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Alienhood : Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference (06 Edition)
by Katarzyna Marciniak  Publisher Comments "Alien" has a double meaning in the United States, suggesting both "foreigner" and "extraterrestrial creature." In Alienhood, Katarzyna Marciniak explores this semantic duality. Interrogating the dominant images of aliens in American popular culture--and...
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Rene Girard: Violence and Mimesis
by Chris Fleming Publisher Comments In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the work of ReniGirard, thought by many to be one of the most important, ifcontroversial, cultural theorists of the twentieth century. Girard'swork is extraordinarily innovative and wide-ranging...
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On Looking: Essays
by Lia Purpura Publisher Comments Lia Purpura's daring new book of lyric essays, On Looking, is concerned with the aesthetics and ethics of seeing. In these elegantly wrought meditations, patterns and meanings emerge from confusion, the commonplace grows strange and complex, beauty...
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The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects
by Charles Altieri Publisher Comments This brilliant, penetrating, and ambitious book by a well-known literary theorist studies the complex relationship between the emotions on the one side and literary works and paintings on the other. A central aim of Charles Altieri's is to rescue our...
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The Truth in Painting
by Jacques Derrida Publisher Comments "The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and...
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Rereading America Cultural Contexts 5TH Edition
by Gary Colombo Publisher Comments In its fifth edition, this best-selling thematic reader continues to challenge students to think and write critically about contemporary American culture....
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Rhetoric of Rhetoric : the Quest for Effective Communication (04 Edition)
by Wayne Booth Publisher Comments Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series. Addressed to a broad audience, dramatizing the imiportance of rhetorical studies and lamenting their widespread neglect....
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Stigmata Escaping Texts
by Helene Cixous Publisher Comments A "wilful extremist" according to the "London Times," He le ne Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. From collaborating with acclaimed performance company The a tre du Soleil, to producing a weighty body of both...
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Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
by Steven Watson Publisher Comments A cultural history of a famous collaboration, Virgil Thomson's and Gertrude Stein's making of the modernist opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. Watson explores the transatlantic, commercial, racial, gay, and artistic aspects of this story (NewYork/Paris...
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The Vampire Lectures
by Laurence A Rickels Publisher Comments Rickles, a UC Santa Barbara professor, sifts through mythology of vampirism, from folklore to Marilyn Manson, to explore the profound and unconscious appeal of the undead in an original and intellectual look at vamps....
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The Monstrous and the Marvelous
by Rikki Ducornet Publisher Comments With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and...
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Leisure Ethic: Work & Play in American Literature, 1840-1940
by William A Gleason Publisher Comments An analysis of issues surrounding work and leisure in nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature....
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Cosmopolitanism
by Carol Appadurai (edt) Breckenridge Publisher Comments As the final installment of Public Culture's Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism--or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society. With contributions from distinguished...
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The Tears of Eros
by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo...
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Eroticism and the Body Politic (Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society)
by Lynn Hunt Publisher Comments By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in art and literature women's bodies continued to be represented-- and domesticated-- by men. They were...
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Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
by Peter Brooks Publisher Comments "A book so rich in fresh ideas that I found myself underlining as madly as an undergraduate."-Richard Lourie, New York Times Book Review Confession, Peter Brooks writes, is "one of the most complex and obscure forms of human speech and behavior...
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Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film
by Keith Gandal Publisher Comments ‘Rich girl meets poor boy who liberates her then dies.’ Or, ‘low-life girl is trashed by lower-life boy.’ The contemporary middle-class fictions of poverty that inform films such as Titanic and Kids are a far cry from the...
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Truth or Consequences: The Promise & Perils of Postmodernism
by Millard J. Erickson Publisher Comments Millard J. Erickson examines the intellectual roots of postmodernism, identifies its most prominent exponents and critiques its foundational assumptions with clarity and evenhandedness....
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays
by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments How do we know that a cat is a cat? Why do we agree on calling the beast a cat? Interesting questions, but an even more intriguing question lies at the heart of all modern philosophy-how much of our perception of things depends on our cognitive ability...
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Literature, Race, and Ethnicity: Contesting American Identities (Longman Literature and Culture Series)
by Joseph T Skerrett Synopsis "Literature, Race and Ethnicity" is a text-anthology of American literature organized around issues of race and ethnicity. Divided into nine units, the anthology gives focus to issues of race and ethnicity faced by members of different communities...
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