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Breathing Earth - The Polyphonic Lyric Of Robert Bringhurst

by Leonor Maria Martinez Serrano

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 Breathing Earth: The Polyphonic Lyric of Robert Bringhurst examines the innovative poems for multiple voices composed by the Canadian poet by drawing on the main insights of biosemiotics, ecophilosophy and material ecocriticism. In seeking to emulate the polyphonic texture of reality, Bringhursts ecopoetry directs readers attention to vibrant matter and to the entanglements of (non)human and (in)animate actants in a world that is a semiotic-material unity. In light of the current climate crisis, his polyphonic poems are a timely, wise reminder of the need to rethink the way humanity relates to the more-than-human world and to restore a deep ecological bond with breathing earth.
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Approaches To Walter Benjamins «The Arcades Project»

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 Walter Benjamin is one of the most important figures of modern culture. The authors focus within this book on Benjamin as a philosopher, but also as a writer. Philosophical and philological readings are accompanied by essays presenting his biography.
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Litanic Verse Iv - Italia

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 This book traces a history of litanic verse in Italian poetry including considerations on musical and performative aspects of certain lyric genres (lauda, sonnet and ode or canzonetta). The analysis concerns the development of litanic verse in Italian poetry, from the thirteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Litanic Verse Iii - Francia

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 Despite the numerous famous examples of «les litanies» in French poetry, the manner in which the structures of this form of worship affect the versification strategies of poems has not previously been discussed thoroughly. Litanic verse, whose origins are as ancient as those of the litany genre, is recognized in works whose poetic diction, in whole or in part, includes the distinctive features of the litany, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora, and epiphora. The third volume describes the development of litanic verse from troubadour poetry and Old French religious verse up to World War II. This rich and multifaceted material is presented in chronological order and in the context of different literary genres.
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European Litanic Verse - A Different Space-Time

by Witold Sadowski

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 The book presents the poetics of European litanic verse (genre structure, versification, rhetorical figures), with a particular focus on the space-time matrix within which the litanic world is depicted. Examples are mostly taken from Latin, English, French, German, Iberian, Italian, Scandinavian and Slavic poetry from Antiquity to Early Modernity.
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We Need To Talk About Heidegger - Essays Situating Martin Heidegger In Contemporary Media Studies

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 This collection assembles a number of chapters engaging different strands of Heideggerâ€™s philosophy to explore issues relevant to contemporary media studies. Principal Heideggerian concepts have been drawn upon to explore photography, audiovisual production culture, the selfie phenomenon, and social media activism in the cultures of the West.
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Studies Of Imagery In Early Mediterranean And East Asian Poetry

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 This volume consists of articles on imagery in the poetry of various literary canons. The articles present new research based on individual approaches for each particular canon within a wide span from socio-cultural environment to semantic and cognitive properties of specific images.
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Mo Yan Thought - Six Critiques Of Hallucinatory Realism

by Jerry Xie

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 This book analyzes Mo Yanâ€™s writings as well as other scholarly interpretations of his writings. The author stakes out a Marxist approach to theorizing the class ideology that underwrites what Mo Yan says he Â«knowsÂ» of the Â«nebulous terrainÂ» where one supposedly experiences moments of Â«transcendingÂ» or going Â«beyondÂ» class and politics.
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Translating Gombrowiczs Liminal Aesthetics

by Pawel Wojtas

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 The book offers a novel attempt at recapitulating Gombrowiczâ€™s aesthetics in the postmodern Anglo-American context. It intends to fill, if partially, some lacunae on the map of Gombrowiczâ€™s Translation Studies and to inspire further debates on the related aspects of postmodern existentialism of his works.
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Resistance In The Deceleration Lane - Velocentrism, Slow Culture And Everyday Practice

by Marzena Kubisz

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 Motivated by a desire to reflect critically on the ways in which speeds, both high and low, and their representations affect the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of meanings around particular cultural texts, images and practices, Resistance in the Deceleration Lane uses the velocentric perspective to examine the phenomenon of «slow living» and its rhetoric. The book analyzes cultural practices which are inspired by the conviction that the increased speed of everyday life cannot be accepted unquestioningly. It portrays slowness as a strategy of contestation and resistance on one hand, and on the other it highlights the process of the gradual commercialization of the slow logo and suggests the rise of a post-slow stage in the history of speed.
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Litanic Verse Ii - Britannia, Germania Et Scandinavia

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 A comparative history of litanic verse in various European regions. The verse reflects the religious, social and political history of Europe. The articles address poetry from medieval to modern times, focusing on the literatures of Protestant countries (Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway) and Austrian poetry.
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Beyond The Limits Of Language - Apophasis And Transgression In Contemporary Theoretical Discourse

by Agata Wilczek

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 The book explores the way in which apophatic discourse of negative theology has illuminated contemporary critical theory. It demonstrates the significance of apophasis both in Jacques Derridas search for a «new language», responsive to singularity and alterity, and in the analyses of the experience of transgression, developed by Maurice Blanchot, George Bataille and Michel Foucault. Following Derridas understanding of negative theology as a transgressive concept that transcends the linguistic, historical and religious contexts from which it arises, the book proves that apophasis is not merely a discourse on language restricted to one theological tradition, but should be viewed as a mode of dialogue and openness, essential to all responsible thinking.
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A Mosaic Of Misunderstanding: Occident, Orient, And Facets Of Mutual Misconstrual

