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The Humanist Critic
£110.00 / $110.00Lionel Trilling and Edward Said
Daniel Nutters
Hardback
9781839991592
December 2024
Forthcoming
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Theory Does Not Exist
Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric
Paul Allen Miller
A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990854
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern.
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From Mimetic Translation to Artistic Transduction
A Semiotic Perspective on Virginia Woolf, Hector Berlioz, and Bertolt Brecht.
Dinda Gorlée
Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989087
October 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.
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The Critical Situation
Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies
Robert T. Tally Jr
The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies is concerned with the ways in which literary and cultural criticism are and have been situated in relation to a variety of ideological and institutional structures, including those of world literature, American studies, spatial literary studies, cultural critique, globalization and postmodernity.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988332
March 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies is concerned with the ways in which literary and cultural criticism are and have been situated in relation to a variety of ideological and institutional structures, including those of world literature, American studies, spatial literary studies, cultural critique, globalization and postmodernity.
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Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images
Terry Smith
Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a “black aesthetic” in white artworlds, this book shows that iconopolitics—especially constellations of visual images—has become pervasive within contemporary life. It questions the implications for critical thought and political action.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984358
July 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a “black aesthetic” in white artworlds, this book shows that iconopolitics—especially constellations of visual images—has become pervasive within contemporary life. It questions the implications for critical thought and political action.
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Yeats and Revisionism
A Half Century of the Dancer and the Dance
Daniel O'Hara
The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years, even as it opens the prospects for the future of critical reading of Yeats and modern poetry.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986550
April 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years, even as it opens the prospects for the future of critical reading of Yeats and modern poetry.
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Elegy for Literature
Jeffrey T. Nealon
Elegy for Literature is an overview of the current crisis within the academic study of literature. It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do – less as a set of literary objects, and more as a way of life.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983955
March 2022
Active
£24.99 / $24.99Elegy for Literature is an overview of the current crisis within the academic study of literature. It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do – less as a set of literary objects, and more as a way of life.
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Raymond Federman and Samuel Beckett
Voices in the Closet
Nathalie Camerlynck
This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277955
July 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.
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American Paraliterature and Other Theories to Hijack Communication
Blake Stricklin
A critical account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, which Michel Foucault called “the last countercultural event of the 1960s,” and its direct and indirect connection to American experimental literature.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277221
March 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00A critical account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, which Michel Foucault called “the last countercultural event of the 1960s,” and its direct and indirect connection to American experimental literature.
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The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism
Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points
H. Aram Veeser
A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed. The same ten questions were addressed to all the interviewees. The result is a homogeneous volume unlike most other interview projects.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274374
November 2020
Active
£125.00 / $125.00A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed. The same ten questions were addressed to all the interviewees. The result is a homogeneous volume unlike most other interview projects.
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Offering Theory
Reading in Sociography
John Mowitt
A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274060
August 2020
Active
£125.00 / $125.00A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today.
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Reaganism in Literary Theory
Negative Moralism and Hermeneutic Suspicion
Jeremiah Bowen
Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, supported by misrecognitions like hermeneutic suspicion, materiality, and identity politics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272783
July 2020
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, supported by misrecognitions like hermeneutic suspicion, materiality, and identity politics.
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A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature
An Issue of Reconfiguration and Re-representation
W. Lawrence Hogue
A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices to effect a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272592
January 2020
Active
£125.00 / $125.00A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices to effect a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm.