‎Or‎

‎Professor or Dr Stefano Marino‎

‎Pearl Jam and Philosophy‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501362781 ISBN : 150136278x 9781501362781

‎Professor or Dr Toru Mitsui‎

‎Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501363863 ISBN : 1501363867 9781501363863

‎Professor or Dr Jens Elze‎

‎Realism: Aesthetics Experiments Politics‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. Realism seems to be everywhere both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume brings together for the first time three aspects that are pertinent for a proper understanding of realism: its 19th-century aesthetics committed to making reality into an object of serious art; the experiments with and against realism by 20th-century modernist postmodernist or magical realist writing; and the politics of realism especially its ambitions to map the complex realities produced by global capitalism and climate catastrophe. This juxtaposition of aesthetics experiments and politics unsettles the entrenched opposition between realism and experimental literature that tends to ignore the fact that realism by virtue of its commitment to a changing material and social world cannot be but continuously experimenting. The innovative chapters of this book address some of the pressing questions of literary and cultural studies today like the complex relation between historical materialism and new materialisms between science and art or the different aesthetic and political affordances of making systemic analyses against depicting the specificity of the local. Some of the chapters deal with classically realist authors such as George Eliot Émile Zola and Joseph Conrad to gauge the aesthetic radicalism of their diverse realist projects. Others investigate the experimental engagements with realism by authors such as B.S. Johnson J.M. Coetzee or Rachel Cusk. Yet others analyze the politics of realism found in contemporary anglophone novels by writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie David Mitchell or Rohinton Mistry. The readings assembled here are a testament to the diversity of literary realisms from the 19th 20th and 21st centuries and to the ongoing controversies surrounding definitions and deployments of “realism.†paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : B9781501385520 ISBN : 1501385526 9781501385520

‎Professor or Dr Jens Elze‎

‎Realism: Aesthetics Experiments Politics‎

‎Hardback. New. Realism is everywhere both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume brings together for the first time three aspects that are pertinent for a proper understanding of realism: its origins as a radical 19th-century aesthetic practice committed to making reality into an object of serious art; the challenges to realism taken up by experimental forms of processing reality in 20th-century literature; and the politics of contemporary realism especially its ambitions to map the complex realities produced by global capital. This juxtaposition of origins challenges and politics unsettles the routine division between realism and experimental literature that tends to ignore the fact that realism by virtue of its commitment to a changing material and social world cannot be but continuously experimenting. The innovative chapters of this book deal with classically realist authors such as George Eliot Emile Zola and Joseph Conrad to gauge the original radicalism of their realist projects. The contributions further investigate the experimental engagements with realism by authors such as B.S. Johnson J.M. Coetzee or Rachel Cusk. Finally contributions analyse the politics of realism found in contemporary global novels by writers like Chimamanda Adichie David Mitchell or Rohinton Mistry. While the chapters of the volume have a story to tell about the development and uses of realism from the 19th 20th and 21st centuries the material and the readings assembled here are also testament to the ongoing controversies surrounding definitions and deployments of the genre. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501385483 ISBN : 1501385488 9781501385483

‎Professor or Dr Emily Johansen‎

‎Rereading Empathy‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501376856 ISBN : 1501376853 9781501376856

‎Professor or Dr Joanna Love‎

‎Sonic Identity at the Margins‎

‎new. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 44028948-n ISBN : 1501368826 9781501368820

‎Professor or Dr David Borgo‎

‎Sync or Swarm Revised Edition: Improvising Music in a Complex Age‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501368837 ISBN : 1501368834 9781501368837

‎Professor or Dr Nathalie Aghoro‎

‎The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501361388 ISBN : 1501361384 9781501361388

‎Professor or Dr Laurie Rodrigues‎

‎The American Novel After Ideology 1961-2000‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : B9781501371417 ISBN : 150137141x 9781501371417

‎Professor or Dr Alice Brittan‎

‎The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : B9781501383571 ISBN : 1501383574 9781501383571

