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From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema

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From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema - Andre Gaudreault

Univ. Toronto Press | 2008 | ISBN 0802098851 | 224 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, From Plato to Lumière challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are mediated by an "underlying narrator" who exists between the author and narrative text.

Offering illuminating insights, definitions, and formal distinctions, Gaudreault examines the practices of novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers and applies his theory to the early cinema of the Lumière brothers and more recent films. He also enhances our understanding of how narrative develops visually without language - monstration - by detailing how the evolution of the medium influenced narratives in cinema. From Plato to Lumière includes a translation of Paul Ricoeur's preface to the French-language edition as well as a new preface by Tom Gunning. It is a must-read for cinema and media students and scholars and an essential text on the study of narrative.


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Creativity and Critique (Social and Critical Theory)

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Creativity and Critique (Social and Critical Theory) - Ballantyne, G.

BRILL | 2009 | 214 Pages | ISBN 9004157794 | PDF | 1.56 MB

Constructing a dialogue between the social theory of Alain Touraine and the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, this work locates the wellsprings of the renewed intepretative powers of Touraine's recent sociology of the subject and critique of modernity in an implicit and unfinished, but unmistakable 'hermeneutical turn'.



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Deleuze and Ricoeur: Disavowed Affinities and the Narrative Self

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Deleuze and Ricoeur: Disavowed Affinities and the Narrative Self

Continuum | 2009 | ISBN 1441124489 | 240 Pages | PDF OCR | 6.7 MB

This is a highly original analysis of Paul Ricoeur's 'narrative self', specifically in relation to the philosophy of difference articulated by Gilles Deleuze, thus bringing together two giants of twentieth-century Continental philosophy for the first time. What is the self? Is it the impregnable cogito of Descartes or the shattered self of Nietzsche? Or has it become serendipitously constituted from pieces of fairy tales and novels, childhood comics and soap operas - a multitude of forces culled from fashion, modern myth, culture and recreation? Or must we still convince ourselves, like Rousseau, that the self can never be tainted; that it is, above all else, irrefrangible? Paul Ricoeur proposed that the self is formed within the narratives we tell of ourselves, that it is itself a form of narrative. But is this enough? Could a self cohere in a multitude of potential narratives or find unity among its stories? In this book, Declan Sheerin challenges the theory that the self is narrative alone or that concordance reigns over discordance in the self. Drawing upon the works of Gilles Deleuze, he proposes that deep to the sense of a unified, represented self is a more fundamental self of difference, a self that is more than merely coherent narrative.


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Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

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Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion - Alison Scott-baumann

Continuum | 2009 | ISBN 1847061885 | 237 Pages | PDF OCR | 8 MB

This book offers an original and insightful examination of Ricoeur's hermeneutics, a central concept in his work. Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the twentieth Century. In his enormous corpus of work he engaged with literature, history, historiography, politics, theology and ethics, while debating 'truth' and ethical solutions to life in the face of widespread and growing suspicion about whether such a search is either possible or worthwhile.

In "Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion", Alison Scott-Baumann takes a thematic approach that explores Ricoeur's lifelong struggle to be both iconoclastic and yet hopeful, and avoid the slippery slope to relativism. Through an examination of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion', the book reveals strong continuities throughout his work, as well as significant discontinuities, such as the marked way in which he later distanced himself from the 'hermeneutics of suspicion' and his development of new devices in its place, while seeking a hermeneutics of recovery. Scott-Baumann offers a highly original analysis of the hermeneutics of suspicion that will be useful to the fields of philosophy, literature, theology and postmodern social theory.


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Reading Derrida and Ricoeur: Improbable Encounters Between Deconstruction and Hermeneutics

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Reading Derrida and Ricoeur: Improbable Encounters Between Deconstruction and Hermeneutics - Eftichis Pirovolakis

State University of New York Press 2010 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 1438429495 | PDF | 1 MB

Written in the aftermath of the deaths of the French philosophers Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), this book is an important and innovative study of the contentious relation between deconstruction and hermeneutics. Offering close readings of Derrida's and Ricoeur's writings on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralist linguistics, and Levinasian ethics, Eftichis Pirovolakis introduces the motif of "improbable encounters," and explicates why the two thinkers may be said to be simultaneously close to each other and separated by an unbridgeable abyss.

Pirovolakis complicates any facile distinction between these movements, which are two of the most influential streams of continental thought, and questions a certain pathos with respect to the distance separating them. Pirovolakis also translates Derrida's brief tribute to Ricoeur: "The Word: Giving, Naming, Calling," which appears here in English for the first time. The book is essential reading for anyone immersed in continental philosophy or literary theory.


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Ricoeur's Critical Theory

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Ricoeur's Critical Theory - David M. Kaplan

State University of New York Press | 2003-02-27 | ISBN: 0791456951 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

The first book-length treatment of Paul Ricoeur's conception of philosophy as critical theory.

"There's still, I feel, much room for both introductory as well as critical studies on Ricoeur's 'ouvre' (although there have been some acceptable studies already from the late 80's). Most of those studies either (dis)cover Ricoeur's ouvre as a big story in temporal-biographical development, or they concentrate on an individual theme or characteristics of Ricoeur's theory. What seems to be highly typical in those studies is the constant need to use definite descriptions a' la 'it is hermeneutics', 'that makes him a phenomenologist', 'not a structuralist' etc. What is missing is the development of ideas in argumentation or dialogical comparison/discussion. That we get from Kaplan's almost massive study. Because of that, we get also views on those knots, sciasmas and aporias wich characterise Ricoeur's way of doing philosophy in a constant dialogue with philosophies wich seem at first be very unspoken in ricoeurean language. Kaplan's is highly recommendable, as is the choice to read it together with Simms' superb 'Ricoeur and Lacan'."


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Phenomenology or Deconstruction?: The Question of Ontology in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean-Luc Nancy

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Phenomenology or Deconstruction?: The Question of Ontology in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean-Luc Nancy

Edinburgh University Press | ISBN: 0748637591 | 2009 | PDF | 304 pages | 1,08 mb

Phenomenology or Deconstruction? contains new readings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Jacques Derrida's engagement with phenomenological themes generates a new understanding of "being" and "presence" that exposes significant blindspots in traditional readings of both phenomenology and deconstruction. In reproducing neither a stock phenomenological reaction to deconstruction nor the routine deconstructive reading of phenomenology, Christopher Watkin provides a fresh assessment of the future of phenomenology along with a new reading of the deconstructive legacy.

Through careful studies of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and Nancy, Watkin shows how a phenomenological tradition much wider and richer than Husserl or Heidegger takes into account Derrida's critique of ontology while maintaining a commitment to the ontological. This new reading fundamentally recasts the relation between deconstruction and phenomenology and marks the first sustained discussion of the possibilities and problems for future "deconstructive phenomenology."


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Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought

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Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought

Routledge | 2002 | ISBN 0415938430 | 256 Pages | PDF OCR | 31 MB

Here, some of the most influential thinkers in theological and philosophical ethics develop new directions for research in contemporary moral thought. Taking as their starting point Ricoeur's recent work on moral anthropology, the contributors set a vital agenda for future conversations about ethics and just community.



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The Just

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The Just - Paul Ricoeur

Chicago | 2003 | ISBN 0226713407 | 192 Pages | PDF OCR | 4.2 MB

The essays in this book contain some of Paul Ricoeur's most fascinating ruminations on the nature of justice and the law. His thoughts ranging across a number of topics and engaging the work of thinkers both classical and contemporary, Ricoeur offers a series of important reflections on the juridical and the philosophical concepts of right and the space between moral theory and politics.


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Paul Ricoeur (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

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Paul Ricoeur (Routledge Critical Thinkers) - Karl Simms

Routledge | 200 Pages | 2002-12-30 | ISBN-10: 0415236363 | PDF | 1 Mb

Paul Ricoeur is one of the most wide-ranging of thinkers alive today. Although nominally a philosopher, his work also cuts across the subjects of literary criticism, psychoanalysis, history, religion legal studies and politics. Its implications are even broader. Ricoeur works out a 'theory of reading' or hermeneutics, which extends far beyond the reading of literary works to build into a theory for the reading of 'life'. This volume looks at the contexts for Ricoeur's thought, his key ideas and their impact. These key ideas include: good and evil' hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, metaphor, narrative, ethics, politics and justice


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On Translation (Thinking in Action)

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On Translation (Thinking in Action) - Paul Ricoeur

Routledge (2006-10) | ISBN: 0415357780 | 160 Pages | 5.6 MB PDF

Paul Ricoeur is described in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy as "one of the leading French philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century." This little book collects his thoughts on the subject of translation, and is vintage Ricoeur. He uses the topic to reflect on some of the perennial problems posed by translation, including the transmission of early Greek philosophy to the Renaissance, interpretations of the Bible amongst diverse religious traditions (no small issue at the moment), and the way translations of the same text reflect important cultural dynamics at work across different periods, leading to quite different meanings springing from the same book. There are also discussions of some contemporary figures, such as Umberto Eco, and the whole underscored by Ricoeur's point that there is a paradox at the hear of translation: impossible in theory but effective in practice.


