Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john brenkman

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  • STRAIGHT MALE MODERN
    JOHN BRENKMAN
    Major psychoanalytic thinkers from Freud to Ricoeur to Lacan considered the Oedipus complex the key to explaining the human psyche and human sexuality, even culture itself. But, in fact, they were merely theorizing males. In this title, originally published in 1993, the author reassesses the benchmark concepts of Freudian thought, building on feminist criticisms of psychoanalys...

    $1,000.00

  • JAMES THE MINIMALIST
    JOHN BRENKMAN
    An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.   Henry James’s last completed novels—The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl—are among the greatest and most demanding achievements of modern fiction. The stories they tell are perverse: characters are compelling even at their most cruel, their actions often ca...

    $467.69

  • MOOD AND TROPE
    JOHN BRENKMAN
    In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect because it resides there not in speaking about feelings, but in the way of speaking itself.   Engaging a quartet of modern philosoph...

    $559.12