Literary theory Books
The University of Chicago Press Beautiful Democracy
Book SynopsisExplores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, and magic lantern exhibitions. This work suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose.Trade Review"Beautiful Democracy is an important book, reestablishing aesthetics as a vital issue both within the immediate field of American literature and far beyond it. It engages a long and complexly developed conversation on the politics of form, using rich archival material, ranging from college curricula, black print culture, and the history of film." - Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Drama Play Game English Festive Culture in the
Book SynopsisThis text demonstrates that the theatrum repudiated by medieval clerics was not theatre as we understand the term today. The author contends that critics have misrepresented Western stage history because they have assumed that theatrum designates a place where drama is performed.
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The University of Chicago Press Guys Like Us Citing Masculinity in Cold War
Book SynopsisThis work considers how writers of the 1950s and 1960s struggled to craft literature that countered the politics of consensus and anticommunist hysteria in America, and how notions of masculinity figured in their effort.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Victorian Sexual Dissidence
Book SynopsisLate-20th-century critical work on the late-Victorian period has furnished a vocabulary for discussing gender and sexuality. Terms include homo/hetero and patriarchal/feminist. This text exploits that framework to show how Victorians imagined difference in ways that continue to challenge.
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The University of Chicago Press Signs and Cities Black Literary Postmodernism
Book SynopsisDubey argues that for African American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy.
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The University of Chicago Press Stoicism and Emotion
Book SynopsisFerguson argues that the emergence of pornography as a literary phenomenon in Western culture can be tied to the development of utilitarian philosophy. He contends that considering the usefulness of something rather than its individual essence diverts our attention from individual identities.
£27.85
The University of Chicago Press Irony in Action Anthropology Practice and the
Book SynopsisThis collection is based on the idea that irony now extends beyond its classification as a figure of speech and is increasingly recognized as one of the major modes of human experience. The essays cover the limits to irony's liberating qualities as well as irony's more positive dimensions.
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The University of Chicago Press Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism
Book SynopsisStanley Cavell's work is distinctive not only in its importance to philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range. Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom Cavell offers major readings of Thoreau, Emerson, Shakespeare, and others. In this first book-length study of Cavell's writings, Michael Fischer examines Cavell's relevance to the controversies surrounding poststructuralist literary theory, particularly works by Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man, and Stanley Fish. Throughout his study, Fischer focuses on skepticism, a central concern of Cavell's multifaceted work. Cavell, following J. L. Austin and Wittgenstein, does not refute the radical epistemological questioning of Descartes, Hume, and others, but rather characterizes skepticism as a significant human possibility or temptation. As presented by Fischer, Cavell's accounts of both external-world and other-minds skept
£26.00
University of Chicago Press The Lost Second Book of Aristotles Poetics
Book SynopsisBased on Richard Janko's philological reconstruction of the epitome, the author mounts a philosophical argument that places the statements of this summary of the Aristotelian text in their true context. It also includes explanations of Aristotle's ideas about catharsis, comedy, and a summary account of the different types of poetry.
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The University of Chicago Press The Poets Work 29 Poets on the Origins and
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The University of Chicago Press The Degradation of American History
Book SynopsisAmerican historical writing has traditionally been a form of moral reflection. However this study argues that, in the disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its redemptive potential, and adopted the methodology of the social sciences. It describes the reasons for this change.
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The University of Chicago Press The Book of the Heart
Book SynopsisIn this text, Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the late 20th century. He focuses on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a book of the heart modelled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Book of the Heart
Book SynopsisIn this text, Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the late 20th century. He focuses on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a "book of the heart" modelled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art.
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The University of Chicago Press Readings at the Edge of Literature
Book SynopsisMyra Jehlen's aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable to say more, which is also, for Jehlen, the threshold of the real.Trade Review"Readings at the Edge of Literature explores the contradictions that emerge whenever the ideal called America tries to identify itself in our literature. This collection is alert and alive, full of intellectual energy, stunning perceptions, and analytical brilliance." - Richard Poirier, author of Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Division of Literature Or the University in
Book SynopsisHow has literature become established as a separate domain within the university? Demonstrating that these questions of division are intricately related, Peggy Kamuf explores in this text, the space that the university devotes to the study of literature.
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The University of Chicago Press Criticism and Social Change
Book SynopsisCriticism and Social Change speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia's provocative analysis demands serious reflection by American radicals.Frederic Jameson A profound meditation on relations obtaining among writing, political consciousness, and criticismthis last taken in its most general sense. It is written with passion and grace; it is shot through with learning, intimate knowledge of the critical tradition, and a deep (though by no means uncritical) understanding of the work (as well as social significance) of Kenneth Burke.Hayden White
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The University of Chicago Press Critical Terms for Literary Study Second Edition
Book SynopsisThis expanded edition features six new chapters, each of which provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions that the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies that the term permits.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Introduction/Thomas McLaughlin I: Literature as Writing 1: Representation/W. J. T. Mitchell 2: Structure/John Carlos Rowe 3: Writing/Barbara Johnson 4: Discourse/Paul A. Bove 5: Narrative/J. Hillis Miller 6: Figurative Language/Thomas McLaughlin 7: Performance/Henry Sayre 8: Author/Donald E. Pease II: Interpretation 9: Interpretation/Steven Mailloux 10: Intention/Annabel Patterson 11: Unconscious/Francoise Meltzer 12: Determinacy/Indeterminacy/Gerald Graff 13: Value/Evaluation/Barbara Herrnstein Smith 14: Influence/Louis A. Renza 15: Rhetoric/Stanley Fish III: Literature, Culture, Politics 16: Culture/Stephen Greenblatt 17: Canon/John Guillory 18: Literary History/Lee Patterson 19: Gender/Myra Jehlen 20: Race/Kwame Anthony Appiah 21: Ethnicity/Werner Sollors 22: Ideology/James H. Kavanagh 23: Popular Culture/John Fiske 24: Diversity/Louis Menand 25: Imperialism/Nationalism/Seamus Deane 26: Desire/Judith Butler 27: Ethics/Geoffrey Galt Harpham 28: Class/Daniel T. O'Hara In Place of an Afterword--Someone Reading/Frank Lentricchia References List of Contributors Index
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The University of Chicago Press Theorizing Myth Narrative Ideology and
Book SynopsisIn "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others.Table of ContentsPart 1 Mythos among the Greeks: the prehistory of mythos and logos; from Homer through Plato. Part 2 A modern history of myth: the history of myth from the Renaissance to World War II; Sir William's myth of origins; Nietzsche's "Blond Beast" - a genealogy; Dumezil's German war God. Part 3 New directions: from World War II to the present (and possibly a little beyond); Plutarch's Siby; Gautrek's saga and the gift fox; once again, the Bovine's Lament; the Pandits and Mr Jones; epilogue - scholarship as myth.
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The University of Chicago Press The Freudian Robot
Book SynopsisThe identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? This title offers a study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious.Trade Review"An interesting and significant book. The Freudian Robot is part of a new trend in the humanities that is reinventing comparative studies in light of digital media." - Eugene Thacker, Georgia Institute of Technology"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Scholars Art Literary Studies in a Managed
Book SynopsisFor Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In this collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports.Trade Review"Jerome McGann is an internationally influential critic, with a long career not only of scholarly labor but of setting the agenda for critical adventures, theoretical reflection, and editorial precision, low-tech and hi-tech. The engaging array of informal, essayistic conversations in The Scholar's Art holds interest for everyone, from newcomers to those who have long been following and learning from his work, with illumination and gratitude." - Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University"
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University of Chicago Press Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
Book SynopsisThis text explores the perceived discrepancy between outward appearance and inward disposition which, it argues, influenced the work of many English Renaissance dramatists and poets. The author examines various connections between religious, legal, sexual and theatrical ideas of inward truth.
