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About Lookingby John BergerISBN 0394739078 (0-394-73907-8)
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After Bakhtinby David LodgeISBN 0415050383 (0-415-05038-3)
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Alien Chic: Posthumanism and the Other Withinby Neil BadmingtonISBN 0415310237 (0-415-31023-7)
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Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and Postmodernismby Renate HolubISBN 0415021081 (0-415-02108-1)
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The Art of Memoryby YatesISBN 0415220467 (0-415-22046-7)
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Bakhtinian Thought: An Introductory Readerby Simon DentithISBN 0415118999 (0-415-11899-9)
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Bataille: Writing the Sacredby Carolyn Bailey GillISBN 0415101239 (0-415-10123-9)
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Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviewsby Jean Baudrillard, Mike GaneISBN 0415070384 (0-415-07038-4)
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Being in Time: Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literatureby Genevieve LloydISBN 0415071968 (0-415-07196-8)
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Body-And Image-Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjaminby Sigrid WeigelISBN 0415109566 (0-415-10956-6)
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Ben FowkesISBN 039472657X (0-394-72657-X)
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Care of the Self the History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394741552 (0-394-74155-2)
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Collected Works of Karl Mannheimby Karl MannheimISBN 0415060540 (0-415-06054-0)
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This new edition contains a new preface by Bryan S. Turner which describes Mannheim's work and critically assesses its relevance to modern sociology. The book is published with a comprehensive bibliography of Mannheim's major works. [via]More editions of Collected Works of Karl Mannheim:
Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systemsby Paul CilliersISBN 0415152879 (0-415-15287-9)
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Constructing Postmodernismby Brian McHaleISBN 0415060133 (0-415-06013-3)
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The Continental Aesthetics Readerby Clive CazeauxISBN 0415200547 (0-415-20054-7)
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Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebookby Keith Green, Jill LebihanISBN 041511439X (0-415-11439-X)
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Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theoryby Beatrice HanssenISBN 0415223407 (0-415-22340-7)
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The Cultural Studies Readerby Simon DuringISBN 0415137543 (0-415-13754-3)
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* 38 essays including 18 new articles
* an editor's preface succinctly introducing each article
* comprehensive coverage of every major cultural studies method and theory
* an updated account of recent changes in the field
* articles on new areas such as science and cyberculture, globalization, postcolonialism, public spheres and cultural policy
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Deleuze and Religionby Mary BrydenISBN 0415240298 (0-415-24029-8)
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The Dialogics of Critique: M.M. Bakhtin and the Theory of Ideologyby Michael GardinerISBN 0415079756 (0-415-07975-6)
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Dialogismby Michael HolquistISBN 0415280079 (0-415-28007-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dialogism'Book summary:Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas have influenced thinking in literary studies, anthropology, linguistics, psychology and social theory. But is there a discernible shape to his work as a whole?
Michael Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's writings known to exist, to provide a comprehensive account of his achievement. He argues that Bakhtin's work gains coherence through his commitment to the concept of dialogue. Holquist examines Bakhtin's dialogue with other thinkers, including Saussure, Freud, Marx and Lukacs, as well as other figures in the history of thinking about dialogue whose connection with Bakhtin's work have previously been ignored.
