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  • Literature, Interpretation and Ethics

    by Colin Davis ...
    Literature, Interpretation and Ethics argues for the centrality of hermeneutics in the context of ongoing debates about the value and values of literature, and about the role and ethics of literary study. Hermeneutics is the endeavor to understand the nature of interpretation, as it poses vital questions about how we make sense of works of art, our own lives, other people and the world around us ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma

    Edited by Colin Davis, Hanna Meretoja ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    Literary trauma studies is a rapidly developing field which examines how literature deals with the personal and cultural aspects of trauma and engages with such historical and current phenomena as the Holocaust and other genocides, 9/11, climate catastrophe or the still unsettled legacy of colonialism.The Routledge Companion to Literature and Traumais a comprehensive guide to the history and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Silent Renoir

    Philosophy and the Interpretation of Early Film

    by Colin Davis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema. In the 1930s he directed a string of films which stretched the formal, intellectual, political and aesthetic boundaries of the art form, including works such as Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, La Grande Illusion, La Bête humaine and La Règle du jeu. However, the great director’s early ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Storytelling and Ethics

    Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative

    Edited by Hanna Meretoja, Colin Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not only literature and art but also our everyday lives as well as our dreams, fantasies, aspirations, historical self-understanding, and political actions. The question of the ethics of storytelling always, inevitably, lurks behind these discussions, though ... Read more

    $59.00 USD

  • Atlas of Endometriosis

    by Caroline Overton, Robert W. Shaw, Lindsay McMillan, Colin Davis ...
    Series series Encyclopedia of Visual Medicine Series
    Endometriosis affects women in the reproductive years, is associated with pelvic pain and infertility, and - although not life threatening - can seriously impair health, with huge economic and social consequences. It is arguably the most frequent problem encountered in contemporary More...gynecology and is the subject of much ongoing research and innovation in management. This beautifully and ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • Critical Excess

    Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell

    by Colin Davis ...
    The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the study of literature and film: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Žižek, and Stanley ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Levinas

    An Introduction

    by Colin Davis ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the 20th century.In this much-needed introduction, Davis unpacks the concepts at the centre of Levinas's thought - alterity, the Other, the Face, infinity - concepts which have previously presented readers with major problems of ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700

    Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality

    by James Colin Davis ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined ‘realities’. Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 explores the nature and meaning of radicalism in a traditional society; the necessity of fiction both in rejecting and constructing the status quo; and the circumstances in which ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • After Poststructuralism

    Reading, Stories, Theory

    by Colin Davis ...
    In the last decades of the twentieth century, French poststructuralist 'theory' transformed the humanities; it also met with resistance and today we frequently hear that theory is 'dead'.In this brilliantly argued volume, Colin Davis:*reconsiders key arguments for and against theory, identifying significant misreadings*reassesses the contribution of poststructuralist thought to the critical issues ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Postwar Renoir

    Film and the Memory of Violence

    by Colin Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir’s work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma.The 1930s ended in catastrophe for both for Renoir and for France: La Règle du jeu was a critical and commercial disaster on its release in July 1939 and in 1940 France was occupied by Germany. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Derrida's Legacies

    Literature and Philosophy

    Edited by Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone ...
    This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life and come to terms with the death of one of the most important intellectual presences of our time.Derrida’s thought reached into nearly every corner of contemporary intellectual culture and the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Spinoza Contra Phenomenology

    French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze

    by Knox Peden ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in France was pleased with this German import. This ... Read more

    $24.59 USD