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A Poetics

release date: Jan 01, 1992
A Poetics
In a wild variety of topics, polemic, and styles, Bernstein surveys the poetry scene and addresses hot issues of poststructuralist literary theory. What role should poetics play in contemporary culture? Bernstein finds the answer in dissent, in both argument and form--a poetic language that resists being absorbed into the conventions of our culture.

Children's Literature in the Elementary School

Aristotle's theory of poetry and fine art, with a critical text and translation of the Poeties

Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages

Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages
This book addresses the history of the senses in relation to affective piety and its role in devotional practices in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the sense of touch. It argues that only by deeply analysing this specific context of perception can the full significance of sensory religious experience in the Late Middle Ages be understood. Considering the centrality of the body to medieval society and Christianity, this collection explores a range of devotional practices, mainly relating to the Passion of Christ, and features manuscripts, works of devotional literature, art, woodcuts and judicial records. It brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to offer a variety of methodological approaches, in order to understand how touch was encoded, evoked and purposefully used. The book further considers how touch was related to the medieval theory of perception, examining its relation to the inner and outer senses through the eyes of visionaries, mystics, theologians and confessors, not only as praxis but from different theoretical points of view. While considered the most basic of spiritual experience, the chapters in this book highlight the all-pervasive presence of touch and the significance of ‘affective piety’ to Late Medieval Christians. Chapter 3: Drama, Performance and Touch in the Medieval Convent and Beyond is Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Italian Science Fiction

release date: Jul 18, 2019
Italian Science Fiction
This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness. In particular, Italian Science Fiction draws upon critical race studies, postcolonial theory, and feminist studies to explore how migration, colonialism, multiculturalism, and racism have been represented in genre film and literature. Topics include the role of science fiction in constructing a national identity; the representation and self-representation of “alien” immigrants in Italy; the creation of internal “Others,” such as southerners and Roma; the intersections of gender and race discrimination; and Italian science fiction’s transnational dialogue with foreign science fiction. This book reveals that though it is arguably a minor genre in Italy, science fiction offers an innovative interpretive angle for rethinking Italian history and imagining future change in Italian society.

Essays in the History of Ideas

Essays in the History of Ideas
Originally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.

The Event

release date: Jan 01, 2015
The Event
What is an event? From a philosophical perspective, events are irregular occurrences—moments of change and interruption—categorized by human perception, language, and thought. While philosophers have pored over the subject of events extensively in recent years, The Event: Literature and Theory seeks to ground it: What is literature’s approach to the event? How does literature produce and give testimony to events? Ilai Rowner’s study not only revisits some of the most important thinkers of our time, including Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger, it also develops a critical approach to literature that questions the meaning of the literary event through examinations of literary works by Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and T. S. Eliot. Rowner offers a new method of thinking about the particular characteristics of the event within literary works and defines the creative value of literature as the aspiration toward the un-happening within the happening. In this study the experience of literature—as an act of both writing and reading—becomes the struggle to capture the excessive movement of the event while also revealing the creative energy within that work of literature.

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

release date: Jan 01, 1987
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
THIS VOLUME COLLECTS ALL 71 OF HEMINGWAY''S SHORT STORIES AND INCLUDES A PAIR OF ELOQUENT TRIBUTES TO THE AUTHOR.

Romanticism, Hermeneutics, and the Crisis of the Human Sciences

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Romanticism, Hermeneutics, and the Crisis of the Human Sciences
This study questions the Romantics'' belief that the imaginative poetry of feeling could overcome the alienating effects of Cartesian rationalism, and reform civilisation by wedding the mind to this goodly universe. It begins by surveying modern hermeneutics, which attempted to develop a science of interpretation compatible with Romantic tenets. Underlying these was the belief that human nature itself could be known intimately and developed autonomously. Observing the repeated crises of self-legitimisation that thence ensued, it enquires into the purposes of the humanities. After examining how human nature had been understood in the Western tradition until the Enlightenment, the focus shifts to the attack in Coleridge''s Biographia Literaria on Wordsworth''s 1802 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, and to a reading of some key Romantic texts. It reads Coleridge''s famous definition of the imagination as an attack on Romantic hermeneutics, rooted in the traditional view that man has been created in Imago Dei.

Discourse Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Brown University

The Home Library of Entertainment, Instruction and Amusement

The Mystery of Education, and Other Academic Performances

University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature

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Stories from the Classic Literature of Many Nations

The Feminist Reader

release date: May 21, 1997
The Feminist Reader
This edition includes Toni Morrison''s discussion of a Hemingway short story, Line Pouchard''s reading of Radclyffe-Hall''s Well of Loneliness, Marjorie Garber on Elvis and cross dressing, and Diane Elam on the relation between feminism and postmodernism.

The Cyclopædia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature

The Dirty Duck

release date: Jan 01, 2004
The Dirty Duck
This fourth Richard Jury novel finds the Superintendent in Stratford, investigating a murder in a popular pub where the killer has left behind a cryptic fragment of Elizabethan verse. Reissue.

A Vindication of the Press: Or, An Essay on the Usefulness of Writing

Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical Remarks

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