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"Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists have woken up to the power of stories to fight global warming. In Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change-and how we might...
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"To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herv©♭ Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault. The first half of To Write as if Already Dead is a novella...
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"It is in and through Symbols that man, consciously or unconsciously, lives, works, and has his being: those ages, moreover, are accounted the noblest which can the best recognise symbolical worth, and prize it highest."
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Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. What are words themselves but symbols, almost as arbitrary as the letters which compose them, mere sounds of the voice to which we have agreed...
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Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday reflection behind the composition of his works, as well as a rich...
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Collected here are some of Umberto Eco's finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual mind. As the author puts it in the preface to the second edition: "In these pages, I try to interpret and to help others interpret some 'signs.' These signs are not only words, or images; they can also be forms of social behavior, political acts, artificial landscapes." From Disneyland to...
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A comprehensive account of Roberto Assagioli's psychosynthesis, a type of therapy that addresses both spiritual development and psychological healing and growth.
Conceived by Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli, psychosynthesis is one of the first Western psychologies that addresses both spiritual development and psychological healing and growth by recognizing and supporting the particular life journey of the person-the individual's own unique...
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Desastre: lo que queda por decir cuando se ha dicho todo, ruina del habla, desfallecimiento de la escritura, rumor que murmura, lo que resta sin resto; siempre por venir, siempre pasado; histórico fuera-de-la-historia. Olvidémonos del lenguaje ordinario: solo un ejercicio sublime de ironía (¿se le puede dar ese nombre?) hace posible la escritura del desastre. Olvidémonos de toda dialéctica: solo un ejercicio acrobático, intenso y excesivo del...
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La huella de Vittorio Bodini (1914-1970) brilla con luz propia en el prestigioso panorama del hispanismo italiano del siglo XX. Hombre del Sur, intelectual inquieto y escritor, profesor universitario, poeta y narrador, fue sobre todo admirador y estudioso de España, así como de su literatura y su cultura. Su legado incluye un relevante conjunto de estudios y traducciones al italiano, centrado fundamentalmente en la poesía y el teatro contemporáneos...
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Esto no es un libro sobre la tuberculosis, es un libro sobre la vida. En concreto sobre la vida de Chéjov, Kafka, Mansfield, Salvat-Papasseit, Éluard y Orwellunidas por el hilo invisible de una enfermedad. Plaga porque se contagia como una peste. Tanto, de hecho, que se aísla a las personas enfermas, se las destierra y se las condena al ostracismo. Y en ese confinamiento, los enfermos se marchitan y empalidecen (de ahí que la epidemia reciba el...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Le Démon de la théorie d'Antoine Compagnon (Seuil, Paris, 1998), sous-titré Littérature et sens commun, est l'un des rares essais qui traite de la crise théorique qui affecte la critique littéraire universitaire.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Le Démon de la théorie d'Antoine Compagnon.
Chaque fiche de lecture présente...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
L'écriture de Gérard Genette obéit au plus simple des principes: chaque livre est issu du précédent. Cette vérité se laisse observer dès la publication des premiers essais critiques (Figures I et II), et pour les grandes enquêtes de poétique (Mimologiques, Palimpsestes, Seuils) et a fortiori pour les travaux narratologiques (Nouveau Discours du récit répondant au plus célèbre...
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This volume is a collection of 38 pieces – essays, poems, extracts – unified by a combination of the playful, primitive aesthetic of literary modernism with the anti-authoritarian, anarchist praxis of radical democratic politics. This bi-polar sensibility permeates the work of Jerry Zaslove, to whom the book is dedicated.
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Par-delà deux millénaires, ce livre nous apporte un souffle vivant, non plus la moisissure des écoles et des bibliothèques » : ainsi le grand critique allemand Ernst-Robert Curtius, dans La Littérature européenne et le Moyen ge latin (1948), salue-t-il le petit traité Du sublime (Péri Hupsous) – un sommet selon lui de la rhétorique antique.
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Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled is refracted within the structures of literature and literary discourse itself, a crisis he terms "aesthetic nervousness." The disabled reminds the able-bodied...
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Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories-multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and affects passed down within the family and the culture at...
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Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. "Media studies," as Kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how books operate as films, poetry as computer science, and music as military equipment. This volume collects writings from all stages of the author's prolific career. Exemplary essays...
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In this outstanding book, Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, William Gaddis, John Barth, Margaret Atwood, and Donald Barthelme. According to Strehle, the actualists balance attention to questions of art with an engaged meditation on the external,...
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Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of linguistic data and their meanings. In these two texts, "95 Theses on Philology" and "For-Philology," Hamacher propounds a notion of generalized philology that is equivalent to the real production of linguistic utterances, and indeed utterances not limited to predicative or even discursive...
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Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining...
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In Critical Children, Richard Locke follows child characters in classic novels for adults and their use in exploring or evading social, psychological, and moral problems. Moving from Dickens's Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip in Great Expectations to Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; from Henry James's Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and his modern American descendent, J. D. Salinger's Holden...
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