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In Double Vision, philosopher and literary critic Tzachi Zamir argues that there are more things in Hamlet than are dreamt of--or at least conceded--by most philosophers. Making an original and persuasive case for the philosophical value of literature, Zamir suggests that certain important philosophical insights can be gained only through literature. But such insights cannot be reached if literature is deployed merely as an aesthetic sugaring of a conceptual pill. Philosophical knowledge is not opposed to, but is consonant with, the literariness of literature. By focusing on the experience of reading literature as literature and not philosophy, Zamir sets a theoretical framework for a philosophically oriented literary criticism that will appeal both to philosophers and literary critics.<br><br><br><br> Double Vision is concerned with the philosophical understanding induced by the aesthetic experience of literature. Literary works can function as credible philosophical arguments--not ones in which claims are conclusively demonstrated, but in which claims are made plausible. Such claims, Zamir argues, are embedded within an experiential structure that is itself a crucial dimension of knowing. Developing an account of literature's relation to knowledge, morality, and rhetoric, and advancing philosophical-literary readings of Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and King Lear, Zamir shows how his approach can open up familiar texts in surprising and rewarding ways.</p>", "author": "Tzachi Zamir", "slug": "double-vision-201245-9781400827435-tzachi-zamir", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400827435.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "201245", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/201245/double-vision-201245-9781400827435-tzachi-zamir", "bisac_codes": [ "PHI005000", "QDTQ" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691155456", "EISBN13": "9781400827435", "EISBN10": "1400827434" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030539248" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000201244", "attributes": { "name": "Lyric Poetry", "subtitle": "The Pain and the Pleasure of Words", "description": "<p>Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the \"I\" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself.<br><br><br> In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to poetic, linguistic, and psychoanalytic theory to help unravel the intricate historical processes that generate speaking subjects, and concludes that lyric forms convey both personal and communal emotional histories in language. Focusing on the work of such diverse twentieth-century American poets as T. S. 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Key authors such as Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor, and Gerald Vizenor are transformed in this light. Emerson emerges as a translator of Islamic culture; Henry James's novels become long-distance kin to Gilgamesh; and Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe, and the Americas.<br><br><br> Throughout, Dimock contends that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole, and that it looks dramatically different when removed from a strictly national or English-language context.</p>", "author": "Wai Chee Dimock", "slug": "through-other-continents-201242-9781400829521-wai-chee-dimock", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400829521.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "201242", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/201242/through-other-continents-201242-9781400829521-wai-chee-dimock", "bisac_codes": [ "LIT004020", "DS" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691114491", "EISBN13": "9781400829521", "EISBN10": "1400829526" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030541762" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000201241", "attributes": { "name": "Modernism, Media, and Propaganda", "subtitle": "British Narrative from 1900 to 1945", "description": "<p>Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly hiring well-known writers and intellectuals to write for the government and by exploiting their control of new global information systems, the British in World War I invented a new template for the manipulation of information that remains with us to this day. Making a persuasive case for the importance of understanding modernism in the context of the history of modern propaganda, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda also helps explain the origins of today's highly propagandized world.<br><br><br><br> Modernism, Media, and Propaganda integrates new archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a comprehensive cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. From works by Joseph Conrad to propaganda films by Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, Mark Wollaeger traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda while offering compelling close readings of major fiction by Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce.</p>", "author": "Mark Wollaeger", "slug": "modernism-media-and-propaganda-201241-9781400828623-mark-wollaeger", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400828623.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "201241", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/201241/modernism-media-and-propaganda-201241-9781400828623-mark-wollaeger", "bisac_codes": [ "LIT004120", "DS" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691128115", "EISBN13": "9781400828623", "EISBN10": "1400828627" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030541507" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000201240", "attributes": { "name": "Imperial Masochism", "subtitle": "British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class", "description": "<p>British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. \"There was,\" writes John Kucich, \"seemingly a different crucifixion scene marking the historical gateway to each colonial theater.\" In Imperial Masochism, Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Placing the colonial writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad in their cultural context, Kucich shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism.<br><br><br> Drawing on recent psychoanalytic theory to define masochism in terms of narcissistic fantasies of omnipotence rather than sexual perversion, the book illuminates how masochism mediates political thought of many different kinds, not simply those that represent the social order as an opposition of mastery and submission, or an eroticized drama of power differentials. Masochism was a powerful psychosocial language that enabled colonial writers to articulate judgments about imperialism and class.<br><br><br> The first full-length study of masochism in British colonial fiction, Imperial Masochism puts forth new readings of this literature and shows the continued relevance of psychoanalysis to historicist studies of literature and culture.</p>", "author": "John Kucich", "slug": "imperial-masochism-201240-9781400827404-john-kucich", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400827404.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "201240", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/201240/imperial-masochism-201240-9781400827404-john-kucich", "bisac_codes": [ "LIT004120", "DS" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691127125", "EISBN13": "9781400827404", "EISBN10": "140082740X" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030543752" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000201239", "attributes": { "name": "Music as Thought", "subtitle": "Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven", "description": "<p>Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as \"more pleasure than culture,\" and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from the limits of language. What had once been perceived as entertainment was heard increasingly as a vehicle of thought. Listening had become a way of knowing.<br><br><br><br> Music as Thought traces the roots of this fundamental shift in attitudes toward listening in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on responses to the symphony in the age of Beethoven, Mark Evan Bonds draws on contemporary accounts and a range of sources--philosophical, literary, political, and musical--to reveal how this music was experienced by those who heard it first.<br><br><br><br> Music as Thought is a fascinating reinterpretation of the causes and effects of a revolution in listening.</p>", "author": "Mark Evan Bonds", "slug": "music-as-thought-201239-9781400827398-mark-evan-bonds", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400827398.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "201239", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/201239/music-as-thought-201239-9781400827398-mark-evan-bonds", "bisac_codes": [ "MUS006000", "AVLA" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691126593", "EISBN13": "9781400827398", "EISBN10": "1400827396" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030542470" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000201238", "attributes": { "name": "Jihad in Islamic History", "subtitle": "Doctrines and Practice", "description": "<p>What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of Islam, today's debate about the origin and meaning of jihad is nothing less than a struggle over Islam itself. In Jihad in Islamic History, Michael Bonner provides the first study in English that focuses on the early history of jihad, shedding much-needed light on the most recent controversies over jihad.<br><br><br> To some, jihad is the essence of radical Islamist ideology, a synonym for terrorism, and even proof of Islam's innate violence. To others, jihad means a peaceful, individual, and internal spiritual striving. Bonner, however, shows that those who argue that jihad means only violence or only peace are both wrong. Jihad is a complex set of doctrines and practices that have changed over time and continue to evolve today. The Quran's messages about fighting and jihad are inseparable from its requirements of generosity and care for the poor. Jihad has often been a constructive and creative force, the key to building new Islamic societies and states. Jihad has regulated relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, in peace as well as in war. 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