Dialogism also includes dialogic readings of some major literary texts - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Gogol's The Nose and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby - which provide another dimension of dialogue with dialogue. [via]
A Dictionary of Modern Critical Termsby Roger FowlerISBN 0415058848 (0-415-05884-8)
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Early Writingsby Karl Marx, Quintin Hoare, Rodney Livingston, Gregor BentonISBN 0394720059 (0-394-72005-9)
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Ecological Feminismby Karen J. Warren, Barbara Wells-HoweISBN 0415072980 (0-415-07298-0)
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Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thoughtby Verena Andermatt ConleyISBN 0415103061 (0-415-10306-1)
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Fan Culturesby Matthews HillsISBN 0415240255 (0-415-24025-5)
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Feminism and Deconstructionby Diane ElamISBN 0415091667 (0-415-09166-7)
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The Feminism and Visual Culture Readerby Amelia JonesISBN 0415267064 (0-415-26706-4)
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Feminism/Postmodernism/Developmentby Marianne H. Marchand, Jane L. ParpartISBN 0415105242 (0-415-10524-2)
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Folktaleby Stith ThompsonISBN 0404153739 (0-404-15373-9)
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Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writingby Simon DuringISBN 0415012422 (0-415-01242-2)
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Foucault, Marxism and Critiqueby Barry SmartISBN 0415045886 (0-415-04588-6)
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The Frankfurt School and Its Criticsby Tom BottomoreISBN 0415285399 (0-415-28539-9)
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From Max Weber: Essays in Sociologyby Max Weber, C. Wright Mills, H. H. Gerth, Bryan S. TurnerISBN 0415060567 (0-415-06056-7)
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Georges Batailleby Michael RichardsonISBN 0415098424 (0-415-09842-4)
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societiesby Marcel MaussISBN 0415267498 (0-415-26749-8)
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Habermas and Pragmatismby Mitchell Aboulafia, Cathy Kemp, Myra Orbach BookmanISBN 041523459X (0-415-23459-X)
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Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphroditeby Herculine BarbinISBN 0394738624 (0-394-73862-4)
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Humanismby Tony DaviesISBN 0415110521 (0-415-11052-1)
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Imperial Eyes : Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturizationby Mary L. PrattISBN 041502675X (0-415-02675-X)
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Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturationby Mary Louise PrattISBN 0415060958 (0-415-06095-8)
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Indecent Theologyby Marcella Althaus-ReidISBN 0415236045 (0-415-23604-5)
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J.S. Mill on Liberty in Focusby John Gray, G.W. SmithISBN 0415010012 (0-415-01001-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.S. Mill on Liberty in Focus'Book summary:This volume brings together J.S. Mills On Liberty and a selection of important essays by such eminent scholars as Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, John Rees, C.L. Ten and Richard Wollheim. As well as providing authoritative commentary upon On Liberty, the essays reflect a broader debate about the philosophical foundations of Mill's liberalism, particularly the question of the connection betweenMill's professed utilitarianism and his commitment to individual liberty. Introduced and edited by John Gray and G.W. Smith, the book will be of interest to students of Mill, to ethical and political philosophers and to anyone interested in the contemporary status of liberalism. [via]
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Jurgen Habermas: Critic in the Public Sphereby Robert C. HolubISBN 0415065119 (0-415-06511-9)
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Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemologyby Kathleen Lennon, Margaret WhitfordISBN 0415089891 (0-415-08989-1)
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Language, Text and Context: Essays in Stylisticsby Michael ToolanISBN 0415069955 (0-415-06995-5)
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Literary Theory: The Basicsby Daniel ChandlerISBN 041535112X (0-415-35112-X)
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Literary Theory: The Basicsby Johannes Willem BertensISBN 0415186641 (0-415-18664-1)
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Making A Difference: Feminist Literary Criticismby Gayle Greene, Coppelia KahnISBN 041501011X (0-415-01011-X)
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Marxism and Literary Criticismby Terry EagletonISBN 0415285844 (0-415-28584-4)
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Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodernby Douglas KellnerISBN 0415105706 (0-415-10570-6)
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Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Healthby Ivan IllichISBN 0394712455 (0-394-71245-5)
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Modernismby Peter ChildsISBN 0415196485 (0-415-19648-5)
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Narrative in Culture: The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literatureby Cristopher NashISBN 0415103444 (0-415-10344-4)
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Northrop Frye: The Theoretical Imaginationby Jonathan HartISBN 0415075378 (0-415-07537-8)
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Novel Images: Literature in Performanceby Peter ReynoldsISBN 0415091039 (0-415-09103-9)
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On Cosmopolitanism and Forgivenessby Jacques DerridaISBN 0415227127 (0-415-22712-7)
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A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fictionby Linda HutcheonISBN 0415007062 (0-415-00706-2)
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Postmodern Jurisprudence: The Law of Text in the Texts of Lawby Costas Douzinas, Ronnie Warrington, Shaun McVeighISBN 0415088763 (0-415-08876-3)
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Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgementby I.A. Richards, John ConstableISBN 0415217350 (0-415-21735-0)
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Principles of Literary Criticismby Ivor Armstrong RichardsISBN 0415254027 (0-415-25402-7)
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The Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjaminby Andrew BenjaminISBN 041506029X (0-415-06029-X)
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Reading for the Plotby Peter BrooksISBN 0394729099 (0-394-72909-9)
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Reception Theoryby HOLUBISBN 0415291445 (0-415-29144-5)
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Right-Wing Womenby Andrea DworkinISBN 0399506713 (0-399-50671-3)
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The Routledge Companion to Critical Theoryby Paul WakeISBN 0415332966 (0-415-33296-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory'Book summary:The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory is an indispensable aid for anyone approaching this exciting field of study for the first time.
By exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines, theory encourages us to develop a deeper understanding of how we approach the written word. This book defines what is generically referred to as critical theory, and guides readers through some of the most complex and fundamental concepts in the field, ranging from Historicism to Postmodernism, from Psychoanalytic Criticism to Race and Postcoloniality.
Fully cross referenced throughout, the book encompasses manageable introductions to important ideas followed by a dictionary of terms and thinkers which students are likely to encounter. Further reading is offered to guide students to crucial primary essays and introductory chapters on each concept.
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The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornographyby Angela CarterISBN 0394758935 (0-394-75893-5)
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With brilliance and wit, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of de Sade's extreme imagination and transforms them into symbols of our time: The Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. [via]More editions of The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography:
Science Fictionby Adam RobertsISBN 0415366682 (0-415-36668-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Science Fiction'Book summary:This outstanding volume offers a clear and critically engaged account of the phenomenon of science fiction. Adam Roberts provides a concise history of science fiction also explaining key concepts in SF criticism and theory, in chapters such as Gender, Race and Technology. He examines the interactions between science fiction and science fact, anchoring each chapter with a case study drawn from short story, book or film, from Frank Herbert's Dune to Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black.
Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the essential guide to a major cultural movement. [via]-
Selected Works of Frances Yatesby Frances A. YatesISBN 0415220432 (0-415-22043-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Works of Frances Yates'Book summary:The leading Renaissance scholar of her time, Frances Yates revolutionised the study of the history of art, science and ideas. She demonstrated that ideas and practices once considered marginal such as hermeticism and alchemy were actually at the forefront of the renaissance mind. Yates was a pioneer in her emphasis on visual culture and many of her works are richly illustrated with the iconography of symbolism of occult philosophy. Her magisterial studies address subjects as diverse as: Shakespeares last plays late medieval tapestry Italian renaissance philosophy the Rosicrucians For forty years of her life Frances Yates was associated with the Warburg Institute. Awarded a DBE for services to renaissance studies in 1977, she was a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. This set provides immediate access to the work of this most important of late twentieth century philosophers. Volumes are also available individually. The Valois Tapestries 0415-22044-0 This extensively illustrated volume presents the extravagant tapestries of the Uffizi as documents, subtly woven into the fabric of cultural and political history. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition 0415-22045-9 Giordano Bruno, perhaps the best-known philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, is here, for the first time, placed within the context of the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition. Yates explores how Renaissance Hermeticism stimulated new attitudes towards the cosmos and towards working with cosmic forces. Bruno emerges as a Hermetic Philosopher and magician with an unorthodox religious message. Even his support of Copernicus is associated with solar magic. This revolutionary reinterpretation profoundly affects our understanding of Bruno and of his death at the stake. The Art of Memory 0415-22046-7 Trained memory was of first importance in the ancient world before printing and paper for taking notes or writing down lectures were available. An art rose in response to this need which relied on architecture and could depend on faculties of intense visual memorization. In this volume, Yates traces this art of memory from Simonides through Aquinas to the Renaissance and the growth of scientific method. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment 0415-22047-5 The Rosicrucian Enlightenment is an enthralling reconstruction of an important yet largely forgotten phase in European thought. A stage between the Renaissance and the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the Rosicrucian Enlightenment was a striving for spiritual illumination as well as an attempt to advance scientific and intellectual knowledge. This book is the definitive work on the origins of Rosicrucian thought and its influence on politics and great thinkers in seventeenth-century Europe. Frances Yates focuses on the short-lived reign of Frederick, Elector Palatine, and his wife, the daughter of James I, as Winter King and Queen of Bohemia showing that this brief period was a Hermetic golden age, inspired by the Rosicrucian movement. The reconstruction of this phase of European history takes Rosicruianism beyond occult studies and makes it a concern for serious historical enquiry. The intellectual giants of this era, including Francis Bacon, Descartes and Newton, are seen here in new contexts that provide fresh insight into their thought. Among the many other personages and themes discussed are John Dee, Robert Boyles Invisible College, and the rise of the Royal Society and of Freemasonry. Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century 0415-22048-3 In this volume, Frances Yates attends to the political dimension of Renaissance thought. She examines the images and symbolism of religion and monarchy, especially in relation to the myth of Astraea. As well as being essential reading for historians of the Renaissance period, the book is of fundamental importance for students of the literature of the Elizabethan period. Frances Yates shows how Spensers Fairie Queene E grew out of the Accession Day Tilts and the imagery deployed in them, and demonstrates that Shakespeares preoccupation with Monarchy, with a rule of justice and purity as opposed to the forces of evil, grew out of the contemporary preoccupation with a religious imperial theme. The book as a whole forms a unity - an approach to history through imagery - and includes many illustrations, which are in themselves historical documents. Shakespeares Last Plays: A New Approach 0415-22049-1 Drawing together many years of research on Renaissance symbolism and the Hermetic tradition, Frances Yates tackles Shakespearean problems, with startlingly original results. Her approach makes possible a new interpretation of Cymbeline, relating its imagery to the revival of Tudor mythology the influence of the Tudor imperial reform and religious toleration in Henry VIII the role of magic in the last plays whose magical-mystical atmosphere is compared with that of the Rosicrucian movement in Germany with which it is suggested that Shakespeare was in sympathy Ben Jonsons attitude to Shakespeare. The book connects closely with Astraea and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment and it suggests entirely new and exciting routes into the understanding of Shakespeares attitude to the religious problems of his age. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age 0415-220505 A central theme of this book is the history of Christian Cabala, the Christian interpretation of the Jewish mystical tradition. It was believed that when God gave the Law to Moses, he also gave a revelation of the secret meaning of the Law. This esoteric tradition was interpreted in a Christian sense by Pico della Mirandola, the founder of Christian Cabala, with which he associated Hermeticism. Part I discusses the occult philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation, showing its wide influence and reactions against it as magic. Part II traces the influence of the occult philosophy on major Elizabethan writers such as Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare. A major theme throughout the book is the importance of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 in spreading Cabalist notions among Christians. The presence of Jewish influence in the Elizabethan age is hinted at, and the return of the Jews to England in the reign of Charles II is seen as the culmination of trends linking Albion with Jerusalem, even in the Elizabethan age. This is discussed in Part III. The book uses Frances Yatess other works on the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition, whilst attempting a new presentation of Christian Cabala. In her study of the imagery with which the poets express occult philosophy, she draws on her work Astraea E on the Elizabethan imperial reform. Lull & Bruno (Collected essays) 0415-22051-3 The essays collected here reprint the first sketches, dating from 1939 to 1960, which were to form Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. They contain much material not used in that book, however, and they also look forward to what became The Art of Memory. Renaissance and Reform: The Italian Contribution (Collected essays) 0415-22052-1 This book brings together Frances Yatess research on Italian subjects, drawn from all periods of her long and distinguished career. Beginning with an account of how she first became involved with Italian cultural and intellectual history, the essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, some taking up and adding to themes explored in her books, others breaking new ground. Included are articles on aspects of Giordano Bruno, teachers of Italian in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, Shakespeare and the Platonic tradition, and a fourteenth century treatise on artificial memory, as well as essays on Paolo Sarpi, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and on the Hebrew teachers of Pico della Mirandola and other philosophers of the Italian Renaissance. Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance 0415-22239-7 This volume comprises Yatess papers and reviews on topics concerning England, France, the Netherlands and Germany during the epoch of the Renaissance and Reformation. The essays are drawn from all periods of Yatess long career and cover a wide range of subjects: English allegorical portraiture in the Elizabethan age Yatess early and late contributions on Shakespeare, Jonson, John Dee and Francis Bacon English Protestant attitudes to religious images and to martyrdom French drama Theocratic and apocalyptic politics European influence of printing and of Erasmus, Cornelius Agrippa, Copernicus and Newton. Also included is a selection from Yatess notes on her early publications and first acquaintance with the Warburg Institute as well as a brief autobiographical account of her early life. A full list of her writings completes the book and rounds out the picture of a remarkable historian. [via]
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The Singularity of Literatureby Derek AttridgeISBN 0415335930 (0-415-33593-0)
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The Sound and the Furyby William FaulknerISBN 0394747747 (0-394-74774-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound and the Fury'Book summary:The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three Compson brothers: first Benjy, the "idiot" man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the family's former pasture; next Quentin, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Caddy's lost virginity and his own failure to recover the family's honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally Jason, heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family.
If Benjy's section is the most daringly experimental, Jason's is the most harrowing. "Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say," he begins, lacing into Caddy's illegitimate daughter, and then proceeds to hurl mud at blacks, Jews, his sacred Compson ancestors, his glamorous, promiscuous sister, his doomed brother Quentin, his ailing mother, and the long-suffering black servant Dilsey who holds the family together by sheer force of character.
Notoriously "difficult," The Sound and the Fury is actually one of Faulkner's more accessible works once you get past the abrupt, unannounced time shifts--and certainly the most powerful emotionally. Everything is here: the complex equilibrium of pre-civil rights race relations; the conflict between Yankee capitalism and Southern agrarian values; a meditation on time, consciousness, and Western philosophy. And all of it is rendered in prose so gorgeous it can take your breath away. Here, for instance, Quentin recalls an autumnal encounter back home with the old black possum hunter Uncle Louis:
And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless October, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dogs and to the echo of Louis' voice dying away. He never raised it, yet on a still night we have heard it from our front porch. When he called the dogs in he sounded just like the horn he carried slung on his shoulder and never used, but clearer, mellower, as though his voice were a part of darkness and silence, coiling out of it, coiling into it again. WhoOoooo. WhoOoooo. WhoOooooooooooooooo.
What Faulkner has created is a modernist epic in which characters assume the stature of gods and the primal family events resonate like myths. It is The Sound and the Fury that secures his place in what Edmund Wilson called "the full-dressed post-Flaubert group of Conrad, Joyce, and Proust." --David Laskin [via]More editions of The Sound and the Fury:
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The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394751221 (0-394-75122-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality'Book summary:In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.
Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior? [via]More editions of The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality:
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Talesby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0394722655 (0-394-72265-5)
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Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Artby Griselda PollockISBN 0415007224 (0-415-00722-4)
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Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Artby Griselda PollockISBN 041530850X (0-415-30850-X)
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Pollock discusses the work of women artists such as Mary Kelly and Yve Lomax, highlighting the problems of working in a culture where the feminine is still defined as the object of the male gaze. Now published with a new introduction, Vision and Difference is as powerful as ever for all those seeking not only to understand the history of the feminine in art, but also to develop new strategies for representation for the future.
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