The Space of Literature
The Space of Literature

Author: Maurice Blanchot

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2015-11

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0803278772

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Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers--among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international literary consciousness. The Space of Literature, first published in France in 1955, is central to the development of Blanchot's thought. In it he reflects on literature and the unique demand it makes upon our attention. Thus he explores the process of reading as well as the nature of artistic creativity, all the while considering the relation of the literary work to time, to history, and to death. This book consists not so much in the application of a critical method or the demonstration of a theory of literature as in a patiently deliberate meditation upon the literary experience, informed most notably by studies of Mallarmé, Kafka, Rilke, and Hölderlin. Blanchot's discussions of those writers are among the finest in any language.

Between State and Synagogue
Between State and Synagogue

Author: Guy Ben-Porat

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-25

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 110700344X

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Guy Ben-Porat explores the evolving tensions between the liberal component in Israeli society and the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy.

Israel
Israel

Author: Anita Shapira

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1611686180

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A history of Israel in the context of the modern Jewish experience and the history of the Middle East

A Laboratory of Terror
A Laboratory of Terror

Author: Rúben Serém

Publisher: Lse Studies in Spanish History

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845198817

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From coup de main to coup d'état -- Constructing the myth: General Queipo de Llano and the conspiracy in Seville -- Deconstructing the myth: the legend of General Queipo de Llano and his soldaditos -- Institutionalising terror in rebel Spain: the pacification of the working-class districts of Seville -- The forging of a kleptocratic state: economic repression in nationalist Seville -- Conclusion

The Precarious
The Precarious

Author: M. Catherine de Zegher

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780819563248

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Two works in one. this is an exquisite art book offering the first comprehensive treatment of Vicuna's work in English.

Shakespeare's Perjured Eye
Shakespeare's Perjured Eye

Author: Joel Fineman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0520313844

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Fineman argues that in the sonnets Shakespeare developed an unprecedented poetic persona, one that subsequently became the governing model of all literary subjectivity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.