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  • - Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film
    af Robert Stam
    383,95 kr.

    Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism.

  • - Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England
    af William J. (Professor of Comparative Literature Kennedy
    538,95 kr.

    Treating the subject of early modern national expression from a broad comparative perspective, The Site of Petrarchism will be of interest to scholars of late medieval and early modern literature in Europe, historians of culture, and critical theorists.

  • - Dissonant Voices
    af Jack I. (Pomona College) Abecassis
    508,95 kr.

    Providing close readings and imaginative analyses of the entire literary output of one of twentieth-century France's most important Jewish writers, Abecassis presents here a major work of literary scholarship, as well as a broader study of the reception and influence of Jewish thought in French literature and philosophy.

  • - Revolution and Language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist
     
    638,95 kr.

    Traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist. This book examines the philosophical and literary reception of the French Revolution.

  • - Windows on Modern German Culture
    af Lutz (Vanderbilt University) Koepnick
    563,95 kr.

    Explores different concepts of the window, in literal and figurative sense, as manifested in various visual forms in German culture since the 19th century. This book offers a fresh interpretation of how evolving ways of seeing have characterized and defined modernity, examining the role and representation of window frames in modern German culture.

  • - The World of the Nibelungenlied
    af Jan-Dirk Muller
    748,95 kr.

    This groundbreaking interpretation offers a new approach to the reading of medieval literature and revolutionizes the study of the Nibelungenlied itself-providing a richer understanding of the work's significance both in its era and for our own.

  • af Evlyn (University of Oregon) Gould
    326,95 kr.

    Exploring a range of competing representations, Gould asks whether Carmen is a dangerous femme fatale, a liberated woman, or, as Nietzsche saw her, a warrior in the vanguard of the battle between the sexes.

  • - The Folds of Friendship
    af Charles J. (Distinguished Professor of French Stivale
    513,95 kr.

    Stivale's analysis offers an intimate view into the thought of one of the greatest thinkers of our time.

  • - A Critical Introduction
    af John Tomlinson
    365,95 kr.

    His analysis reveals major problems in the way in which the idea of cultural, as distinct from economic or political, imperialism is formulated.

  • - Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives
    af Felicity A. Nussbaum
    305,95 kr.

    The general category of 'woman' muddles the binaries between mother and whore, self and Other, center and periphery."-from the Introduction

  • - Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel
    af Michel (Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies Chaouli
    508,95 kr.

    This text argues that some of romanticism's most daring innovations owe their form and substance to the subject of chemistry. Focusing on the work of Friedrich Schlegel, it demonstrates the degree to which romantic poetics, in its language and concepts, relies on the chemistry of its day.

  • - Downtown Writing and the Fiction of Insurgency
    af Robert (Bohemian Paris and Siegle
    362,95 kr.

    From a neighborhood where pushers and poststructuralists meet on the street (sometimes violently), where the anger of sixties' activism never cooled, Suburban Ambush is an indispensable introduction to the women and men writing about what the Village Voice has called "the lower east side of sombody's gut."

  • af Michael Riffaterre
    398,95 kr.

    An introduction and glossary of terms help make this an indispensable volume for the student as well as the specialist.

  • - A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture
    af Joel Black
    363,95 kr.

    Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of violence.

  • af Frederick Buell
    357,95 kr.

    Surveying recent cultural history and theory, Buell shows how our understanding of cultural production relates closely to transformations in models of the world order.

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    357,95 kr.

    Contributors are Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Regina Barreca, Elisabeth Bronfen, Carol Christ, Sander Gilman, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret Higonnet, Regina Janes, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Ronald Schleifer, Charles Segal, and Garrett Stewart.

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    398,95 kr.

    Anthony Appiah; Emily Apter; Charles Bernheimer; Peter Brooks; Rey Chow; Jonathan Culler; David Damrosch; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Roland Greene; Margaret R. Higonnet; Francoise Lionnet; Marjorie Perloff; Mary Russo; Tobin Siebers; Mary Louise Pratt; Michael Riffaterre; Arnold Weinstein

  • af Dominick LaCapra
    325,95 kr.

    This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.

  • - Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet
    af Shawn James (Williams College) Rosenheim
    494,95 kr.

    "-Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College

  • - Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization
    af George P. (Brown University) Landow
    427,95 kr.

    Thoroughly expanded and updated, this pioneering work continues to be the "ur-textof hypertext studies.

  • - Cinema and Philosophy
    af Paola Marrati
    417,95 - 488,95 kr.

    Humanities, film studies, and social science scholars will find this book a valuable contribution to the philosophical literature on cinema and its pertinence in contemporary life.

  • - Heritage / Fascinations / Frames
     
    298,95 kr.

    Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France.

  • - Essays on the Use and Abuse of History
    af Sande (California Institute of the Arts) Cohen
    583,95 kr.

    Considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. This book looks at some struggles to control public history, examining popular newspaper accounts of events - misrepresentation from the "bottom up" - in geopolitics and art.

  • - Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815
    af David (Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts Marshall
    538,95 kr.

    Marshall asks what it means for these authors to view the world through the frame of art.

  • - Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form
    af Debarati (Assistant Professor of French Sanyal
    608,95 kr.

    The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.

  • - Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France
    af Elena Russo
    473,95 - 583,95 kr.

    It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies.

  • - Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons
    af Oliver (Associate Professor Arnold
    568,95 kr.

    Representationalism and its subject mark the beginning of political modernity; Shakespeare's tragedies greet political representationalism with skepticism, bleakness, and despair.

  • - Heritage / Fascinations / Frames
     
    668,95 kr.

    Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France.

  • - Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy
    af Christopher Norris
    368,95 kr.

    A chapter on Stanley Fish brings several of these topics together and offers a generalized statement on the function of current criticism.