Télécharger le livre :  Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination
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In this groundbreaking new study, Ben Ware carries out a bold reassessment of the relationship between modernism and ethics, arguing that modernist literature and philosophy offer more than simply a snapshot of the moral conflicts of the past: they provide a crucial...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-09
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  On Voice in Poetry
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What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-03-22
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Memory and Imagination in Film
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Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo analyzes films by Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch and Van Sant as imaginative...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-24
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Literature and Film, Dispositioned
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Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature and literature's location in the world. It includes readings of works by James Joyce, Henry James, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-23
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  A Fractured Landscape of Modernity
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This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-01-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture
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While the arms race of the post-war period has been widely discussed, Purcell explores the under-acknowledged but critical role another kind of 'race' – that is, race as a biological and sociological concept – played within the global and cultural Cold War.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-10-31
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Encounters between Analytic and Continental Philosophy
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This book examines the encounters between leading 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophers: Frege and Husserl, Carnap and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Bataille and Ayer, the Royaumont colloquium, and Derrida with Searle.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-05-29
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture
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An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-15
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Individualism, Decadence and Globalization
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Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-04-09
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature
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Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Fictions of the City
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Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from  L'Assommoir  to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that mass housing...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Freud's Memory
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Rob White reconsiders Freud's controversial theory of inherited memory, referring it both to Anglo-American commentary and post-structuralist work on psychoanalysis. White proposes that this theory is evidence of an underlying haunted retrospection in Freudian...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-07-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
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Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-04-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Writing of Anxiety
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This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. Thinking about anxiety, Lyndsey Stonebridge argues, was a way of imagining how it might be possible to stay within...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-07-12
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  The Laws of Love
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Your guest at dinner kisses you. What does it mean? Where does it lead? Does kissing necessarily imply more, and if so how much? These and similar questions of amorous ethics and erotic disquisition are central to our everyday intimate public lives and they are the lost...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-10-30
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Romancing Jane Austen
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We celebrate Jane Austen as the mother of the English realist novel, but have you ever wondered why she insists on giving her mature heroines the 'perfect happiness' that can only be realized in the romance? Romancing Jane Austen asks the reader to consider Austen's...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory
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Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and postcolonial conditions. Starting from Daniel Defoe and moving through history,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Contemporary Deathbed
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How do we picture ourselves dying? A 'death with dignity', the darkened room, and a few murmured farewells? Or in the lights' flashing, siren wailing, chest-pumping maelstrom of the back of an ambulance hurtling towards an ER? Over the last decade, the two most robust...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-04-15
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England
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This collection features the work of both established and up-and-coming scholars in the UK and US, with contributors including Peter Goodrich, Lorna Hutson, Erica Sheen and David Colclough studying the period of the English Renaissance from the 1520s to the 1660s.This...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2004-11-29
Collection : Language, Discourse, Society
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