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  • The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception

    Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Series series Rethinking Theory
    Critics predominantly view Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor as a “testament of acceptance,” the work of a man who had become politically conservative in his last years. William V. Spanos disagrees, arguing that the novella was not only a politically radical critique of American exceptionalism but also an eerie preview of the state of exception employed, most recently, by the George W. Bush ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Shock and Awe

    American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years, William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain’s classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, providing a fresh assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American imaginary. Spanos insists that Twain identifies with his protagonist, particularly in his defining use of the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Errant Art of Moby-Dick

    The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick—a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publication—William V. Spanos uncovers a text remarkably suited as a foundation for a "New Americanist" critique of the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum

    An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exceptionalism is often construed as a discredited Cold War–era belief structure, Spanos persuasively demonstrates how it operationalizes an apparatus of biopolitical capture that saturates the American body politic down to its capillaries.The ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Toward a Non-humanist Humanism

    Theory after 9/11

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.In his book The End of Education: Toward Posthumanism, William V. Spanos critiqued the traditional Western concept of humanism, arguing that its origins are to be found not in ancient Greece's love of truth and wisdom, but in the Roman imperial era, when those Greek values were ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum

    Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world’s population has been transformed into a society of refugees and émigrés seeking –indeed, demanding– an alternative way of political belonging. Focusing on the interregnum we have precariously occupied since the end of World War II—and especially after 9/11— it constitutes a series of genealogical chapters that trace the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation

    Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux

    by Dr. Véronique Lane ...
    The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French literature and culture participate in the emergence of the Beat Generation? French modernism did much more than inspire its first major writers, it materially shaped their works, as this comparative ... Read more

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  • Excursions with Thoreau

    Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

    by Professor Edward F. Mooney ...
    Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious.Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay “Walking” reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental ... Read more

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  • Portrait Stories

    by Michal Peled Ginsburg ...
    What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer ... Read more

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  • Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic

    Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures

    Edited by Tania Gentic, Francisco LaRubia-Prado ...
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