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  • - A Legendre Reader
    av Pierre Legendre
    1 362,-

    Law and the Unconscious is the first work of the French legal philosopher Pierre Legendre to appear in English. Trained as a lawyer, a historian and a psychoanalyst, the work of Pierre Legendre has consistently confronted law with the teaching and methods of psychoanalysis.

  • av Laura Mulvey
    857,-

    The essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the women's movement shift into feminism and the development of feminism's involvement with the politics of representation, psychoanalytic film theory and avant-garde aesthetics.

  • - Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch, Van Sant
    av Patrizia Lombardo
    712 - 753,-

    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 uses of the history of cinema as well as of other media.

  • - and the Division of Knowledge
    av J. Barrell
    698,-

    This book brings together many of John Barrell's essays - some written especially for this volume - on the history and politics of culture in eighteenth-century Britain.

  • - Sexual Harrassment Citizenship Government
    av Jeffery Minson
    727,-

    On the basis of a distinctive 'material-cultural' approach to ethics Questions of Conduct puts the case for radically changing the conventional terms of debate on the problem of sexual harassment, and the place of 'citizenship' in socialist political theory and programmes.

  • av J. Lecercle
    1 738,-

    In the field of philosophy of language, is there life beyond Chomsky? Deleuze's deep distrust for, and fascination with language provide a positive answer - nothing less than a brand new philosophy of language, where pragmatics replaces structural linguistics, and where the literary text and the concept of style have pride of place.

  • - A History of Nowhere
    av R. Robinson
    712,-

    Richard Robinson examines the representation of shifting European borders in twentieth-century narrative, drawing together an unusual grouping of texts from different national canons and comparing the various ways that fictional settings transmute European placelessness into narrative.

  • - Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics
    av M. O'Pray
    1 362,-

    Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and modelling are analysed in relation to film, arguing that they replace the traditional notions of realism and montage in film theory and provide a set of aesthetics which encompasses mainstream and 'art' cinema.

  • av M. Nash
    712,-

    This collection of essays and articles from Mark Nash, one of the former editors of Screen magazine, explores the classical period of Screen theory and film culture, as well as that of contemporary art.

  • - Reality Matters
    av M. Kavka
    1 362,-

    Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy explains the appeal of reality television in terms of the affective power of the mediated image. In place of common objections that reality TV is 'not real', Misha Kavka argues that the feelings of intimacy engendered by unscripted drama are both real and socially informative.

  • - Adorno, Kafka, Richter
     
    712,-

    Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory ), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy ), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter's Betty , 1988).

  • - A Brief Historical and Practical Manual
    av Peter Goodrich
    1 651,-

    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 object of the law of love, the lex amatoria collated and presented here.

  • - Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending
    av A. Tauchert
    951,-

    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?

  • - European Pedigrees/ African Contagions
    av James A. Snead
    1 334,-

    This volume is a selection of significant and previously unpublished essays and short stories by the influential critic of German and American literature and popular culture, James A. The volume contains innovative essays and notes about African American popular culture, literary criticism and five pieces of short fiction.

  • - The New York School of Poets
    av Geoff Ward
    395 - 712,-

    Statutes of Liberty (1993) was the first book on The New York School of Poets, and offers the definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler.

  • - From Poe to Scorsese
    av Patrizia Lombardo
    601 - 712,-

    The city is an essential theme of modernity in literature, architecture, photography and film. Lombardo reflects on the way in which the changes in human perception created by urbanization are expressed in the various arts, in terms of form and content.

  • av R. Purcell
    712,-

    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.

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    1 362,-

    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.

  • av J. Lecercle & D. Riley
    1 334,-

    The Force of Language illustrates how the philosophy of Language, if differently conceived, can directly incorporate questions of political thought and of emotionality, and offers the practical case of defensive strategies against the abusive speech.

  • - Learning from (Post) Colonial Englishes about English
    av A. Parakrama
    1 362,-

    This study first establishes the discriminatroy and elitist nature of standard languages and standardisation itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the 'other' or postcolonial Englishes.

  • - Class, Politics and Culture in Marxist Theory
    av Stanley Aronowitz
    1 362,-

    In this provocative and famous book, now substantially revised and with much new material, Stanley Aronowitz lays bare the fundamental logical problems in Marxist theory with respect to nature, gender and race relations, the concept of class, and historical time.

  • av Jean-Jacques Lecercle
    1 362,-

    Lecercle draws on the resources of pragmatics, literary theory and the philosophy of language to propose a new theory of literary, but also of face-to-face, dialogue that charts the interaction between the five participants in the fields of dialogue and/or interpretation: author, reader, text, language and encyclopaedia.

  • - Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law
    av David Saunders, Ian Hunter & Dugald Williamson
    1 362,-

    The policing of pornography remains a subject of widespread controversy. This book indicates that obscenity law is not, as liberals claim, a mistaken attempt to police moral ideas, but rather forms part of the legitimate governmental regulation of a problematic social conduct.

  • av Denise Riley
    1 362,-

    This anniversary reader brings together a fascinating group of thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic with an introductory overview from the editors which considers the development of theory and scholarship over the past two decades.

  • - Colonialism, Culture and Identity
    av W. Maley
    1 362,-

    Salvaging Spenser is a major new work of literary revision which places Edmund Spenser's corpus, from The Shepheardes Calender to A View of the Present State of Ireland, within an elaborate cultural and political context.

  • - Culture and Conflict in the Isle of Purbeck
    av J. Wilkes
    712,-

    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 Butts and Paul Nash.

  • - The Work of Animation
    av David Nowell Smith
    712 - 753,-

    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 voice itself.

  • av Andreas Vrahimis
    1 651,-

    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.

  • - Women, Politics and Legal Reform
    av Dr Lesley Caldwell
    1 362,-

    Italian Family Matters examines the debates and political priorities that led to significant changes in the law and its relation to women and the family in postwar Italy.

  • - The Daughter's Seduction
    av Jane Gallop
    539,-

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