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  • Animal Fables after Darwin

    Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor

    by Chris Danta ...
    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and ... Read more

    $122.39 CAD

  • Mindful Aesthetics

    Literature and the Science of Mind

    Edited by Dr. Chris Danta, Prof. Helen Groth ...
    In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen and clarify our understanding of literary representations of mind. This cognitive turn has been equally generative and contentious. While cognitive literary studies has reinforced how central the concept of mind is to aesthetic practice from the classical period to the present, critics ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • Strong Opinions

    J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction

    Edited by Dr. Chris Danta, Julian Murphet, Prof. Sue Kossew ...
    This new collection of essays on Coetzee examines how his novels create and unsettle literary authority. Its unique contribution is to show how Coetzee provokes us into reconsidering certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism, the authority of the author and the constitution of the human self in a posthumanist setting by consciously revealing the literary ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • Literature Suspends Death

    Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot

    by Dr. Chris Danta ...
    This is the first book-length study of how three important European thinkers-Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot-use the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer. Danta shows that literature plays a vital and heretical role in these three writers' highly idiosyncratic accounts of the Akedah. His claim is twofold: firstly, that all three authors choose to respond ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • Philosophy and Kafka

    by Paul Alberts, Ronald Bogue, Chris Danta, Paul Haacke, Rainer Nagele, Brian O'Connor, Andrew R. Russ, Peter Schwenger, Kevin W. Sweeney, Dimitris Vardoulakis, Isak Winkel Holm ...
    The relationship of philosophy with Kafka’s oeuvre is complex. It has been argued that Kafka’s novels and stories defy philosophic extrapolation; conversely, it has also been suggested that precisely the tendency of Kafka’s writings to elude discursive solution is itself a philosophical tendency, one that is somehow contributing to a wiser relationship of human beings with language. These matters ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • The Power Platform Playbook for Digital Transformation

    Implement strategy, automation, and AI for scalable digital transformation

    by Victor Dantas, Chris Huntingford ...
    Revolutionize your business operations with Microsoft Power Platform to automate workflows, drive innovation, and scale digital transformation in your organization with GenAI, AI agents, and intelligent automationKey FeaturesLearn how to build scalable, low-code solutions with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Copilot StudioDrive digital transformation through AI-powered automation and ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • How Literature Works

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