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The University of Chicago Press Salome and the Dance of Writing
Book SynopsisHow does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portraitthe painted portrait, framedappears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual portrait becomes a telling measure of literature's views on itself, on the politics of representation, and on the power of writing. Meltzer'sreadings of textual portraitsin the Gospel writers and Huysmans,Virgil and Stendhal, the Old Testament and Apuleius, Hawthorne and Poe, Kafka and Rousseau, Walter Scott and Mme de Lafayettereveal an interplay of control and subversion: writing attempts to veil the visual and to erase the sensual in favor of meaning, while portraiture, with its claims to bringing the natural object to life, resists and eludes such control. Meltzer shows how this tension is indicative of a politics of repression and subversion intrinsic to the very act of representation. Throughout, she raises and illuminates fascinating issues: about the relation of flattery to caricature, the nature of the uncanny, the relation ofrepresentation to memory and history, the narcissistic character of representation, and the interdependency of representation and power. Writing, thinking, speaking, dreaming, actingthe extent to which these are all controlled by representation must, Meltzer concludes, become consciously unconscious. In the textualportrait, she locates the moment when this essential process is both revealed and repressed.
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The University of Chicago Press The Surreptitious Speech Presence Africaine and
Book SynopsisDistinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion and critical reading of its context, characteristics, and significance.
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The University of Chicago Press Paper Minds Literature and the Ecology of
Book SynopsisA study of the knowledge we can glean about perception and consciousness through the study of literature.Trade Review"In this series of elegantly connected essays, Jonathan Kramnick excavates a kinetic, haptic, and immersive alternative to contemplative aesthetics in the eighteenth century and follows its ramifications into contemporary debates about theory of mind. How does free indirect discourse offer its own way of working through the 'hard problem' of consciousness? What can apostrophe teach us about the supposed divide between perceiving the world and acting in it? Moving deftly from locodescriptive poetry and common sense philosophy to novels about cognitive science, these astute and sometimes polemical writings broaden our understanding of what an aesthetics and ethics of everyday dwelling might be and of how literary forms provide unique insight on theories of perception."--Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago "Paper Minds is beautifully written in elegant, witty prose with maximum clarity. It makes original contributions to at least three fields: cognitive literary criticism, eighteenth-century British studies, and the study of contemporary literature. This is a book to read and re-read carefully, and to feature prominently in any discussion concerning the contributions and merits of a cognitive approach to literature."--Alan Richardson, Boston College, author of The Neural Sublime "The essays assembled here are distinguished by a supple, eloquent prose and by their humane tone. They offer an eye-opening picture of how, from the eighteenth century onward, a particular set of literary forms has made it possible to set down 'perceptual or emotional or cognitive experience on the page.' Paper Minds is a landmark book both for scholars of eighteenth-century literary studies and for scholars from other periods working at the intersection between literary analysis and cognitive science."--Deidre Shauna Lynch, Harvard University "Paper Minds places literary study proudly in the company of other university disciplines, both in theory and in practice. Kramnick's philosophic concerns and his precision about cognition drive brilliant readings that range from all but forgotten landscape poems, to old novels as obscure as The Blazing World or as familiar as Robinson Crusoe, to prize-winning novelists of the present century. He probes the mystery of conscious experience with revelatory lucidity. His aesthetics of craft and the everyday--if perhaps tinged with urban nostalgia--precisely carve out an alternative to the classic aesthetics of distance."--John Bender, Stanford University
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The University of Chicago Press Mathematics and Humor
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The University of Chicago Press Making Sense of Literature
Book SynopsisIn this commonsense approach to the fundamental issues involved in understanding and evaluating literary works, John Reichert examines the method and structure of rational critical argument and its relationship to the nature of reading. With clarity and vigor, he shows how we can cut through competing critical languages to sort right readings from wrong ones, better from worse. His incisive analyses are augmented by illustrations from distinguished critics writing about major literary works. Reichert considers criticism broadly as the imparting of one's understanding of a poem or play or novel to another reader. When the rhetorical function of critical language is recognized, seemingly distinct approaches to literature can be seen as different though often compatible means to a single end. He contends that the critic's job is not to report a personal response but to describe how a readerany readerought to respond to a particular work. This necessitates postulating the author's intentio
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The University of Chicago Press Altered Reading Levinas and Literature
Book SynopsisExamining Levinas's texts and readings by Derrida, Blanchot, and Bataille, this text shows how the thread of the literary leads to the internal tensions of Levinas's ethical discourse. It provides a critical account of Levinas's early and mature philosophy as well as later transitional essays.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Courtesy Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisIn this, his first book, Alan Shapiro vividly recreates some of the more memorable and poignant moments from his Jewish-American childhood, and in the process reveals his compassionate interest in the forgotten, the alienated, and the infirm. The Courtesy is an intelligent, reflective examination of the poet's own psychological history. The Courtesy is really an admirable book: it shows up the unreality of a lot of the other poetry one reads, dealing honestly and with that perversity which is a sign of thoughfulness, with the slight but heavy matter of our everyday defeats.--Michael Hoffman, Poetry Nation Review
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The University of Chicago Press Academic Postmodern the Rule of Literature A
Book SynopsisThis critique of the postmodern turn discusses the distinctive aspects of postmodern scholarship: the pervasiveness of the literary and the flight from grand theory to local knowledge. Defining features of postmodern thought are also discussed here such as storytelling and localism.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Poetic Closure
Book SynopsisExplores the question: How do poems end? This work examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and integrity of a poem.Trade Review"Ranging from Elizabethan lyric through free and syllabic verse and concrete poetry, Poetic Closure is a learned, witty, and richly illustrated study of the behavior of poems.... It can be read, enjoyed, studied by people who like reading poetry, including - I would suspect - poets." - Richard M. Elman, New York Times Book Review"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Largesse Paper Parti Pris Reunion Des Musees
Book SynopsisIn his exhibition and accompanying essay for the Taking Sides programme at the Louvre, Jean Starobinski explores the theme of largesse in its broadest sense.
£47.50
The University of Chicago Press Selected Writings of an EighteenthCentury
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together Caminer's letters, poems and journalistic writings, providing an intellectual biography of this remarkable woman, as well as a glimpse into her intimate correspondence.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Lost Second Book of Aristotles Poetics
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Palgrave Macmillan Tolkien Race and Cultural History From Fairies to
Book SynopsisFimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of Tolkien's imaginative vision and contextualises his fiction.Trade ReviewWinner ofthe Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies 2010 Short listed for the Katharine Briggs Award 2009 'Dimitra Fimi's Tolkien, Race and Cultural History traces the evolution of the legendarium with admirable care...This scholarly yet approachable book is filled with...surprising fragments.' - Jon Barnes, Times Literary Supplement 'Fimi's book reads so well that it's hard to believe that it's an academic tome' - Henry Gee, Mallorn 'constitutes an important contribution to Tolkien studies...the author brings together (often for the first time) relevant research from cultural history and lays out her arguments fair and square...Fimi's book has given us some answers but has also opened up some avenues for future research. What more can we ask for?' Thomas Honegger, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Germany '...a rich study into Tolkien's creative impulses and the influences that worked on those impulses in the course of a long creative life...any reader interested in the work of J. R. R. Tolkien...is in for a treat. The book is intelligently argued and full of interesting ideas and approaches, offering fresh insights into Tolkien's authorship...you will find plenty of stimulating and thought-provoking material to make the book well worth reading.' - Nils-Lennart Johannesson, English Today 'Until now, Tolkien has generally been studied in isolation, or as the father of modern fantasy-writing, but this book shows how his work was rooted in the mental world of his contemporaries and the immediately preceding generation. As Tolkien scholarship becomes more analytical, Fimi's study provides essential new insights.' - Jacqueline Simpson, The Folklore SocietyTable of ContentsList of Figures Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction PART I: HOW IT ALL BEGAN In the Beginning were the Fairies... 'Fluttering Sprites with Antennae': Victorian and Edwardian Fancies The Fairies, Faith and Folklore PART II: IDEAL BEINGS, IDEAL LANGUAGES The Cat and the Whiskers: Tolkien's Linguistic Creation 'Linguistic Aesthetic': Sounds, Meaning and the Pursuit of Beauty Ideal Languages and Phonetic Spelling PART III: FROM MYTH TO HISTORY The Claim to History A Hierarchical World Visualising Middle-earth: Real and Imagined Material Cultures Epilogue: From Fairies to Hobbits Appendix: 'And Wither Then?': Stepping into the Road Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Scaffolding of Sovereignty
Book SynopsisThe Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests.Trade ReviewThat sovereign power is often fragile and never established once and for all is the startling proposition that organizes this spectacularly interesting sequence of investigations. Sovereignty is impossible to study, the essays propose, without attention to its ‘scaffolding,’ defined as all the symbolic management that power continually requires. Leaping across time and spanning the world, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty showcases scholarly gems that together reflect how the crown of sovereignty is kept in place—and sometimes slips. -- Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal WorldThis volume showcases the best of global intellectual history. Sovereignty emerges as a complex force: aesthetically layered, politically mutable, historically contingent, and consistently elusive. At the same time, despite the apparent Eurocentrism of the concept's recent lineage, readers will come away convinced of the importance of sovereignty as an analytical category, key to making sense of political culture in world history and political thought in global context. -- Lauren Benton, author of A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900Joining performance studies with philosophy, theology, and ethnography, the figure of the scaffold aptly evokes the symbolic supports and global visibility of sovereignty today. The contributors to this ambitious collection of essays fearlessly disclose recurrent features of sovereignty across time and space, often beginning immanently with the cosmic cartographies generated by particular regimes and projected in aesthetic displays, liturgical exercises, and citational enterprises that reveal common themes in the global drama of majesty. -- Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, IrvineThis is a wide-ranging, stimulating, challenging collection of essays. -- Jerrold Seigel, William J. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus at New York University.Table of ContentsForeword, by Dick HowardEditors' Introduction, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole JerrPart I. StagesPreface1. Sad Stories of the Death of Kings: Sovereignty and Its Constraints in Greek Tragedy and Elsewhere, by Glenn W. Most2. Contested Sovereignty: Heaven, the Monarch, the People, and the Intellectuals in Traditional China, by Yuri Pines3. Nurhaci's Gambit: Sovereignty as Concept and Praxis in the Rise of the Manchus, by Nicola Di Cosmo4. The Living Image of the People, by Jason FrankPart II. CourtsPreface5. Public Health, the State, and Religious Scholarship: Sovereignty in Idrīs al-Bidlīsī's Arguments for Fleeing the Plague, by Justin Stearns6. The Dancing Despot: Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Performative Symbolism of Power, by Stanca Scholz-Cionca7. Liberal Constitutionalism and the Sovereign Pardon, by Bernadette Meyler8. The Vanishing Slaves of Paris: The Lettre de Cachet and the Emergence of an Imperial Legal Order in Eighteenth-Century France, by Miranda Spieler9. Re-touching the Sovereign: Biochemistry of Perpetual Leninism, by Alexei YurchakPart III. ActsPreface10. Hijra and Exile: Islam and Dual Sovereignty in Qing China, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite11. The Neurology of Regicide: Decapitation Experiments and the Science of Sovereignty, by Cathy Gere12. The "Millennium" of 1857: The Last Performance of the Great Mughal, by A. Azfar Moin13. Exit the King? Modern Theater and the Revolution, by Nicole JerrPart IV. ShiftsPreface14. Revolution in Permanence and the Fall of Popular Sovereignty, by Dan Edelstein15. Exile Within Sovereignty: Critique of "The Negation of Exile" in Israeli Culture, by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin16. Affective Sovereignty, International Law, and China's Legal Status in the Nineteenth Century, by Li Chen17. The Sovereignty of the New Man After Wagner: Artist and Hero, Symbolic History, and the Staging of Origins, by Stefanos GeroulanosList of ContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism European
Book SynopsisA tribute to one of the fathers of deconstruction as well as an extended essay on memory, death, and friendship.Trade ReviewDerrida offers significant insights into de Man's understanding of Heidegger, Hoderlin, Hegel, Austin, and Rosseau. A warm, personal, and at times touching account of the de Man/Derrida intellectual friendship and the existential experience of a friend's death, this work shows a very human side to a thinker whose humanity has been questioned by the critics. A welcome addition to any library already containing some writings of Derrida. Choice
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Columbia University Press Notes to Literature European Perspectives A
Book SynopsisA brilliant collection of short essays on literary subjects e.g. Beckett, Balzac, Proust, Thomas Mann, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, the lyric, realism, the essay, and the contemporary novel by the great social theorist (1903-1969), originally published in 1958 as Noten zur literature (Suhrkamp Verlag, FTrade Review"Adorno's Notes to Literature, which begins with the high leap of his great essay 'The Essay as Form,' sets an inimitable, always exhilarating standard. A volume of Adorno's essays is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." -- Susan Sontag
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Columbia University Press American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to
Book Synopsis-- American LiteratureTrade ReviewLeitch's book is an achievement of geniune merit and...will contribute much to the self-understanding of the American Critical institutions. Modern Language Notes
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Columbia University Press Left Politics and the Literary Profession Social
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsWhy theory?, by Gerald Graff The function of English at the present time, by Richard Ohmann What am I doing when I do women's studies in 1990?, by Catharine R. Stimpson Literature and politics: black feminist scholars reshaping literary education in the white university, 1970-1986, by Nellie Y. McKay What is the matter with Mary Jane? Feminist criticism in a time of diminished expectations, by Kate Ellis Canon theory and emergent practice, by Paul Lauter Canon fathers and myth universe, by Lillian S. Robinson Literature of resistance: the intersection of feminism and the communist left in Meridel Le Sueur and Tillie Olsen, by Constance Coiner Memory and historical record: the literature and literary criticism of Beirut, 1982, by Barbara Harlow. At the crossroads of history, on the borders of change: Chicano literary studies past, present, and future, by Hector Calderon Third plane at the change of the century: the shape of African-American literature to come, by Pancho Savery History as explanation: writing about lesbian writing, or "Are girls necessary?", by Julie Abraham Politics and literature: then and now, by Robert C. Rosen Somewhere off the coast of academia, by Robert Rich Some historical refractions, by Lillian S. Robinson What has happened to the seeds of the flower children?, by Susan Gushee O'Malley Annals of academic life: an exemplary tale, by Louis Kampf
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Columbia University Press The Dialogic and Difference AnOther Woman in
Book SynopsisThis juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf, writers of two distinct cultures, countries and generations, focuses on the strategies the two authors share in creating their female characters. Hermann looks at each author within the social and historical conditions that produced them, employ
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Columbia University Press Notes to Literature
Book SynopsisAvailable in English for the first time, this is a collection of essays by social philosopher and critic, T.W. Adorno, on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Kare Kraust, Sigfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin and Stefan George. It includes Adorno's reflections on a variety of literary subjects.
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Columbia University Press The Brazilian Puzzle Culture on the Borderlands
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes a critical investigation and rethinking of the grounds and possibilities of theory and the place and critical function theory can serve within various disciplines, notably history and aesthetics.
£56.00
Columbia University Press The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and
Book SynopsisMore than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.
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Columbia University Press The Inhuman Race The Racial Grotesque in
Book SynopsisIn revealing the source of the ideology of whiteness in the imagination, Cassuto turns to images of blackness in American literature and culture from 1622 to 1865, examining such texts as Swallow Barn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Typee, and Moby Dick.
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Columbia University Press The Russian Intelligentsia
Book SynopsisHaving returned to Russia in 1990 after two decades, the writer known as Abram Tertz creates a vivid picture of today's Russian intelligentsia and its role as conscience and critic since the fall of communism, as well as a chilling portrait of economic and political stagnation under Yeltsin.Trade ReviewAn unflinching, passionate account of what has gone wrong in Russia since the collapse of the Bolshevik system-and of the complicity of the most privileged segment of the intelligentsia in the Yeltsin-era crimes and catastrophes--by a voice of incomparable moral authority, intelligence, and persuasiveness. Susan SontagTable of ContentsIntroduction Strolls with Pushkin A Journey to the River Black Remembering Cathy Nepomnyaschchy and Slava Yastremski Notes Notes on the Text
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Columbia University Press The Sense and NonSense of Revolt
Book SynopsisLinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three 20th-century writers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon and Roland Barthes.Trade ReviewKristeva is a figure of far-reaching eloquence. -- Denis Donaghue Washington PostTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. What Revolt Today? 2. The Sacred and Revolt: Various Logics 3. The Metamorphoses of "Language" in the Freudian Discovery (Freudian Models of Language) 4. Oedipus Again; or, Phallic Monism 5. On the Extraneousness of the Phallus; or, the Feminine Between Illusion and Disillusion 6. Aragon, Defiance, and Deception: A Precursor? 7. Sartre; or, "We Are Right to Revolt" 8. Roland Barthes and Writing as Demystification
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Columbia University Press The Range of Interpretation The Wellek Library
Book SynopsisIn this work philosopher Wolfgang Iser offers a fresh perspective on questions such as why do human beings need fictions? And why do human beings need to interpret, despite the fact that complete interpretation is unattainable?Trade Review[Range of Interpretation] leaves the reader with a greatly expanded understanding of the nature of interpretation, of the various roles it assumes in our culture, and it is difficult to imagine a scholar who would not profit from such a book. Philosophy in ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction The Marketplace of Interpretation Interpretation as Translatability 2. The Authority of the Canon Canonization and Midrash The Literary Canon: Dr. Johnson on Shakespeare 3. The Hermeneutic Circle Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher: Self-reflective Circularity Johann Gustav Droysen: The Nesting of Circles Paul Ricoeur: Transactional Loops 4. The Recursive Loop Recursion in Ethnographic Discourse Systemic Recursion 5. The Traveling Differential: Franz Rosenzweig, "The Star of Redemption" "The Birth of the Elements Out of the Somber Foundations of Nought" Proliferating Translatability 6. Configurations of Interpretation: An Epilogue
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Columbia University Press The Theory Mess Deconstruction in Eclipse
Book SynopsisA clarifying account of the general landscape of critical theory in the United States over the last 30 years ending with the current eclipse of deconstruction.Trade ReviewAn extensive and careful evaluation, through which Rapaport performs an inestimable service. SubStanceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Beginnings Co-opting Deconstruction Theory as Postphilosophy: Rosi Braidotti, Geoffrey Hartman, Annette Kolodny The Misconstruction of Deconstruction: Gerald Graff and Frank Lentricchia Demonizing Deconstruction: Walter Jackson Bate, RenC Wellek, and David Lehman America is Deconstruction? Non-Placet A World Apart: Derrida and the Frankfurt School 1980--1987: A World of Difference Deconstructing Otherwise: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak British Developments: The Influence of AeMDULOScreenAeMDNMO Eclipsing Deconstruction: History of Subject-Positions I Eclipsing Deconstruction: History of Subject-Positions II Lurching to the Right Social Acts and Excitable Speech Vicious Dualisms Deconstruction of the Social Relation I: Heidegger and Sex Deconstruction of the Social Relation II: Derrida's Itineraries Derrida and the Political Reconceiving the Theory Mess Postscript Notes Bibliography
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