Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College Originally published in 1996. In The Cryptographic Imagination, Shawn Rosenheim uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity, a...Daugiau...
In Revolutionary Acts Susan Maslan shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which Parisian audiences, actors and playwrights, and political authorities fought to...Daugiau...
Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma...Daugiau...
Humanities, film studies, and social science scholars will find this book a valuable contribution to the philosophical literature on cinema and its pertinence in contemporary life....Daugiau...
This original study reveals the importance of ancient Cynicism in defining the Enlightenment and its legacy.Louisa Shea explores modernitys debt to Cynicism by examining the works of thinkers who turned to the ancient Cynics as a model for...Daugiau...
It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies....Daugiau...
As recognition of his contributions to twentieth-century philosophy have grown, more critics and scholars are drawn to his Cinema 1 and Cinema 2. However, some find Deleuzes interpretations of film difficult to place within the philosophical canon,...Daugiau...
Robinson (English, U. of Mississippi) offers a study of the history of Russian and German literary theory focused on the concepts of estrangement and alienation; formalist modernism; and their roots in German Romanticism, Hegel, and Marx. All the mov...Daugiau...
Stivale (French, Wayne State University) here discusses the role of the concept of friendship in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and how it fits into the fold, the place where life intersects, immanence into transcendence, one form of understandin...Daugiau...
Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France....Daugiau...
Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France....Daugiau...
This groundbreaking interpretation offers a new approach to the reading of medieval literature and revolutionizes the study of the Nibelungenlied itself-providing a richer understanding of the works significance both in its era and for our own....Daugiau...
After reviewing some the debates around the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons, Arnold (English, Princeton U.) explores the portrayal of political representation in the Rome of Shakespeares plays. The topics include political representation,...Daugiau...
It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies....Daugiau...
In this novel analysis of ways of seeing that have characterized and defined modernity, Koepnick (German, film and media studies, Washington U., St. Louis) examines the role and representation of window frames in painting, photography, architecture,...Daugiau...
Paul Celan has long been regarded as the most important European poet after 1945 but also the most difficult owing to the numerous references in his work to his personal history and to a cultural heritage spanning many disciplines, centuries, and lan...Daugiau...
French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) is important, says Sanyal (French, U. of California-Berkeley) because of his thinking about the contestatory possibilities of literary experience during a historical period when the very concept of critique wa...Daugiau...
The notion of impersonal passion beyond the bounds of both individual personality and reason was important to how the French Revolution was received in Germany, argues Gailus (German, U. of Minnesota). He examines texts by the three German authors in...Daugiau...
The increasing prevalence of the World Wide Web and the more recent, but rapidly growing, phenomena of weblogs (or simply blogs) means that many more people have experienced hypertextual media than was the case when the first edition of this book w...Daugiau...
George Landows widely acclaimed Hypertext was the first book to bring together the worlds of literary theory and computer technology. Landow was one of the first scholars to explore the implications of giving readers instant, easy access to a vir...Daugiau...
Through readings of Charlotte Lennox, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lord Kames, David Hume, Jane Austen and other 18th-century authors, Marshall (English and comparative literature, U. of California, Santa Barbara) examines the Enlightenment preoccupation w...Daugiau...
Within the field of philosophical criticism, Cohen (critical studies, California Institute of Arts) brings presuppositions to bear on the uses and abuses of history. His topics include the island of Taiwan as an example of how to make an a-historical...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
The French revolutionary theater was the first modern experience of the interaction of mass culture and mass politics, says Maslan (French, U. of California-Berkeley), and uses it to explore the relation of art and politics during the birth of mass p...Daugiau...
Abecassis (Romance languages and literatures, Pomona College) explores the work of French Jewish writer Cohen (1895-1981), whose highly autobiographical novels and essays are widely read in France but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world....Daugiau...
Offering a novel reading of Baudelaires ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseaus political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and politica...Daugiau...
One of the most influential literary works of the Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun contains a number of philosophical discussions viewed by many critics as a sign of disorganization. In this study, Heller-Ro...Daugiau...
Petrarchs sonnets have been recognized by many other scholars as the site for elite expressions of national sentiment in 16th century Italy. Kennedy (comparative literature, Cornell U.) expands upon this notion to argue that Petrarchs Rime sparse...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or novel? What are the new possibilities for representation offered by the emerging technology of virtual reality? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in...Daugiau...
Chaouli (Germanic studies, Indiana U.) examines how German romantic poet Schlegel (1772-1829) borrowed concepts and images from the then tumultuous field of chemistry to imagine the production and reception of verbal artifacts in entirely new ways th...Daugiau...
