Author: Theodora Domotor
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Foltz, Jonathan, The Novel after Film: Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy
Jonathan Foltz, The Novel after Film: Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy (New York: Oxford University Press 2018) 289 pp. £46.49 Hb. ISBN: 9780190676490 This book offers a fresh approach to the simultaneous and interlinked analysis of literature and film by reassessing the contributions of such major authors as Virginia Woolf, H. D., Aldous Huxley…
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Luck, Chad, The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession
Chad Luck, The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession (New York: Fordham University Press 2014) 298 pp. $17.99 EPUB, $ 27.00 Pb,, $95.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780823263004 In this book the author touches upon a wealth of interconnected concepts including possession, space and anxiety in relation to the nature of ownership…
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Nekrašas, Evaldas, The Positive Mind: Its Development and Impact on Modernity and Postmodernity
Evaldas Nekrašas, The Positive Mind: Its Development and Impact on Modernity and Postmodernity (Budapest-New York: Central European University Press 2016) 382 pp. £41.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-963-386-081-6 In this insightful book, the author sets out to re-evaluate what society often regards as a passé theory in philosophy. The Positive Mind: Its Development and Impact on Modernity…
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Marcus, Laura, Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema
Laura Marcus, Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (New York: Cambridge University Press 2014) 263 pp. £19.99 Pb, £52.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107622951 This book provides a comprehensive and readable introduction to Modernism by covering the literary, artistic and scientific achievements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examining Modernism as a movement emerging around…
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Guenther, Katja, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines
Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines (Chicago: Chicago University Press 2015) 310 pp. $35.00 PDF, Hb. ISBN: 9780226288208 Investigating the relationship between psychoanalysis and neurology, Localization and its Discontents takes the reader back to the nineteenth-century German-speaking world by providing a historical approach to the link between…
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Phegley, Jennifer et. al. (eds), Transatlantic Sensations
Jennifer Phegley, John Cyril Barton and Kristin N. Huston, eds, pref by David S Reynolds, Transatlantic Sensations (Oxford: Routledge 2012) 302 pp. Hb, £95.00. ISBN: 9781409427155 This book sets out to examine narrative and artistic representations of sensation. Choosing and using diverse approaches to the subject matter, this collection of essays demonstrates the strongly interdependent relationship between…
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Pietsch, B. M., Dispensational Modernism
B. M. Pietsch, Dispensational Modernism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) 262 pp. Hb £47.99. ISBN: 978-0-19-024408-8 This book explores the origins of dispensationalism within early American fundamentalism, calling attention to scientific rhetoric and engineering methods utilised by dispensationalists for interpreting the Bible and understanding the nature of time. The author offers a thought-provoking re-evaluation…
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Narain, Mona and Karen Gevirtz (eds), Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820
Mona Narain and Karen Gevirtz,(eds.), Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014). 239 pp. £95.95 Hb, PDF, ePUB. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1508-0 This book covers the period of British history and literature between 1660 and 1820 when borders and boundaries including gendered geographies of power began to be reconfigured due to structural transformations in…
