Sari: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781119067313)
Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822370260)
The contributors to Territories and Trajectories propose a model of cultural production and transmission based on the global diffusion, circulation, and exchange of people, things, and ideas across time and space....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822359234)
The contributors to Territories and Trajectories propose a model of cultural production and transmission based on the global diffusion, circulation, and exchange of people, things, and ideas across time and space....Loe edasi...
This book correlates English-speaking childrens brain development and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes from childrens books. Drawing from the most current research on the developing brain, the author demonstrates h...Loe edasi...
Myra Writgh takes ecocritical studies on an interdisciplinary turn toward the water with her new research monograph, The Poetics of Angling in Early Modern England. Identifying the lively presence of both literal and metaphorical images of spor...Loe edasi...
At Home in the Metropole presents a new approach to diasporic fiction that reorients postcolonial readings of migration away from processes of displacement and rupture towards those of placement and homemaking. While notions of home have freque...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319752884)
This book explores Thomas Paines French decade, from the publication of the first part of Rights of Man in the spring of 1791 to his return trip to the United States in the fall of 1802....Loe edasi...
This book explores how military memoirs come to be written and published. Looking at the journeys through which soldiers and other military personnel become writers, the authors draw on over 250 military memoirs published since 1980 about ser...Loe edasi...
Sari: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319766317)
This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the periods changing understanding of error. With striking interdisciplinary connections to theater treatises as well as works from the philosophica...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319770772)
Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a “critical philosophy in the condition of modernism”. Its most important and original...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319773223)
Have industrial-age technologies and visual discourses transformed us into spectators of the real, and can realist fiction make that transformation visible to us? This book brings Situationist Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle...Loe edasi...
The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subje...Loe edasi...
This book examines the ways digital networks facilitate new dissemination models for information, aesthetic texts, and amateur media by tracing the proliferation of viral structures. A viral structure can be a text, video, internet joke, compute...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198820437)
This volume explores the spatial framework of Herodotus Histories, the Greek historians account of Persian imperialism in the sixth and fifth century BC and its culmination in a series of grand expeditions against Greece itself. Focusing o...Loe edasi...
In the Blood is Andrew Motions beautifully written prose memoir of growing up in post-war England. Written from a teenage childs point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of expression and freshn...Loe edasi...
A passionate, hilarious, joyful love letter to Russian literature Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph A delightful primer and companion to all the authors you are ashamed to admit you havent read The Times Viv Groskop has discovered the meaning...Loe edasi...
The Little Shakespeare Book is the perfect primer to the works of William Shakespeare, packed with witty illustrations and inspirational quotes, now in a handy compact size. This bold book covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night...Loe edasi...
Sublime Woolf was written in a burst of enthusiasm after the author, Daniel T. OHara was finally able to teach Virginia Woolfs modernist classics again. This book focuses on those uncanny visionary passages when in elaborating a moment of being,...Loe edasi...
Beowulfs presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulfs Popular Afterlife exa...Loe edasi...
Jean-Luc Nancy, Sarah Clift, Simon Sparks, Jeffrey S. Librett
Sari: Lit Z
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823279944)
This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and force...Loe edasi...
Jean-Luc Nancy, Sarah Clift, Simon Sparks, Jeffrey S. Librett
Sari: Lit Z
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823279951)
Portraits, this book suggests, unlock the paradoxes of subjectivity. Nancy shows how the portrait, far from conveying a sitter’s self-sameness, is suspended between proximity and distance, likeness and strangeness, representation and presentation,...Loe edasi...
Gilad Sharvit, Gilad Sharvit, Karen S. Feldman, Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel, Ronald Hendel, Catherine Malabou, Gabriele Schwab, Yael Segalovitz
Sari: Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823280025)
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823279821)
How did we arrive at our contemporary consumer media economy? Why are we now fixated on screens, imbibing information that constantly expires, and longing for more direct or authentic kinds of experience? The Mediated Mind answers these questi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503605442)
Challenging the two cultures debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the Brit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780804799157)
This book tells the story of how Uncle Tom, the Christ-like protagonist of Uncle Toms Cabin, became a racial epithet and why Americans have been invoking this controversial figure for more than 160 years. Uncle Tom charts th...Loe edasi...
Sari: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781119067313)
Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period....Loe edasi...
The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subje...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319773223)
Have industrial-age technologies and visual discourses transformed us into spectators of the real, and can realist fiction make that transformation visible to us? This book brings Situationist Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319770772)
Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a “critical philosophy in the condition of modernism”. Its most important and original...Loe edasi...
Sari: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319766317)
This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the periods changing understanding of error. With striking interdisciplinary connections to theater treatises as well as works from the philosophica...Loe edasi...
This book explores how military memoirs come to be written and published. Looking at the journeys through which soldiers and other military personnel become writers, the authors draw on over 250 military memoirs published since 1980 about ser...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319752884)
This book explores Thomas Paines French decade, from the publication of the first part of Rights of Man in the spring of 1791 to his return trip to the United States in the fall of 1802....Loe edasi...
At Home in the Metropole presents a new approach to diasporic fiction that reorients postcolonial readings of migration away from processes of displacement and rupture towards those of placement and homemaking. While notions of home have freque...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822370260)
The contributors to Territories and Trajectories propose a model of cultural production and transmission based on the global diffusion, circulation, and exchange of people, things, and ideas across time and space....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822359234)
The contributors to Territories and Trajectories propose a model of cultural production and transmission based on the global diffusion, circulation, and exchange of people, things, and ideas across time and space....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520295377)
When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror contends, the colonial modernity within which...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520295384)
When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror contends, the colonial modernity within which...Loe edasi...
This book correlates English-speaking childrens brain development and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes from childrens books. Drawing from the most current research on the developing brain, the author demonstrates h...Loe edasi...
Myra Writgh takes ecocritical studies on an interdisciplinary turn toward the water with her new research monograph, The Poetics of Angling in Early Modern England. Identifying the lively presence of both literal and metaphorical images of spor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487502331)
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disabi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Cricket Books, a division of Carus Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9780812699791)
Philosophers debate how Orwells nightmare world compares to todays world of political acrimony and discontent. Although the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a hug...Loe edasi...
