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Scholarly books and
monographs in religious studies, the humanities and the
social sciences
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An introduction to
Flaubert that discusses the entire body of his work,
beginning by discussing the early novels in
sequence, and following by isolating and identifying
in them the themes of the novelist’s later works.
The mature works are then treated at length — not
discretely or in chronological order, but as a whole
— to create a proper context in which reading can
take place.
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Steven Connor’s
Samuel Beckett, Repetition, Theory and Text, is the
first book to have presented an extended
poststructuralist reading of Beckett’s work. Drawing
on the theories of Jacques Derrida and Gilles
Deleuze to show the centrality of repetition in
Beckett’s work, Connor explored the paradoxical
forms and effects of repetition across a wide range
of Beckett’s texts, from the early fiction through
to the most recent drama.
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A Wrinkle in History
argues, through a broad engagement with a variety of
historical periods and literary texts, for the
inextricability of history and theory when writing
about literature.
The application
paradigm of literary studies, in which one spices up
a text with fashionable theory, represents the
bankrupt extreme of theoretical tendencies, while
the denigration of theory in the name of historical
accuracy at times covers for a simple and lamentable
lack of anything interesting to say.
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In this
reissue of a highly praised intellectual history, which
traces historical and anti-historical themes from Nietzsche,
Croce, and Heidegger to Gadamer, Foucault, Derrida, and
Rorty, David Roberts pinpoints tendencies toward
overreaction in the postmodern turn, and shows how
historians can deepen their self-understanding and play a
more central role in a postmodern culture …. Included is a new preface that responds to
critics and places the work within the changing framework of
debate over postmodernism and history.
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Much of the controversy that
surrounds the writings of Jacques Derrida is the result of
the transformation of his thought in North American
literature departments in the sixties and seventies into a
method for reading texts called ‘deconstruction’. In
Views and Interviews: On 'Deconstruction' in America,
Gasché takes issue with this interpretation of Derrida's
thought by both his followers and detractors.
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In
Betrayal of Spirit: Jew-hatred, the
Holocaust, and Christianity
Thomas Idinopulos draws on a
unique combination of personal experience and theological
reflection to examine how anti-Semitism invaded, occupied,
and dominated the human mind throughout history. His
insightful theological interpretation of the history of
Jew-hatred in Christendom provides a way of understanding
how anti-Judaism differs from anti-Semitism, and reveals how
anti-Semitism created the possibility of, but was not a
direct cause of, the Holocaust.
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