development of this idea. Its... Lees meer

Thematics

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• This book aims at refocusing critical reflection on thematics in the arts, a topic that has been neglected recently. The volume is divided into four s... Lees meer

Intersections

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• Focusing on nineteenth-century philosophers from Schelling and Hegel to Nietzsche, and on contemporary theorists from Derrida to Kristeva and Lyotard,... Lees meer

Reading Emptiness

Jeff Humphries

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• Jeff Humphries is LSU Foundation Professor of Comparative Literature, French, and English, and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Louisi... Lees meer

Narralogues

Ronald Sukenick

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• One of the founders of the Fiction Collective, Ronald Sukenick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the au... Lees meer

Red Square, Black Square

Vladislav Todorov

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• Vladislav Todorov is in the Department of Slavic Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Lees meer

The Origins of the Gods

James S Hans

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• James S. Hans is Professor of English at Wake Forest University. His previous books are The Play of the World; Imitation and the Image of Man; The Que... Lees meer

Allegories of Writing

Bruce Clarke

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• Bruce Clarke is Associate Professor of English at Texas Tech University. Lees meer

Dancing in Damascus

Nancy Lindisfarne

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• Nancy Lindisfarne is Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of the Arab World at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She ha... Lees meer

A Community of One

Martin A Danahay

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• Complementing recent feminist studies of female self-representation, this book examines the dynamics of masculine self-representation in nineteenth-ce... Lees meer

Pound's Epic Ambition

Stephen Sicari

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• Stephen Sicari is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Adelphi University. Lees meer

Violence and Mediation in Contemporary Culture

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• Ronald Bogue is Professor and Head in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Georgia. He is co-editor of The Play of the Self , al... Lees meer

Post-Theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance

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• This book consists of a dialogue of genres (fiction, parables, essay, analytic, programmatic) on the topic of Eastern European political culture befor... Lees meer

Canetti and Nietzsche

Harriet Murphy

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• Harriet Murphy teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, England. Lees meer

Literary Voice

Donald Wesling, Tadeusz Slawek

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• Donald Wesling is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, San Diego, Tadeusz Sawek is Professor of English Literature and Cri... Lees meer

Gaps in Nature

Ellen Spolsky

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• Ellen Spolsky is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Lechter Institute for Literary Research at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Lees meer

Agonistics

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• This book examines the ambiguities inherent in the concept of the agon as a motivating, conflictual force behind creative and social expression. The n... Lees meer

Myth and Modernity

Milton Scarborough

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• Milton Scarborough is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Centre College. Lees meer

Don Juan East/West

Takayuki Yokota-Murakami

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• Takayuki Yokota-Murakami is Associate Professor in the Department of Russian, Faculty of Language Culture, at Osaka University. Lees meer

Agonistics

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This book examines the ambiguities inherent in the concept of the agon as a motivating, conflictual force behind creative and social expression. The n... Lees meer

Allegories of Writing

Bruce Clarke

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• Allegories of Writing presents the first full synthesis of allegory theory and literary metamorphosis. It examines the leading themes and the literary... Lees meer

Hisland

Fedwa Malti-Douglas

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• Hisland takes place in a fictional universe--the Islands of Ac-Ac, whose pride and joy is the educational institution of Ac-Ac U. Into this traditiona... Lees meer

Defying Gravity

Michael Syrotinski

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• Defying Gravity is a major reassessment of the work of Jean Paulhan within the context of his own times, as well as in the light of contemporary debat... Lees meer

The Site of Our Lives

James S Hans

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• This book addresses the question of human uniqueness at a time when academic discourse has all but abandoned its long-held commitment to the value of ... Lees meer