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What emerges is a non-prescriptive ethics of another order that offers a resistance to power and simplistic conceptualizations of truth, an emancipation from the \"must-be\" that implies an ever-to-be-renewed renegotiation—a responsability that has much to do with the act of critique or interpretation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362494746897,"sku":"CIN0804757909G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007592399121,"sku":"NIN9780804757904","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0804757909.jpg?v=1757415257"},{"product_id":"acts-of-narrative-book-carol-jacobs-9780804746502","title":"Acts of Narrative","description":"This outstanding collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism, and history from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, ranging from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory, to narratology, technology, economics, and aesthetics. 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