Our faculty members are among the leading voices in their fields. Their ground-breaking research and creative works have taken many forms, including novels, works of literary criticism, edited anthologies, public lectures, documentary films, and poems. True to the spirit of interdisciplinary, creative, and politically engaged inquiry that has long been central to York University’s mission, these publications have earned plaudits from audiences around the world. Learn more about some of our recent publications by browsing the book covers below.
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Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction
Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction brings cinema studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around the concept of negative life, a sundering of human and nonhuman relations. Engaging a philosophical and cinematic corpus that rejects the pastoralism of “entanglement” or “enmeshment,” Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay counter ecocritical pieties and cut a new path for theory. They examine films by Julian Pölsler, Kelly Reichardt, Lee Isaac Chung, Mahesh Mathai, Paul Schrader, and others that exemplify the existential contradictions currently intensifying amid the sixth mass extinction. Each case study testifies formally and thematically to negative life as a structural condition of thought and film. Together, the cases reveal the unlivable dimension of life and art, where form, desire, and nonbelonging tarry with the future-oriented promise of ecostudies—where all that lives connects. Negative Life militates against this promise, showing that faith in connection is a dead end.
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David Goldstein
2016
49th Shelf Most Anticipated Fall 2016 Poetry Preview Selection Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is ...
Agnes Whifield
2015
The way in which theoretical discourses travel from one linguistic and cultural context to another, and the transformations they undergo ...
Marcus Boon
2015
Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar ...
Lesley Higgins
2015
This volume, the latest in Oxford's edition of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, presents Hopkins at his most private ...
B.W. Powe
2014
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious ...
Julia Creet
2014
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the ...
David Goldstein
2013
Laws of Rest explores a new form, the prose sonnet—an intricate chamber of text enclosed within four quatrains of right-justified prose. ...
Robert Zacharias
2013
Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, much Canadian Mennonite literature has ...
David Goldstein
2013
David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Renaissance England from the perspective of communal eating. Rather than focus ...
Robert Zacharias
2012
Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that ...
Natalie Neill
2011
The French Revolution is over, and Mr. Dob, a tradesman made rich by the Revolution, has decided to start a ...
Karen Valihora
2010
The word is all over Austen’s novels: what ought to be done, what one ought to say, how one ought ...
Elizabeth Sabiston
2008
Emily Dickinson's poem, 'This is my letter to the World/ That never wrote to Me --', opens the Introduction, which ...
Brett Zimmerman
2005
Critics have often charged Edgar Allan Poe with sloppy writing. Using stylistics and classical rhetorical theory, Brett Zimmerman demonstrates that ...