Announcing new and forthcoming academic titles from
LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA BOOKS
www.litterariapragensia.com
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AVANT-POST
The Avant-Garde Under "post-" Conditions
ed. Louis Armand
ISBN 80-7308-123-7 (paperback). 300pp.
Published: September 2006.
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/avant_post.html
Avant-Post engages the question of whether or not avant-garded
practice remains viable under the prevailing conditions of a whole
series of "post-" ideologies, from Post-Modernism and Post-
Structuralism, to Post-Historicism, Post-Humanism and Post-Ideology
itself.
Contributors include Johanna Drucker, Michael S. Begnal, Lisa Jarnot,
Ann Vickery, Christian Bök, Robert Archambeau, Mairead Byrne, R.M.
Berry, Trey Strecker, Keston Sutherland, Rachel Blau DuPlessis,
Robert Sheppard, Bonita Rhoads, Vadim Erent, Laurent Milesi, Esther
Milne ...
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TIME REFIGURED
Myths, Foundation Texts and Imagined Communities
eds. Martin Prochazka & Ondrej Pilny
ISBN 80-7308-102-4 (paperback). 383pp.
Publication date: November 2005
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/time_refigured.html
Focused on the myths and mythologies of European cultural history,
this volume seeks to address the present and past functions of
foundation texts in the evolution of the European idea.
One of the specific objectives of this volume is to reconsider, in
the context of ongoing European expansion and integration, the
functionalist approach of Benedict Anderson, according to whom
"imagined communities ... are to be distinguished, not by their
falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined."
The common denominator of each of the essays contained in this volume
is the problem of the discontinuity of time in relation to tradition,
cultural and individual memory, as well as in relation to historical
and literary narratives.
Time becomes "the locus of its own reflexivity: it is self-
temporalized. It undergoes endless reiteration within itself, and
needs a semantics which sets valid accents for specific moments."
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GIACOMO JOYCE
Envoys of the Other
eds. Clare Wallace & Louis Armand
New Revised and Expanded edition
ISBN 80-239-5046-0 (paperback). 440pp.
Published: June 2006.
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/giacomo_joyce.html
Of all James Joyce's extant works, Giacomo Joyce is the one which has
least received what is arguably its due. This book, the first
collection of essays devoted entirely to Joyce's last published work,
is an attempt to place the critical reception of this text within the
larger framework of current Joyce studies. Bringing together the work
of some of Joyce's major commentators, Envoys of the Other is a
timely volume of significant worth to any scholar or student of James
Joyce and twentieth-century literary modernism.
Contributors include Fritz Senn, Vicki Mahaffey, Murray McArthur,
Gayatri Spivak, Michel Delville, Kevin Nolan, Joseph Valente, Clare
Wallace, John McCourt, Sheldon Brivic, M.E. Roughley, Renzo Crivelli,
Richard Brown, Louis Armand, Helene Cixous, Fritz Senn
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MIND FACTORY
ed. Louis Armand
ISBN 80-7308-104-0. (paperback) 340pp.
Published: December 2005
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/mind_factory.html
Mind Factory explores a mosaic of ideas and practices currently
surrounding the question of cognition, mind, literacy, autopoiesis
and tele-technologies, and how these define a contemporary "human
condition." Essays included in this volume address a range of
subjects from the Abu Ghraib torture photographs, brain implants and
behavioural control, to the possibility of quantum minds and machine
intelligence, to the technicity of faith, sintonic desire,
ideoplastic materialisation and psychic geographies.
Contributors include Slavoj Zizek, Ben Goertzel, Ivan Havel, Louis
Armand, Donald F. Theall, Arthur Bradley, Simon Critchley & Tom
McCarthy, Darren Tofts, McKenzie Wark, Gregory L. Ulmer, Andrew
Mitchell, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, Zoe Beloff, Jane Lewty
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