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Deaths In Venice - The Cases Of Gustav Von Aschenbach

by Philip Kitcher

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 Diving into the philosophical depths of Thomas Mann's beloved novella, as imagined in words, music, and film.
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Inner Life Of Mrs. Dalloway

by Edward Mendelson

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 Mrs. Dalloway is a novel about almost everything. The story of a single day in London after the First World War, it travels backward and forward in time and consciousness, venturing beyond the ordinary world into epic, mythic, and mystical modes. The novel is a work of extraordinary richness, as much for its interwoven webs of meaning as for its moral and psychological vision.Edward Mendelson explores the novel's deepest questions, focusing on the core themes of medicine, empire, and love. He traces how Virginia Woolf thought and wrote, considering the complexities and resonances of her works. Mendelson casts Mrs. Dalloway as an extended protest against authorities that wield power over others and a defense of the equality of inner lives. He also examines the place of the book in literary history going back to Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare as well as its influence on later writers from Erich Auerbach through Zadie Smith. Both incisive and passionate, this book is at once a wide-ranging critical study of Virginia Woolf's writing and a love letter to a great novel.
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The Inner Life Of Mrs. Dalloway

by Edward Mendelson

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 Edward Mendelson explores the deepest questions of Virginia Woolfâ€™s novel Mrs. Dalloway, focusing on the core themes of medicine, empire, and love.
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The Inner Life Of Mrs. Dalloway

by Edward Mendelson

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 Edward Mendelson explores the deepest questions of Virginia Woolfâ€™s novel Mrs. Dalloway, focusing on the core themes of medicine, empire, and love.
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The Sounds Of Poetry Viewed As Music

by Alfred Lerdahl

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 Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the â€œmusic of poetry.â€ This book gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics and music theory to propose a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.
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Sounds Of Poetry Viewed As Music

by Alfred Lerdahl

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 Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the "music of poetry." The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics and music theory to propose a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms. It develops a rule-based methodology for assigning normative readings to the rhythms and contours of poetic lines. Each component of the theory is compared to earlier treatments both in traditional prosody and in generative metrics and intonational phonology. The theory's predictions correspond well to recorded readings by poets and actors. The book also advances an original hierarchical treatment of syllabic rhyme, alliteration, and assonance.The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music is an interdisciplinary project. In reconceiving prosody in musical terms, it offers a detailed treatment of the cognitive organization of poetic sounds, and by implication it supports the claim that music and language have a common ancestry in expressive vocalization. This book will engage readers of poetry, literary scholars, musicians, philosophers, and cognitive scientists interested in the intersection of the musical and linguistic capacities.
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Democracy And Beauty - The Political Aesthetics Of W. E. B. Du Bois

by Robert Gooding-Williams

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 Robert Gooding-Williams reconstructs W. E. B. Du Boisâ€™s defense of the political potential of beauty to challenge oppressive systems and foster an inclusive democracy.
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Democracy And Beauty - The Political Aesthetics Of W. E. B. Du Bois

by Robert Gooding-Williams

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 What is beauty, and what is its political function? In what ways might it help undermine white supremacy and cultivate a more democratic political culture? Democracy and Beauty shines a light on W. E. B. Du Bois’s attempts to answer these questions during the decade surrounding the First World War and, in so doing, offers a groundbreaking account of the philosopher’s aesthetics. Robert Gooding-Williams reconstructs Du Bois’s defense of the political potential of beauty to challenge oppressive systems and foster an inclusive democracy. White supremacy is a powerful force that defies rational revision, Du Bois argued, because it is rooted in the entrenched routines of its adherents. Beauty, however, has a distinctive role to play in the struggle against white supremacy. It can strengthen resolve and ward off despair by showing the oppressed that they can alter their social world, and it can unsettle and even transform the pernicious habits that perpetuate white supremacy. Gooding-Williams also explores Du Bois’s account of the interplay among white supremacy, Christianity, capitalism, and imperialism as well as key tensions in his work. A rich engagement with Du Bois’s philosophy of beauty, this book demonstrates the relevance of his social thought and aesthetics to present-day arguments about Black pessimism, Black optimism, and the aesthetic turn in Black studies.
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Antagonistic Cooperation - Jazz, Collage, Fiction, And The Shaping Of African American Culture

by Robert G. O'Meally

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 Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award Finalist, 2023 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History Society Shortlisted, Historical Nonfiction Legacy Award, Hurston / Wright Foundation Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as "antagonistic cooperation." Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and community. In Antagonistic Cooperation, Robert G. O’Meally shows how this idea runs throughout twentieth-century African American culture to provide a new history of Black creativity and aesthetics. From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, O’Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another. He argues that these artists drew on the improvisatory nature of jazz and the techniques of collage not as a way to depict a fractured or broken sense of Blackness but rather to see the Black self as beautifully layered and complex. They developed a shared set of methods and motives driven by the belief that art must involve a sense of community. O’Meally’s readings of these artists and their work emphasize how they have not only contributed to understanding of Black history and culture but also provided hope for fulfilling the broken promises of American democracy.
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Cinematic Overtures - How To Read Opening Scenes

by Annette Insdorf

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 A great movieâ€™s first few minutes provide the key to the rest of the film. In Cinematic Overtures, Annette Insdorf discusses the opening sequence, inviting viewers to turn first impressions into deeper understanding of cinematic technique. She offers a series of revelatory readings of individual films by some of cinemaâ€™s leading directors.
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Dispossession And The Environment - Rhetoric And Inequality In Papua New Guinea

by Paige West

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 Paige Westâ€™s searing study of Papua New Guinea reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in todayâ€™s globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all uneven patterns of development and seeks a more robust understanding of the ideological work that capital requires for constant regeneration.
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Plots

