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  • Immediacy

    Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

    by Anna Kornbluh ...
    Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural styleContemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Realizing Capital

    Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form

    by Anna Kornbluh ...
    During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice—drawing persistent attention to what they called “fictitious capital.” In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Order of Forms

    Realism, Formalism, and Social Space

    by Anna Kornbluh ...
    In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to—and substantially shifts—that conversation in The Order of Forms by offering an exciting new category, political formalism, which she articulates through the co-emergence of aesthetic and mathematical ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club

    by Anna Kornbluh ...
    Series series Film Theory in Practice
    Anna Kornbluh provides an overview of Marxist approaches to film, with particular attention to three central concepts in Marxist theory in general that have special bearing on film: “the mode of production,” “ideology,” and “mediation.” In explaining how these concepts operate and how they have been used and misused in film studies, the volume employs a case study to exemplify the practice of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Immediacy

    Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

    by Anna Kornbluh ...
    Narrated by Sara Sheckells ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 50 min

    Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural styleContemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    If We Burn

    The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

    by Vincent Bevins ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    The fascinating history of a decade aflame—and what we can learn from its embers.**"Disturbing and exhilarating." —**New YorkerFrom 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. Acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins carried out hundreds of interviews around the world, guided by a ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Critical Practice

    by Catherine Belsey ...
    Series series New Accents
    What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation? And what is the role of the text? Catherine Belsey considers these and other questions ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Theory's Empire

    An Anthology of Dissent

    Edited by Daphne Patai, Wilfrido Corral ...
    Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Deconstruction

    Theory and Practice

    by Christopher Norris ...
    Series series New Accents
    Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The volume focuses on the works of Jacques Derrida which caused this seismic shift in critical thought, as well as the work of North American critics ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • The Singularity of Literature

    by Derek Attridge ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of moral living. Some go further and argue that Emile Zola and Harriet Beecher Stowe played a part in ameliorating the lives of those existing in harsh circumstances. However, as Derek Attridge argues in this outstanding and acclaimed book, none of these ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Values of Literary Studies

    Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas

    Edited by Rónán McDonald ...
    What is valuable about literary studies? What is its point and purpose? In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars in the field illuminate both the purpose and priorities of literary criticism. At a time when the humanities are increasingly called upon to justify themselves, this book seeks to clarify their myriad values and ideologies. Engaging ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD