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  • The Elements of Academic Style

    Writing for the Humanities

    by Eric Hayot ...
    Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious students, newly minted Ph.D ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Humanist Reason

    A History. An Argument. A Plan

    by Eric Hayot ...
    Ask just about any humanist, and you will hear that the humanities are in a crisis. Facing utilitarian approaches to education, the corporatization of the university, plummeting enrollments, budget cuts, and political critiques from right, left, and center, humanists find themselves on the defensive. Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Information

    A Reader

    Edited by Eric Hayot, Lea Pao, Anatoly Detwyler ...
    For decades, we have been told we live in the “information age”—a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Information

    A Reader

    Edited by Eric Hayot, Lea Pao, Anatoly Detwyler ...
    For decades, we have been told we live in the “information age”—a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Humanist Reason

    A History. An Argument. A Plan

    by Eric Hayot ...
    Ask just about any humanist, and you will hear that the humanities are in a crisis. Facing utilitarian approaches to education, the corporatization of the university, plummeting enrollments, budget cuts, and political critiques from right, left, and center, humanists find themselves on the defensive. Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Hypothetical Mandarin

    Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

    by Eric Hayot ...
    Series series Modernist Literature & Culture
    Through readings of novels, medical case studies, travelers' reports, photographs, and paintings, The Hypothetical Mandarin shows that in the West the connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "China." Eric Hayot, through keen interpretations of myriad art forms and nonfictional ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • On Literary Worlds

    by Eric Hayot ...
    Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that characterize technological development. However this quintessentially modern mindset--putting progress at the center of historicity--makes it difficult for anyone eager to mount a case for why someone interested ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Divided Lenses

    Screen Memories of War in East Asia

    by Michael Berry, Chiho Sawada, David Desser, Professor Eric Hayot, Professor Kyu Hyun Kim, Professor Hyangjin Lee, Professor Wenchi Lin, Professor Robert Brent Toplin, Professor Lily Wong0, Professor Yingjin Zhang1, Aaron Gerow2 ...
    Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism

    Edited by Eric Hayot, Rebecca Walkowitz ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an American and European phenomenon. Those parameters have expanded in recent decades, but the incorporation of multiple origins and influences has ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Persistent Forms

    Explorations in Historical Poetics

    Edited by Ilya Kliger, Boris Maslov ...
    Series series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    Since the mid-1980s, attempts to think history and literature together have produced much exciting work in the humanities. Indeed, some form of historicism can be said to inform most of the current scholarship in literary studies, including work in poetics, yet much of this scholarship remains undertheorized.Envisioning a revitalized and more expansive historicism, this volume builds on the ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • What Is Information?

    by Peter Janich ...
    Translated by Eric Hayot, Lea Pao ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinkerIt is widely agreed that we live in an “information age,” but what exactly is information? This small, seemingly facile question is in fact surprisingly difficult, and it has occupied many of the best philosophical minds of the modern age.In this wholly original addition to the quest to understand ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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