Close Reading – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson
A Black Woman for President

Throughout US history, only three Black women--Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris--have given successfully recognized bids for the office of president of the United States. In A Blac…

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Eliot Weinberger,
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transl…

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Gary Wade
Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism makes extensive use of unpublished material to offer fresh insights into Heaney's complex engagement with Catholicism. Gary Wade explores how Catholicism operates in ways oth…

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Queer Kinship and Comparative Literature

This edited collection provides a critical forum for scholars to examine the evolution of queer kinship-encompassing the wide range of relationships, both biological and nonbiological, that queer individu…

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Nikitas Fessas
Animals and Greek Cinema

This book offers a non-anthropocentric account of a national cinema. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in Animal (film) studies, the book gathers a wide range of species and genres to discuss the Greek…

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David J. Vazquez
Decolonial Environmentalisms

A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change.In Decolonial Environmentalisms, David VÁzquez argues that…

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Victoria Wohl
The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy

"This hauntingly beautiful study recovers the boundlessness of Presocratic thought. In close readings of five early Greek cosmologists--Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus-…

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Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens
Essential Shakespeare

Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close readin…

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Hafiz,
The Green Sea of Heaven

"The authoritative Hafiz, including original Persian and brilliant English translations. Recent translations of Hafiz have been controversial. Omid Safi notes "there are so many fake translation…

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Kai Horstmannshoff
The Loop

American Culture Studies - Band 21

The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera houses and urban parks in Chicago, Kai Horstmannshoff de…

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Shannon Lambert,
Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature

Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety,…

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Heike Schaefer
American Literature and Immediacy

The search for immediacy, the desire to feel directly connected to people or events, has been a driving force in American literature and media culture for the past two centuries. This book offers the firs…

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Jeremiah R. Mercurio, Daniel Gabelman
The Form and Theory of Literary Doodling

This Element investigates the phenomenon of literary doodling-the making of playful verbal and visual creations by professional authors while engaged in another activity. The first part focuses on definin…

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Itzhak Benyamini
Lacan and the Biblical Ethics of Psychoanalysis

In this fascinating and ground-breaking book, Itzhak Benyamini uses discourse analysis to lay out the way Lacan constructed his own intellectual discourse informed by Judeo-Christianity. Offering an under…

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Roland Weidle
A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets

"This comprehensive guide provides readers with the necessary tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences. It combines close readings of more than 100 sonnets with…

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Victoria Wohl
The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy

"This hauntingly beautiful study recovers the boundlessness of Presocratic thought. In close readings of five early Greek cosmologists--Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus-…

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Ted Widmer
The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text

INSIDE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America.Illustrations and close readings of 60 origi…

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Zachary Tavlin
Network Theory and Nashville

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of…

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Zachary Tavlin
Network Theory and Nashville

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of…

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Eyal Peretz
American Medium

In this masterful new work, film critic and philosopher Eyal Peretz forges a new connection between the concept of "America" and the medium of film. Through exemplary close readings of six funda…

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