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Marxism and Literary Criticism
by Terry Eagleton  Publisher Comments "Far and away the best short introduction to Marxist criticism (both history and problems) which I have seen."--Fredric R...
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Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990
by Gene H Bell Villada Publisher Comments "Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life" is a history of literary aestheticism from the eighteenth century to modern deconstruction. Gene H. Bell-Villada examines writings by critics, philosophers, and other writers from Europe, Latin America, and the...
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Renaissance Talk: Ordinary Language and the Mystique of Critical Problems (Casebook Series)
by Stanley Stewart Book News Annotation Stewart (English, U. of California, Riverside) uses Wittgenstein's approach of ordinary language analysis to investigate issues that have arisen in recent criticism of Renaissance literature. He addresses the accusation that Edmund Spenser wrote...
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Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity
by Jeffrey T Nealson Publisher Comments "I do not know of any other book in ethical theory that will so quickly orient a reader just trying to comprehend the field, while also making arguments that those immersed in the field are going to have to take into account. "Alterity Politics" is a...
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Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women
by Anne Balsamo Publisher Comments "Balsamo takes us further into cyborg territory than any intelligent book has done. Her surveys provide a surefooted guide to the survival both of womens' health and feminist politics in many of those new and unfamiliar areas of hi-tech experience that...
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Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems
by Bruce Clarke Publisher Comments From Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, Posthuman Metamorphosis examines modern and postmodern stories of...
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Romanticism and Postromanticism
by Claudia Moscovici Publisher Comments Claudia Moscovici asserts in Romanticism and Postromanticism that the Romantic heritage, far from being important only in a historical sense, has philosophical relevance and value for contemporary art and culture. With an emphasis on artistic tradition...
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Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime: Kant's Critique of Judgment, (Sections) 23-29 (Meridian)
by Jean-franco Lyotard Publisher Comments Philosophical aesthetics have seen an amazing revival over the past decade, as a radical questioning of the very grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that descriptions of what used to be seen as specific to aesthetic experience can instead be...
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory
by Mark Sanders Publisher Comments Offers an introduction to the themes central to the thought of one of the world's most provocative and original theorists - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. This book concentrates on Spivak's engagement, in theory and practice, with deconstruction, Marxism...
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The Postmodern Turn: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millenium
by Steven Best Publisher Comments This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the emergence of a postmodern paradigm in the arts, science, politics, and theory. From the authors of POSTMODERN THEORY, the much-acclaimed introduction to key postmodern thinkers and themes, THE...
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Art & Revolution
by Leon Trotsky Publisher Comments One of the outstanding revolutionary leaders of the 2Oth century discusses questions of literature, art, and culture in a period of capitalist decline and working-class struggle. In these writings, Trotsky examines the place and aesthetic autonomy of art...
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Contemporary Reader 8TH Edition
by Gary Goshgarian Publisher Comments The Contemporary Reader reader includes more contemporary selections than any other popular culture reader on the market with over 90% of the readings written in the last five years. The text's ten tightly focused thematic chapters cover a range of...
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Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances
by Richard Poirier Publisher Comments As the title suggests, Poirier (distinguished professor emeritus, Rutgers University) believes that the US has been uncommonly hospitable to literary and artistic experimentation. With analytical daring and shrewd literary delicacy, he advances this...
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Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Culture
by Vicky A Clark Publisher Comments Works by contemporary artists address the circumstances in a global community that have given rise to hybrid cultures and expansive vocabularies....
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Modernity and Mass Culture
by James Naremore Publisher Comments Modernity and Mass Culture is a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship among industrialization, democracy, and art in the 20th century. US and British scholars discuss the interaction of "high," "popular," and "mass" art, showing how Western culture...
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No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century: Letters From...
by Sandra M Gilbert Publisher Comments This final volume in Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's landmark trilogy argues that twentieth-century women of letters-from Virginia Woolf, Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and H.D. to Zora Neale Hurston, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and...
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Rethinking Tragedy
by Rita Felski Publisher Comments This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film...
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Structuralism in Literature
by Robert E Scholes Publisher Comments A distinguished literary critic explores the linguistic background of structuralism, its historical connections to romanticism and Russian formalism, and the theory and practice of the leading contemporary structuralist literary critics. "Beautifully...
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Cultural Models in Language and Thought
by Dorothy Holland Publisher Comments The papers in this volume, a multidisciplinary collaboration of anthropologists, linguists, and psychologists, explore the ways in which cultural knowledge is organized and used in everyday language and understanding. Employing a variety of methods...
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Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism
by Marianne Dekoven Publisher Comments Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange." Its greatness lies in its density and its dislocations, which have until now been viewed as a repudiation of and an alternative to...
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