Published By
Created On
15 Jan 2021 21:53:51 UTC
Transaction ID
Cost
Safe for Work
Free
Yes
Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass
Author: Rebecca Braun
File Type: pdf
This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Gunter Grass, Germanys best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from 1970 onwards and careful analysis of his political writings from 1965 to 2005, it argues that Grasss tendency to insert clearly recognizable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calculated reaction to his constant exposure in the media-led public sphere. It underlines the degree of play which has characterized Grasss relationship to this sphere and himself as part of it and explains how a concern with the very concept of authorship has conditioned the way his work as a whole has developed on both thematic and structural levels. The major achievement of this study is to develop a new interpretative paradigm for Grasss work. It explains for the first time how his playful tendency to manipulate his own authorial image conditions all levels of his texts and is equally manifest in literary and political realms. **
File Type: pdf
This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Gunter Grass, Germanys best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from 1970 onwards and careful analysis of his political writings from 1965 to 2005, it argues that Grasss tendency to insert clearly recognizable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calculated reaction to his constant exposure in the media-led public sphere. It underlines the degree of play which has characterized Grasss relationship to this sphere and himself as part of it and explains how a concern with the very concept of authorship has conditioned the way his work as a whole has developed on both thematic and structural levels. The major achievement of this study is to develop a new interpretative paradigm for Grasss work. It explains for the first time how his playful tendency to manipulate his own authorial image conditions all levels of his texts and is equally manifest in literary and political realms. **
Author
Content Type
Unspecified
application/pdf
Language
English
More from the publisher
Controlling
WOMEN
151342
Author: Elizabeth Mazzola
File Type: pdf
Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missinglost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social orderShakespeare was interested in such womens plight, how they were lost, and where they might have gone. Characters like Shakespeares Cordelia and Perdita, Rosalind and Celia constitute a collection of figures related to the mythical Persephone who famously returns to her mother and the earth each spring, only to withdraw from the world each winter when she is recalled to the underworld. That womens place is far from home has received little attention from literary scholars, however, and the story of their fraught relation to domestic space or success outside its bounds is one that hasnt been told. Women and Mobility investigates the ways Shakespeares plays link female characters agency with their mobility and thus represent womens ties to the household as less important than their connections to the larger world outside. Female migration is crucial to ideas about what early modern communities must retain and expel in order to carve a shared history, identity and moral framework, and in portraying women as sometime daughters who frequently renounce fathers and homelands, or queens elsewhere whose links to faraway places are vital to the rebuilding of homes and kingdoms, Shakespeare also depicts global space as shared space and the moral world as an international one. **About the Author Elizabeth Mazzola is a Professor of English at The City College of New York.
Transaction
Created
2 weeks ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
IN A
81022
Author: X. J. Kennedy
File Type: pdf
For more than half a century, readers and listeners have taken special pleasure in the poetry of X. J. Kennedy. In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus is an ample gathering of his best work memorable songs, startling lyrics, poems that tell poignant stories, character studies that vie with those of Edwin Arlington Robinson. A master of verbal music, Kennedy has long been praised for his wit and humor as this collection reveals, many of his poems also reach surprising depths and heights. Donald Hall comments, many of Kennedys poems are wit itself. His wit is his way of understanding. No one else writing is capable of the effects in which Kennedy specializes. This book skims the cream from several slim volumes and six past collections including the prize-winning Nude Descending a Staircase, Cross Ties, and The Lords of Misrule. It restores to print over fifty poems unavailable for decades and adds more than two dozen new poems collected for the first time. Kennedy has long occupied a unique place in American poetry In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus now offers the first comprehensive collection to span his entire career.
Transaction
Created
2 weeks ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
THE B
122808
Author: Erin Evans
File Type: pdf
In The Books of Jeu and the Pistis Sophia as Handbooks to Eternity Erin Evans offers an in-depth examination of the CopticBooks of Jeu and Pistis Sophia, demonstrating their system of cosmology and ritual practice, and their relationship to other contemporary Gnostic myths and ideas. **
Transaction
Created
2 weeks ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
MAN A
90561
Author: Joseph Campbell
File Type: pdf
Essays by Henry Corbin, Mircea Eliade, C. G. Jung, Max Knoll, G. van der Leeuw, Louis Massignon, Erich Neumann, Helmuth Plessner, Adolf Portmann, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, and Hellmut Wilhelm. With an introduction by Henry Corbin.
Transaction
Created
2 weeks ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
LUCE
89661
Author: Theresa Krier
File Type: pdf
The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and Donne. They explore both the pre-Enlightenment roots of Luce Irigarays thought, and the impact that her writings have had on our understanding of ancient, medieval and Renaissance culture.Luce Irigaray has been a major figure in Anglo-American literary theory, philosophy and gender studies ever since her germinal works, Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One, were published in English translation in 1985. This collection is the first sustained examination of Irigarays crucial relationship to premodern discourses underpinning Western culture, and of the transformative effect she has had on scholars working in pre-Enlightenment periods. Like Irigaray herself, the essays work at the intersections of gender, theory, historicism and language.This collection offers powerful ways of understanding premodern texts through Irigarays theories that allow us to imagine our past and present relationship to economics, science, psychoanalysis, gender, ethics and social communities in new ways.About the AuthorTeresa Krier is Professor of English at Macalester College, and is author of Gazing on Secret Sights Spenser, Classical Imitation, and the Decorums of Vision and Birth Passages Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare. She is the editor of Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance. Elizabeth D. Harvey is Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto. She is the author of Ventriloquized Voices Feminist Theory and English Renaissance Texts the co-editor of Women and Reason and Soliciting Interpretation Literary Theory and Seventeenth Century English Poetry and editor of Sensible Flesh On Touch in Early Modern Culture. She is currently completing a book on early modern literature and medicine, Inscrutable Organs.
Transaction
Created
2 weeks ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
ENTHU
67618
Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard
File Type: pdf
Enthusiasm studies what Kant calls a strong sense of the sublime, not as an aesthetic feeling but as a form of political judgment rendered not by the active participants in historical events but those who witness them from afar. Lyotards analysis, preparatory to his work in The Differend and subsequent publications, is a radical rereading of the Kantian faculties, traditionally understood as functions of the mind, in terms of a philosophy of phrases derived from Lyotards prior encounters with Wittgensteins theory of language games. The result is a kind of fourth critique based in Kants later political and historical writings, with an emphasis on understanding the place of those sudden and unscripted events that have the power to reshape the politicalhistorical landscape (such as the French Revolution, May 1968, and others). **
Transaction
Created
2 weeks ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
DOES
64321
Author: Susan Pockett
File Type: pdf
Our intuition tells us that we, our conscious selves, cause our own voluntary acts. Yet scientists have long questioned this Thomas Huxley, for example, in 1874 compared mental events to a steam whistle that contributes nothing to the work of a locomotive. New experimental evidence (most notable, work by Benjamin Libet and Daniel Wegner) has brought the causal status of human behavior back to the forefront of intellectual discussion. This multidisciplinary collection advances the debate, approaching the question from a variety of perspectives.The contributors begin by examining recent research in neuroscience that suggests that consciousness does not cause behavior, offering the outline of an empirically based model that shows how the brain causes behavior and where consciousness might fit in. Other contributors address the philosophical presuppositions that may have informed the empirical studies, raising questions about what can be legitimately concluded about the existence of free will from Libets and Wegners experimental results. Others examine the effect recent psychological and neuroscientific research could have on legal, social, and moral judgments of responsibility and blame -- in situations including A Clockwork Orange-like scenario of behavior correction.Contributors William P. Banks, Timothy Bayne, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Suparna Choudhury, Walter J. Freeman, Shaun Gallagher, Susan Hurley, Marc Jeannerod, Leonard V. Kaplan, Hakwan Lau, Sabine Maasen, Bertram F. Malle, Alfred R. Mele, Elisabeth Pacherie, Richard Passingham, Susan Pockett, Wolfgang Prinz, Peter W. Ross
Transaction
Created
2 weeks ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
UNDER
33926
Author: Geoff Dyer
File Type: epub
John Bergers explorations of the relationships between the individual and society, culture and politics, and experience and expression through the written word, films, photographic collaborations and performances are unmatched in their diversity, ambition and reach. His television series and book Ways of Seeing revolutionized the way that art is understood. Now, Understanding a Photograph gathers the photography writings of one of the most internationally influential authors of the past 50 years. Understanding a Photograph is arranged chronologically, leading the reader on a thought-provoking journey through selected essays from hallmark works such as About Looking and Another Way of Telling, as well as previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions or catalogues that discuss a wide range of artistsfrom August Sander to Jitka Hanzlova. This collection of some 25 texts has been carefully selected by novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer, who has also written a critical study of Bergers oeuvre.
Transaction
Created
2 weeks ago
Content Type
Language
application/epub+zip
English
Controlling
PRIMO
105638
Author: Frederic D. Homer
File Type: pdf
At the age of twenty-five, Primo Levi was sent to Hell. Levi, an Italian chemist from Turin, was one of many swept up in the Holocaust of World War II and sent to die in the German concentration camp in Auschwitz. Of the 650 people transported to the camp in his group, only 15 men and 9 women survived. After Soviet liberation of the camp in 1945, Levi wrote books, essays, short stories, poetry, and a novel, in which he painstakingly described the horrors of his experience at Auschwitz. He also spent the rest of his life struggling with the fact that he was not among those who were killed.In Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival, Frederic D. Homer looks at Primo Levis life but, more important, shows him to be a significant political philosopher. In the course of his writings, Levi asked and answered his most haunting question can someone be brutalized by a terrifying experience and, upon return to ordinary life, recover from the physical and moral destruction he has suffered? Levi used this question to develop a philosophy positing that although man is no match for life, he can become better prepared to contend with the tragedies in life.According to Levi, the horrors of the world occur because of the strength of human tendencies, which make relationships between human beings exceedingly fragile. He believed that we are ill-constituted beings who have tendencies toward violence and domination, dividing ourselves into Us and Them, with very shallow loyalties. He also maintained that our only refuge is in education and responsibility, which may counter these tendencies. Homer calls Levis philosophy optimistic pessimism.As Homer demonstrates, Levi took his past experiences into account to determine that goodwill and democratic institutions do not come easily to people. Liberal society is to be earned through discipline and responsibility toward our weaknesses. Levis answer is civilized liberalism. To achieve this we must counter some of our most stubborn tendencies.Homer also explores the impact of Levis death, an apparent suicide, on the way in which his work and theories have been perceived. While several critics discount Levis work because of the nature of his death, Homer argues that his death is consistent with his philosophy. A book rich in brutally honest philosophy, Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival compels one to look at serious questions about life, tragedy, optimism, solidarity, violence, and human nature.**
Transaction
Created
2 weeks ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English