Author: Pierre Macherey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136805001
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey‘s first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived wisdom, and quickly established him as a pivotal figure in literary theory. The reissue of this work as a Routledge Classic brings some radical ideas to
A Theory of Literary Production
Author: Pierre Macherey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136805001
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey‘s first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived wisdom, and quickly established him as a pivotal figure in literary theory. The reissue of this work as a Routledge Classic brings some radical ideas to
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136805001
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey‘s first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived wisdom, and quickly established him as a pivotal figure in literary theory. The reissue of this work as a Routledge Classic brings some radical ideas to
Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production
Author: Warren Montag
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780810145122
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"This collection revisits A Theory of Literary Production by influential French critic Pierre Macherey to explore how the theorist's remarkable-and provocative-work can contribute to contemporary discussions about reading and formal analysis"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780810145122
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"This collection revisits A Theory of Literary Production by influential French critic Pierre Macherey to explore how the theorist's remarkable-and provocative-work can contribute to contemporary discussions about reading and formal analysis"--
Constraining Chance
Author: Alison James
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810125307
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This text examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the study of a specific case - the work of the 20th-century French writer Georges Perec (1936-82).
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810125307
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This text examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the study of a specific case - the work of the 20th-century French writer Georges Perec (1936-82).
Literature and Human Equality
Author: Stewart Justman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123258
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Stewart Justman presents Western literature from Shakespeare, Dickens, and others, to show how they changed the appearance of literature with new ways of constructing a tale.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123258
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Stewart Justman presents Western literature from Shakespeare, Dickens, and others, to show how they changed the appearance of literature with new ways of constructing a tale.
Hegel Or Spinoza
Author: Pierre Macherey
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452933103
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The first English-language translation of a classic work of French philosophy
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452933103
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The first English-language translation of a classic work of French philosophy
Eugene Jolas
Author: Eugène Jolas
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810125811
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Dividing his youth between the United States and the bilingual Alsace-Lorraine, Eugene Jolas (1894-1952) flourished in three languages. As an editor and poet, he came to know the major writers and artists of his time and enjoyed a pivotal position between the Anglo-American and Continental avant-garde. His editorship of transition, the leading avant-garde journal of Paris in the twenties and early thirties, provided a major impetus to writers from James Joyce (whose Finnegans Wake was serialized in transition) to Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Beckett, with first translations of André Breton, and Franz Kafka, among others. Jolas's critical work, collected in this volume, includes introductions to anthologies, manifestoes like the famous Vertical, essays, some published here for the first time, on writers as various as Novalis, Trakl, the major Surrealists, Heidegger, and other philosophers. An acute observer of the literary scene as well as of the roiling politics of the time, Jolas emerges here in his role at the very center of avant-garde activity between the wars. Accordingly, this book is of signal importance to anyone with an interest in modernism, avant-garde, multilingualism, and the culture of Western Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810125811
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Dividing his youth between the United States and the bilingual Alsace-Lorraine, Eugene Jolas (1894-1952) flourished in three languages. As an editor and poet, he came to know the major writers and artists of his time and enjoyed a pivotal position between the Anglo-American and Continental avant-garde. His editorship of transition, the leading avant-garde journal of Paris in the twenties and early thirties, provided a major impetus to writers from James Joyce (whose Finnegans Wake was serialized in transition) to Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Beckett, with first translations of André Breton, and Franz Kafka, among others. Jolas's critical work, collected in this volume, includes introductions to anthologies, manifestoes like the famous Vertical, essays, some published here for the first time, on writers as various as Novalis, Trakl, the major Surrealists, Heidegger, and other philosophers. An acute observer of the literary scene as well as of the roiling politics of the time, Jolas emerges here in his role at the very center of avant-garde activity between the wars. Accordingly, this book is of signal importance to anyone with an interest in modernism, avant-garde, multilingualism, and the culture of Western Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Postmodern Pooh
Author: Frederick Crews
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123843
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Originally published: New York: North Point Press, 2001.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123843
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Originally published: New York: North Point Press, 2001.
