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“guido mazzoni”

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  • Theory of the Novel

    by Guido Mazzoni ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    The novel is the most important form of Western art. It aims to represent the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature sends out against the systematic thought of science and philosophy. Indebted to Lukács and Bakhtin, to Auerbach and Ian Watt, Guido Mazzoni’s Theory of the Novel breaks new ground, building a historical understanding of how the novel became the modern book of life: one ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • On Modern Poetry

    by Guido Mazzoni ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    An incisive, unified account of modern poetry in the Western tradition, arguing that the emergence of the lyric as a dominant verse style is emblematic of the age of the individual.Between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, poetry in the West was transformed. The now-common idea that poetry mostly corresponds with the lyric in the modern sense—a genre in which a ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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  • The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan

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  • Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

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    Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi ...
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  • On Difficulty

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  • Creation and Anarchy

    The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism

    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to ... Read more

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    On Baroque Aesthetics

    by Christine Buci-Glucksmann ...
    Translated by Dorothy Z. Baker ...
    Series Book 36 - Series in Continental Thought
    Christine Buci-Glucksmann’s The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and ... Read more

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  • Theories of Art

    2. From Winckelmann to Baudelaire

    by Moshe Barasch ...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

    Edited by Paul Hamilton ...
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    Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?

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