0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 16 of 16 matches in All Departments

Moving Modernisms - Motion, Technology, and Modernity (Hardcover): David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach Moving Modernisms - Motion, Technology, and Modernity (Hardcover)
David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach
R3,950 Discovery Miles 39 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational. Individual essays explore modernism's complex geographies, focusing on Anglo-European modernisms while also engaging with the debates engendered by recent models of world literatures and global modernisms. From questions of space and place, the volume moves to a focus on movement and motion, with topics ranging from modernity and bodily energies to issues of scale and quantity. The final chapters in the volume examine modernist film and the moving image, and travel and transport in the modern metropolis. 'Movement is reality itself', the philosopher Henri Bergson wrote: the original and illuminating essays in Moving Modernisms point in new ways to the realities, and the fantasies, of movement in modernist culture.

Sigmund Freud's the Interpretation of Dreams (Paperback): Laura Marcus Sigmund Freud's the Interpretation of Dreams (Paperback)
Laura Marcus
R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the modern era, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking lives as well as their dreams. This book, more than any other in Freud's massive oeuvre, has shaped a vast amount of work in linguistics and semiotics, literary studies, film theory, psychology, philosophical hermeneutics and the history of ideas. This influence is reflected in the editor's introduction, which includes a substantial discussion of the theory and practice of representation, and the six essays specially commissioned for this volume. The contributors are renowned for their knowledge of Freudian theory and for their interdisciplinary expertise in a wide range of fields. They examine, for example, the relationship of Freud's text to theories of interpretation, autobiography and literary production. The book as a whole gives a clear sense both of the context of Freud's text and of its influence throughout the twentieth century. This volume is an ideal introduction to Freud's work for students and teachers of English and other literatures, philosophy and social and cultural studies, as well as the wider audience concerned with psychoanalysis and its cultural ramifications. -- .

Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy and Imaging - Principles and Applications in Biomedical Diagnostics (Paperback): Laura... Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy and Imaging - Principles and Applications in Biomedical Diagnostics (Paperback)
Laura Marcu, Paul M W French, Daniel S Elson
R1,634 Discovery Miles 16 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the past two decades, there has been an increasing appreciation of the significant value that lifetime-based techniques can add to biomedical studies and applications of fluorescence. Bringing together perspectives of different research communities, Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy and Imaging: Principles and Applications in Biomedical Diagnostics explores the remarkable advances in time-resolved fluorescence techniques and their role in a wide range of biological and clinical applications. Broadly accessible, the book captures the state-of-the-art of fluorescence lifetime metrology and imaging and provides current perspectives on their applications to biomedical studies of intact tissues and medical diagnosis. The text introduces these techniques within the wider context of fluorescence spectroscopy and describes basic principles underlying current instrumentation for fluorescence lifetime imaging and metrology (FLIM). It also covers the wide range of methods, including single channel (point) spectroscopy, fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, and single- and multi-photon excitation. Edited by pioneers in this field, with contributions from leading experts, the book includes an overview of complementary techniques that help researchers beginning FLIM research. It offers a comprehensive treatment of fundamental principles, instrumentation, analytical methods, and applications. It also provides an overview of the label-free contrast available from lifetime measurements of tissue autofluorescence and the prospects for exploiting this for clinical applications and biomedical research including drug discovery.

Auto/Biographical Discourses - Criticism, Theory, Practice (Paperback, New Ed): Laura Marcus Auto/Biographical Discourses - Criticism, Theory, Practice (Paperback, New Ed)
Laura Marcus
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this new critical study, Laura Marcus explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in nineteenth and twentieth century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction--debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it appears either as a dangerous double agent moving between these oppositions, or as a magical instrument of their reconciliation. This book explores the significance of the genre in eugenics and theories of "genius;" the "new biography" of Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and others; autobiography and historical consciousness of subjectivity and genre; as well as contemporary autobiographical writings and feminist theories of life-writing.

The Actuality of Walter Benjamin (Paperback, New edition): Laura Marcus, Lynda Nead The Actuality of Walter Benjamin (Paperback, New edition)
Laura Marcus, Lynda Nead; Laura Marcus, Lynda Nead
R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The boundaries of Walter Benjamin's work still resist classification and demarcation. His writings, including the best-known collection, Illuminations, remain an uneasy but thrilling combination of the actual and the mystical, of Marxism and the messianic utopianism.

This collection shows how extraordinarily substantial were the footholds which Benjamin supplied: Irving Wohlfarth takes up the troubling question of historical understanding versus historicism in his essay The Actuality of Walter Benjamin. Also included are essays on Benjamin and the sources of Judaism, feminism and cultural analysis, and images in Benjamin's novels and other writings.

