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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

Author : Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135773203
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual.

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

Author : Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135773270
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual.

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

Author : Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140242928
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Holderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual.

The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon

Author : David Webster
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415346528
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon written by David Webster and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated in the Pali texts are examined. A range of views of desire, as found in Western thought, are presented as well as Hindu and Jain approaches. An exploration of the concept of ditthi(view or opinion) is also provided, exploring the way in which 'holding views' can be seen as analogous to the process of desiring. Other subjects investigated include the mind-body relationship, the range of Pali terms for desire, and desire's positive spiritual value. A comparative exploration of the various approaches completes the work.

The Uncanny

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719055614
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Uncanny written by Nicholas Royle and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's essay of 1919, "The uncanny," where he was perhaps the first to foreground the distinctive nature of the uncanny as a feeling of something not simply weird or mysterious but, more specifically, as something strangely familiar. As a concept and a feeling, however, the uncanny has a complex history going back to at least the Enlightenment. Nicholas Royle offers a detailed historical account of the emergence of the uncanny, together with a series of close readings of different aspects of the topic. Following a major introductory historical and critical overview, there are chapters on the death drive, déjà-vu, "silence, solitude and darkness," the fear of being buried alive, doubles, ghosts, cannibalism, telepathy, and madness, as well as more "applied" readings concerned, for example, with teaching, politics, film, and religion. This is a major critical study that will be welcomed by students and academics but will also be of interest to the general reader.

Shakespeare Studies

Author : Leeds Barroll
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638712
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Studies written by Leeds Barroll and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual publication including essays and reviews of new books which deal with Shakespeare and his age

Intensities

Author : Katharine Sarah Moody
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317114825
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Intensities written by Katharine Sarah Moody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the affirmation or intensification of life a value in itself? Can life itself be thought? This book breaks new ground in religious and philosophical thinking on the concept of life. It captures a moment in which such thinking is regaining its force and attraction for scholars, and the relevance of thought to social, cultural, political and religious dilemmas about how and why to live. Bringing together original contributions by highly distinguished authors in the field of Continental philosophy of religion, including John D. Caputo, Pamela Sue Anderson, Philip Goodchild, Alison Martin and Don Cupitt, this book has a distinctiveness based on its refusal to sit easily within either secular philosophical or theological approaches. The concept of life mobilizes a thinking that crosses narrow disciplinary boundaries, whilst retaining philosophical rigour. Three sections explore the various dimensions of the question of life: The Politics of Life'; 'Life and the Limits of Thinking'; and 'Life and Spirituality'. This book will be of interest to a broad range of readers in the humanities, particularly to philosophers, theologians, cultural theorists and all those interested in philosophical or theological debates on the concept of life.

The Ethics of Mourning

Author : R. Clifton Spargo
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801879777
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Mourning written by R. Clifton Spargo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England

Author : Ulrike Tancke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042028092
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book ‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England written by Ulrike Tancke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern women writers are typically studied as voices from the margin, who engage in a counter-discourse to patriarchy and whose identities prefigure postmodern notions of fragmented selfhood. Studying a variety of literary forms – autobiographical writings, diaries, mothers’ advice books, poetry and drama – this innovative book approaches early modern women’s strategies of identity formation from an alternative angle: their self-writings should be understood as attempts to establish a coherent, stable and convincing subjectivity in spite of the constraints they encountered. While the authors acknowledge contradiction and ambiguity, they consistently strive to compromise and achieve balance. Drawing on social and cultural history, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, the close reading of the women’s texts and other, literary and non-literary sources reveals that the female writers seek to reconcile the affective, corporeal, social, economic and ideological dimensions of their identities and thereby question both the modern idea of the unified self and its postmodern, fragmented variant. The women’s identities as writers, mothers, spouses, household members and economic agents testify to their acceptance of contradictions, their adherence to patriarchal norms and simultaneous self-assertion. Their pragmatic stances suggest that their simultaneous confidence and anxiety should be taken seriously, as tentative, precarious, yet ultimately workable and convincing expressions of identity.

