Description: Brute Meaning by David Trotter Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description The essays collected in this volume trace the evolution over a period of thirty years of a critical approach resembling what would now be described as the new materialism. These essays insist that literature and film are never more vital than in their enactment of the brute meaning Maurice Merleau-Ponty once found in the work of Paul Cézanne: the crude sense we make, as creatures exercising an always already dispersed and relational agency, of the world we inhabit. This is a materialist criticism attentive at once to the forms brute meaning has taken in fiction and film, and to the history of its constitution by or in species, class, racial, and sexual difference.The essays in Part I concern renderings of embodied experience in fiction by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Radclyffe Hall, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and others; those in Part II, renderings of space in films by D.W. Griffith, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, Alfred Hitchcock, and others. When the topic demands it, they engage directly with discipline-shaping initiatives from the New Historicism of the 1980s through postcolonial studies to more recent reflections on the posthuman condition. Part III pairs old and new essays, one framing a materialist criticism for the 1980s, the other for 2020. The polemical thrust of Brute Meaning is that any materialism worthy of the name must remain resolutely secular in emphasis and tone.David Trotter is an emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written widely about nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, and about aspects of the history and theory of media. Details ISBN 1781889201 ISBN-13 9781781889206 Title Brute Meaning Author David Trotter Format Paperback Year 2023 Pages 348 Publisher Legenda GE_Item_ID:141476898; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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Book Title: Brute Meaning : Essays in Materialist Criticism from Dickens to Hitchcock
Number of Pages: 348 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Film / History & Criticism, Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Genre: Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 19.6 Oz
Author: David Trotter
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.7 in
Book Series: Selected Essays Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
