0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R250 - R500 (1)
  • R1,000 - R2,500 (4)
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (4)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 9 of 9 matches in All Departments

Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics - Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson (Hardcover): Ashley Marshall Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics - Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson (Hardcover)
Ashley Marshall; Contributions by John Barrell, Ann Bermingham, Robert Folkenflik, Robert D. Hume, …
R2,742 Discovery Miles 27 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The chapters constituting this book are different in subject and method, striking testimony to the range of Paulson's interests and the versatility of his critical powers. In his prolific career he has produced extensive analysis of art, poetry, fiction, and aesthetics produced in England between 1650 and 1830. Paulson's unique contribution has to do with his understanding of "seeing" and "reading" as closely related enterprises, and "popular" forms in art and literature as intimately connected-connections illustrated by literary critics and art historians here. Every essay shares some of the concerns and methods that characterize Paulson's wonderfully idiosyncratic thought-except for the final essay, an attempt systematically to analyze Paulson's critical principles and methods. Recurrent themes are a concern with satire in the eighteenth century; a connection between verbal and visual reading; an insistence on the importance of individual artistic choices to the history of culture; an attention to the aims and motives of individual makers of art; and a sensitivity to the crucial links between high and low art. This volume offers rich explorations of a range of subjects: Swift's relationship to Congreve; Zoffany's condemnation of Gillray and Hogarth, and broader implications for the role of art in public discourse; the presentation of mourning in the work of the Welsh artist and writer Edward Pugh; G. M. Woodward's "Coffee-House Characters," representing a turn from satire on morals towards satire on manners; Adam Smith's evolving aesthetic program; Samuel Richardson's notions of social reading. The discussions represent a variety of exemplifications of the Paulsonesque, showing a concern with satiric representation in mixed media, with different forms of heterodoxy and iconoclasm, and with the values of producers of popular and polite culture in this period.

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (Paperback, 15th Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction by the Author):... The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (Paperback, 15th Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction by the Author)
Michael McKeon
R1,283 Discovery Miles 12 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740," combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, "The Origins of the English Novel" stands as essential reading. The anniversary edition features a new introduction in which the author reflects on the considerable response and commentary the book has attracted since its publication by describing dialectical method and by applying it to early modern notions of gender.

Challenging prevailing theories that tie the origins of the novel to the ascendancy of "realism" and the "middle class," McKeon argues that this new genre arose in response to the profound instability of literary and social categories. Between 1600 and 1740, momentous changes took place in European attitudes toward truth in narrative and toward virtue in the individual and the social order. The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.

Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1 - Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain (Hardcover): Michael McKeon Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1 - Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain (Hardcover)
Michael McKeon
R3,318 Discovery Miles 33 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capitalist exploitation, neoliberal economics, scientific positivism, totalitarian rule. These developments are thought to have grown from principles that are rooted in the soil of the Enlightenment: abstraction, reduction, objectification, quantification, division, universalization. Michael McKeon’s new book corrects this defective view by historicizing the Enlightenment--by showing that the Enlightenment has been abstracted from its history. From its past: critics have ignored that Enlightenment thought is a reaction against deadly traditions that precede it. From its present: the Enlightenment extended its reactive analysis of the past to its own present through self-analysis and self-criticism. From its future: much of what’s been blamed amounts to the failure of its posterity to sustain Enlightenment principles. To historicize the Enlightenment requires that we conjure what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that are now commonplace—society, privacy, the public, the market, experiment, secularity, representative democracy, human rights, social class, sex and gender, fiction, the aesthetic attitude. McKeon’s book argues the continuity of Enlightenment thought, its consistency and integrity across this broad range of conceptual domains. It also shows how the Enlightenment has shaped our views of both tradition and modernity, and the revisionary work that needs to be done in order to understand our place in the future. In the process, Historicizing the Enlightenment exemplifies a distinctive historiography and historical method.   Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2 - Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain (Hardcover): Michael McKeon Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2 - Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain (Hardcover)
Michael McKeon
R3,318 Discovery Miles 33 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Enlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially literature entails a double reflection: a reflection of the world, and a reflection on the process by which that reflection is accomplished. Instead “neoclassicism” and “Augustanism” have been falsely construed as involving a one-dimensional imitation of classical texts and an unselfconscious representation of the world. In fact these Enlightenment movements adopted an oblique perspective that registers the distance between past tradition and its present reenactment, between representation and presence. Two modern movements, Romanticism and modernism, have  appropriated as their own these innovations, which derive from Enlightenment thought. Both of these movements ground their error in a misreading of “imitation” as understood by Aristotle and his Enlightenment proponents. Rightly understood, neoclassical imitation, constitutively aware of the difference between what it knows and how it knows it, is an experimental inquiry that generates a range of prefixes—“counter-,” “mock-,” “anti-,” “neo-”—that mark formal degrees of its epistemological detachment. Romantic ideology has denied the role of the imagination in Enlightenment imitation, imposing on the eighteenth century a dichotomous periodization: duplication versus imagination, the mirror versus the lamp. Structuralist ideology has dichotomized narration and description, form and content, structure and history. Poststructuralist ideology has propounded for the novel a contradictory “novel tradition”—realism, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism—whose stages both constitute a sequence and collapse it, each stage claiming the innovation of the stage that precedes it.     Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Theory of the Novel - A Historical Approach (Paperback): Michael McKeon Theory of the Novel - A Historical Approach (Paperback)
Michael McKeon
R1,157 Discovery Miles 11 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Michael McKeon, author of "The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, " here assembles a collection of influential essays on the theory of the novel. Carefully chosen selections from Frye, Benjamin, Levi-Strauss, Lukacs, Bakhtin, and other prominent theorists explore the historical significance of the novel as a genre, from its early beginnings to its modern variations in the postmodern novel and postcolonial novel.

Offering a generous selection of key theoretical texts for students and scholars alike, "Theory of the Novel" also presents a provocative argument for studying the genre. In his introduction to the volume and in headnotes to each section, McKeon argues that genre theory and history provide the best approach to understanding the novel. All the selections in this anthology date from the twentieth century--most from the last forty years--and represent the attempts of different theorists, and different theoretical schools, to describe the historical stages of the genre's formal development.

Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1 - Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain (Paperback): Michael McKeon Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1 - Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain (Paperback)
Michael McKeon
R1,320 Discovery Miles 13 200 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capitalist exploitation, neoliberal economics, scientific positivism, totalitarian rule. These developments are thought to have grown from principles that are rooted in the soil of the Enlightenment: abstraction, reduction, objectification, quantification, division, universalization. Michael McKeon’s new book corrects this defective view by historicizing the Enlightenment--by showing that the Enlightenment has been abstracted from its history. From its past: critics have ignored that Enlightenment thought is a reaction against deadly traditions that precede it. From its present: the Enlightenment extended its reactive analysis of the past to its own present through self-analysis and self-criticism. From its future: much of what’s been blamed amounts to the failure of its posterity to sustain Enlightenment principles. To historicize the Enlightenment requires that we conjure what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that are now commonplace—society, privacy, the public, the market, experiment, secularity, representative democracy, human rights, social class, sex and gender, fiction, the aesthetic attitude. McKeon’s book argues the continuity of Enlightenment thought, its consistency and integrity across this broad range of conceptual domains. It also shows how the Enlightenment has shaped our views of both tradition and modernity, and the revisionary work that needs to be done in order to understand our place in the future. In the process, Historicizing the Enlightenment exemplifies a distinctive historiography and historical method.   Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

