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  • Exorbitance

    A Grammar of Overdoing

    by Steven Connor ...
    Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance – of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence – preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the idea of going unreasonably beyond what is reasonable that exercises fascination? In this wide-ranging work, essayist and scholar Steven Connor reflects on the considerable and persistent force of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • The Madness of Knowledge

    On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing

    by Steven Connor ...
    Many human beings have considered the powers and the limits of human knowledge, but few have wondered about the power that the idea of knowledge has over us. The Madness of Knowledge is the first book to investigate this emotional inner life of knowledge – the lusts, fantasies, dreams and fears that the idea of knowing provokes. There are in-depth discussions of the imperious will to know, of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Living by Numbers

    In Defence of Quantity

    by Steven Connor ...
    Ideas about quantities, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In Living by Numbers, now available in paperback, Steven Connor explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers. The book opens up for the first time the richness, variety and subtlety of how we do things with numbers and, just as importantly, how they ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Giving Way

    Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions

    by Steven Connor ...
    In a world that promotes assertion, agency, and empowerment, this book challenges us to revalue a range of actions and attitudes that have come to be disregarded or dismissed as merely passive. Mercy, resignation, politeness, restraint, gratitude, abstinence, losing well, apologizing, taking care: today, such behaviors are associated with negativity or lack. But the capacity to give way is better ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

    Edited by Steven Connor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, ... Read more

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  • Gaston Bachelard

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Steven Connor ...
    This is the first English biography of Gaston Bachelard, a philosopher who bridged the worlds of science and imagination. Raised in rural France, Bachelard served in the First World War, worked for the post office and pursued degrees in science and philosophy while teaching in his local school. His journey led to a professorship at the Sorbonne, where he influenced many prominent postwar French ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination

    by Steven Connor ...
    Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett. This book presents Connor's finest published work on Beckett alongside fresh essays that explore how Beckett has shaped major themes in modernism and twentieth-century literature. Through discussions of sport, nausea, slowness, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Styles of Seriousness

    by Steven Connor ...
    Being serious demands serious kinds of work. In Styles of Seriousness, Steven Connor reflects on the surprisingly various ways in which a sense of the serious is made and maintained, revealing that while seriousness is the most powerful feeling, it is also the most poignantly indeterminate, perhaps because of the impossibility of being completely serious.In colloquy with philosophers such as ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Dreamwork

    Why All Work Is Imaginary

    by Steven Connor ...
    Dreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads and ideals we have regarding work. Its central argument is that, although we depend on the idea of work for our identity as humans, we feel we must disguise from ourselves the fact that we do not know what work is. There is no example of work that nobody might under some circumstances do for fun. All work is imaginary – which is not to say that ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present

    by Professor Steven Connor, Steven Connor ...
    Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as* George Orwell* William Golding* Angela Carter* Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo* Hanif Kureishi* Marina Warner* Maggie GeeWritten by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Beyond Words

    Sobs, Hums, Stutters and other Vocalizations

    by Steven Connor ...
    Aristotle defined voice as ‘a particular sound made by something with a soul; for nothing which does not have a soul has a voice’. Beyond Words encompasses human language outside words, the realm of the sounds of the mouth, controlled and automatic, which bring depth, meaning and confusion in equal measure to our communication as humans. Steven Connor takes in the phantasmal life of excitements, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Charles Dickens

    by Steven Connor ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    Dickens is second only to Shakespeare in the range and intensity of critical discussion which his work has provoked. His writing is central to literature and culture across the English-speaking world. In this important new anthology, Steven Connor gathers together representative examples of the range of new critical approaches to Dickens over the last two decades. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD