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Life Against Death

Author : Norman O. Brown
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819570532
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Life Against Death written by Norman O. Brown and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking and extreme interpretation of culture, history, and the father of psychoanalysis. In Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, social philosopher Norman O. Brown radically analyzes and critiques the work of Sigmund Freud. Brown attempts to define a non-repressive civilization, draws parallels between psychoanalysis and the theology of Martin Luther, and also examines the revolutionary themes present in western religious thought, such as ideas found in the work of William Blake and Jakob Böhme. “Life Against Death cannot fail to shock, if it is taken personally; for it is a book which does not aim at eventual reconciliation with the views of common sense. The highest praise one can give to Brown’s book is that, apart from its all-important attempt to penetrate and further the insights of Freud, it is the first major attempt to formulate an eschatology of immanence in the seventy years since Nietzsche.” —Susan Sontag “One of the most interesting and valuable works of our time. Brown’s contribution to moral thought . . . cannot be overestimated. His book is far-ranging, thoroughgoing, extreme, and shocking. It gives the best interpretation of Freud I know.” —Lionel Trilling

Swift's Poetry

Author : John Frank Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Swift's Poetry written by John Frank Potter and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stand-up Comedy in Theory, Or, Abjection in America

Author : John Limon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822325468
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Stand-up Comedy in Theory, Or, Abjection in America written by John Limon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural theory of stand-up comedy.

The "excremental Vision"

Author : Baruch Halpern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book The "excremental Vision" written by Baruch Halpern and published by . This book was released on 1986* with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture

Author : Mary C. Foltz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030465306
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture written by Mary C. Foltz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including pollution of waterways, environmental racism, and militarism. Primarily examining postmodern parody, the book shows the value of aesthetic renderings of sanitary engineering for composting ideologies that fuel a ruinous impact on the world. Drawing on late twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinkers Norman O. Brown, Frantz Fanon, and Leo Bersani, American Sh*t shows the continued relevance of psychoanalytic interpretations of contemporary fiction for understanding post-45 authors’ engagement with waste. Ultimately, the monograph reveals how novelists Ishmael Reed, Jonathan Franzen, Gloria Naylor, Don DeLillo, and Samuel R. Delany critique subjects who abnegate their status as waste-producing beings and bring readers back to embrace Winner of the 2019 Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award for Literary Criticism of English Language Literature

Reading the World

Author : Dianne C. Luce
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570038242
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Reading the World written by Dianne C. Luce and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading the World Dianne C. Luce explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy's early works crafted during his Tennessee period from 1959 to 1979 to demonstrate how McCarthy integrates literary realism with the imagery and myths of Platonic, gnostic, and existentialist philosophies to create his unique vision of the world. Luce begins with a substantial treatment of the east Tennessee context from which McCarthy's fiction emerges, sketching an Appalachian culture and environment in flux. Against this backdrop Luce examines, novel by novel, McCarthy's distinctive rendering of character through mixed narrative techniques of flashbacks, shifts in vantage point, and dream sequences. Luce shows how McCarthy's fragmented narration and lyrical style combine to create a rich portrayal of the philosophical and religious elements at play in human consciousness as it confronts a world rife with isolation and violence.

Sexing the Text

Author : Todd C. Parker
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791444863
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Sexing the Text written by Todd C. Parker and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts the emergence of a new kind of heterosexual rhetoric in eighteenth-century British literature, providing a nuanced reinterpretation of gender and its role in the major genres of the period.

The Excremental Vision: Capitalism and Anality in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris

Author : John Albert Estes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book The Excremental Vision: Capitalism and Anality in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris written by John Albert Estes and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nigerian Pentecostalism

Author : Nimi Wariboko
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580464904
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Nigerian Pentecostalism written by Nimi Wariboko and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1. Origins and spirituality of Nigerian Pentecostalism. Sources of Nigerian pentecostalism --The spell of the invisible --Excremental visions in postcolonial Pentecostalism --Desire and disgust : ways of being for God --The Pentecostal self : from body to body politic --Part 2. Ethical vision of Nigerian Pentecostal spirituality. Politics: between ontology and spiritual warfare --Miracles, sovereignty, and community --Altersovereignty and virtue of Pentecostal friendship --Spirituality and the weight of blackness --"This neighbor cannot be loved!" : invisibility and nudity of the "Pentecostal other"--Pentecostalism and Nigerian society.

The Unthinkable Swift

Author : Warren Montag
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859840009
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Unthinkable Swift written by Warren Montag and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994-09-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No major figure of the English Augustan period has generated stronger and more contradictory views than Jonathan Swift. Scourge of the Whig ascendancy in his own day, vilified by the Victorians, celebrated by Yeats, he has in recent years become a significant bone of contention for prominent figures on the left like E.P. Thompson and Perry Anderson. In this highly original and subtle new study, Warren Montag situates Swift in relation to the ideological and political currents of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—in particular to what Montag perspicaciously identifies as the long crisis of the British state. Swift’s perspective, he argues, was determined less by his personality or psychology than by his position as an Anglican cleric. The church, an instrument of the Tudor and Stuart absolutist state, lapsed into institutional and ideological crisis after the Stuart’s fall. In Montag’s view, Swift’s writings were a defense of this increasingly indefensible institution. Swift employed satire because only in the negative representations of this literary form could the now effectively ‘unthinkable’ doctrines of the Church be made to appear. Opening with a historical survey of the crisis of English absolutism and the Anglican Church, Montag then gives a definitive account of the specific conflicts in philosophy against which Swift’s Anglican orthodoxy was aligned. Detailed examinations of Swift’s two prose masterpieces, A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver’s Travels, follow. Historically and philosophically informed, The Unthinkable Swift contributes not only to our understanding of a seminal figure in English literary history but also to the study of historical ideologies, in particular the once dominant religious tradition at the dawn of the first modern capitalist state.

