Producing presences branching out from Gumbrecht's work
By: editors, Victor K. Mendes João Cezar de Castro Rocha ; afterword, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
Contributors: Mendes, Victor K.; Rocha, João Cezar de Castro.
Series: Adamastor book series
Publisher: University of Masschusetts, Dartmouth
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dartmouth, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich; Aesthetics; Experience; Criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Do theories ever travel? / Victor K. Mendes, João Cezar de Castro Rocha; title: Theory and its intensity; title: The materiality of presence : notes on Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's theoretical project / Pierpaolo antonello; title: Lost in focused intensity : Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's hymn to sports / Horst Bredekamp; title: The "soft terror" of deconstruction / Rene Girard; title: In praise of focused intensity / Stephen Greenblatt; title: Points of style / Robert Pogue Harrison; title: Critical reading after Gumbrecht / Victor Mendes; title: Materialities of communication : a parallel campaign from the comrade-in-arms / Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer; title: What's the matter with presence? / Joan Ramon Resina; title: Match point : is sports history possible? / João Cezar de Castro Rocha; title: On production of presence / Richard Rorty; title: Gumbrecht's "presence" between Musil and Heidegger / Kathrin Rosenfield; title: Interpretation in a package / Miguel Tamen; title: Theory and its locations; title: In-12 versus in-folio / Abel Barros Baptista; title: Here lies nothing : ghosts of empire in Portuguese India / K. David Jackson; title: Another look at identities / Jose Luis Jobim; title: Allophone presences, in the 'here-and-now' of the humanities / Christopher Larkosh; title: Repress the desire for eternity, or, stop making sense of history! / Luis Madureira; title: On how to compact a text, or, L Rochefoucauld in the Tropics / Pedro Meira Monteiro; title: The senses of in-materiality / Evando Nascimento; title: "Portuguese actually : the 'special relationship' meets the 'oldest alliance'" / Hilary Owen; title: From oral transmission to written text : the construction of emerging literary systems / Francisco Salinas Portugal; title: Driftings from Gumbrecht and Lyotard : the concepts of "figural" and "presence" / Marilia Librandi Rocha; title: Teaching desire : the aleatory in ethics and the aesthetic experience / Phillip Rothwell.