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  • How to Read Literature

    par Terry Eagleton, Terry ...
    A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasureWhat makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Radical Sacrifice

    par Terry Eagleton, Terry ...
    A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social orderThe modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this ... En savoir plus

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  • The Event of Literature

    par Terry Eagleton ...
    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Christmas Carol: York Notes for GCSE (9-1) ebook edition

    par Beth Kemp ...
    Collections series York Notes
    The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022.Get straight to the heart of the text with crystal-clear notes, focused analysis and expert summaries.Quickly demystify historical contexts and get to grips with the text’s form, language and structure.Efficiently unpick plots, contexts and themes and sharpen your memory of key facts, quotations ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance

    Art as Experiment

    par Herbert Molderings ...
    Traduit par John Brogden ...
    Collections series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "artist-engineer-scientist," a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his 3 Standard Stoppages (1913-1914), a work that uses chance as an artistic medium, we see how far Duchamp subverted scientism ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • 21st-Century Gothic

    Great Gothic Novels Since 2000

    Modifié par professor Danel Olson ...
    Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists (creative writers, professors, critics, and Gothic Studies program developers at universities), the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010. The essays in this volume discuss the merits of these novels, highlighting the influences and key ... En savoir plus

    $136.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Music

    An Introduction

    par R.A. Sharpe ...
    This lively and lucid introduction to the philosophy of music concentrates on the issues that illuminate musical listening and practice. It examines the conceptual debates relevant to the understanding and performing of music and grounds the philosophy to practical matters throughout. Ideal for a beginning readership with little philosophical background, the author provides an overview of the ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony

    par Daniel Herwitz ...
    The act of remaking one's history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism's history. Yet the postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deploys heritage institutions and ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • Thinking on Screen

    Film as Philosophy

    par Thomas E. Wartenberg ...
    Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy is an accessible and thought-provoking examination of the way films raise and explore complex philosophical ideas. Written in a clear and engaging style, Thomas Wartenberg examines films’ ability to discuss, and even criticize ideas that have intrigued and puzzled philosophers over the centuries such as the nature of personhood, the basis of morality, and ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Kafka

    In Light of the Accident

    par Professor Howard Caygill ...
    By challenging many of the assumptions, misguided presuppositions and even legends that have surrounded the legacy and reception of Franz Kafka's work during the 20th century, Howard Caygill provides us with a radical new way of reading Kafka.Kafka: In the Light of the Accident advances a unique philosophical interpretation via the pivotal theme of the accident, understood both philosophically and ... En savoir plus

    $57.99 CAD

  • Clarissa on the Continent

    Translation and Seduction

    par Thomas O. Beebee ...
    "Clarissa" on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation—creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak—as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they influence the French translation of Clarissa by the novelist Antione François de Prévost and the German translation by the Göttingen Orientalist ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful

    par Edmund Burke ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed from antiquity until the eighteenth century, and replaced metaphysics with psychology and even ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD