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  • Proust and the Sense of Time

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Stephen Bann ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Julia Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, first delivered at the 1992 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures at Canterbury. Kristeva's first essay, “Proust and Time Embodied,” takes a broadly psychoanalytical, linguistically sensitive approach to Proust’s exploration of time and the operation of memory. Next, in “In Search of Madeline,” she ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Midway

    Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann 1964-69

    by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Stephen Bann ...
    Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth-century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of particular and widespread interest both within Scotland and further afield. His correspondence with Stephen Bann, the English poet and academic, have a very special place in this context. These letters ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Scenes and Traces of the English Civil War

    by Stephen Bann ...
    The English Civil War has become a frequent point of reference in contemporary political debate. A bitter and bloody series of conflicts, it shook the very foundations of seventeenth-century Britain. This is the first attempt to portray the visual legacy of this period, as passed down, revisited and periodically reworked over two and a half centuries of subsequent English history.Highly regarded ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • A History of the European Restorations

    Culture, Society and Religion

    by Stephen Bann ...
    The second volume shines a light on the cultural and social changes that took place during the epoch of European Restorations, when the death of the Napoleonic empire existed as a crucial moment for contemporaries. Expanding the transnational approach of Volume I, the chapters focus on the transmutation of ordinary experiences of war into folklore and popular culture, the emergence of grassroots ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Ways Around Modernism

    by Stephen Bann ...
    Series series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts
    Stephen Bann examines the arguments for the centrality of French modernist painting. He begins by focusing particularly on the notion of the modernist break, as it has been interpreted with regard to painters like Manet and Ingres. He argues that ‘curiosity’, with its origins in the seventeenth-century world-view can be a valid concept for understanding some aspects of contemporary art that ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Stonypath Days

    Letters between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Stephen Bann 1970-72

    by Ian Hamilton Finlay ...
    These letters to (and from) Finlay’s friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned Little Sparta’. They cover Finlay’s turn away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design, and the thinking behind, and consequences of, this development. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

    by René Girard ...
    Narrated by Mike Fraser ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 25 min

    An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and interest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the listener compelled to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
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  • Mourning Diary

    by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Intimate and deeply moving, Mourning Diary is a profound study of grief and solitude, drawn from the lost diary of influential philosopher Roland Barthes.The day after his mother's death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society's dismissal of grief. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sartre: Romantic Rationalist. Illustrated

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    In Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, acclaimed novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch presents a clear and insightful introduction to the complex thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century existentialism. This illustrated volume offers both a critique and a sympathetic exploration of Sartre’s philosophical and literary work. Murdoch examines Sartre’s central ideas, ... Read more

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  • Reading for the Plot

    Design and Intention in Narrative

    by Peter Brooks ...
    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

    $14.99 USD

  • The Perpetual Orgy

    Flaubert and Madame Bovary

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Helen Lane ...
    The Perpetual Orgy is Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant analysis of Gustav Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary. In this remarkable book, "we not only enjoy a dazzling explication, but experience a master discoursing at the top of his form on the craft of the novel" (Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe). It is a tribute to The Perpetual Orgy that it sends the reader back to Flaubert's work with renewed ... Read more

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