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The Course of Recognition

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The Course of Recognition - Paul Ricoeur

Harvard UP | 2005 | ISBN 0674019253 | 311 Pages | PDF OCR | 3.6 MB

Recognition, though it figures profoundly in our understanding of objects and persons, identity and ideas, has never before been the subject of a single, sustained philosophical inquiry. This work, by one of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished voices, pursues recognition through its various philosophical guises and meanings--and, through the "course of recognition," seeks to develop nothing less than a proper hermeneutics of mutual recognition.

Originally delivered as lectures at the Institute for the Human Sciences at Vienna, the essays collected here consider recognition in three of its forms. The first chapter, focusing on knowledge of objects, points to the role of recognition in modern epistemology; the second, concerned with what might be called the recognition of responsibility, traces the understanding of agency and moral responsibility from the ancients up to the present day; and the third takes up the problem of recognition and identity, which extends from Hegel's discussion of the struggle for recognition through contemporary arguments about identity and multiculturalism. Throughout, Paul Ricoeur probes the significance of our capacity to recognize people and objects, and of self-recognition and self-identity in relation to the gift of mutual recognition. Drawing inspiration from such literary texts as The Odyssey and Oedipus at Colonus, and engaging some of the classic writings of the Continental philosophical tradition--by Kant, Hobbes, Hegel, Augustine, Locke, and Bergson--The Course of Recognition ranges over vast expanses of time and subject matter and in the process suggests a number of highly insightful ways of thinking through the major questions of modern philosophy.


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Critique and Conviction

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Critique and Conviction - Paul Ricoeur

Columbia University Press | 1998 | ISBN 023110734X | 224 Pages | PDF OCR | 13.7 MB

Criticism and Conviction offers a rare opportunity to share personally in the intellectual life and journey of the eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Internationally known for his influential works in hermeneutics, theology, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics, until now, Ricoeur has been conspicuously silent on the subject of himself. In this book -- a conversation about his life and work with François Azouvi and Marc de Launay -- Ricoeur reflects on a variety of philosophical, social, religious, and cultural topics, from the paradoxes of political power to the relationship between life and art, and life and death.In the first of eight conversations, Ricoeur traces the trajectory of his life, recounting the origins of his convictions and the development of his intellect against the tragic events of the twentieth century.


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The Sweet Hereafter

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LANGUAGE: 1 Audio Tracks (English)
SUBTITLE: Spanish Srt. in file

Director:Atom Egoyan
Writers:Atom Egoyan
Country: Canada
Year: 1997
Runtime: 110 min.
Genre: Drama

Cast:Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Earl Pastko, Tom McCamus, Caerthan Banks, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson, Maury Chaykin, Stephanie Morgenstern

The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian film written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It is adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russell Banks. The Sweet Hereafter won three awards at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival: the FIPRESCI Prize, the Grand Prize of the Jury, and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It won Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Actor (Holm), and three other prizes at the Genie Awards for Canadian Films. It was also nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 70th Academy Awards.

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A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way to the sweet hereafter.

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 29 wins & 20 nominations


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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism - Gill Plain, Susan Sellers

Cambridge University Press | 2007-10-08 | ISBN: 0521852552 | 364 pages | PDF | 1,35 MB

Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the middle ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the middle ages onwards, and analyses the work of pioneers such as Wollstonecraft and Woolf. The second section examines the rise of second wave feminism and maps its interventions across the twentieth century. A final section examines the impact of postmodernism on feminist thought and practice. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feminist literary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues and authors in the field. It is essential reading for all students and scholars of feminist writing and literary criticism.


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After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance

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After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance - Gavin Butt (Ed.)

Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 0631232834 | edition 2004 | PDF | 232 pages | 1.24 mb

It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism's energies in the wake of a 'theatrical turn' in recent visual arts practice, and the emergence of a 'performative' arts writing over the past decade or so.

Issues addressed include the 'performing' of art's histories; the consequences for criticism of embracing boredom, distraction and other 'queer' forms of (in)attention; and the importance of exploring writerly process in responding to aesthetic experience. Bringing together newly commissioned work from the fields of art history, performance studies, and visual culture with the writings of contemporary artists, After Criticism provides a set of experimental essays which demonstrate how 'the critical' might live on as a vital and efficacious force within contemporary culture.

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Criticism as Answerable Style

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Criticism as Answerable Style - Geoffrey Hartman

Routledge | 1990 | ISBN: 0415020948 | Pages: 192 | PDF | 1.02 MB

Though he resists easy formulation and cannot be identified with any theoretical position, Geoffrey Hartman has been developing a sophisticated philosophical criticism that at once parallels and differs from New Criticism, hermeneutics, reader-response, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, and may best be described as reader-responsibility.

G. Douglas Atkins considers the entire range of Hartman's work, from his seminal studies of Wordsworth to his provocative arguments for a "negative hermeneutics" and a "creative criticism," from his continuing efforts to reinvigorate literary history to his "easy pieces" on Alfred Hitchcock, Ross MacDonald, and others.

By elucidating key ideas, this book provides a valuable introduction to a major critical voice of the twentieth century, who, more than any other writer, has called into question our assumptions about the distinction between commentary and imaginative literature.


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Modern European Criticism and Theory

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Modern European Criticism and Theory - Julian Wolfrey

Edinburgh University Press | 2006 | ISBN 074862449X | PDF | 449 pages | 18.8 MB

Modern European Criticism and Theory offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European 'theory'. The book focuses primarily on the thought of major voices in poetics, philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, as well as in literary and cultural studies from the Enlightenment to the present day. Examining how conceptions of subjectivity, identity and gender have been questioned, the more than 50 essays written by acknowledged experts in their fields critically assess the ways in which we think, see, and act in the world, as well as the ways in which we represent such thought psychologically, politically, and culturally. A further reading list accompanies each chapter. Key Features * Breadth of coverage from Descartes and Spinoza to Derrida, Lyotard and Zizek; from Phenomenology to French Feminisms and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism. * Focus on the history of modern criticism. * Accessibly written. * Theoretical debates are set in full historical, cultural and philosophical contexts.


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The Arts and Sciences of Criticism

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The Arts and Sciences of Criticism - David Fuller,Patricia Waugh

Oxford University | PDF | 280 pages | ISBN:0198186398 | 1.35 Mb

This collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear on a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen as vehicles. Discussion ranges widely with contributions from leading academics as well as those outside the literary academy.


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Magical Criticism: The Recourse of Savage Philosophy

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Magical Criticism: The Recourse of Savage Philosophy - Christopher Bracken

University Of Chicago Press 2009 | 256 Pages | ISBN 0226069915 | PDF | 1.69 MB

During the Enlightenment, Western scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. Scholars labeled inquiries into ideality, such as animism and soul-migration, “savage philosophy,” a clear indicator of the racism motivating the distinction between the real and the ideal. In their view, the savage philosopher mistakes connections between signs for connections between real objects and believes that discourse can have physical effects—in other words, they believe in magic.

Christopher Bracken’s Magical Criticism brings the unacknowledged history of this racialization to light and shows how, even as we have rejected ethnocentric notions of “the savage,” they remain active today in everything from attacks on postmodernism to Native American land disputes. Here Bracken reveals that many of the most influential Western thinkers dabbled in savage philosophy, from Marx, Nietzsche, and Proust, to Freud, C. S. Peirce, and Walter Benjamin. For Bracken, this recourse to savage philosophy presents an opportunity to reclaim a magical criticism that can explain the very real effects created by the discourse of historians, anthropologists, philosophers, the media, and governments.


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The Point Is To Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

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The Point Is To Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present - Jerome McGann

University Alabama Press | 2007-04-06 | ISBN: 0817315519 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB

In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in contemporary culture, where values of politics and morality are judged prima facie more important than aesthetic values. McGann argues for the fundamental relevance of the aesthetic dimension and the contemporary relevance of cultural works of the past.

McGann moves through several broad categories in his examination of contemporary poetry, including the ways in which poetry must be abstract, change, and give pleasure. The author draws on sources ranging from the poetry of Bruce Andrews and Robert Duncan to Looney Tunes cartoons. The experimental move in contemporary poetry, McGann contends, is an emergency signal for readers and critics as much as it is for writers and poets, a signal that calls us to rethink the aesthetics of criticism.

The interpretation of literary works has been dominated by enlightenment models - the expository essay and monograph - for almost two hundred years. With the emergence of new media, especially digital culture, the limitations of those models have grown increasingly apparent. "The Point Is To Change It" explores alternative critical methods and provides a powerful call to reinvent our modes of investigation in order to escape the limitations of our inherited academic models. The goal of this process is to widen existing cracks or create new ones because, as McGann points out via the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, "That's how the light gets in."


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Bracher, Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism

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Bracher, Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism

Cornell UP | 1993 | ISBN 0801427843 | 204 Pages | PDF OCR | 5 MB

Convinced that cultural criticism need not merely be an academic exercise but can help improve people?s lives, Mark Bracher proposes a method of cultural criticism which is based on the principles of psychoanalytic treatment and which aims to alter subjectivity and behavior



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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (2nd Ed)

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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, 2nd Edition - Harold Bloom

Oxford University Press | 1997-04-10 | ISBN: 0195112210 | 208 pages | PDF | 5.7 MB

Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between tradition and the individual artist. His argument that all literary texts are a strong misreading of thise that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of deconstruction and poststructuralist literary theory. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.

Written in a moving personal style, anchored by concrete examples, and memorable quotes, this second edition of Bloom's classic work maintains that the anxiety of influence cannot be evaded--neither by poets nor by responsible readers and critics. A new Introduction, centering upon Shakespeare and Marlowe, explains the genesis of Bloom's thinking, and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years Here, Bloom asserts that the anxiety of influence comes out of a complex act of strong misreading, a creative interpretation he calls "poetic misprision." The influence-anxiety does not su much concern the forerunner but rather is an anxiety achieved in and by the story, novel, play, poem, or essay. In other words, without Keats's reading of Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, we could not have Keats's odes and sonnets and his two Hyperions.

This new edition is certain to find a responsive audience among the new generation of scholars, students, and layreaders interested in the Bloom canon.


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The Post-Colonial Studies Reader

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The Post-Colonial Studies Reader - Bill Ashcroft

Routledge | 1995 | ISBN 0415096219 | PDF | 545 pages | 10.2 MB

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics, featuring nearly ninety of the discipline's most widely read works.The Reader's 90 extracts are designed to introduce the major issues and debates in the field of post-colonial literary studies. This field itself, however, has become so varied that no collection of readings could encompass every voice which is now giving itself the name "post-colonial." The editors, in order to avoid a volume which is simply a critical canon, have selected works representing arguments with which they do not necessarily agree, but rather which above all stimulate discussion, thought and further exploration.

Post-colonial "theory" has occurred in all societies into which the imperial force of Europe has intruded, though not always in the official form of theoretical text. Like the description of any other field the term has come to mean many things, but this volume hinges on one incontestable phenomenon: the "historical fact"of colonialism, and the palpable consequences to which this phenomenon gave rise. The topic involves talk about experience of various kinds: migration, slavery, suppression, resistance, representation, difference, race, gender, place, and reaction to the European influence, and about the fundamental experiences of speaking and writing by which all these come into being. In compiling this reader, the editors have sought to stimulate people to ask: "How might a genuinely post-colonial literary enterprise proceed?"

The fourteen sections include: Issues and Debates; Universality and Difference; Textual Representation and Resistance; Postmodernism and Post-Colonialism; Nationalism; Hybridity; Ethnicity and Indigenity; Feminism and Post-Colonialism; Language; The Body and Performance; History; Place; Education; and Production and Consumption.

Contributors include many of the leading post-colonial theorists and critics--such as Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Homi Bhabba, Derek Walcott, Edward Said, and Trinh T. Minh-ha--in addition to a number of the discourse's newer voices. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader will prove an authoritative compilation, representing an invaluable contribution to the study of post-colonial theory and criticism.


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The Postcolonial Biblical Reader

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The Postcolonial Biblical Reader

Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 140513349X | edition 2006 | PDF | 324 pages | 1,74 mb

This wide-ranging reader provides an extensive survey of the interaction between postcolonial criticism and biblical studies.

The readings illustrate the relevance of postcolonial criticism to biblical studies. They examine how various past empires such as those of Persia and Rome affected the narratives of the Bible, how different biblical writers handled the challenges of empire, and show how such modern empires as those of Britain, Russia, and America have affected interpretation. They also include illuminating examples of the practical application of postcolonial criticism to biblical texts, and explore major preoccupations of post colonialism, such as migration, representation, and the politics of translation.

The volume will be essential reading for those interested in the contemporary debate surrounding the Bible and critical theory, and for those interested in empire.


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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art - Richard Eldridge

Cambridge University Press | ISBN 052180521X | 2003 | PDF | 292 pages | 1.3 MB

Richard Eldridge's compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art draws on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as literary theory and art criticism. Eldridge explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and argues that works of art present their subject matter as creations of enduring cognitive, moral, and social interest. His accessible study will be of interest to students and anyone interested in the relationship between thought and art.



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Language and History in Theodore W. Adorno's Notes to Literature

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Language and History in Theodore W. Adorno's Notes to Literature

Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415978378 | edition 2006 | PDF | 296 pages | 1,04 mb

This is the first book-length study of Adorno's philosophical criticism of literature contained in his four-volume Notes to Literature. Rather than relying exclusively on aesthetic concepts inherited from his predecessors in the Western tradition (such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard), Adorno's essays on literature seek to transgress and transcend the conceptual limitations of aesthetic discourse by appropriating a non-conceptual, metaphorical vocabulary borrowed from the literary texts he investigates. Adorno's interpretations of literature mobilize an alternative subterranean, primarily essayistic and fragmentary discourse on language and history that eludes the categories that tend to predominate his thinking in his major work, Aesthetic Theory.


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The Invention of "Folk Music" and "Art Music": Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner

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The Invention of "Folk Music" and "Art Music": Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner - Matthew Gelbart

Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521863031 | 2007 | PDF | 304 pages | 2,38 mb

We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music today. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines.

Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. He examines how cultural nationalism served as the earliest impetus in classifying music by origins, and how the notions of folk music and art music followed - in conjunction with changing conceptions of nature, and changing ideas about human creativity. Through tracing the history of these musical categories, the book confronts our assumptions about different kinds of music today.


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The Reading of Theoretical Texts

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The Reading of Theoretical Texts - Peter Ekegren

Routledge | ISBN 9780415207720 | 2003 | PDF | 222 pages | 1.3 MB

Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists, while accepting that observation is theory laden have tended to take the meaning of texts as given and to explain differences of interpretation either in terms of ignorance or bias. In this important contribution to methodological debate, Peter Ekegren uses developments within literary criticism, philosophy and critical theory to reclaim this study for the social sciences and to illuminate the ways in which different readings of a single text are created and defended.



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Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

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Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century - Chris Murray

Routledge | 1 edition (December 27, 2002) | ISBN:233 Pages | PDF | 0415243017 | 1 MB

A unique and authoritative guide written by an international panel of experts on art, art theory and art criticism. Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century traces the evolution of art from Ancient Greece to the end of the Victorian era. Arranged chronologically, the more than forty entries analyze the key ideas of key philosophers, historians, art historians, art critics, artist and social scientists, including Plato, Aquinas, Alberti, Michelangelo, de Piles, Burke, Kant, Marx, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Ruskin, Wolfflin and Riegl. Each entry includes a critical essay, a short biography and a bibliography listing both primary and secondary texts.


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Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies

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Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies - Roland Boer

Society of Biblical Literature | ISBN: 1589832760 | edition 2007 | CHM | 248 pages | 1,43 mb

This volume offers a meeting between genre theory in biblical studies and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, who continues to be immensely influential in literary criticism. Here Bakhtin comes face to face with a central area of biblical studies: the question of genre. The essays range from general discussions of genre through the reading of specific biblical texts to an engagement with Toni Morrison and the Bible. The contributors are John Anderson, Roland Boer, Martin J. Buss, Judy Fentress-Williams, Christopher Fuller, Barbara Green, Bula Maddison, Carleen Mandolfo, Christine Mitchell, Carol A. Newsom, David M. Valeta, and Michael Vines.


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Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction

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Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction

UCL Press | ISBN: 1857281276 | edition 1994 | PDF | 208 pages | 1 mb

This and concise introduction to cultural theory aims to bring a sense of historical and theoretical scale to cultural studies in Britain. As a comprehensive and accessible guide to the often tricky manoeuverings of social and cultural theory in recent years, it should serve as a guide to students studying the many disciplines now informed by cultural theory.

"Contemporary Cultural Theory" identifies six alternative paradigms in cultural studies - utilitarianism, culturalism, marxism, structuralism, feminism and postmodernism - and explores the socio-discursive contexts within which each of these have developed. Andrew Milner is the author of "John Milton and the English Revolution", and co-editor of "Postmodern Conditions" and "Discourse and Difference". This book is intended for undergraduate courses in cultural studies, sociology, media and communication and literary criticism.


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Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television

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Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television - Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, Jay Ruby

Oxford University Press | 400 Pages | 1991-02-28 | ISBN-10: 0195067800 | PDF | 20 Mb

This pathbreaking collection of thirteen original essays examines the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film, photography, and television. Image makers--photographers and filmmakers--are coming under increasing criticism for presenting images of people that are considered intrusive and embarrassing to the subject. Portraying subjects in a "false light," appropriating their images, and failing to secure "informed consent" are all practices that intensify the debate between advocates of the right to privacy and the public's right to know. Discussing these questions from a variety of perspectives, the authors here explore such issues as informed consent, the "right" of individuals and minority groups to be represented fairly and accurately, the right of individuals to profit from their own image, and the peculiar moral obligations of minorities who image themselves and the producers of autobiographical documentaries.

The book includes a series of provocative case studies on: the documentaries of Frederick Wiseman, particularly Titicut Follies; British documentaries of the 1930s; the libel suit of General Westmoreland against CBS News; the film Witness and its portrayal of the Amish; the film The Gods Must be Crazy and its portrayal of the San people of southern Africa; and the treatment of Arabs and gays on television. The first book to explore the moral issues peculiar to the production of visual images, Image Ethics will interest a wide range of general readers and students and specialists in film and television production, photography, communications, media, and the social sciences.


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The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

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The Routledge Dance Studies Reader - A. Carter

Routledge | 316 Pages | 1998-06-26 | ISBN-10: 0415164478 | PDF | 1 Mb

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz, South Asian dance and Black dance.

In an enlightening introduction, Alexandra Carter traces the development of dance studies internationally and surveys current debates about the methods and methodologies appropriate to the study of dance. Each section begins with an editorial preface, and features contributions by choreographers, performers, critics and scholars of dance and related disciplinary fields. The sections cover choreography, performance, writing criticism, the place of dance in history and society and analysis of specific dance works. An invaluable introduction to the key dance texts, The Routledge Dance Studies Reader is for anyone interested in enhancing their experience of dance.


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Jane Austen on Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Adaptations

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Jane Austen on Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Adaptations - Sue Parrill

McFarland & Company | 2002 | ISBN: 0786413492 | 229 pages | siPDF | 6.5 MB

Jane Austen’s career as a novelist began in 1811 with the publication of Sense and Sensibility. Her work was finally adapted for the big screen with the 1940 filming of Pride and Prejudice (very successful at the box office). No other film adaptation of an Austen novel was made for theatrical release until 1995. Amazingly, during 1995 and 1996, six film and television adaptations appeared, first Clueless, then Persuasion, followed by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, the Miramax Emma, and the Meridian/A&E Emma.

This book traces the history of film and television adaptations (nearly 30 to date) of Jane Austen manuscripts, compares the adaptations to the manuscripts, compares the way different adaptations treat the novels, and analyzes the adaptations as examples of cinematic art. The first of seven chapters explains why the novels of Jane Austen have become a popular source of film and television adaptations.

The following six chapters each cover one of Austen’s novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Each chapter begins with a summary of the main events of the novel. Then a history of the adaptations is presented followed by an analysis of the unique qualities of each adaptation, a comparison of these adaptations to each other and to the novels on which they are based, and a reflection of relevant film and literary criticism as it applies to the adaptations.


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Is Art History Global?

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Is Art History Global? (The Art Seminar) - James Elkin

Routledge | December 13, 2006 | English | Page: 128 | ISBN : 0415977851 | PDF | 6 MB

Globalism is arguably the most pressing issue facing art criticism and art history. As the number of art history departments continues to grow, there is a danger art history will become a uniform practice around the world and may soon settle to a global standard.

Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. The topics are political, economic, philosophic, linguistic, and personal. Should Chinese art be discussed using Western methods such as psychoanalysis or deconstruction? Is it best to use words like "space" and "time" to describe non-Western art, or should historians try to employ the words used in different cultures? How is art history taught without books, slides, or artworks? What relevance does the Western narrative of art have for art history students in Argentina, South Africa, Indonesia, or Tibet?

Is Art History Global? is essential reading on one of the thorniest questions facing the discipline today. This is the third volume in "The Art Seminar," James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies.


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Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art

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Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art

Allworth Press | Pages: 208 | 2003-12-01 | ISBN: 1581153139 | PDF | 2 MB

This interdisciplinary study of contemporary art and critical theory seeks to find new universal meaning in today's diversified, atomised art discourse. The book is written against the backdrop of the deconstructivist movements of the 1960s, when universalist notions such as race, gender, class and subjectivity were shoved aside to make room for a more diverse, inclusive culture.

Forty years into the age of difference, the author claims that with the artistic products of this new culture having reached maturity, it is safe to revise the "grand narratives" of modern times - and necessary: if we want to understand notions such as power and subjectivity in today's art, we cannot ignore the "grand narratives" of the modern age. Tracing examples of this new philosophy in contemporary painting, sculpture, film and digital arts, the author shows how gender can be the key to combine the old "universals" with today's culture of difference.

The book is not a return to modernist thought but an attempt to find new philosophical ground that combines the benefits of an interdisciplinary viewpoint with the advantages of specialization and diversification. The focus is on the British modernist sculptors - Barbara Hepworth, Lyne Lapointe and other contemporary female artists - who are juxtaposed with modernists ranging from Matisse and Picasso to Mallarme and Manet. The theoretical framework derives from work by Rosi Braidotti, Elizabeth Grosz and Luce Irigaray, as well as the author's recent research work titled "Differential Aesthetics". Artists, art critics, and art students with a knack for interdisciplinary study and an interest in a progressive philosophy should find much food for thought in this forward-thinking, visionary volume.

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Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art

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Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art - Julian Stallabrass

Oxford University Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0192801651 | Pages: 240 | PDF | 7.22 MB

The art world is bound to the economy, writes Julian Stallabrass, "as tightly as Ahab to the white whale." In Art Incorporated, Stallabrass offers a provocative look at contemporary art and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the last twenty years, illuminating the connections between money, politics, and art.

Stallabrass notes that the spectacular crash of 1989 profoundly changed the character of contemporary art, shattering the art-world's self-importance and producing a reaction against art that engaged with theory and politics, in favor of art that set out to awe, entertain, and be sold. He describes the growth of biennials and other art events across the globe in the 1990s, the construction of new museums of contemporary art, and the expansion of many museums already in existence. These activities, Stallabrass writes, have become steadily more commercial, as museums establish alliances with corporations, bring their products closer to commercial culture, and move from modeling themselves on libraries to becoming more like theme parks.

In connection with this, he offers an insightful look at installation art, which is often seen as an art that firmly resists buying and selling, pointing out that installations appeal to museums precisely because a work of art that can only be seen on a particular site ensures that viewers have to go there. Shedding light on everything from the greatly increased visibility for women artists, to the intense competition between art and television, to the conservative backlash against notorious works, Art Incorporated provides a frank and penetrating view of the contemporary art world.


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The Third Hand: Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism

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The Third Hand: Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism - Charles Green

University of Minnesota Press (2001-02) |Pages: 200 | PDF | ISBN 0816637121 | 22 mb

A major reevaluation of collaboration's role in art since 1968.

The lone artist is a worn cliché of art history but one that still defines how we think about the production of art. Since the 1960s, however, a number of artists have challenged this image by embarking on long-term collaborations that dramatically altered the terms of artistic identity. In The Third Hand, Charles Green offers a sustained critical examination of collaboration in international contemporary art, tracing its origins from the evolution of conceptual art in the 1960s into such stylistic labels as Earth Art, Systems Art, Body Art, and Performance Art. During this critical period, artists around the world began testing the limits of what art could be, how it might be produced, and who the artist is. Collaboration emerged as a prime way to reframe these questions.

Green looks at three distinct types of collaboration: the highly bureaucratic identities created by Joseph Kosuth, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden and other members of Art & Language in the late 1960s; the close-knit relationships based on marriage or lifetime partnership as practiced by the Boyle Family-Anne and Patrick Poirier, Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison; and couples-like Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gilbert & George, or Marina Abramovic and Ulay-who developed third identities, effacing the individual artists almost entirely. These collaborations, Green contends, resulted in new and, at times, extreme authorial models that continue to inform current thinking about artistic identity and to illuminate the origins of postmodern art, suggesting, in the process, a new genealogy for art in the twenty-first century.

Charles Green is an artist and a lecturer in the School of Art History and Theory at the University of New South Wales. He is the Australian correspondent for Artforum magazine and author of Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-94 (1995).


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Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets

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Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets - J. D. McClatchy

University of California Press | 1989-12-21 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 0520069714 | PDF (OCR from html) | 1.9 MB

What are poets looking at, looking for, when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened language, vivid with nuance and color and force.


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Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

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Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction - Noel Carroll

Routledge | 1999-11 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0415159636 | PDF | 1 MB

Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics. It aims to introduce the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this field of inquiry. These include the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art, neo-Wittgensteinism, the Institutional Theory of Art, as well as historical approaches to the nature of art. Throughout the book, abstract philosophical theories are illustrated by examples of both traditional and contemporary art, thereby enriching the readers understanding of art theory as well as the appreciation of art.

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