‎Professor or Dr Anil Camci‎

‎The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501357121 ISBN : 1501357123 9781501357121

‎Professor or Dr Michael Eskin‎

‎The Emprise of Poetry: Durs Grünbein America Antisemitism and the Pursuit of Liberty‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. <p><b><i>The Emprise of Poetry </i>analyzes </b><b>the insidious entwinement of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in modern and contemporary German culture through the writings of one of its most acclaimed literary figures: Dresden native Durs Grünbein 1962-.</b><br /><br />Michael Eskin offers an unprecedented view of the American-<i>cum</i>-Jewish discontents at the heart of modern and present-day German culture through the exemplary lens of the work of Durs Grünbein the most widely translated and globally honored living German poet and the only one to have been hailed as the Berlin Republic’s “most qualified contemporary candidate for the office of German national poet.â€<br /><br />Yet as Eskin outlines Grünbein’s work contains a paradoxical and tension-filled twofold self-construction: as an idiosyncratically ‘<i>American</i>’ poet and Ezra Pound’s vociferously philosemitic heir who merely happens to be writing in German as it were conjoined with an avidly anti-American <i>German </i>poet who writes emphatically and not always savorily <i>as a German</i> and a self-proclaimed heir to the legacies of Celan and Kafka – most notably on matters American and Jewish. Against the foil of these tensions Eskin traces and documents postwar German high culture’s persisting inability to purge itself of ideological toxins that leach into the mainstream from centuries-old prejudices and antagonisms revolving around Germany’s love-hate bond with America as well as its ostensibly enduring suspicion and antipathy toward Jews.<br /><br /> Eskin’s deep dive into the ‘<i>American</i>’ Grünbein’s apparent philosemitism coupled with the <i>German</i> Grünbein’s antisemitically-inflected anti-Americanism reveals the fault lines underlying the complex and contradictory legacies and contexts of postwar German culture.</p> paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : B9798765125021 ISBN : 9798765125025 9798765125

‎Professor or Dr Michael J Blouin‎

‎The Presidents of American Fiction: Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination‎

‎like new. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 44709235 ISBN : 1501381709 9781501381706

‎Professor or Dr Michael J Blouin‎

‎The Presidents of American Fiction: Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination‎

‎Hardback. New. <i>The Presidents of American Fiction</i> brings together American literature history and political science to explore the most influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early 19th century to the time of Trump. Of late popular understandings of the presidency are being radically re-written—consider for example the distinctive myths that accompanied the ascent of the Obama and Trump administrations—and many readers of all stripes are radically reimagining the office and its holder. Placing these changes within a broader cultural context Michael J. Blouin investigates narratives involving fictional presidents from the supposedly factual to the outright fantastical within their distinct literary and historical moments. The author considers representative texts including works penned by James Fenimore Cooper from the Jacksonian moment Gore Vidal in the age of Nixon and Vietnam and Philip Roth in the neoliberal period. Through detailed readings that question how American presidents function as characters within the popular imagination this book examines the presidency as a complex ever-evolving trope and in so doing enhances our appreciation of American literature’s inextricable link with American politics. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : B9781501381706 ISBN : 1501381709 9781501381706

‎Professor or Dr Simona Bertacco/ Professor or Dr Nicoletta Vallorani‎

‎The Relocation of Culture: Translations Migrations Borders Literatures Cultures Translation‎

‎new. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 42463822-n ISBN : 1501365223 9781501365225

‎Professor or Dr Steven Shaviro‎

‎The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms‎

‎new. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 44709224-n ISBN : 1501388568 9781501388569

‎Professor or Dr Steven Shaviro‎

‎The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501388552 ISBN : 150138855x 9781501388552

‎Professor or Dr Nicolai Jorgensgaard Graakjaer‎

‎The Sounds of Spectators at Football‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501363740 ISBN : 1501363743 9781501363740

