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  • The Ecstasy of Reproduction

    Postmodernity and Its Contemporaneity

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    The Ecstasy of Reproduction strives to describe contemporaneity. The subject is the first quarter of the 21st century which the author sees as a condition of historical crisis. Therefore, he analyzes its moral, sociological, and aesthetic expression. We do not need another book on postmodernity, but we need to know where we are along the postmodern turn. Because, of course, we are still in it. We ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky

    When Beauty Saves the World

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    This volume offers a philosophical and literary exploration of Dostoevsky’s humanism, with a particular focus on his ethical and aesthetic reflections on human nature. Rather than approaching Dostoevsky through the lens of national character or the so-called Russian spirit, this book engages in a sustained dialogue with his work to illuminate the moral and psychological complexities of the human ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Romance in the Time of Modernism

    A Literature of Silence

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    Romance in the Time of Modernism: A Literature of Silence reasserts the theme of love in an age of anguish. Modernism has been and still is studied and interpreted under multiple perspectives. However, there is a lacuna in the corpus of scholarship: the theme of love has been ignored. Being modernism iconoclastic and obscure in its premises, but also dark in its conclusion, how do modernist ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Self on Trial

    Literary Form and Psychological Analysis

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    The Self on Trial is an inquiry into the self and its pathological behaviors. The author observes 20th-century fiction and studies it through a psychological reading. It is evident that the century has produced self-destructive characters whose behaviors and choices are an ultimate form of consummation – primitive, elementary, and inexplicable. Why cannot Prufrock ask the overwhelming question? ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Love, Despair, and Modernism in Literature

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    Series series Among the Victorians and Modernists
    This groundbreaking volume challenges conventional scholarship by illuminating a critical blind spot in modernist studies: the persistent yet transformed presence of love. While academia has exhaustively examined modernism through lenses of nihilism, disillusionment, and existential silence, the romantic impulse threading through these seemingly barren landscapes remains largely unexamined. How do ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Literature and Philosophy

    Telling Tales of Nonsense

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. It investigates seemingly incomprehensible behaviors from the perspective of philosophy and expounds on love by using, among others, Darwinism, Marxism, Existentialism, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Barthes as tools of investigation. The author deconstructs some 20 literary texts and presents a work of literary criticism ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Labyrinth of Love

    A Tale of Latin American Romance

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    This book studies the various narrative shades of love in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. It examines writings by Isabel Allende, Roberto Arlt, García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The author provides a close textual reading of each novel and discusses how humans make sense of their lives through love. He shifts the focus of these writings from political violence and historical ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A Letter to China

    The Age of Postmodernity and Its Heritance

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    This edited collection brings together a range of essays that examine the maze of Chinese postmodernity. The essays explore the global expansion of capital as a structural crisis represented in art and literature. It ultimately acknowledges the ambiguity of Chinese postmodernity, the overlapping cultural paradigms of Confucian ethics and a capitalist economy, residual of Maoism, socialist ... Read more

    $93.69 USD

  • The Peace Discourse in Europe, 1900-1945

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    This book charts ideas European intellectuals (mostly from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) put forward to solve the problem of war during the first half of the twentieth century: a period that began with the Anglo-Boer war and that ended with the explosion of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such ideas do not belong to a homogeneous tradition of thought, but can be understood ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Love, Beauty or Morality

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is moved by two main questions. Is Love a matter of beauty or mortality? In other words, is love an ethical ideal? Also, modernity understood as the age of mechanical reproduction, has shaped not simply our cities but our very same way of feeling. How has our conception of love changed, if it has, in the past two centuries?This book is to address these questions. It is not to trace the ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death

    The Metaphysics of Desire

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and twentieth century. Each chapter comes with a multidisciplinary approach in which protagonists are mutilated in their quest for loving as alternative to annihilation.The book emphasizes love as an obsession, thus as an exploration of the mind. From the passion-myth ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Modernity of Chinese Postmodern Literature

    A Step Beyond Ideology

    by Alberto Castelli ...
    The Modernity of Chinese Postmodern Literature is an unprecedented comparative study of postmodern Chinese literature and continental European modernism. This book deconstructs and reconstructs central works of post-1976 Chinese literature and the main texts of European modernism to uncover a striking conceptual similarity between these two literary corpuses. Scholars and postgraduate students in ... Read more

    $93.69 USD