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The Textual Life of Airports
Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist
Reading the Culture of Flight Christopher Schaberg
Miles Leeson
“For most of us, time spent in airports is filled with inconvenience, discomfort, and often explicit insult to our psychological well-being. Reading Christopher Schaberg’s The Textual Life of Airports is guaranteed to dispel your tedium and inspire you to join along with him in a rich foray of cultural inquiries about these colossi and the complex narratives they convey. From the canon of airport reading to aesthetic images of baggage, from the resonances of 9/11 to the semiotic absence and presence of birds in the terminals, Schaberg approaches airports with a keen critical energy that will make you welcome your next four-hour layover in Atlanta or your missed connection in Newark as an opportunity to explore his fascinating insights. I have sometimes felt that all the good topics in cultural studies have been exhausted; this book restores my faith that fertile ground remains. I savored every paragraph.” Randy Malamud, Professor of English, Georgia State University, USA
UK October 2011 • US December 2011 PB 9781441110220 • £19.99 / $34.95 Individual eBook 9781441127631 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441179043 • £65.00 / $120.00
Lacan and the Destiny of Literature Desire, Jouissance and the Sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery Ehsan Azari UK November 2008 • US January 2009 216 pages PB 9781441149305 • £24.99 / $44.95 HB 9781847063793 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441174178 • £24.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441139016 • £75.00 / $140.00
Christopher Schaberg is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Literature and Critical Theory, Department of English, Loyola University New Orleans, USA. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 192 pages • 45 b/w illus. PB 9781441189684 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781441175212 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441135957 • £14.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781441135278 • £55.00 / $100.00
Narrative Care Biopolitics and the Novel Arne De Boever The twenty-first century has been marked by a series of crises in which life’s vulnerability was brutally exposed. As a result, care has moved to the forefront of ethical and political debates. Narrative Care shows that care is also an aesthetic issue: through closereadings of J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions, and Tom McCarthy’s Remainder, it investigates how literary representations of care are shaped by and have helped shape discussions about the welfare state and pastoral care; about the concentration camps and bare life; about Sadism and the realist aesthetic; and about how the rise of the novel as a genre is related to all of the above. Arne De Boever is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of the MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA. UK May 2013 • US March 2013 176 pages HB 9781441149992 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441128775 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441144720 • £55.00 / $100.00
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