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  • On Ceasing to Be Human

    by Gerald Bruns ...
    The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "Can a human being be free of human nature?" On Ceasing to Be Human examines philosophical as well as literary texts and contexts, in which various senses of Cavell's question might be explored and developed. During the past thirty or so years, the very concept of "being human" has been called into question within such fields as cybernetics, animal-rights ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Interruptions

    The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature

    by Gerald L. Bruns ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    A history of fragmentary—or interrupted—writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic.In Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, Gerald L. Bruns explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores numerous ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Maurice Blanchot

    The Refusal of Philosophy

    by Gerald L. Bruns ...
    A series of close readings addresses the philosophical and political questions that have surrounded Blanchot and his writings for decadesSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAs a novelist, essayist, critic, and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us little ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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    An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this ... Read more

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  • Living by Fiction

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon." — Los Angeles TimesPulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticismLiving by Fiction is written for—and dedicated to ... Read more

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  • Things That Bother Me

    Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.

    by Galen Strawson ...
    An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson's writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism.Galen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, and provocative propositions, and able to describe them clearly—in other words, he is a true essayist. Strawson also shares ... Read more

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  • Deleuze & Guattari for Architects

    by Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari has been inspirational for architects and architectural theorists in recent years. It has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Greg Lynn and David Chipperfield, and is regularly cited by avant-gardist architects and by students, but usually without being well understood.The first collaboration between Deleuze and Guattari was Anti ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Sympathy for the Traitor

    A Translation Manifesto

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • On Difficulty

    And Other Essays

    by George Steiner ...
    A distinguished collection of essays on language, literature, and philosophy from acclaimed scholar and critic George SteinerOn Difficulty is as provocative and relevant today as when its essays were first published. Ranging from critical topics such as the understanding of language to the meaning of meaning, inward speech to the relationship between erotic sensibility and linguistic convention, ... Read more

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  • A Voice and Nothing More

    by Mladen Dolar ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice—the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • An Introduction to Narratology

    by Monika Fludernik ...
    An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature.In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines:the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative formsnarratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic aspects of texts, including new cognitive developments in the fieldhow ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

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    Extended Essays

    by Samuel R. Delany ...
    Six essays from the critic and award-winning author exploring topics such as theater, LGBTQ+ scholarship, cyborgs, metaphors, and Star Wars."Reading is a many-layered process—like writing," observes Samuel R. Delany, a Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author and a major commentator on American literature and culture. In this collection of six extended essays, Delany challenges what he calls "the hard ... Read more

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