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  • The Measure of Man

    Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance

    by Lawrence Rothfield ...
    It was one of the most concentrated surges of creativity in the history of civilization. Between 1390 and 1537, Florence poured forth an astonishing stream of magnificent artworks. But Florentines did more during this brief period than create masterpieces. As citizens of a fractious republic threatened from below, without, and within, they also were driven to reimagine the political and ethical ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Vital Signs

    Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    by Lawrence Rothfield ...
    Series series Literature in History
    Vital Signs offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. Rejecting theories that equate realism with representation, Lawrence Rothfield argues that literary history forms a subset of the history of discourses and their attendant practices. He shows how clinical medicine provided Balzac, Flaubert, Eliot, and others ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

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    The Measure of Man

    Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance

    by Lawrence Rothfield ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    It was one of the most concentrated surges of creativity in the history of civilization. Between 1390 and 1537, Florence poured forth an astonishing stream of magnificent artworks. But Florentines did more during this brief period than create masterpieces. As citizens of a fractious republic threatened from below, without, and within, they also were driven to reimagine the political and ethical ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Reading for the Plot

    Design and Intention in Narrative

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    A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. ... Read more

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  • Seduced by Story

    The Use and Abuse of Narrative

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    In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling.“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story.Forty years after publishing his seminal work ... Read more

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  • Jacques Lacan, Past and Present

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    by Alain Badiou, Elisabeth Roudinesco ...
    Translated by Jason E. Smith ...
    In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou's experience with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary on Trial

    by Dominick LaCapra ...
    In 1857, following the publication of Madame Bovary**, Flaubert was charged with having committed an "outrage to public morality and religion.**" Dominick LaCapra, an intellectual historian with wide-ranging literary interests, here examines this remarkable trial. LaCapra draws on material from Flaubert's correspondence, the work of literary critics, and Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of Flaubert. ... Read more

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  • Speech Begins after Death

    by Michel Foucault, Claude Bonnefoy ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial interview survived and is now being published for the first time in English. In this brief and ... Read more

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  • Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

    by Didier Eribon, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...
    Translated by Michael Lucey ...
    Series series Series Q
    A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on “the gay question” by Didier Eribon, one of France’s foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is ... Read more

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  • Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

    Intersecting Lives

    by Francois Dosse ...
    Translated by Deborah Glassman ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a ... Read more

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  • Unclaimed Experience

    Trauma, Narrative, and History

    by Cathy Caruth ...
    The pathbreaking work that founded the field of trauma studies.In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century—both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it—we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. Through the notion of trauma, ... Read more

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