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“ellen spolsky”

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  • The Work of Fiction

    Cognition, Culture, and Complexity

    by Ellen Spolsky ...
    The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies. Written by eight leading critics whose work has done much to establish the new field, they display the significant results of a largely unprecedented combination of cultural and cognitive analysis. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Contracts of Fiction

    Cognition, Culture, Community

    by Ellen Spolsky ...
    The Contracts of Fiction reconnects our fictional worlds to the rest of our lives. Countering the contemporary tendency to dismiss works of imagination as enjoyable but epistemologically inert, the book considers how various kinds of fictions construct, guide, and challenge institutional relationships within social groups. The contracts of fiction, like the contracts of language, law, kinship, and ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

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  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    by Emily Apter ...
    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England

    The Representation of History in Printed Books

    by James A. Knapp ...
    Illustrating the Past is a study of the status of visual and verbal media in early modern English representations of the past. It focuses on general attitudes towards visual and verbal representations of history as well as specific illustrated books produced during the period. Through a close examination of the relationship of image to text in light of contemporary discussions of poetic and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Reading Modernism with Machines

    Digital Humanities and Modernist Literature

    Edited by Shawna Ross, James O'Sullivan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature.From data mining and visualization to mapping and tool building and beyond, the digital humanities offer new ways for scholars to questions of literature and culture. With the publication of a variety of volumes that define and debate ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Landscape of Humanity

    Art, Culture and Society

    by Anthony O'Hear ...
    Series Book 10 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    The fourteen essays in this book develop a conception of human culture, which is humane and traditionalist. Focusing particularly on notions of beauty and the aesthetic, it sees within our culture intimations of the transcendent, and in two essays the nature of religion is directly addressed. A number of essays also explore the relation between politics and tradition. ... Read more

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  • Miscellaneous Short Poetry, 1641–1700

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 4

    by Robert C. Evans ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    This volume reproduces twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, selected and introduced by various hands, are grouped in thematic clusters for the reader's ease - poetry on religion, on politics, on society, on domestic/social affairs and on mourning. The poems are arranged chronologically within each cluster. The volume closes with Anne Wentworth ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Hip-Hop and Philosophy

    Rhyme 2 Reason

    by Derrick Darby, Tommie Shelby ...
    Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit - and often explicit - in hip-hop ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Five Senses

    A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

    by Professor Michel Serres ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • James Joyce and Absolute Music

    by Dr Michelle Witen ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    Drawing on draft manuscripts and other archival material, James Joyce and Absolute Music, explores Joyce's deep engagement with musical structure, and his participation in the growing modernist discourse surrounding 19th-century musical forms. Michelle Witen examines Joyce's claim of having structured the “Sirens” episode of his masterpiece, Ulysses, as a fuga per canonem, and his changing musical ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Hiroshima After Iraq

    Three Studies in Art and War

    by Rosalyn Deutsche ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Many on the left lament an apathy or amnesia toward recent acts of war. Particularly during the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, opposition to war seemed to lack the heat and potency of the 1960s and 1970s, giving the impression that passionate dissent was all but dead.Through an analysis of three politically engaged works of art, Rosalyn Deutsche argues against this melancholic ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics After Metaphysics

    From Mimesis to Metaphor

    by Miguel Beistegui ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment – explicit or implicit – to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds outside the space that stretches between the sensible and the supersensible – the space of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD