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  • Deconstructed Divas

    Narrative and the Operatic Femme Fatale

    by Marcus R. Pyle ...
    How can a marginalized body carve out a space for freedom amidst symbolic annihilation? To answer this question, Marcus R. Pyle looks to the femme fatale as a trope of artistic production and social culture during the turn of the twentieth century. The femme fatale—the hypersexual, mysterious, magnetic, and "dangerous" woman—was the enemy of the fin de siècle. Ultimately, she functions as a trope ... Read more

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  • Feminine Endings

    Music, Gender, and Sexuality

    by Susan Mcclary ...
    A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. “. . . this is a major book . . . [McClary’s] achievement borders on the miraculous.” The Village Voice“No one will read these essays without thinking about and hearing music in new and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Black and Blur

    by Fred Moten ...
    Series Book [5. 1] - consent not to be a single being
    "Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary ImaginationIn Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Comics and Narration

    by Thierry Groensteen ...
    Translated by Ann Miller ...
    This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's ground-breaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • No Medium

    by Craig Dworkin ...
    Close readings of ostensibly “blank” works—from unprinted pages to silent music—that point to a new understanding of media.In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts

    Edited by Alessandro Bertinetto, Marcello Ruta ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater

    by Nina Penner ...
    Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Next Week, Swan Lake

    Reflections on Dance and Dances

    by Selma Jeanne Cohen ...
    An important book of essays on "dance and ideas about dance" ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    by Emily Apter ...
    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Translating Women

    Edited by Luise von Flotow ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an impact on the discipline that made their dissemination possible: many translators and translation scholars still remain unaware of the practices, purposes and possibilities of gender in translation. Translating Women revives ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening

    by Jonathan D. Kramer ...
    Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that time itself is articulated musically. This book has become influential among composers, theorists, and aestheticians. Now, in his almost completed text written before his untimely death in 2004, he examines the concept of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Barbara Johnson Reader

    The Surprise of Otherness

    by Barbara Johnson ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary criticism and as the translator of Jacques Derrida's Dissemination. She went on to lead the way ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD