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This book explores the emergence of void aesthetics in fiction, film, and theory in the postwar period in order to assert the disruptive opportunity this aesthetic offers to the post-political present.

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This book explores the emergence of void aesthetics in fiction, film, and theory in the postwar period in order to assert the disruptive opportunity this aesthetic offers to the post-political present.

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Encourages an appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy.

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Encourages an appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy.

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A bold intervention into the lingering debates on Serbian writers Njegos and Andric in the late Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period, which interrogates the political and moralizing (mis)use of literature.

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Fans of science fiction, those interested in the history and literary criticism of the genre, and anyone interested in popular culture and literature, and world literature will find When World Views Collide enlightening and thought-provoking reading.

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This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the before of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produce and yet delimit a range of medieval ideological regimes.

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Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin, up to and including "The Trauerspiel", this book elicits a cohesive conception of the wild, unforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in everything.

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Presents Wilhelm Dilthey's principal writings on aesthetics and the philosophical understanding of poetry, as well as representative essays of literary criticism. This book includes the essay, "The Imagination of the Poet" which is his attempt to examine the philosophical bearings of literature in relation to psychological and historical theory.

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While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake's literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary. -- .

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William Blake is a popular romantic poet, partly because of the relevance of his insights into psychological, political and social issues. This title introduces the readers to Blake's major themes and then moves on to reading his key works. It also includes sections on its context and critical adaptation, and an annotated guide to further reading.

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William Blake is a popular romantic poet, partly because of the relevance of his insights into psychological, political and social issues. This title introduces the readers to Blake's major themes and then moves on to reading his key works. It also includes sections on its context and critical adaptation, and an annotated guide to further reading.

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Contains 75 engaging profiles of the fascinating and diverse group of writers who have garnered this prestigious award, including information about their personal and writing lives. Each biographical sketch is accompanied by a complete list of the author's published works. For grades 4-8.

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This text includes: a re-evaluation of Benjamin's concepts of history and modernity; a discussion of aspects of Benjamin's literary scholarship and his theory/ practice of literary criticism and epistolography; and a review of Benjamin's writings on media and performance theories.

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This text includes: a re-evaluation of Benjamin's concepts of history and modernity; a discussion of aspects of Benjamin's literary scholarship and his theory/practice of literary criticism and epistolography; and a review of Benjamin's writings on media and performance theories.

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A work in comparative literature and philosophy that offers a fresh and important way of thinking the ethical capacity of human subjectivity. It posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination.