(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855800012)
What does it mean to be human? And, more precisely, what does it mean to be human now, with both humanism and the humanities in crisis? In answer to these questions, Laughing on the Brink of Humanity seeks not some essence of the human but rather an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438499727)
The sense of smell has long been the most neglected of the human senses in literature. Common Scents sets out to undo this forgetting of olfactory sense-making by tracing the appearance of odors in modern German and French poetry. Jonas Rosenbruck ar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438494395)
Paul Celans works dwell on the threshold between the extremes of poetic expression and philosophical reflection. The divergent literary and critical idioms that have marked Celans writing-and that Celans writing has come to mark for others (Hamach...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438493633)
This book investigates synaesthesia in philosophy and literature, from Aristotle to Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Luc Nancy and beyond. Its central claim is that while synaesthesia is generally read as a figure of transcendence and unity, there is anoth...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438492223)
Struck by the contrast between the prestige of their literary tradition and their apparent philosophical insignificance, modern writers from Spain have devoted themselves to exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. This Side of Philo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438489018)
An original reading of Blanchots thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the writing of Maurice Blanchot. Its startin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438488387)
The relevance of Martin Heideggers thinking to Paul Celans poetry is well known. Between Celan and Heidegger proposes that, while the relation between them is undeniable, it is also marked by irreducible discord. Pablo Oyarzun begins with a deconst...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438486819)
Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature-in particular, the narrative form and the essay....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438484204)
Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.Widely known for his probing analysis of W. E. B. Du Boiss early work, in this book Nahum Dimitri Chandler...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438483597)
Breathing and its rhythms-liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous-have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breaths punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438482781)
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 aesthetic issues related to the visualization of reality. In Knowing It When You See It, Patrick O...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438481517)
Drawing from five contemporary French poets-Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet-Ann Smock juxtaposes them and provides a milieu suitable for philosophical reflection on identity, on not-being and b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438480695)
The Blossom Which We Are traces the emergence of a distinctly modern form of human vulnerability-our intimate dependence on the fragile and time-bound cultural frameworks that we inhabit-as it manifests in the realm of the novel. Nir Evron juxtaposes...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438476353)
How do texts speak with authority? That is the question at the heart of Kierkegaards theory and practice of "e;indirect communication."e; None of Kierkegaards texts respond to this question more concisely and powerfully than the four discou...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438471105)
The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthes most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007) is widely acknowledged in his native France...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438469621)
Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.Within the violence our societies must confront today exists a dimension proper to language. Anyone who has been through the educational system, for example, recog...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Mar-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438469560)
Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining the two main currents of recent queer theory, the asocial and the reparative, he reconsiders...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438468341)
Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets-Wallace Ste...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2017, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438465722)
Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.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....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2017, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438465128)
Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "e;Cthulhu mythos"e; is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has...Loe edasi...
