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  • The Outward Mind

    Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature

    by Benjamin Morgan ...
    Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In The Outward Mind, Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences. Moving chronologically from natural theology in the ... Read more

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  • Digressions in Deep Time

    Ecocritical Approaches to Literature and the Arts

    by Declan Lloyd, Warren Mortimer, Richard D. G. Irvine, John McPhee, Benjamin Morgan, Andrew Tate, Roger Davis, Joel Evans, Emil Tangham Hazelhurst0, Bernard T. Joy1, Sean Keck2, Stephen Mercier3, William Nolen4, María Gloria Robalino5, Flora Sagers6, James Calvin Taylor7, Sarah Wagstaffe8, Jakub Zdebik9, Anthony Enns0 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    “Deep time” is a term which attempts to capture temporal scales far beyond human comprehension. These are stretches of time epitomised by geological and cosmic scale processes, vast enough to make the entirety of human existence appear as little more than a footnote. The past few years have seen a boom in texts dedicated to the study of deep time, extending across a broad range of disciplines ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Ecological Form

    System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire

    by Nathan K. Hensley, Philip Steer, Karen Pinkus, Lynn Voskuil, Jesse Oak Taylor, Teresa Shewry, Aaron Rosenberg, Benjamin Morgan, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller0, Deanna K. Kreisel1, Adam Grener2, Sukanya Banerjee3, Monique Allewaert4 ...
    Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental ... Read more

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    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

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  • Analytic Philosophy

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    by Michael Beaney ...
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    Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy established itself in various forms in the 1930s. After the Second World War, it developed further in North America, in the rest of Europe, and is now growing in influence as the dominant philosophical ... Read more

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  • The Event of Literature

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    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... Read more

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  • Poststructuralism

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  • Critical Practice

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    Series series New Accents
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  • The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

    Edited by Peter Childs, Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Dictionaries
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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

    by Richard Eldridge ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
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  • Narrative Fiction

    Contemporary Poetics

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  • The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy

    Edited by Michael Beaney ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy
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