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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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,...

DVDRip | Avi | 640 x 284 | DivX 3 Low-Motion | 688 MB 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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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....