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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “timothy bewes”
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    The Novel in a Postfictional Age

    by Timothy Bewes ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Winner, 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismEverywhere today, we are urged to “connect.” Literary critics celebrate a new “honesty” in contemporary fiction or call for a return to “realism.” Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of twentieth-century writing—E. M. Forster’s “Only connect . . .” and Fredric Jameson’s ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Novel in a Postfictional Age

    by Timothy Bewes ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Winner, 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismEverywhere today, we are urged to “connect.” Literary critics celebrate a new “honesty” in contemporary fiction or call for a return to “realism.” Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of twentieth-century writing—E. M. Forster’s “Only connect . . .” and Fredric Jameson’s ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World

    Filiations Past and Future

    by Réda Bensmaïa, Timothy Bewes, Yves Citton, Giuseppina Mecchia, Christian C. Wood, Richard J. Golsan, Vincent Debaene, Pamela A. Pears, Rajeshwari S. Vallury ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and philosophy. Specialists re-evaluate the historical, political, and artistic legacies of twentieth-century France and the French-speaking world, proposing new formulations of the ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The Event of Postcolonial Shame

    by Timothy Bewes ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch--ever be truly postcolonial? ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

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    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
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  • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

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    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
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  • Postmodernism

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    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

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  • Existentialism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Flynn ...
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  • Continental Philosophy

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    by Simon Critchley ...
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  • The Parallax View

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in ... Read more

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  • Theory of Literature

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    Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?Fry engages with the major themes and strands ... Read more

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  • Literary Theory

    by David Carter ...
    Series series Pocket Essential series
    Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. It sounds daunting: all those -isms, long technical words, weird French thinkers, and incomprehensible Germans. Most books ... Read more

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