Opposing Poetries: Readings
Author: Hank Lazer
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810114142
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Explains to structural engineers some of the basic equations for analyzing and designing buildings that were devised at the end of the 19th century but were so unmanageably complex to solve that they were displaced by approximation techniques until the recent advent of electronic computer. Heyman (engineering, U. of Cambridge) warns that some of the equations turn out not to fit reality as close as future occupants of buildings might prefer, and explains how to use them and in what context. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810114142
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Explains to structural engineers some of the basic equations for analyzing and designing buildings that were devised at the end of the 19th century but were so unmanageably complex to solve that they were displaced by approximation techniques until the recent advent of electronic computer. Heyman (engineering, U. of Cambridge) warns that some of the equations turn out not to fit reality as close as future occupants of buildings might prefer, and explains how to use them and in what context. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Womb Fantasies
Author: Caroline Rupprecht
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810166631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Womb Fantasies examines the womb, an invisible and mysterious space invested with allegorical significance, as a metaphorical space in postwar cinematic and literary texts grappling with the trauma of post-holocaust, postmodern existence. In addition, it examines the representation of visible spaces in the texts in terms of their attribution with womb-like qualities. The framing of the study historically within the postwar era begins with a discussion of Eero Saarinen’s Womb Chair in the context of the Cold War’s need for safety in light of the threat of nuclear destruction, and ranges over films such as Marguerite Duras’ and Alan Resnais’ film Hiroshima mon amour and Duras’ novel The Vice-Consul, exploring the ways that such cultural texts fantasize the womb as a response to trauma, defined as the compulsive need to return to the site of loss, a place envisioned as both a secure space and a prison. The womb fantasy is linked to the desire to recreate an identity that is new and original but ahistorical.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810166631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Womb Fantasies examines the womb, an invisible and mysterious space invested with allegorical significance, as a metaphorical space in postwar cinematic and literary texts grappling with the trauma of post-holocaust, postmodern existence. In addition, it examines the representation of visible spaces in the texts in terms of their attribution with womb-like qualities. The framing of the study historically within the postwar era begins with a discussion of Eero Saarinen’s Womb Chair in the context of the Cold War’s need for safety in light of the threat of nuclear destruction, and ranges over films such as Marguerite Duras’ and Alan Resnais’ film Hiroshima mon amour and Duras’ novel The Vice-Consul, exploring the ways that such cultural texts fantasize the womb as a response to trauma, defined as the compulsive need to return to the site of loss, a place envisioned as both a secure space and a prison. The womb fantasy is linked to the desire to recreate an identity that is new and original but ahistorical.
Dear Friend
Author: Eric Torgersen
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810118195
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his "Requiem for a Friend" in memory of Paula Modersohn-Becker, the German painter who had had a profound effect on him, both personally and artistically, and who had died a year earlier. Modersohn-Becker, despite being one of the great modern painters, is today remembered primarily as she is portrayed in that poem. In Dear Friend, Eric Torgersen looks at the relationship of these two great artists whose vexed seven-year friendship was extraordinarily productive for both, and offers an introduction to the life and work of Modersohn-Becker, a gifted and determined woman whose work stands comparison with that of any painter of her day." "Included in the book are sixteen illustrations as well as new translations by Torgersen of Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend" and of the love poems Rilke wrote for Becker shortly after they met. Torgersen discusses Modersohn-Becker's vital paintings, including her unfinished portrait of Rilke. He quotes extensively from the letters and journals of both figures, translating many of Rilke's into English for the first time. Finally, Torgersen addresses the unanswered question of whether the two were ever lovers, and offers new insights into Rilke's writing of "Requiem for a Friend.""--Jacket.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810118195
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his "Requiem for a Friend" in memory of Paula Modersohn-Becker, the German painter who had had a profound effect on him, both personally and artistically, and who had died a year earlier. Modersohn-Becker, despite being one of the great modern painters, is today remembered primarily as she is portrayed in that poem. In Dear Friend, Eric Torgersen looks at the relationship of these two great artists whose vexed seven-year friendship was extraordinarily productive for both, and offers an introduction to the life and work of Modersohn-Becker, a gifted and determined woman whose work stands comparison with that of any painter of her day." "Included in the book are sixteen illustrations as well as new translations by Torgersen of Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend" and of the love poems Rilke wrote for Becker shortly after they met. Torgersen discusses Modersohn-Becker's vital paintings, including her unfinished portrait of Rilke. He quotes extensively from the letters and journals of both figures, translating many of Rilke's into English for the first time. Finally, Torgersen addresses the unanswered question of whether the two were ever lovers, and offers new insights into Rilke's writing of "Requiem for a Friend.""--Jacket.