A Question of Quality

Author : Louis Filler
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879720780
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Quality written by Louis Filler and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subjects treated in this symposium have one major characteristic in common, that they have recently, or relatively recently, enjoyed high popularity among readers. Also, they have received from substantial to torrents of comment.

Movements of Interweaving

Author : Gabriele Brandstetter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351128442
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Movements of Interweaving written by Gabriele Brandstetter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a global scale, it not only challenges the concept of intercultural dance performances, but through its innovative approach also calls attention to the specific qualities of "interweaving" as a form of movement itself. Divided into four sections, this volume features an international team of scholars together developing a new critical perspective on the cultural practices of movement, travel and migration in and beyond dance.

Body of Writing

Author : René Prieto
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380722
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Body of Writing written by René Prieto and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body of Writing focuses on the traces that an author’s “body” leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American writers of the twentieth century, René Prieto examines narratives that reflect—in differing yet ultimately complementary ways—the imprint of the author’s body, thereby disclosing insights about power, aggression, transgression, and eroticism. Healthy, invalid, lustful, and confined bodies—as portrayed by Julio Cortázar, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Gabriel García Márquez, Severo Sarduy, Rosario Castellanos, and Tununa Mercado—become evidence for Roland Barthes’s contention that works of fiction are “anagrams of the body.” Claiming that an author’s intentions can be uncovered by analyzing “the topography of a text,” Prieto pays particular attention not to the actions or plots of these writers’ fiction but rather to their settings and characterizations. In the belief that bodily traces left on the page reveal the motivating force behind a writer’s creative act, he explores such fictional themes as camouflage, deterioration, defilement, entrapment, and subordination. Along the way, Prieto reaches unexpected conclusions regarding topics that include the relationship of the female body to power, male and female transgressive impulses, and the connection between aggression, the idealization of women, and anal eroticism in men. This study of how authors’ longings and fears become embodied in literature will interest students and scholars of literary and psychoanalytic criticism, gender studies, and twentieth-century and Latin American literature.

Playing Dirty

Author : Will Stockton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816674590
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Playing Dirty written by Will Stockton and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The repression of desire uncovered in the production of scatological comedy.

Social Inequality in the World of the Text

Author : Saul M. Olyan
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647550248
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Social Inequality in the World of the Text written by Saul M. Olyan and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of fifteen of the author's essays, including two that have never been published before. The essays date to the last decade and a half, and all reflect in some manner the author's ongoing interest in literary operations of classification and their social implications, particularly the production of distinctions which create social inequality in the world of the text, and have the potential to generate hierarchical social relationships in contexts where biblical texts might have had an impact on real people. In these essays, the author explores themes such as gender, sexuality, purity and pollution, sanctification, death and afterlife, foreignness, and disability with particular attention to the roles distinctions such as honored/shamed, feminine/masculine, mourning/rejoicing, unclean/clean, alien/native play in creating and perpetuating social differences in texts. Rites of status change such as circumcision, shaving, purification, burial or disinterment, sanctification and profanation of holiness are a focus of interest in a number of these essays, reflecting the author's on going interest in the textual representation of ritual. Most of the essays examine texts in their historical setting, but several also engage the early history of the interpretation of biblical texts, including the phenomenon of inner biblical exegesis. The essays are divided into five sections: Rites and Social Status; Gender and Sexuality; Disability; Holiness, Purity, the Alien; Death, Burial, Afterlife and their Metaphorical Uses. The author introduces each of the sections, contextualizing each essay in his larger scholarly project, reflecting on its development and reception and, in some cases, responding to his critics.

Science and Literature

Author : Harry Raphael Garvin
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838750513
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Science and Literature written by Harry Raphael Garvin and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue explores the tensions between literature and the sciences, focusing on responses which see science as an alien ideology that threatens everything the arts hold dear, and on a more positive response that sees the sciences as providing new tools, viewpoints, and knowledge about the world.

Visions in Exile

Author : Malcolm K. Read
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027217459
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Visions in Exile written by Malcolm K. Read and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm K. Read employs a psychoanalytic model which sees civilization as a manner of instinctual renunciation in this analysis of selected texts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on their moments of silence and contradiction, he demonstrates that certain attitudes toward the body expressed in these texts have a basis, albeit unconscious, in a motivation which is ultimately political. The central topics, deeply intertwined thematically and theoretically, relate to the nature and development of language; to the Baroque art of Gongora and Quevedo; to Feijoo's defense of the rationalist subject set against Torres Villarroel's subversion of the same; and to the neo-classical aesthetics of Luzan and Arteaga. The result is an interdisciplinary approach that challenges traditional assumptions in both literary criticism and linguistic historiography.