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  • Uncanny Perspectives in Literature and Culture

    Texts, Images, Experiences

    Edited by Gabriele Biotti, I. Vinitha Chandra, Nacera Haouchine ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays aims to analyse the uncanny as a concept developed in the field of the arts, from a variety of perspectives axed in the literary field, in the media context, and in film studies, with references to contemporary thought. The book aims to provide readers with a methodological updating on this psychoanalytic concept, starting from its basic rethinking, under the light of the ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

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    by J.F. Martel ...
    A compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle – featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Donna TarttIn Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, J. F. Martel offers a compelling and incisive meditation on the nature of art in a world dominated by invasive media, rampant consumer culture, and artificial ... Read more

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  • Literary Analysis: The Basics

    by Celena Kusch ...
    Series series The Basics
    Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts that affect the analysis of any text. It addresses such questions as:What counts as literature?Is ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Imagination

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways. Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives on imagination, the author shows how this ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Aesthetics

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Charles Taliaferro ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Explaining what art is and what’s not art.What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through different theories of art and beauty, tackling issues such as who owns art and what happens when art ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic

    Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies

    by Elena Lamberti ...
    One hundred years after Marshall McLuhan’s birth, Elena Lamberti explores a fundamental, yet neglected aspect of his work: the solid humanistic roots of his original ‘mosaic’ form of writing. In this investigation of how his famous communication theories were influenced by literature and the arts, Lamberti proposes a new approach to McLuhan’s thought.Lamberti delves into McLuhan’s humanism in ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Archaeologies of Presence

    Edited by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Michael Shanks ...
    Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Horror and Comics

    Edited by Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, Julia Round ...
    Series Book 1 - Horror Studies
    This collection investigates the evolution of comics and horror by analysing a range of approaches and traditions. International contributors explore how multiple aspects of comics (forms, cultures, histories) have contributed to the depiction and development of horror across many subgenres (folk horror, ecohorror, gothic romance and more); their chapters also show how horror has informed the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Literary Worlds

    by Eric Hayot ...
    Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that characterize technological development. However this quintessentially modern mindset--putting progress at the center of historicity--makes it difficult for anyone eager to mount a case for why someone interested ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Masks in Horror Cinema

    Eyes Without Faces

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    Series Book 1 - Horror Studies
    Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with ... Read more

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  • Psyche and the Arts

    Jungian Approaches to Music, Architecture, Literature, Painting and Film

    Edited by Susan Rowland ...
    Does art connect the individual psyche to history and culture?Psyche and the Arts challenges existing ideas about the relationship between Jung and art, and offers exciting new dimensions to key issues such as the role of image in popular culture, and the division of psyche and matter in art form.Divided into three sections - Getting into Art, Challenging the Critical Space and Interpreting Art in ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Singularities

    Dance in the Age of Performance

    by Andre Lepecki ...
    How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age?André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD