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Contmp Marxist Lit Crit
by Francis Mulhern  Synopsis The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement...
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Batman Unmasked
by Will Brooker Synopsis A work of scholarship and a labor of love. "This is the definitive history of the Batman in all media: comics, film, television and the internet. The books combination of rigorous historical research and a witty, fluid writing style make it both vastly...
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A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory
by Michael Payne Publisher Comments This is an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory that have developed from interactions among different modern traditions of thought....
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Teach Yourself Postmodernism (Teach Yourself)
by Glenn Ward Publisher Comments Are there no new ideas to be invented? Are today's ideas really just borrowed from previous times? Postmodernism says this is so, and it's one of the hottest philosophies of today. The book provides an indispensable guide to this often-demanding terrain...
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments From the author of "The Name of the Rose" comes this collection of six essays where Eco explores in depth questions of reality, perception, and experience. At once philosophical and amusing, "Kant and the Platypus" is a tour of the world of senses told...
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Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought #08: Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture
by William D Hart Publisher Comments Provides a distinctive account of Edward Said??'s critique of modern culture....
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Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities
by Jonathan Goldberg Publisher Comments This is a book about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary - works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and others - it is framed by more recent political considerations. The book takes as axiomatic that Foucault's...
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Day I Wasn't There (06 Edition)
by Cixous Publisher Comments The feminist writer explores the extreme borders of motherhood and humanity <BR>In this memoir-novel, a narrator who resembles Helene Cixous obsessively recounts an incident-the premature death of her first born child, a Down's Syndrome baby left...
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Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey
by Hans Ulri Gumbrecht Publisher Comments “...Production of Presence is focused and persuasive. [It} reflect[s] the intellectual, and physical, journey of a courageous and versatile thinker.”—Southern Humanities...
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Culture in the Age of Three Worlds
by Michael Denning Publisher Comments Before the midpoint of the twentieth century, culture as a subject was routinely relegated to the background of any period's study. From the 1950s on, however, it moved very clearly to the foreground. Suddenly culture was everywhere: no longer the...
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Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human (04 Edition)
by Phil Jackson Publisher Comments "Inside Clubbing" puts the spotlight on club culture--in all its sweaty, visceral, and seductive glory. Jackson guides us through the huge spectrum of the club experience, moving from hip-hop clubs to fetish events via queer, trance, Asian, techno, drum '...
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My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time
by Sven Birkerts Publisher Comments Author of the widely acclaimed New York Times Notable Book The Gutenberg Elegies, distinguished critic and essayist Sven Birkerts explores in this brilliantly written memoir what it means to be an American with roots in a distant culture. The son of...
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Culture of Hope: A New Birth of the Classical Spirit
by Frederick Turner Publisher Comments As we approach the new millenium, the moral, intellectual,and spiritual crisis of our time is visible most plainly in the sickness of the arts. The "postmodern" cultural establishment is philosophically empty and esthetically corrupt. But no one has been...
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Guiding the Plot: Politics & Feminism in the Work of Women Playwrights from Spain & Argentina, 1960-1990
by Ann Witte Book News Annotation The author's research project on the dynamics between theater and political change became focused on playwrights who had provided an oppositional viewpoint under a dictatorial system of government and then found themselves living in a more permissive...
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Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust and Slavery in America (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
by Naomi Mandel Synopsis In the wake of World War II, the Nazi genocide of European Jews has come to stand for "the unspeakable," posing crucial challenges to the representation of suffering, the articulation of identity, and the practice of ethics in an increasingly...
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The Book of Promethea (European Women Writers Series)
by Helene Cixous Publisher Comments In writing Le Livre de Promethea Hélène Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language. She describes a love between two women in its totality, experienced as both a physical presence and a...
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The Archive (Documents of Contemporary Art)
by Charles Merewether Publisher Comments In the modern era, the archive--official or personal--has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as...
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture #43: A Companion to Satire: Ancient to Modern
by Ruben Quintero Publisher Comments This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English...
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Signs of Life in the Usa 4TH Edition
by Sonia Maasik Publisher Comments Unlike other popular culture readers, Signs of Life in the USA presumes that popular culture merits rigorous analysis and provides a conceptual framework for understanding it: semiotics, a field of critical theory developed specifically for the...
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Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity
by Elizabeth Goodstein Publisher Comments “Elizabeth Goodstein’s remarkable new book operates at a number of levels, each of them fascinating in its own right....[T]his is a thoroughly engaging study of a fascinating theme, which broadens out to give us access, and sometimes answers,...
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