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Deleuze's Literary Clinic
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 104.00The first study of Deleuze's critical and clinical projectAidan Tynan addresses Deleuze's assertion, that 'literature is an enterprise of health', and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his groundbreaking collaborations with Guattari, to his final, enigmatic statements... more...
trüb - weinen
De Gruyter 2001; US$ 266.00Thesaurus proverbiorum medii aevi/ 12, Trüb - weinen. more...
The Game of Probability
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 35.00There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scientific terms. Indeed, mathematical probability would... more...
The Revival of Antique Philosophy in the Renaissance
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit. more...
Evénement et roman
Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 62.00Le récit est généralement défini comme transformation dun état en un autre, transformation dont lélément déclenchant est un événement . Or les études narratologiques ont, avec constance, fait comme si cet « atome » narratif était inanalysable. Lobjet de ce livre... more...
Die Befreiung der Bücher: Zur Bedeutung der Dezemberrevolution von 1989 für die rumänische Literatur
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 9.70In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird das soziale Subsystem der Kultur betrachtet und darin die Literatur als jener Teilbereich der Kultur, der wegen seiner engen Interdependenz mit anderen sozialen Subsystemen, wegen seines meinungsbildenden Potenzials, wegen seiner langen Tradition und nicht zuletzt auch wegen seiner Bedeutung als irradiierendes... more...
The Seduction of the Mediterranean
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 44.95Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile, murder, drug-taking, wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study... more...
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 42.00This book explores the early modern interest in conversation. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the philosopher Cicero. Recognising his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers new ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. more...
Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture
De Gruyter 2004; US$ 224.00The volume presents a cultural history of renaissance rhetoric with special emphasis on literary theory with its aspects of imagination (inventio), generictheory (dispositio), style (elocutio), mnemonic architecture (memoria), representation (actio) (with Shakespeare's works as illustrations). Special attention is given to the intermedial rhetoric... more...