‎Professor or Dr Heather Cleary‎

‎The Translator’s Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501353697 ISBN : 1501353691 9781501353697

‎Professor or Dr Brian Tucker‎

‎Theodor Fontane: Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age‎

‎Hardback. New. What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty trust and sincerity Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane's works this book argues that his best-known society novels play out a struggle between the incompatible demands of these two modes of speaking. Read in this light the novels identify an irreconcilable discrepancy between word and deed as both the root of emotional discord and the proximate cause of historical and political upheaval. Given the alarm since 2016 over unreliability falsehood and indifference to truth it is now easier to perceive in Fontane's novels a profound concern about language that is not sincere and not meant to be taken literally. For Fontane irony exemplifies a discrepancy between language and meaning a loosening of the ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer. His novels investigate the extent to which human relationships can continue to function in the face of pervasive irony and the erosion of language's credibility. Although Fontane is widely regarded as an ironic writer Tucker's analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the prospect of irony as a dominant idiom. Revisiting Fontane's novels in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own post-truth condition. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501368356 ISBN : 1501368354 9781501368356

‎Professor or Dr Regina Galasso‎

‎This Is a Classic: Translators on Making Writers Global‎

‎like new. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 44558155 ISBN : 1501376918 9781501376917

‎Professor or Dr Isabella Van Elferen‎

‎Timbre: Paradox Materialism Vibrational Aesthetics‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : B9781501370649 ISBN : 1501370642 9781501370649

‎Professor or Dr Josh Toth‎

‎Truth and Metafiction: Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative‎

‎Hardback. New. Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism—with a certain sense of irresponsibility political apathy or outright nihilism. Yet if as is now widely assumed postmodernism has finally run its course how might we account for the proliferation of metafictional devices in contemporary narrative media Does this persistence undermine the claim that postmodernism has passed or has the function of metafiction somehow changed To answer these questions Josh Toth considers a broad range of recent metafictional texts—bywriters such as George Saunders and Jennifer Egan and directors such as Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino. At the same time he traverses a diffuse theoretical landscape: from the rise of various new materialisms in philosophy and the turn to affect in literary criticism to the seemingly endless efforts to name postmodernism’s ostensible successor. Ultimately Toth argues that much contemporary metafiction moves beyond postmodern skepticism to reassert the possibility of making true claims about real things. Capable of combating a “post-truth†crisis such forms assert or assume a kind of Hegelian plasticity; they actively and persistently confront the trauma of what is infinitely mutable or perpetually other. What is outside or before a given representation is confirmed and endured as that which exceeds the instance of its capture. The truth is thereby renewed; neither denied nor simply assumed it is approached as ethically as possible. Its plasticity is <i>grasped</i> because the grasp the form of its narrative apprehension lets slip. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : A9781501351723 ISBN : 1501351729 9781501351723

‎Professor or Dr Philippe Birgy‎

‎Understanding Bakhtin Understanding Modernism‎

‎new. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 44507589-n ISBN : 1501381644 9781501381645

‎Professor or Dr Christina Kullberg‎

‎Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. This open access book complicates and develops the notion of the vernacular. Understood in the linguistic sense as well as an element of the local the vernacular facilitates the exploration of local and global dynamics. Through exploring the unexamined active role of the local the indigenous and the periphery in international literary exchanges this volume argues that a coherent theorization of the vernacular will enable us to do so. The essays in <i>Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures </i>present new critical approaches in the debate on world literature which has given priority to cosmopolitan movements global circulation of literatures and metropolitan centers. In nine case studies approaching narratives from the long 20th century from more or less marginal contexts—such as the Francophone Chinese diaspora multilingual regions in Spain West Africa and the Caribbean—the volume offers theoretical and methodological ways of putting the concept of the vernacular in practice and demonstrates how vernaculars operate within different literary critical cultural and political circumstances. <i>The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. </i> paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : B9781501374098 ISBN : 1501374095 9781501374098