by Julia Szotysek

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 The book investigates relations between the â€˜Eastâ€™ and â€˜Westâ€™ from the Enlightenment until the present times. On the basis of a selection of American, British and Turkish literature, Orientalist painting, and Western opera works, the study proposes an innovative, more nuanced reading of post/colonial phenomena and their socio-cultural implications.
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Embodying Pragmatism - Richard Shustermans Philosophy And Literary Theory

by Wojciech Malecki

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 Embodying Pragmatism
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The Lyric Subject - A Reconceptualization

by Varja Bal¸Alorsky Anti

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 This book interrogates the concept of the subject in the poem, against the broader background of literary-theoretical issues related to the lyric subject. Specifically, what kind of subject is the subject in the poem? What relation does it have to other forms of subjectivation that human beings experience in their life practices? What is its singularity? The Lyric Subject is a most impressive achievement: a shrewd evaluation of a wide range of writings (philosophical, linguistic, literary) bearing on the question of the lyric subject. With myriad poetic examples, Varja Balzalorsky Antic develops a rich, multileveled mapping of the various forms of subjectivity and agency in the lyric. Jonathan Culler, Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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Aspects Of Reference In Literary Theory - Poetics, Rhetoric And Literary History

by Alina Silvana Felea

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 The book presents the various viewpoints that poetics, literary history and Western rhetoric have adopted throughout Western history. The aim of poetics is to render the specificity of the literary discourse by either highlighting the extra literary generative forces or by focusing on the intrinsic study of literary works. Rhetoric chiefly places emphasis on the verbal effects of discourses whereas literary history predominantly examines the temporal succession of the literary systems or of the literary institution. The author focuses on the three sections: poetics, rhetoric, and literary history and provides an introductory study on the subject of reference.
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Disruptive Fluidity - The Poetics Of The Pop "Cogito"

by Anna Chromik

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 Disruptive Fluidity explores the textual tropes of liquidity in contemporary reconstructions of modern subjectivity. Arguing that the subject can be construed as a textual product of the imagery of solid body boundaries, this study comprises a gradually unfolding story of the poetics of the body / self.
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Critical Theory And Critical Genres - Contemporary Perspectives From Poland

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 This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of constant intellectual contestation and struggle allied with various ideologies to subsequently become an integral part of post-structuralist culture theory and recently the New Humanities, also known as post-theory. The book positions itself within contemporary considerations of the theory and practice of criticism and presents texts by established and rising scholars and provides greater insights into various aspects of Polish intellectual culture during the past decades. The publication constitutes an important voice in the discussion on criticism by demonstrating the specific theoretical and pragmatic perspective of the debate in Poland in relation to Europe and the rest of the (post)modern world.
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A Sense Of Apocalypse - Technology, Textuality, Identity

by Marcin Mazurek

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 Reaching into the depths of the collective unconscious, A Sense of Apocalypse explores and re-interprets one of the Wests primordial fears, namely that of the apocalyptic closure of both cultural praxis and individual experience. Yet, in contrast to popular connotations of the term, apocalypse is viewed here in terms of a transitional narrative locating the subject at the intersection of technological determinism, pop-cultural imagination, postmodern urbanism and digital textuality. All these form the components of a new post-apocalyptic landscape, which not only produces a new identity informed by dissolving post-Enlightenment paradigms, but also conjures up hints at a large number of existential possibilities triggered by late-capitalist technologies and their cultural consequences.
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The Language Of Polish Modernism

by Ryszard Nycz

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 This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacaw Berent, Bolesaw Lemian, Stanisaw Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers linguistic self-consciousness informs their implicitly self-reflexive texts and sheds light on their values and characteristic qualities. The author treats Modernist literature itself as a sort of «language» a distinct entity that emerged through systematic differentiation within the general literary discourse. The book enhances the understanding of the transformations behind this important philosophical and artistic movement.
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Litanic Verse I - Origines, Iberia, Slavia Et Europa Media

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 A comparative history of litanic verse in various European regions. The essays on the origin of the Litany are followed by a consideration of litanic verse in Latin poetry and in the Iberian (Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese), Slavic and Central European literatures (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Russian).
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An Introduction To Fictional Worlds Theory

by Bohumil Fot

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 The book is primarily shaped as an introduction to fictional worlds theory. It critically examines all the scholarly sources regarding the theory, its inspiration and application: namely logic, semantics, aesthetics, and linguistics, as well as intertextuality, transduction, and fictional and historical narration.
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Cross-Cultural Affinities - Emersonian Transcendentalism And Senghorian Negritude

by Manyaka Toko Djockoua

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 The book addresses influences and affinities in the context of the history of ideas, literary theory and criticism. It brings together American Transcendentalism, Negritude, African religions and philosophy.
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A Culture Of Recycling / Recycling Culture?

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 The purpose of this volume is to address the notion of cultural recycling by assessing its applicability to various modes of cultural and theoretical discourse. The word «recycling» is here used collectively to denote phenomena such as cyclicity, repetition, recurrence, renewal, reuse, reproduction, etc., which seem to be inalienable from basic cultural processes. Part of our purpose in proposing this theme is a desire to trace, confront, interrogate, and theorise the surviving phantoms of newness and paradigms of creativity or dreams of originality, and to consider the need, a necessity perhaps, to overcome or sustain them, and, further, to estimate the possibility of cultural survival if it turns out, as it may, that culture is forever to remain an endless recurrence of the same.
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