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Heart of Darkness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

Heart of Darkness

"Adelman uncovers political, metaphysical, and prophetic insights in the text, and clarifies the novel's symbols, themes, and unconscious workings of the hero." --

Waste and Abundance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Waste and Abundance

This collection of articles relates to a research area currently developing in the Humanities, which calls for philosophical and historical approaches to questions of sustainable development and waste management. The title of the issue reflects the central questions raised by all contributors: how are waste and abundance represented, how may we conceptualize these representations, and what ethical problems do they raise? Particular attention is paid to the cultural and moral factors that condition our attitudes to waste and the ways in which literature addresses the problematic relationship that binds production, consumption and waste to social and political systems.

Jude the Obscure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Jude the Obscure

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its author. This approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses of their own, based on in-depth studies of popular literature. Each volume: -- Illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text -- Uses clear, conversational language -- Is an accessible, manageable length from 140 to 170 pages -- Includes a chronology of the author's life and era -- Provides an overview of the historical context -- Offers a summary of its critical reception -- Lists primary and secondary sources and index

D.H. Lawrence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

D.H. Lawrence

In addition, the collection demonstrates that although Lawrence has been misread as sexist, Lawrence studies has continued to attract women scholars."--BOOK JACKET.

The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In this volume, Nashef looks at J.M. Coetzee's concern with universal suffering and the inevitable humiliation of the human being as manifest in his novels. Though several theorists have referred to the theme of human degradation in Coetzee’s work, no detailed study has been made of this area of concern especially with respect to how pervasive it is across Coetzee’s literary output to date. This study examines what J.M. Coetzee's novels portray as the circumstances that contribute to the humiliation of the individual--namely the abuse of language, master and slave interplay, aging and senseless waiting--and how these conditions can lead to the alienation and marginalization of the individual.

Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault is the first full-length study of Foucault and the Foucaultians not to look at them from a quasi-hagiographical perspective. The Lawrentian point of view employed here to deal with Foucault and his oeuvre is utterly unique, imaginative, and efficacious in explicating/demystifying Foucaultian theory, while at the same time promoting Barry J. Scherr's courageous, indefatigable project of restoring D. H. Lawrence to his rightfully and supremely high place in the pantheon of great British literature. Rebellious and unconventional yet scholarly and mature, Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault is the bravest and most unorthodox study of Foucault to date. It is a worthy addition to Scherr's previous literary-cultural studies, D. H. Lawrence Today and D. H. Lawrence's Response to Plato. A supremely lively, incisive, lucid, and profound critique, Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault is indispensable to students and scholars of Lawrence and Foucault alike.

Beckett and Poststructuralism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Beckett and Poststructuralism

In Beckett and Poststructuralism, Anthony Uhlmann offers a reading of Beckett in relation to French philosophy, particularly the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Levinas, and Derrida. Uhlmann offers a work of literary criticism that is also a piece of intellectual history, emphasizing how Beckett develops a kind of critical thinking which differs from yet is just as powerful as that of philosophers who, along with Beckett, found themselves faced with sets of ethical problems which were thrown into sharp relief in post-war France. Uhlmann explores the links between ethics and physical existence in Beckett, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari, and between ethics and language in Beckett, Derrida and Levinas, showing how post-war French philosophy was powerfully affected by Beckett's work. Literature is not reduced to philosophy or vice versa; rather Uhlmann considers how they interrelate and overlap, informing and deforming one another, and how both encounter history.

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

This book presents a collection of essays exploring various aspects of the novel "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.

Naming Beckett's Unnamable
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Naming Beckett's Unnamable

Kafka's struggle with spiritual deadlock helped Beckett, at crucial impasses in his own art, to find his way to Molloy and the trilogy, and later, to discern the importance of torture to the creative imagination, especially in How It Is.". "This book will interest those seeking a new, absorbing reading of Beckett's great prose."--BOOK JACKET.

Anna Karenina
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Anna Karenina

The author explores the counterpointing structure of this novel and how it illuminates the themes of opposing forces, such as nature and society and chastity and passion.