A Spiritual Foundation for Christians - Hebrews 6:1-2 (Paperback): Michael McKeon A Spiritual Foundation for Christians - Hebrews 6:1-2 (Paperback)
Michael McKeon
R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2 - Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain (Paperback): Michael McKeon Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2 - Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain (Paperback)
Michael McKeon
R1,312 Discovery Miles 13 120 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Enlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially literature entails a double reflection: a reflection of the world, and a reflection on the process by which that reflection is accomplished. Instead “neoclassicism” and “Augustanism” have been falsely construed as involving a one-dimensional imitation of classical texts and an unselfconscious representation of the world. In fact these Enlightenment movements adopted an oblique perspective that registers the distance between past tradition and its present reenactment, between representation and presence. Two modern movements, Romanticism and modernism, have  appropriated as their own these innovations, which derive from Enlightenment thought. Both of these movements ground their error in a misreading of “imitation” as understood by Aristotle and his Enlightenment proponents. Rightly understood, neoclassical imitation, constitutively aware of the difference between what it knows and how it knows it, is an experimental inquiry that generates a range of prefixes—“counter-,” “mock-,” “anti-,” “neo-”—that mark formal degrees of its epistemological detachment. Romantic ideology has denied the role of the imagination in Enlightenment imitation, imposing on the eighteenth century a dichotomous periodization: duplication versus imagination, the mirror versus the lamp. Structuralist ideology has dichotomized narration and description, form and content, structure and history. Poststructuralist ideology has propounded for the novel a contradictory “novel tradition”—realism, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism—whose stages both constitute a sequence and collapse it, each stage claiming the innovation of the stage that precedes it.     Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Historicizing the Enlightenment (2 Vol Set): Michael McKeon Historicizing the Enlightenment (2 Vol Set)
Michael McKeon
R4,473 Discovery Miles 44 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capitalist exploitation, neoliberal economics, scientific positivism, totalitarian rule. These developments are thought to have grown from principles that are rooted in the soil of the Enlightenment: abstraction, reduction, objectification, quantification, division, universalization. Michael McKeon’s new book corrects this defective view by historicizing the Enlightenment--by showing that the Enlightenment has been abstracted from its history. From its past: critics have ignored that Enlightenment thought is a reaction against deadly traditions that precede it. From its present: the Enlightenment extended its reactive analysis of the past to its own present through self-analysis and self-criticism. From its future: much of what’s been blamed amounts to the failure of its posterity to sustain Enlightenment principles. To historicize the Enlightenment requires that we conjure what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that are now commonplace—society, privacy, the public, the market, experiment, secularity, representative democracy, human rights, social class, sex and gender, fiction, the aesthetic attitude. McKeon’s book argues the continuity of Enlightenment thought, its consistency and integrity across this broad range of conceptual domains. It also shows how the Enlightenment has shaped our views of both tradition and modernity, and the revisionary work that needs to be done in order to understand our place in the future. In the process, Historicizing the Enlightenment exemplifies a distinctive historiography and historical method.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
The World's Most Ridiculous Animals…
Philip Bunting Hardcover R494 R409 Discovery Miles 4 090
The Adventures of Chip and Salsa - Over…
Jo Oliver-Yeager Hardcover R669 Discovery Miles 6 690
Tell Me Your Story - South Africans…
Ruda Landman Paperback  (3)
R390 R366 Discovery Miles 3 660
A Russian On Commando - The Boer War…
Boris Gorelik Paperback R300 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540
1 Recce: Volume 3 - Onsigbaarheid Is Ons…
Alexander Strachan Paperback R380 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560
The Earth Book
Hannah Alice Board book R355 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000
Intelligent Machining of Complex…
Dinghua Zhang, Ming Luo, … Hardcover R5,018 Discovery Miles 50 180
The Death Of Democracy - Hitler's Rise…
Benjamin Carter Hett Paperback  (1)
R340 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080
Collaborative Logistics and…
Jorge E. Hernandez, Dong Li, … Hardcover R3,966 Discovery Miles 39 660
Nasty Women Talk Back - Feminist Essays…
Joy Watson Paperback  (2)
R323 Discovery Miles 3 230

 

Partners