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  • Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today

    de Joyce Wexler ...
    This book explores how the anarchist fiction of Joseph Conrad can help us understand terrorism today. Conrad undermines the popular view that terrorists are fanatics. He portrays anarchists and police as counterparts driven by the human desires for autonomy and affiliation, the need to control their own lives and to be part of a group. Postcritique encourages readers to consider the accuracy of ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Joseph Conrad and Postcritique

    Politics of Hope, Politics of Fear

    Edición de Jay Parker, Joyce Wexler ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad’s central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lord Jim. Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique ascribes positive value to the knowledge, affect, ethics, and politics that emerge from literature. The essays in this collection ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Great War Modernism

    Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918

    de Graeme Stout, Gregory M. Dandeles, Michael J. K. Walsh, Matthew David Perry, Camelia Raghinaru, Erika Kuhlman, James Brown, Joyce Wexler, Travis L. Martin, Taryn L. Okuma, David A. Davis, Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy ...
    New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore and clarify the position of the so-called ‘core’ of literary modernism in its seminal engagement with ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Violence Without God

    The Rhetorical Despair of Twentieth-Century Writers

    de Professor Joyce Wexler ...
    As twentieth-century writers confronted the political violence of their time, they were overcome by rhetorical despair. Unspeakable acts left writers speechless. They knew that the atrocities of the century had to be recorded, but how? A dead body does not explain itself, and the narrative of the suicide bomber is not the story of the child killed in the blast. In the past, communal beliefs had ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

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  • Conrad in the Twenty-First Century

    Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives

    Edición de Carola Kaplan, Peter Mallios, Andrea White ...
    Best known as the author of Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is one of the most widely taught writers in the English language. Conrad's work has taken on a new importance in the dawning of the 21st century: in the wake of September 11 many cultural commentators returned to his novel The Secret Agent to discuss the roots of terrorism, and the overarching theme of colonialism in much of ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Joseph Conrad Today

    de Kieron O'Hara ...
    Series Libro 46 - Societas
    This book argues that the novelist Joseph Conrad’s work speaks directly to us in a way that none of his contemporaries can. Conrad’s scepticism, pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community, and the difficulties of escaping our history are important tools for understanding the political world in which we live. He is prepared to face a future where progress is not inevitable, ... Leer más

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  • Violence

    de Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Postmodernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Murder of Professor Schlick

    The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

    de David Edmonds ...
    From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • When Atheism Becomes Religion

    America's New Fundamentalists

    de Chris Hedges ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning comes this timely and compelling work about new atheists: those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperial projects.Chris Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, has long been a courageous voice in a ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years

    Edición de Annette R. Federico ...
    When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. This thirtieth-anniversary collection adds both valuable reassessments and ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • A Philosophy of Boredom

    de Lars Svendsen ...
    Traducido por John Irons ...
    It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD