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  • Representing Middle-earth

    Tolkien, Form, and Ideology

    by Robert T. Tally, Jr. ...
    In such classic works as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien depicts a vast, complex world-system. Tolkien's Middle-earth comes to life with intensely detailed historical, geographical, and multicultural content, which is presented through different poetic forms that combine elements of epic, romance, myth, history, and the modern novel. This book analyzes ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Critical Situation

    Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies

    by Robert T. Tally Jr ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem symploke Studies in Theory
    The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies comprises a selection of essays that register the situatedness of critical theory and practice amid various intellectual, institutional, and cultural contexts. This book offers examples of situated criticism, which in turn are concerned with the ways in which literary and cultural criticism are and have been situated in ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Topophrenia

    Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination

    by Robert T. Tally ...
    What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of ... Read more

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  • Topophrenia

    Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination

    by Robert T. Tally Jr. ...
    What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fredric Jameson

    The Project of Dialectical Criticism

    by Robert T. Tally ...
    Series series Marxism and Culture
    Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly old-fashioned philosophical discourses, most notably dialectical criticism and utopian thought.In Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism, Robert Tally surveys Jameson's entire oeuvre, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit"

    Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion

    by Robert T. Tally Jr. ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a critical introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but it also advances an argument about the novel in the context of Tolkien’s larger literary and philosophical project. Notwithstanding its canonical place in the fantasy genre, The Hobbit is ultimately a historical novel. It does not refer directly to any “real” historical events, but it both enacts and conceptualizes history in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Spatial Literary Studies

    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination

    Edited by Robert T. Tally Jr. ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. These essays reflect upon the representation of space and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Geocritical Cosmopolitanism

    Space, Literature, and the Sense of the Global

    by Robert T. Tally Jr. ...
    Is the world a place? As its inhabitants, we belong to the world, with its increasingly interconnected systems and cultures, but the cosmopolitanism of our daily lives is often hidden from view. In this innovative study, Robert T. Tally Jr. challenges our fundamental understanding of what constitutes the “world” in an age of shifting spatial boundaries.The conception of the “world” profoundly ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • For a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists

    Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism

    by Robert T. Tally Jr. ...
    For a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists takes as its point of departure two profound and interrelated phenomena. The first is the pervasive sense of what Mark Fisher had called “capitalist realism", in which (to cite the famous expression variously attributed to Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek) it is easier to imagine the end of the world than then end of capitalism. As Jameson in particular ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Future of Totality

    Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory

    Edited by Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Robert T. Tally Jr. ...
    Following his death in 2024, Fredric Jameson’s vast body of work continues to challenge orthodoxies while retaining close ties to older critical and philosophical traditions, notably dialectical criticism, formal analysis, and utopian discourse. The Future of Totality brings together a selection of Jameson's former students and other prominent scholars thinking from Jameson, rather than writing on ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora

    Edited by Melody Yunzi Li, Robert T. Tally Jr. ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their “homelands” in literature, film, and visual culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions interact with space and place, as well as how theories of affect change our thinking of diaspora. Questions of borders and border-crossing, not ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Spatial Literary Studies in China

    Edited by Ying Fang, Robert T. Tally Jr. ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on the study of Western literature, especially U.S. and European texts and theory, and the second has examined Chinese cultures, texts ... Read more

    $134.09 USD