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Irony
Claire ColebrookIn this handy volume, Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present.
Irony in the Work of Philosophy
Claire ColebrookIn this compelling inquiry, Claire Colebrook first takes up all the majorøfigures in post-Cartesian philosophy on the subject of irony: Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche.
Agamben
Claire ColebrookThis beautifully written book provides a systematic, engaging overview of Agamben's writings on theology, aesthetics, political theory, and sovereignty.
Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed
Claire ColebrookConcentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material.
Gender
Claire ColebrookIs gender nothing more than an ideology, or does it have its basis in sexual difference? This invaluable introductory guide offers a clear overview of the concept, and problem, of gender.
Gilles Deleuze
Claire ColebrookWith his emphasis on creation, the future and enhancement of life, along with his crusade against 'common sense,' Deleuze offers some of the most liberating, exhilarating ideas in twentieth-century thought introduced here.
Understanding Deleuze
Claire ColebrookThis accessible introduction to the comprehensive work of the influential French thinker Gilles Deleuze explains key Deleuzian concepts and illustrates the political, stylistic, and theoretical complexities of each.
Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital
Claire ColebrookDrawing on recent theories of digital media and on the materiality of words and images, this fascinating study makes three original claims about the work of William Blake.
Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic ...
Ruth O'BrienAbigail Bray and Claire Colebrook,for instance, argue that it is“precisely this strict division betweenrepresentation and materiality that... sustains aCartesian dualism in feministtheory.”76 Thecritique of radical constructionismand essentialism ...
New Literary Histories: New Historicism and Contemporary ...
Claire ColebrookThis text considers these questions and aims to show that the problem of historicism, and new historicism, is more than just a problem of knowledge-validity and that new historicism is not so much an answer to the difficulties of history ...
The Agamben Dictionary
PreviewAlex Murray, Jessica Whyte. 212 BIBLIOGRAPHY “The Agamben Effect”, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 107, no. 1, 2008. Ed. Alison Ross. Features articles by Andrew Benjamin, Claire Colebrook, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Penelope Deutscher, ...
Postmodernism, music and cultural theory
David Bennett... and proposing new ways of understanding the technological, economic and cultural conditions of contemporary music-making. i Contributors: David Bennett, Gay Brevley, Jon Cairns, Claire Colebrook, Steven Connor, Andrew Wright Hurley, ...
Milton, Evil and Literary History
Claire ColebrookMilton, Evil and Literary History addresses the ways in which we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession. Goodness has always been aligned with a life of ...
Nurses: Claire and Jan
Bette PaulAnd yet Ruth Watts was obviously all too ready to lose hers. Claire tried to work out how she felt about that. “It's not our decision,” Sister Lawrence had said. “Our job is to nurse her through a traumatic experience.” Claire sighed. Well, that's ...
Hattie B, Magical Vet: The Pony's Hoof
Claire Taylor-SmithWith this twinkle of an idea they met the writer Claire Baker and together they created the Kingdom of Bellua - and the pen name Claire Taylor-Smith.
Swimming Lessons
Claire FullerClaire Fuller ... House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com First published 2017 Copyright © Claire Fuller, 2017 The moral right of the author has been asserted ISBN: 9780241252161.
Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education: Teachers ...
Judith DuncanClaire McLachlan Dr. Claire McLachlan is a professor and the leader ofthe Early Years Programme atMassey University Institute ofEducation, NewZealand. Claire's interestsinliteracy stem from her doctoral research, completed inNew Zealand ...
Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances
Robert Fitzroy FosterFor allegory see especially Claire Connolly's introduction 'The Politics of Love in The Wild Irish Girl' in Sydney Owenson, The Wild Irish Girl, Claire Connolly and Stephen Copley (eds.) (London, 2000), p. xxx. 4. My thanks to Claire Connolly for ...
A Perfect Victim: A Claire Marshall Novel
Patricia DusenburyClaire Marshall’s world crumbled when her husband died in a fire.
Blood on the Beach
Sarah N. HarveyI hadn't met Claire yet, but according to the INTRO brochure she had a PhD in psychology: Doctor Claire Addison. She and another counselor were already on the island, waiting for us. There was an older guy on the boat too, standing next to ...
The Sisters: A gripping psychological suspense
Claire Douglas’Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train’ Marie Claire From the author of Sunday Times bestseller, Local Girl Missing One lied. One died.
Courting Claire
Linda O'brienSwept off her feet by the handsome Tyler McCane, Claire Cavanaugh is horrified to learn that her new love's marriage proposal is more business than romance, but she may possess the natural charm and beauty to melt his calculating heart.
Charlotte Brontë: A Life
Claire HarmanIt is a uniquely intimate and complex insight into one of Britain's best loved writers. This is the literary biography of the year; if you loved Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens, this event is not to be missed.
Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
Claire HarmanDrawing on correspondence unavailable to previous biographers, Claire Harman establishes Bront as the heroine of her own story, one as dramatic and triumphant as one of her own novels. From the Hardcover edition.
Claire Denis
Judith MayneWidely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat.
Weekends Required: A Danvers Novel
Sydney LandonClaire Walters has worked for Jason Danvers as his assistant for three years, but he’s never appreciated her as a woman—until the day she jumps out of a cake at his friend’s bachelor party.… To support her ailing mother, Claire is ...
Claire Denis
Martine BeugnetSince her remarkable debut "Chocolat", Claire Denis has been acclaimed as one of the most original filmmakers in France.
Television
Claire Millikin"In this remarkable collection, Claire Millikin has made her own persistent music of a fully felt, fully experienced life in which 'what's broken never heals completely.
Last Seen Alive
Claire DouglasYOU WILL LOVE CLAIRE DOUGLAS' Woman & Home 'Thrillingly tense and twisty, a great read' B A Paris, the bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors _______________ She can run Libby Hall needs to hide, to escape from everything for a while.
Alleinsein ist schwer, Claire
Yvonne PrinzKurz vor den Sommerferien: Die fast 13-jährige Claire entscheidet sich schweren Herzens dafür, sich von ihrer ausgedachten Freundin Elsa zu trennen.
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