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The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
by Roland Barthes  Publisher Comments In this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to Paris of Billy...
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What's Normal? (00 Edition)
by Carol C. Donley Publisher Comments While The Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology is a collection of different perspectives on the lives of people whose physical appearance places them outside cultural norms, What's Normal?, the companion volume, examines the issues of "abnormalities" in...
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Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds
by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments In the tradition of the bestselling the "Western Canon, Genius" is a monumental achievement of scholarship that offers a series of brief parallel appreciations of 100 of the greatest creative minds of all time....
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The Illusion of the End
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments “Vintage Baudrillard—compelling, diabolically clever, outrageous, wounded, ironic, refreshing, and certainly controversial. It is a most original meditation on the theme of history, on its shape or trajectory, and the human fate bound up with...
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Barthes and the Empire of Signs (Postmodern Encounters)
by Peter Peri Trifonas Publisher Comments Roland Barthes' imaginative or fictive exploration of Japan prompted him to examine the social and historical contingency of signs, how their meaning changes through time and in different contexts....
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Even As We Speak New Essays 1993 2001
by Clive James Synopsis A collection of essays, both illuminating and humourous, by Clive James. He focuses on Australian poetry, television, the rise and fall of various icons, the holocaust, the state of culture in the 1990s, and the death of Diana....
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Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics
by John Mcgowan Synopsis How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape...
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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 Redux and Nirvana's Smells...
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The Seven Basic Plots
by Christopher Booker Publisher Comments Examines the basis of story telling in literature, film, and libretto. This book provides an answer to the riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using many examples, it shows that there are seven archetypal...
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Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human
by Barbara Herrnstein Smith Publisher Comments Throughout the recent culture and science ?wars,? the radically new conceptions of knowledge and science emerging from such fields as the history and sociology of science have been denounced by various journalists, scientists, and academics as...
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Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History
by Cathy Caruth Publisher Comments If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing...
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Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture: A Sourcebook for Modern Readers
by Temple Drake Publisher Comments Overviews alternative culture by reviewing its literary legacy....
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric
by I A Richards Publisher Comments Our communication is limitedby misunderstanding. Rhetoric, as Professor Richards defines it, is the study of misunderstanding and its remedies. The conventional rules of the old rhetoric and the formulations of scientific language have narrow application...
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Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariategui Tradition (Illuminations)
by Hosam Aboul Ela Publisher Comments Hosam Aboul-Ela provides a startlingly original perspective on Faulkner, examining his work in the transnational context of the “Global South”: the geopolitical and economic dynamics of the post-Reconstruction period that link the American...
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No Mans Land Volume 1
by Sandra M Gilbert Publisher Comments With this powerful and provocative book the authors of the classic The Madwoman in the Attic launch a landmark three-volume overview of modern literature in England and America, bringing feminist theory to bear on writings by men as well as women. In...
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Negotiations 1972-1990 (European Prespectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Criticism)
by Gilles Deleuze Publisher Comments A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, this collection traces the intellectual journey of one of the most important French philosophers and clarifies the key critical concepts in the work of this vital figure who has had an impact on aesthetics, film...
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The Orgasms of History: 3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection
by Yves Fremion Publisher Comments Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited...
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The Cry of an Occasion: Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers
by Richard Bausch Publisher Comments This "smorgasbord of literary offerings" (Publishers Weekly) self-selected by its contributors -- "a long list of luminaries" (Library Journal) -- includes works by Madison Smartt Bell, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Shelby Foote, George...
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Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture'
by Philip Connell Publisher Comments The Romantic age in Britain formed one of the most celebrated--and heterogeneous--moments in literary history, but it also witnessed the rise of "political economy" as the pre-eminent nineteenth-century science of society. Romanticism, Economics and the...
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Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture
by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements in Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan through the works of contemporary popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers...
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