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  • Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal

    The Mother’s Son

    by James Martell ...
    Series series Among the Victorians and Modernists
    Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother,Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal proposes a new interpretation of literature by modernist authors like Rousseau, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, Joyce, and Beckett. Seen through this maternal relation, their writing appears as the product of an "anxiety" rising not from paternal influence, but from the violence done to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Beckett and Derrida

    by James Martell ...
    Series series Elements in Beckett Studies
    Uncannily similar projects, Beckett's and Derrida's oeuvres have been linked by literary and philosophy scholars since the 1990s. Taking into consideration their shared historical and personal contexts as writers whose main language of expression was 'adopted' or 'imposed', this Element proposes a systematic reading of their main points of connection. Focusing on their engagement with the ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Beckett and Nature

    Edited by Mr. Charles Clements, Dr. Eleanor Green, Dr. or Prof. James Martell ...
    New analyses on the insightful ways in which Beckett's work actively engages with contested notions of Nature and the natural, developing a radical version of modernism's main questions and insights.Beckett and Nature takes its cue from contemporary developments in Beckett scholarship focused on ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the Anthropocene, going beyond them into a questioning of the very ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism

    by Dr. Laci Mattison, Professor S. E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin ...
    Series series Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
    The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade's enduring influences on modernism and the philosophical need for continued analysis of his work and the questions it raises.From Lacan to Dalí, through Simone de Beauvoir, Beckett, Horkheimer, Burroughs, Pasolini, Foucault, Deleuze, up to Žižek, the Marquis de Sade's influence and impact on modernism and modern thinking is ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought

    Thinking in Migration

    by Jayjit Sarkar, Arka Chattopadhyay, Maria Carmen África Vidal Claramonte, Olivier Hercend, James Martell, Emelia Quinn, Erik S. Roraback, Heather H. Yeung, Ranjan Ghosh ...
    Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought: Thinking in Migration engages with Ranjan Ghosh’s concept of trans(in)fusion and critical theory. Trans(in)fusion reexamines critical thinking and considers how thinking across traditions and systems of thought can generate distinct interpretive experiences. The chapters not only analyze Ghosh’s work but provide insight into the authors’ individual ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Tattooed Bodies

    Theorizing Body Inscription Across Disciplines and Cultures

    Edited by James Martell, Erik Larsen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with diverse disciplinary perspectives in art history, continental philosophy, media studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory, literary studies, biopolitics, and cultural anthropology, the volume reflects ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Poststructuralism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Catherine Belsey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world. Language, meaning, and culture are all reappraised, and with them assumptions about what it's possible for us to know. More interested in posing sharply focused questions than in reassuring with certainties, its theorists tend to clarify ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Gilles Deleuze

    by Frida Beckman ...
    Series Book 75 - Critical Lives
    Gilles Deleuze, the person and philosopher, was both singular and multifaceted. Frida Beckman traces Deleuze’s remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the encounters from which his life and work emerged. She considers how his life and philosophical developments resonate with historical, political and philosophical events, from the Second World War to the student uprisings in the 1960s, the ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Moments for Nothing

    Samuel Beckett and the End Times

    by Gabriele Schwab ...
    Samuel Beckett’s work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett’s characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure, experiencing surreal and often comic repetitions that seem at once to confront finitude and the infinite, up to the limits of existence.Gabriele ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

    Edited by John Pilling ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in modern theatre history. As an author in both English and French and a writer for the page and the stage, Beckett has been the focus for specialist treatment in each of his many guises, but there have been ... Read more

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  • Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis

    How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Think, Pig!

    Beckett at the Limit of the Human

    by Jean-Michel Rabaté ...
    This book examines Samuel Beckett’s unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism’s postwar crisis—the courage to go on living even after experiencing life as a series of catastrophes.Rabaté, a former president of the Samuel Beckett Society and a leading scholar of modernism, explores the whole range of Beckett’s plays, novels, and essays. He places Beckett in a vital philosophical conversation ... Read more

    $35.09 USD