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Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800
by Jack P. Greene  Publisher Comments Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed...
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The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading
by John P Muller Publisher Comments Jacques Lacan's seminar on The Purloined Letter at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. His far-reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay...
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The Future of the Image
by Jacques Ranciere Publisher Comments A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film. In "The Future of the Image," Jacques Ranci&232;re develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been...
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Out There: Marginalization & Contemporary Cultures
by Russell Ferguson Publisher Comments Out There addresses the theme of cultural marginalization - the process whereby various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It engages fundamental issues raised by attempts to define such concepts as mainstream...
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On Beauty and Being Just
by Elaine Scarry 
Publisher Comments In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from recent political arguments against it but also argues that beauty continually renews our search for truth and presses us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from...
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Empire of Signs (82 Edition)
by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.<BR>...
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Postmodern Theory (Critical Perspectives)
by Steven Best Publisher Comments In this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern theory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today. <BR>Best and Kellner provide: <BR>* An introduction and critique of the work of...
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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
by Roland Barthes
Powells.com Staff Pick This is a book best read immediately after the end of an intimate relationship. Devoid of sentimentality, it is a meditation of a lover when alone. Written in fragments, the overriding theme is that the lover, I, never absolutely, truly sees the beloved,...
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S/Z: An Essay
by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."<BR>...
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Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
by Bill Ivey Publisher Comments In this impassioned and persuasive book, Bill Ivey, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, assesses the current state of the arts in America and finds cause for alarm. Even as he celebrates our ever-emerging culture and the way it...
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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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Rhetoric in Antiquity
by Laurent Pernot Publisher Comments Originally published as La Rhitorique dans l'Antiquiti (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics. Rhetoric formed an...
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Ugly Feelings
by Sianne Ngai Publisher Comments blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory....
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Writing Degree Zero
by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments In his first book, French critic Roland Barthes defines the complex nature of writing, as well as the social, historical, political, and personal forces responsible for the formal changes in writing from the classical period to recent times.<BR>...
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Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
by Julia Kristeva Publisher Comments In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. In her discussion she analyzes Holbein's...
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Understanding Media Semiotics
by Marcel Danesi Publisher Comments Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This book offers students an in-depth guide to help them investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory. It assumes little previous knowledge of the...
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Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity
by Kevin Bell Publisher Comments For years critics have held that literary modernism was both apolitical and solipsistic. While the former charge began to give way with the recession of New Criticism, the latter has grown in strength as a lead-in to the claim that postmodernism is...
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New Historicism and Cultural Materialsim (98 Edition)
by John Brannigan Publisher Comments In this study, John Brannigan explains the development of new historicism and cultural materialism and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices. Exemplary readings of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper,"...
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Serenity in crisis :a preface to Paul de Man, 1939-1960
by Ortwin De Graef Publisher Comments A polymath well versed in European literature and philosophy, one of the founders of deconstruction, and a widely respected teacher, Paul de Man brought unprecedented attention and acclaim to the so-called Yale Critics. His fame was at a zenith when he...
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Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
by Robert Pogue Harrison Publisher Comments Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own...
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