by Robert L. Belknap

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 Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative. Through readings of King Lear and Crime and Punishment, Robert L. Belknap explores the spatial, chronological, and causal aspects of plot, arguing that plots teach us novelistic rather than poetic justice.
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Losing Control? - Sovereignty In The Age Of Globalization

by Saskia Sassen

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 This work looks at the way in which the new global economy works, examining its effect on the power and legitimacy of individual states. It argues that national sovereignty has not eroded, but states have begun to reconfigure, to decide where their responsibilities lie and where they do not.
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Faith Of Biology And The Biology Of Faith - Order, Meaning, And Free Will In Modern Medical Science

by Robert E. Pollack

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 An award-winning biologist presents his moving yet deeply reasoned discussion on the intersection of scientific method and religious faith.
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Reforming Democracies - Six Facts About Politics That Demand A New Agenda

by Douglas A. Chalmers

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 Expanding our common understanding of the institutions of representative democracy, Douglas A. Chalmers examines six crucial aspects of political practice that are not included in the usual understanding of democratic institutions. They concern who the people are, how law and policy is made, and how the people are linked to that process. Chalmers argues that if we want to reform democracies, even ones considered established, we need to reform the democratic ordering of decision-making networks outside the legislatures and executives, to reconsider the role of information in law and policy deliberation, and to incorporate stake-holding noncitizens and foreigners into the political system.
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Globalization Challenged - Conviction, Conflict, Community

by George Rupp

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 Outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. The author believes that the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive without denying the validity of particular commitments. He also criticizes secularists who fail to recognize the role of religion.
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Desolation And Enlightenment - Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, And The Holocaust

by Ira Katznelson

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 In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project of reclaiming the West's moral bearing.
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Beyond Pure Reason - Ferdinand De Saussure''S Philosophy Of Language And Its Early Romantic Antecedents

by Boris Gasparov

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 The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinetic interrelationships, and developed a theory of the anagram so profound it gave rise to poststructural literary criticism. The roots of these disparate, even contradictory achievements lie in the thought of Early German Romanticism, which Saussure consulted for its insight into the nature of meaning and discourse. Conducting the first comprehensive analysis of Saussure''s intellectual heritage, Boris Gasparov links Sassurean notions of cognition, language, and history to early Romantic theories of cognition and the transmission of cultural memory. In particular, several fundamental categories of Saussure''s philosophy of language, such as the differential nature of language, the mutability and immutability of semiotic values, and the duality of the signifier and the signified, are rooted in early Romantic theories of "progressive" cognition and child cognitive development. Consulting a wealth of sources only recently made available, Gasparov casts the seeming contradictions and paradoxes of Saussure''s work as a genuine tension between the desire to bring linguistics and semiotics in line with modernist epistemology on the one hand, and Jena Romantics'' awareness of language''s dynamism and its transcendence of the boundaries of categorical reasoning on the other. Advancing a radical new understanding of Saussure, Gasparov reveals aspects of the intellectual''s work previously overlooked by both his followers and his postmodern critics.
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Serious Play - Desire And Authority In The Poetry Of Ovid, Chaucer, And Ariosto

by Robert Hanning

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 Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe''s three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, and disturbing fantasy, an achievement hailed as serio ludere, serious play, by Renaissance theorists. Through an imaginative analysis of Ovid''s amatory poetry, Chaucer''s dream poems and excerpts from the Canterbury Tales, and Ariosto''s epic Orlando Furioso, Robert W. Hanning illuminates the contrast and continuities in often hilarious, always empathetic representations of bungled desire and thwarted political authority. He also documents the response of all three poets to the "authority" of cultural predecessors and poetic convention. Each poet lived through exciting times (Augustan Rome, late-medieval London, and high-Renaissance Italy, respectively) and their outsider-insider status links them as memorable speakers of comedic truth to power. Providing fresh perspectives on Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto within their rich historical moments, Serious Play isolates the elements that make their work so appealing centuries after they lived, observed, and wrote.
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Politics Of The Governed - Reflections On Popular Politics In Most Of The World

by Partha Chatterjee

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 Argues that the rise of ethnic or identity politics - in the postcolonial world - is a consequence of techniques of governmental administration. Using examples from India, this book examines the different forms taken by the politics of the governed. It provides a perspective on the possibilities and limits of democracy in the postcolonial world.
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Bodies, Commodities, And Biotechnologies - Death, Mourning, And Scientific Desire In The Realm Of Human Organ Transfer

by Lesley A. Sharp

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 The human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most certainly relieve suffering and extend lives, they have also irrevocably altered perceptions of the cultural values assigned to the body. In Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies, Lesley A. Sharp probes the ideological assumptions underlying the transfer of body parts, the social significance of donors' deaths, and the medico-scientific desires surrounding complex forms of body repair. She also considers the experimental realm, in which nonhuman species and artificial devices present further opportunities for recovery and controversy. A compelling scientific investigation and social critique, Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies explores the pervasive, and at times pernicious, practices shaping American biomedicine in the twenty-first century.
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The Invention Of Painting In America

by David Rosand

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 Moving beyond descriptions of what distinguishes American art from other movements and forms, this work explores not only the status of artists and their relationship to their work but also the larger dialogue between the artist and society. It looks to the intensely studied portraits of America's early painters, especially Copley and Eakins.
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The Sounds Of Poetry Viewed As Music

by Alfred Lerdahl

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 Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the â€œmusic of poetry.â€ This book gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics and music theory to propose a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.
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Democracy And Beauty - The Political Aesthetics Of W. E. B. Du Bois

by Robert Gooding-Williams

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 Robert Gooding-Williams reconstructs W. E. B. Du Boisâ€™s defense of the political potential of beauty to challenge oppressive systems and foster an inclusive democracy.
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