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Order of Forms Realism, Formalism, and Social Space
ISBN: PB: 9780226653341, ISBN: HB: 9780226653204, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 5 line drawings
In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to – and substantially shifts – that conversation in "Th...
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On Interpretive Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780226614007, ISBN: HB: 9780226613956, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 2 line drawings
"Interpretation" is a term that encompasses both the most esoteric and the most fundamental activities of our lives, from analyzing medical images to the million ways we perceive other people's actions. Today, we also leave interpretation to the like...
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Other Presences Reading Literature Other-Wise after the Transnational Turn in American Studies
ISBN: PB: 9781512603576, ISBN: HB: 9781512603484, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
376 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
"The Other Presences" presents a radically new mode of engaging with the idea of otherness in contemporary American literature. Expanding on the earlier theories of poststructuralist and phenomenologist philosophers like Berhand Waldenfels and Jean-F...
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£38,00
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£72,00
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On Tarrying
ISBN: PB: 9780857427243, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, and decisiveness and withdrawal. Conceived as radical opposites, these terms structure the history of religion, philosophy, and political...
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Other Things
ISBN: PB: 9780226283029, ISBN: HB: 9780226076652, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 30 halftones
From the pencil to the puppet to the drone – the humanities continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? In "Other Thin...
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On the Contrary
ISBN: PB: 9781784104368, Carcanet, April 2018
360 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Candid and sometimes scathing memoirs from the Oscar-award-winning screenwriter of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. On the Contrary is a Proustian parade of people and events (including Thatcher and the Falklands war), written with the vividness and...
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Other Middle East An Anthology of Modern Levantine Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780300204445, Yale University Press, February 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This unique literary collection offers a window on the contemporary Levant, a region comprising most of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, parts of southern Turkey and northwestern Iraq, and the Sinai Peninsula. Originally written in...
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On War and Writing
ISBN: HB: 9780226468785, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones
"In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers met...
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Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226462202, ISBN: HB: 9780226442112, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In "The Outward Mind", Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an impor...
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Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900
ISBN: HB: 9780226358642, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones
"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad", Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom – which erupted in laughter – accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...
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