Thematics

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• 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

Narralogues

Ronald Sukenick

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• These "narralogues" combine story and argument, moving from Socratic dialogue to outright narrative, and ultimately making the case that fiction is a ... Lees meer

Red Square, Black Square

Vladislav Todorov

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This book builds a new vision of the development of Russian revolutionary culture, bringing together fiction, criticism, utopian projects, manifestos,... Lees meer

Intersections

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• A study of the relationship between postmodernism and post-enlightenment German thought reading the contemporary theoretical scene through its ninetee... Lees meer

Reading Emptiness

Jeff Humphries

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• Concludes that the closest thing in Western culture to the Middle Way of Buddhism is not any sort of theory or philosophy, but the practice of literat... Lees meer

The Biography of the Idea of Literature

Adrian Marino

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• A comprehensive examination of the meaning, history, and evolution of the basic notion of "literature" from antiquity to the seventeenth century. The ... Lees meer

The Origins of the Gods

James S Hans

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• Based on Nietzsche's critique of religion and culture, and engaging the contemporary offshoots of that critique, this book assesses the myths of origi... Lees meer

Allegories of Writing

Bruce Clarke

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• A theoretical study of human metamorphosis in Western literature Allegories of Writing presents the first full synthesis of allegory theory and litera... Lees meer

Dancing in Damascus

Nancy Lindisfarne

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• These nine short stories explore love and loss in contemporary Damascus, as well as the possibilities of writing ethnography as fiction. Growing out o... Lees meer

Other Selves

Paul Schollmeier

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This book presents a thorough and systematic integration of Aristotle's analysis of friendship with the main lines of the rest of his work in Politics... Lees meer

Pound's Epic Ambition

Stephen Sicari

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This book is both an introductory overview of The Cantos and a detailed analysis advancing the knowledge of even the most sophisticated specialist. Si... Lees meer

A Community of One

Martin A Danahay

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• Complementing recent feminist studies of female self-representation, this book examines the dynamics of masculine self-representation in nineteenth-ce... Lees meer

Environmental Deceptions

Matthew Alan Cahn

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• Explores the tensions between American political culture, which is predicated on self-interest, and environmental regulation, which restricts individu... Lees meer

Literary Voice

Donald Wesling, Tadeusz Slawek

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This response to Derrida's critique of the spoken uses dozens of examples in four languages to explore the voice that is in writing. Jacques Derrida h... Lees meer

Gaps in Nature

Ellen Spolsky

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This book is a study of the relation between cognitive linguistics and literary theory. Theory of literary interpretation is reinterpreted in terms of... Lees meer

Violence and Mediation in Contemporary Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This collection of essays addresses two major issues of contemporary culture: the problem of violence in relation to notions of "difference" and power... Lees meer

Canetti and Nietzsche

Harriet Murphy

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This first full-length study investigates the profound implications of the peculiarly original sense of humor found in Elias Canetti's single novel--a... Lees meer

Agonistics

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• Focuses on a very significant psycho-cultural concept (that of "agonistics" or "contestatory creativity") with ramifications in several areas of the p... Lees meer

Myth and Modernity

Milton Scarborough

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This book surveys selected modern theories of myth from philosophy, religion, anthropology, sociology, and psychoanalysis to demonstrate a common comm... Lees meer

Don Juan East/West

Takayuki Yokota-Murakami

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• An essential guide for those who seek to reconsider the theoretical problems of (trans-civilizational) comparative literature, those who are intereste... Lees meer

The Possibilities of Society

Regina Hewitt

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• Approaches English Romanticism through sociological theory, arguing that Wordsworth and Coleridge tested hypotheses about social organization and acti... Lees meer

On Other Grounds

Brigitte Weltman-Aron

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• Examines eighteenth-century French and English landscape gardens as representations of nationalist expression. On Other Grounds addresses the broader ... Lees meer

Composing Teacher-Research

Cathy Fleischer

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This story of a teacher's growth as a researcher in the classroom reflects the larger issues of the debate about this kind of research during the last... Lees meer

Communicating for Development

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, the Margins of Literature
• This book discusses the place of communication in economic development and social change, not only as it pertains to "developing" societies, but also ... Lees meer