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  • Nature and Its Unnatural Relations

    Points of Access

    Series series TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
    Consisting of contributions from a host of international scholars (in fields as diverse as literature, architecture, philosophy, and education), Alain Beauclair and Josh Toth’s Nature and Its Unnatural Relations: Points of Access intercedes in ongoing debates about accessing, defining, and respecting a world humans continue to misuse and misunderstand—and that, as a result, is becoming ... Leer más

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  • The Passing of Postmodernism

    A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary

    de Josh Toth ...
    Series series SUNY series in Postmodern Culture
    Examines the increasingly prevalent assumption that postmodernism is over and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ethics and politics.The Passing of Postmodernism addresses the increasingly prevalent assumption that a period marked by poststructuralism and metafiction has passed and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ... Leer más

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  • Truth and Metafiction

    Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative

    Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism-with a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outright nihilism. Yet, if (as is now widely assumed) postmodernism has finally run its course, how might we account for the proliferation of metafictional devices in contemporary narrative media? Does this persistence undermine the claim that postmodernism ... Leer más

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  • Polyvocal Bob Dylan

    Music, Performance, Literature

    Edición de Nduka Otiono, Josh Toth ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Polyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly voices to explore the cultural and aesthetic impact of Dylan’s musical and literary production. Significantly distinct in approach, each chapter draws attention to the function and implications of certain aspects of Dylan's work—his tendency to confuse, question, and subvert literary, musical, and performative traditions. ... Leer más

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  • Stranger America

    A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion

    de Josh Toth ...
    Series series Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
    Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America’s democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive "other" persist today. In Stranger America, Josh Toth tracks and delineates these anxieties in America’s aesthetic ... Leer más

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  • Living by Fiction

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    "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 ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

    Edición de David Herman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to ... Leer más

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  • The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction

    de Bran Nicol ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on ... Leer más

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  • True Crime

    Observations on Violence and Modernity

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