Literature
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Freud and Fundamentalism (Hardcover)
The Psychical Politics of Knowledge Edited by Stathis GourgourisPrice: $70.00At the heart of this volume are questions about the psychic components of the modes of thinking we call “fundamentalist”—that is, thinking that disavows multiplicities of meaning, abhors allegorical elements, and strives toward an exclusionary orthodoxy that codifies not just...
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The Pleasures of Memory (Hardcover)
Learning to Read with Charles Dickens Sarah WinterPrice: $65.00What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Rendering literary history responsive to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways that...
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Democracy's Spectacle (Paperback)
Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing Jennifer GreimanPrice: $26.00"What is the hangman but a servant of law? And what is that law but an expression of public opinion? And if public opinion be brutal and thou a component part thereof, art thou not the hangman's accomplice?" Writing in 1842, Lydia Maria Child articulates a crisis in the relationship of...
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Reading the Allegorical Intertext (Paperback)
Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton Judith H. AndersonPrice: $30.00Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways...
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Caterpillage (Hardcover)
Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting Harry Berger, Jr.Price: $35.00Caterpillage is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch still life painting. It develops an interpretive approach based on the author’s previous studies of portraiture, and its goal is to offer its readers a new way to think and talk about the genre of still life.
The book begins with a...
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