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In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms. Do our experiences correlate to our material elements? Do visions of a common physical ground imply a common purpose? Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the relationship between human experience and its physical ground circulate among critical theorists and philosophers of science, this book turns to poets who have long asked what our shared materiality can tell us about our prospects for new models of our material selves.

American poetry --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Materialism in literature. --- Poetics. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Poetry --- History and criticism. --- Technique

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"The essay became popular in Europe during the 18th century. From early "edifying weeklies" and to the journals published around 1800, the essay served an emergent bourgeois audience as a means of critical reflection. For the first time, this study applies textual analysis to show that essay writers during the Enlightenment conceived of the essay as a technology of the self. It traces the forms of subjectivity developed through essayistic writing"--

European essays --- Enlightenment --- Subjectivity in literature. --- 18th century --- History and criticism. --- Enlightenment. --- European essays. --- History and criticism --- 1700-1799. --- Europe.

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In Wallace Stevens among Others, David Jarraway explores the extraordinary achievement of Wallace Stevens, but in contexts that are not usually thought about in connection with Stevens's work - gay literature, contemporary fiction, Hollywood film, and avant-garde architecture, among others. By viewing the poet among these "other" contexts, Jarraway considers the nature of self-reflection and pays special attention to the discrediting of self-presence as the principle of identity in American writing - a theme that reflects American authors’ abiding concern for subjectivities that engage the world from spaces of distance and difference. By returning to the work of Stevens, Jarraway seeks to refurbish this preoccupation by linking it to the literary theory of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, whose work applies to American writers from Melville and Whitman to Fitzgerald and Cummings. Jarraway forges the link between Deleuze and Stevens by drawing out the female subjectivity found in each writer’s work to rethink the more static masculinist premises of being. Informed by a deep knowledge of and fluency with the work of Stevens and Deleuze, Jarraway uses these writers as a means of entry into American literature and culture, Wallace Stevens among Others is a sophisticated analysis that will open new directions for future scholarship.

Subjectivity in literature. --- Dissenters in literature. --- Stevens, Wallace, --- Deleuze, Gilles. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Stevens, Wallace --- Criticism and interpretation --- Dissenters in literature --- Deleuze, Gilles

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In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or belonging, and pressures of abjection. Other elements of identity include race and disease. The characters in the analyzed works encounter both mutual dependence and abhorrence, which complicate their experiences in space and time. This analysis demonstrates that acceptance and belonging are difficult to attain, particularly in the fraught power dynamics in these works. This book includes discussions of works by Frank Wedekind, Robert Musil, Kutluğ Ataman, and Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss.

German literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Abjection in literature. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature. --- Motion pictures --- Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures. --- Gender identity in motion pictures. --- Abjection in motion pictures. --- Subjectivity in motion pictures. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- History and criticism --- History