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The Distinction of Fiction
Dorrit Cohn
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"Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies"
The border between fact and fiction has been trespassed so often it seems to be a highway. Works of history that include fictional techni ...
Irony
Claire Colebrook
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In a postmodern era of stimulation, mass communication and disenchantment, how are we to recognize sincerity from irony?
Irony is both a figure of speech--saying one thing and meaning another--and an attitude to existence, in which the ironic ...
Reading the Written Image : Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia
Christopher Collins
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Art and Life in Aestheticism : de-Humanizing or Re-Humanizing Art, the Artist and the Artistic Receptor
Kelly Comfort
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Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life, between the aesthetic and the social, and promotes the former term over the latter one in each instance. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, t ...
Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin
Peter Tracey Connor
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When Sartre referred to Georges Bataille as a "new mystic," he meant the label as an insult. Sartre considered mysticism to be a less rigorous mode of inquiry than philosophy -- especially dangerous where the writings of mystics adapt philosophical t ...
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism
Steven Connor
Hardcover - $191.95
Offering a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism, this Companion features examinations of the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical thought. Topics discussed by expert ...
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism
Steven Connor
Paperback - $59.95
Offering a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism, this Companion features examinations of the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical thought. Topics discussed by expert ...
En El Universo de Umberto Eco (Intertextos y Semiosis Ilimitada)
Leobardo Cornejo Murga
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Abyss of Reason : Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals
Daniel Cottom
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In this pathbreaking study, the historical relationship between nineteenth-century spiritualism and twentieth-century surrealism is the basis for a general examination of conflicting movements in literature, art, philosophy, science, and other areas ...