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (Hardcover, New): Laura Marcus, Peter Nicholls The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (Hardcover, New)
Laura Marcus, Peter Nicholls
R6,154 Discovery Miles 61 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This new Cambridge History is the first major history of twentieth-century English literature to cover the full range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period and analyses the ways in which conventional literary genres were shaped and inflected by the new cultural technologies of radio, cinema and television. In providing an authoritative narrative of literary and cultural production across the century, this History acknowledges the claims for innovation and modernisation that characterise the beginning of the period. At the same time, it attends analytically to the more profound patterns of continuity and development which avant-garde tendencies characteristically underplay. Containing all the virtues of a Cambridge History, this new volume is a major event for anyone concerned with twentieth-century literature, its cultural context and its relation to the contemporary.

Dreams of Modernity - Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (Hardcover): Laura Marcus Dreams of Modernity - Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (Hardcover)
Laura Marcus
R2,319 Discovery Miles 23 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern sensibility - are four of the chief subjects explored. Marcus also stresses the creativity of modernist women writers, including H. D., Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. The overriding themes of this work bear on the understanding of the early twentieth century as a transitional age, thus raising the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.

Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Laura Marcus Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Laura Marcus
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the new edition of her highly regarded study, Laura Marcus examines a wide range of Virginia Woolf's novels, short stories, essays and autobiographical writings in the context of themes and topics of central contemporary relevance and interest: time, history and narrative; modernism and the city; gender, sexuality and identity; art and life-writings. As well as exploring her significance for, and contribution to, feminist debates and to definitions of modernism, the book also includes detailed analyses of all Woolf's novels an her non-fiction writings, including A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas and the 'biography' Flush. It considers current theoretical approaches to Woolf's work and also engages with Woolf's own cultural contexts, exploring, for example, her responses to war, to Freud's theories, and to early twentieth-century theories of sexuality and gender identity, and the transition from Victorianism to modernity.

Rhythmical Subjects - The Measures of the Modern: Laura Marcus Rhythmical Subjects - The Measures of the Modern
Laura Marcus
R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why attention to rhythm came to serve as connective tissue between fields of inquiry at a time when modern disciplines were still in the process of formation or consolidation. The concentration on 'rhythm' and its cognates largely arose, Laura Marcus demonstrates, from the desire to reclaim or retain human and natural measures in the face of the coming of the machine and the speed of technological innovation. Rhythmical Subjects uncovers the disparate routes by which rhythm acquired its newfound ability to link ancient and modern forms of intellectual inquiry, and to fathom and re-invigorate temporal articulations of modern subjective life. Among the numerous intellectual and artistic developments set in a new light by this brilliantly wide-ranging book are: the long line of philosophical and theoretical writing on rhythm, from Nietzsche to Bergson and their twentieth-century interlocutors; psychological explorations of rhythm as the fundamental law of life, from Herbert Spencer and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elsie Fogarty; more experimental engagements with psychology's rhythms, from Wilhelm Wundt, Théodule Ribot, and Karl Groos to the aesthetic writings of Vernon Lee; the history of prosody; pioneering applications of rhythm studies to social and sexual reform, by Havelock Ellis, Marie Stopes, D. H. Lawrence, and Mary Austin (among others); Lebensreform movements and the contribution of Rudolf Steiner and Emile Jaques-Dalcroze; and numerous endeavours in artistic and critical innovation, from the small modernist magazines of Bloomsbury and Paris to art salons and dance studios across Britain, Continental Europe, and America.

Dreams of Modernity - Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (Paperback): Laura Marcus Dreams of Modernity - Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (Paperback)
Laura Marcus
R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern sensibility - are four of the chief subjects explored. Marcus also stresses the creativity of modernist women writers, including H. D., Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. The overriding themes of this work bear on the understanding of the early twentieth century as a transitional age, thus raising the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.

Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback): Laura Marcus Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Laura Marcus
R304 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R30 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, but the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world. In this Very Short Introduction Laura Marcus defines what we mean by 'autobiography', and considers its relationship with similar literary forms such as memoirs, journals, letters, diaries, and essays. Analysing the core themes in autobiographical writing, such as confession, conversion and testimony; romanticism and the journeying self; Marcus discusses the autobiographical consciousness (and the roles played by time, memory and identity), and considers the relationship between psychoanalysis and autobiography. Exploring the themes of self-portraiture and performance, Marcus also discusses the ways in which fiction and autobiography have shaped each other. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (Paperback): Laura Marcus, Peter Nicholls The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (Paperback)
Laura Marcus, Peter Nicholls
R1,697 Discovery Miles 16 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This Cambridge History is the first major history of twentieth-century English literature to cover the full range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period and analyses the ways in which conventional literary genres were shaped and inflected by the new cultural technologies of radio, cinema, and television. In providing an authoritative narrative of literary and cultural production across the century, this History acknowledges the claims for innovation and modernization that chracterise the beginning of the period. At the same time, it attends analytically to the more profound patterns of continuity and development which avant-garde tendencies characteristically underplay. Containing all the virtues of a Cambridge History, this new volume is a major event for anyone concerned with twentieth-century literature, its cultural context, and its relation to the contemporary.

Sex and Character - An Investigation of Fundamental Principles (Hardcover): Otto Weininger Sex and Character - An Investigation of Fundamental Principles (Hardcover)
Otto Weininger; Translated by Ladislaus Loeb; Edited by Laura Marcus, Daniel Steuer
R1,973 R1,747 Discovery Miles 17 470 Save R226 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Otto Weininger s controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its time: antisemitism, scientific racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis of masculinity, psychological introspection versus empiricism, German idealism, the women s movement and the idea of human emancipation, the quest for sexual liberation, and the debates about homosexuality. Combining rational reasoning with irrational outbursts, in the context of today s scholarship, Sex and Character speaks to issues of gender, race, cultural identity, the roots of Nazism, and the intellectual history of modernism and modern European culture. This new translation presents, for the first time, the entire text, including Weininger s extensive appendix with amplifications of the text and bibliographical references, in a reliable English translation, together with a substantial introduction that places the book in its cultural and historical context."

Late Victorian into Modern (Paperback): Laura Marcus, Michele Mendelssohn, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr Late Victorian into Modern (Paperback)
Laura Marcus, Michele Mendelssohn, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
R2,011 Discovery Miles 20 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian and modern literature and culture, primarily in British contexts. Late Victorian into Modern emphasises the in-between: the gradual changeover from one period to the next. The volume examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores and exploits an understanding of the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries as a cultural moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity. The organising principle of this book is to retain a key focus on literary texts, broadly understood to include familiar categories of genre as well as extra-textual elements such as press and publishing history, performance events and visual culture, while remaining keenly attentive to the inter-relations between text and context in the period. Individual chapters explore such topics as Celticism, the New Woman, popular fictions, literatures of empire, aestheticism, periodical culture, political formations, avant-garde poetics, and theatricality.

Close Up: Cinema And Modernism (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): James Donald, Anne Friedberg, Laura Marcus Close Up: Cinema And Modernism (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
James Donald, Anne Friedberg, Laura Marcus
R2,536 Discovery Miles 25 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Between 1927 and 1933, the journal "Close Up" championed a European avant-garde in film-making. It was edited by the writer and film-maker, Kenneth MacPherson and among its regular contributors were the poet H.D., Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf (whose essay on cinema is reprinted here in full). This volume republishes articles from the journal, with an introduction and a commentary on the lives of, and complex relationships between, its writers and editors.

Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy and Imaging - Principles and Applications in Biomedical Diagnostics (Hardcover): Laura... Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy and Imaging - Principles and Applications in Biomedical Diagnostics (Hardcover)
Laura Marcu, Paul M W French, Daniel S Elson
R6,925 Discovery Miles 69 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the past two decades, there has been an increasing appreciation of the significant value that lifetime-based techniques can add to biomedical studies and applications of fluorescence. Bringing together perspectives of different research communities, Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy and Imaging: Principles and Applications in Biomedical Diagnostics explores the remarkable advances in time-resolved fluorescence techniques and their role in a wide range of biological and clinical applications. Broadly accessible, the book captures the state-of-the-art of fluorescence lifetime metrology and imaging and provides current perspectives on their applications to biomedical studies of intact tissues and medical diagnosis. The text introduces these techniques within the wider context of fluorescence spectroscopy and describes basic principles underlying current instrumentation for fluorescence lifetime imaging and metrology (FLIM). It also covers the wide range of methods, including single channel (point) spectroscopy, fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, and single- and multi-photon excitation. Edited by pioneers in this field, with contributions from leading experts, the book includes an overview of complementary techniques that help researchers beginning FLIM research. It offers a comprehensive treatment of fundamental principles, instrumentation, analytical methods, and applications. It also provides an overview of the label-free contrast available from lifetime measurements of tissue autofluorescence and the prospects for exploiting this for clinical applications and biomedical research including drug discovery.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as…
Jermain Wesley Loguen Paperback R651 Discovery Miles 6 510
Project Management for Continuous…
Kern Peng Hardcover R1,400 Discovery Miles 14 000
Cognitive Psychology - EMEA Edition
E. Bruce Goldstein, Johanna C. van Hooff Paperback R1,369 R1,242 Discovery Miles 12 420
Accomplishment - How To Achieve…
Michael Barber Paperback R405 R218 Discovery Miles 2 180
Indentured - Behind The Scenes At Gupta…
Rajesh Sundaram Paperback  (2)
R280 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520
London Mob - Violence and Disorder in…
Robert Shoemaker Hardcover R1,894 Discovery Miles 18 940
Touts - Recruiting Indentured Labor in…
Enrique Martino Hardcover R2,818 Discovery Miles 28 180
African Creeks - Estelvste and the Creek…
Gary Zellar Hardcover R1,202 Discovery Miles 12 020
The Politics Of Housing In (Post…
Kirsten Ruther, Martina Barker-Ciganikova, … Hardcover R300 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700
This Is How It Is - True Stories From…
The Life Righting Collective Paperback R265 R239 Discovery Miles 2 390

 

Partners