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  • DARK LENS
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    DARK LENS
    FRANÇOISE MELTZER
    Esteemed scholar Françoise Meltzer examines images of war ruins in Nazi Germany and the role that images play in how we construct memories of war.   The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of ruins force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy and raise uncomfortable questi...

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  • SEEING DOUBLE
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    SEEING DOUBLE
    FRANÇOISE MELTZER
    The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. In doing so, it...

    $1,083.46

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  • SALOME AND THE DANCE OF WRITING
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    SALOME AND THE DANCE OF WRITING
    FRANÇOISE MELTZER
    How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait—the painted portrait, framed—appears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual portrait becomes a telling measure of literature's views on itself, on the politic...

    $768.86

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  • FOR FEAR OF THE FIRE
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    FOR FEAR OF THE FIRE
    FRANÇOISE MELTZER
    Why are contemporary secular theorists so frequently drawn to saints, martyrs, and questions of religion? Why has Joan of Arc fascinated some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century? In a book that faces crucial issues in both critical and feminist inquiry, Françoise Meltzer uses the story of Joan as a guide for reading the postmodern nostalgia for a body that i...

    $698.95

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