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The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)
by Rachel Speght  Publisher Comments Rachel Speght was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unmistakably and by name, as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This edition includes her foray into the Jacobean gender wars and her collected poems. Speght's tract, A...
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The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France (1977-1978) (European Perspectives)
by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm. With these words, Roland Barthes describes a concept that profoundly shaped his work and was the subject of a landmark series of lectures...
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Stalking (Focus on Contemporary Issues)
by Bran Nicol Publisher Comments It scares--and titillates--in such movies as "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle "and "Basic Instinct." It violently ended the lives of legendary artists such as Selena and John Lennon, and thousands of people endure it daily in anonymity from ex-lovers and...
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Holy Terror
by Eagleton Terry Publisher Comments Brimming with lively wit and penetrating insight, Holy Terror offers a profound and timely investigation of the idea of terror, drawing upon political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to the...
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Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism & Fascist Modernity
by Erin G Carlston Publisher Comments “Carlston’s brilliant and unnerving book places three writers in the context of European fascism between the world wars.”—Women’s Review of Books “Carlsotn’s study of fascist ideology is both cautionary and...
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Generation What?: Dispatches from the Quarter-Life Crisis
by Bess Vanrenen Publisher Comments Seemingly a bit ludicrous and even comical, the quarter-life crisis is actually a very real phenomenon afflicting more rudderless twenty-somethings with each passing year. In Generation What?, young up-and-coming writers recount their individual quarrels...
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Cultural Politics #0003: Technoculture
by Constance Penley Book News Annotation Case studies of groups including high-tech office workers, Star trek fans, Japanese technoporn producers, teenage hackers, AIDS activists, rap groups, and rock stars yield insights about the production and management of repressive technocultures, as...
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Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses
by Howard Hampton Publisher Comments Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hardnosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged space between Apocalypse Now Reduxand Nirvanaandrsquo;s...
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Theory & History of Literature #0040: Critique of Cynical Reason
by Peter Sloterdijk Publisher Comments Upon its publication in Germany in 1983, this author's book stirred both critical acclaim and consternation, attracting a wide readership. He finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture, in personal and institutional settings; his book is...
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America....
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The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler
by Fernand Hallyn Publisher Comments In this major reconsideration of a crucial turning point in Western thought and culture - the heliocentric revolution of Copernicus and Kepler - Fernand Hallyn applies a theory of rhetoric to the philosophy and history of science to show how the new sun...
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Critical Confrontations: Literary Theories in Dialogue
by Meili Steele Publisher Comments Joins heretofore separate realms to provide a new, more cohesive story of critical theory "An illuminating and cogent re-thinking of critical theory.... By an elegant and inclusive logic, (Steele) recasts tradition, the villain in many contemporary...
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Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States
by Mikhail Iossel Publisher Comments This collection of beautifully written and entertaining literary essays by a wide range of Russian writers--young and old, funny and somber, angry and celebratory, many being translated for the first time--offers U.S. readers a unique chance to "see...
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Literature and Feminism: An Introduction
by Pam Morris Publisher Comments "Literature and Feminism is an exemplary new introduction to feminist literary criticism and theory which assumes no previous knowledge of the field. Clear, informative and carefully structured, it provides a thorough guide to, and path through, one of...
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Research Methods in Cultural Studies (Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities)
by Michael Pickering Synopsis This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides students with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It...
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Shakespeare in Africa (And Other Venues): Import and the Appropriation of Culture
by Lemuel A Johnson Synopsis This complex work explores "constellations of encounters and evidence of import in various contexts, ranging from Oxford to the popular stage in Bombay and from North America's various negotiations of its putative European ancestries to Shakespeare's...
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Symbolic Exchange and Death (Theory, Culture & Society)
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments Hailed as a classic, Symbolic Exchange and Death is a key source for the redefinition of contemporary social thought. Jean Baudrillard's critical gaze appraises social theories as diverse as cybernetics, ethnography, psychoanalysis, feminism, Merxism...
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Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left
by Susan Buck Morss Publisher Comments Renowned critical theorist Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive intellectual barriers....
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Literary Lives
by Edward Sorel Publisher Comments With amusing vignettes, award-winning caricaturist Sorel uses his distinctive style to illustrate the strange and eccentric lives of ten iconic literary figures: Tolstoy, Sartre, Eliot, Proust, Yeats, Brecht, Jung, Rand, Mailer, and Hellman....
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NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America
by Constance Penley Publisher Comments Penley investigates the American fascination with space, examining issues of sex and sexuality through Star Trek and NASA....
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