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Books by Professor Frances Ferguson






Solitude and the Sublime
The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation
by Professor Frances Ferguson
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-13972-5, ISBN: 1-138-13972-6

"As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime located two opposed accounts of its place and use. Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism."






Solitude and the Sublime
The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation
by Professor Frances Ferguson
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1992 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-90549-7, ISBN: 0-415-90549-4

"At the close of the eighteenth century, the aesthetics of the sublime were shaped by two conflicting views: the empiricism of Edmund Burke and the formalist idealism of Immanuel Kant. Today, theoretical work struggles once again with this philosophical issue. In modern debates over the nature of literary language and of human agency, the sublime has been a bone of contention for critics of every stripe, from Adorno and Eagleton to Derri ..."






Pornography, the Theory(1st Edition)
What Utilitarianism Did to Action
by Frances Ferguson
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24321-4, ISBN: 0-226-24321-4






The Wordsworthian Enlightenment(1st Edition)
Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading
by Professor Frances Ferguson, Helen Regueiro Elam, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Helen Rugueiro Elam, Frances Ferguson
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2005 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8187-9, ISBN: 0-8018-8187-0

"Over the past four decades, Geoffrey Hartman's voice has been one of the most important and profound in contemporary literary theory. Most noted for his scholarship on Wordsworth and Romanticism, Hartman developed throughout his work an original conception of the relationship between literary and critical writing that is still considered a deeply significant contribution to the field. In The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, the most import ..."






Pornography, the Theory(1st Edition)
What Utilitarianism Did to Action
by Frances Ferguson
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24320-7, ISBN: 0-226-24320-6






Mum
(Paperback)
by Professor Frances Ferguson
Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2011 by Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-4575-0356-6, ISBN: 1-4575-0356-5

"This is a story for everyone with aging parents. With love and always with humor, author, Frances Ferguson tells her own heartwarming story about her mother and herself, as they embark on the trip of a lifetime."






Public Intellectuals(Updated)
An Endangered Species? (Rights & Responsibilities)
by Alyssa Bowditch, Amitai Etzioni, Contributor-Lewis Coser, Contributor-Theodore Draper, Contributor-Merle Kling, Contributor-Patrick Saveau, Contributor-Alan Wolfe, Contributor-Tevi Troy, Contributor-Paul Berman, Contributor-Ellen Cushman, Contributor-Joseph Epstein, Contributor-Edward Said, Contributor-Frances Ferguson, Contributor-Russell Jacoby, Contributor-Irving Howe, Howard Young, University Ellen Cushman, Daniel C. Brouwer, Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sidney I. Dobrin, Mr Joseph Epstein, Professor Frances Ferguson, Professor Paul Berman, Professor Russell Jacoby, Irving Howe Comp, Professor Edward W. Said, Richard A.Posner, Catherine R. Squires, J. Hillis Miller, C. Wright Mills, Elshtain/Etzioni/Jac
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4254-9, ISBN: 0-7425-4254-8

"Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies, this edited volume demonstrates the unique importance of public intellectuals and probes the timely question of how their voices can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic and political climates. At a time when many argue th ..."






Reading for Form
(Mlq : A Journal of Literary History Volume 61, Number 1, March 2000)
by Susan J. Wolfson, Marshall Brown, Professor Frances Ferguson, University Catherine Gallagher, Ronald Levao, Heather Dubrow, J. Paulhunter, Garrett Stewart, Virgil Nemoianu, Ellen Rooney, Rob Kaufman, Franco Moretti
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6474-0, ISBN: 0-8223-6474-3

"In response to trends in criticism in recent decades, this special issue of Modern Language Quarterly contains new essays by prominent literary critics reasserts and refreshes the crucial importance of studying form for a productive understanding of complex issues that have frequently been oversimplified. It includes Heather Dubrow, answering New Historicist accounts of country house ideology, J. Paul Hunter reclaiming attention to eigh ..."






German Dis/Continuities
A Special Issue of SAQ (96:4) (South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol 96, No 4)
by Martin Morris, Professor Frances Ferguson, Contributor-Frances Ferguson, John Cunningham, Jason Peters
Paperback, 225 Pages, Published 1998 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6455-9, ISBN: 0-8223-6455-7

"The twentieth-century history of few countries has been so profoundly marked by breaks, discontinuities, and ruptures as has Germany's--the radical breaks between the Wilhelmine empire, the Weimar Republic, and the National Socialist period; the end of history in 1945 and the dual reconstruction from Year Zero, followed by the reunification of post-1989 German. This special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly focuses on the many dimension ..."






Missing Person LARGE PRINT EDITION, UNABRIDGED, COMPLETE
by Professor Frances Ferguson
Hardcover, 560 Pages, Published 1995 by Ulverscroft Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-0-7089-3241-4, ISBN: 0-7089-3241-X






For Those Who Come After(1st Edition)
A Study of Native American Autobiography
by Arnold Krupat, Professor Frances Ferguson
Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-06606-9, ISBN: 0-520-06606-5

"Thus each chapter of McWhorter's book begins with a headnote indicating the circumstances of the narration to follow, dating ... tones of voice, gestures, or “ style” (as when McWhorter comments that Yellow Wolf's narration of the Nez Perces' final battle ... 54) Or, early in chapter 5, “The Fight with Captain Randall's Volunteers,” we have McWhorter speaking in his own ... I interposed, “General Howard states that some of Looking G ..."






Public Intellectuals
An Endangered Species? (Rights & Responsibilities)
by Alyssa Bowditch, Lewis Coser, Ellen Cushman, Theodore Draper, Joseph Epstein, Merle Kling, Edward Said, Patrick Saveau, Frances Ferguson, Irving Howe, Amitai Etzioni, Paul Berman, Russell Jacoby, Howard Young, Contributor-Alan Wolfe, Professor Paul Berman, Professor Russell Jacoby, Daniel C. Brouwer, Sidney I. Dobrin, J. Hillis Miller, C. Wright Mills, Richard A.Posner, Catherine R. Squires, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Contributor-Tevi Troy, Elshtain/Etzioni/Jac
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4255-6, ISBN: 0-7425-4255-6

"Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies, this edited volume demonstrates the unique importance of public intellectuals and probes the timely question of how their voices can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic and political climates. At a time when many argue th ..."

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