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author : John S. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198857713
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets written by John S. Garrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form of narrative. Drawing together insights from cognitive science, the early modern memory arts, and psychoanalysis, John S. Garrison connects the Sonnets to the larger Renaissance project of conceiving memory as a faculty to be developed and managed through self-discipline and rhetoric. In doing so, he reveals how early modern thought presaged many theories that have emerged in contemporary neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understandings of the self and its longing for pleasure. The Sonnets emerge as a collection that contemplates the affective dimensions and conceptual overlaps that bind anticipation to retrospection in the fraught pursuit of erotic pleasure. Indispensable for students and scholars working on Shakespeare's poetry, this study appeals also to a broader audience of readers interested in affect, memory, and sexuality studies. Shakespeare's most beloved sonnets are discussed, as well as less familiar ones, alongside contemporary adaptations of the poems. Garrison brings the Sonnets further into the present by comparing them with treatments of pleasure and memory by modern authors such as C.P. Cavafy, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and Michael Ondaatje.

Christianity and Confucianism

Author : Christopher Hancock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567657698
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Confucianism written by Christopher Hancock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics, sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural, political, and religious interaction between China and the West. As the world responds to China's rise and China positions herself for global engagement, this major new study reawakens and revises an ancient conversation. As a generous introduction to biblical Christianity and the Confucian Classics, Christianity and Confucianism tells a remarkable story of mutual formation and cultural indebtedness. East and West are shown to have shaped the mind, heart, culture, philosophy and politics of the other - and far more, perhaps, than either knows or would want to admit. Christopher Hancock has provided a rich and stimulating resource for scholars and students, diplomats and social scientists, devotees of culture and those who pursue wisdom and peace today.

On Being At Work

Author : Nancy Harding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136763953
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book On Being At Work written by Nancy Harding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx’s theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (self-making activities that are carried out at the workplace): between the less than human, zombie-like laborer and the working human self. Nancy Harding argues that the experience of being at work is one in which the insistence on practising one’s humanity always provides a counter-point to organisational demands.

An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory

Author : Andrew Bennett
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780582822955
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory written by Andrew Bennett and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of one of the market leading texts for those interested in critical theory and its effect on our reading of the English literary canon. Renowned for its accessible, witty style, the new edition is updated throughout and contains four new chapters to reflect the continuing development of the subject. * The key elements of this book that make it so popular are its clear, highly accessible articulation of ideas, the wide range of texts used as illustrative examples, and its witty, humourous style. * Number 1 textbook on our Literature list. * Literary Theory & Criticism is the only major, core course in English departments - every Literature student will study it. * A new chapter on Creative Writing - currently the biggest 'growth area' in the Humanities in the UK.

Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

Author : Heidi Craig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009224042
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars written by Heidi Craig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the 'death' of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renaissance drama as a critical field. While the prohibition on playing in many respects killed the English stage, drama thrived in print, with stationers publishing unprecedented numbers of previously unprinted professional plays, vaunting playbooks' ties to the receding theatrical past. Marketed in terms of novelty and nostalgia, plays unprinted before 1642 gained new life. Stationers also anatomized the whole corpus of English drama, printing the first anthologies and comprehensive catalogues of drama. Craig captures this crucial turning-point in English theatre history with chapters on royalist nostalgia, clandestine theatrical revivals, dramatic compendia, and the mysteriously small number of Shakespeare editions issued during the period, as well as a new incisive reading of Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King.

Ecclesiastes

Author : Craig G. Bartholomew
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801026911
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesiastes written by Craig G. Bartholomew and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-renowned Old Testament scholar provides a careful exegetical reading of Ecclesiastes with theological insights for serious students of the Bible.

Figures of Dissent

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843888
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Figures of Dissent written by Terry Eagleton and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Terry Eagleton's best criticisms and book reviews. His skill in this field is notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer, Eagleton, in his inimitable style, always paints a vivid theoretical fresco as the background to his engagement with the texts.

Shakespeare’s Suicides

Author : Marlena Tronicke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351213172
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Suicides written by Marlena Tronicke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare’s dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to Antony and Cleopatra, thus establishing that suicide becomes increasingly pronounced as a vital means of dramatic characterisation. In particular, the book approaches suicide as a gendered phenomenon. By taking into account parameters such as onstage versus offstage deaths, suicide speeches or the explicit denial of final words, as well as settings and weapons, the study scrutinises the ways in which Shakespeare appropriates the convention of suicide and subverts traditional notions of masculine versus feminine deaths. It shows to what extent a gendered approach towards suicide opens up a more nuanced understanding of the correlation between gender and Shakespeare’s genres and how, eventually, through their dramatisation of suicide the tragedies query normative gender discourse.