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  • The Literary Beach

    History and Aesthetics of a Modern Topos

    Edición de Carsten Meiner, Katrine Helene Andersen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
    As a geo-historical place, the beach integrates a variety of characteristics and functions so multiple that they tend to contradict each other. The beach is both a place of work and trade but also of leisure; it is both a place of therapy and health but also of migration, war, and death; it is a place of mass tourism and boredom but also the place of experiencing the Other; it is a public place ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Literature and Contingency

    Edición de Christina Lupton, Carsten Meiner ...
    This collection features leading literary critics and explores the role of language in thinking about the ways in which the world might be otherwise, and the history of contingency as a longstanding literary concept.The defining feature of contingency lies in the suggestion that things that have already happened might have been otherwise. Central to late twentieth century European critical and ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Catastrophe and Philosophy

    de David J. Rosner, JeiDong Ryu, Kwon Jong Yoo, Steven Cresap, Diana Prokofyeva, David Wilkinson, Carsten Meiner, Phil Washburn, Robert Quist, Nancy Reale0, David Chalfin1, Pedro Geiger2, Marek Celinski3, Sarah K. Corrigan4, John Ross5, Peter W. Wakefield6 ...
    This book takes a different approach to the history of philosophy, exploring a neglected theme, the relationship between catastrophe and philosophy. The book analyzes this theme within texts from ancient times to the present, from a global perspective. The book’s focus is timely and relevant today, as the planet is certainly facing a number of impending catastrophes right now, e.g., environmental ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Mutating Idylls

    Uses and Misuses of the Locus Amoenus in European Literature, 1850–1930

    Edición de Carsten Meiner ...
    Series Libro 139 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    Mutating Idylls examines the surprising presence of the antique literary topos of the idyllic landscape, the locus amoenus, in European literature from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The book sets out to identify how this topos, which generally has no place in politically and socially realistic and naturalist literature, actually does have a role to play. Chapters on central nineteenth ... Leer más

    $96.99 USD

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  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    de Peter Barry ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Mimesis

    The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)

    de Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said ...
    Traducido por Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Event of Literature

    de Terry Eagleton ...
    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Mouse or Rat?

    Translation as Negotiation

    de Prof Umberto Eco ...
    From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation.'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, broadly speaking, cultural.'Umberto Eco is of the world's most brilliant and entertaining writers on ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Six Memos for the Next Millennium

    de Italo Calvino ...
    The celebrated author of Cosmicomics and Invisible Cities shares his "brilliant, original approach to literature" in these late-career lectures ( San Francisco Chronicle).At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on his Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures to be delivered the following year at Harvard University. The six planned lectures would define the qualities he most valued in ... Leer más

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  • Deleuze & Guattari for Architects

    de Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari has been inspirational for architects and architectural theorists in recent years. It has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Greg Lynn and David Chipperfield, and is regularly cited by avant-gardist architects and by students, but usually without being well understood.The first collaboration between Deleuze and Guattari was Anti ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • David to Delacroix

    The Rise of Romantic Mythology

    de Dorothy Johnson ...
    Series series Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
    In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth.Highlighting the work of major painters such as David, Girodet, Gérard, ... Leer más

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  • On Difficulty

    And Other Essays

    de George Steiner ...
    A distinguished collection of essays on language, literature, and philosophy from acclaimed scholar and critic George SteinerOn Difficulty is as provocative and relevant today as when its essays were first published. Ranging from critical topics such as the understanding of language to the meaning of meaning, inward speech to the relationship between erotic sensibility and linguistic convention, ... Leer más

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