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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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Sexual Personae
by Camille Paglia Synopsis This work offers a unified field theory of Western culture, high and low, since the Egyptians invented beauty. From Emily Dickinson and Medusa to Madonna, it makes a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form and...
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The Passionate Mind
by Robin Fox Publisher Comments Consciousness, declares Robin Fox, is "out of context". Useful as an adaptation in the Stone Age, it brought humanity to the top of the food chain but has now created a world it cannot control. The Passionate Mind explores this paradox not through...
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The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Geder, & Culture)
by Wendy Doniger Publisher Comments "Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and...
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Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism
by Jane P Tompkins Publisher Comments With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre....
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How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Synopsis American's wisest, most prolific reader--and the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human"--draws upon his more than 40 years as a college professor and critic to help readers attain a truly profound engagement with...
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The View from the Tower: Origins of an Antimodernist Image
by Theodore Ziolkowski Publisher Comments Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this...
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Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius
by Detlev Claussen Publisher Comments He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form. And yet this life of Adorno by one of his last students is far more than literary in its accomplishments, giving us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create andldquo...
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Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology (Advances in Semiotics)
by Robert E Innis Publisher Comments NB: The subject of this book is semiotics, which is not an option on your list. You need to work on that list to make it more inclusive....
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Sweet Violence : the Idea of the Tragic (02 Edition)
by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments Terry Eagleton's "Tragedy "provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and...
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Intro Semiotics/3e
by Paul Cobley Publisher Comments Outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism....
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Society of the Spectacle (94 Edition)
by Guy Debord Publisher Comments Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively...
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Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005 (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Rene Girard Publisher Comments Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty of René Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies....
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Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture
by Walter Kendrick Publisher Comments Walter Kendrick traces the relatively recent concept of pornography--the word was not coined until the late 18th century--which became a public issue once the printing press gave ordinary people access to the erotica of the Greeks and Romans, the art and...
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Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Pt I: Zone Three
by Michel Feher Publisher Comments The 48 essays and photographic dossiers in these three volumes examine the history of the human body as a field where life and thought intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms...
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The Gift of Death (Religion and Postmodernism)
by Jacques Derrida Publisher Comments In The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he continues to explore questions introduced in Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether...
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
by Clive James Publisher Comments Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism. Echoing Edward Said's belief that Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism, the renowned critic Clive James...
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Snobbery: The American Version
by Joseph Epstein
Publisher Comments "Snobbery" is Epstein's "deliciously readable" ("Harper's Bazaar") collection of essays skewering all manner of elitism. Filled with dishy detail, "Snobbery" takes up its subject in contemporary America, examining the discriminating qualities in all....
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New Media Old Media Interrogating The
by Thomas W Keenan Publisher Comments This comprehensive anthology of original and classic essays explores the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Leading international media scholars and cultural theorists interrogate new media like the Internet, digital video, and MP3s against the...
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The Gothic Tradition (Cambridge Contexts in Literature)
by David Stevens Publisher Comments Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The gothic influence on modern writers such as Angela Carter, Iain Banks and Stephen King is vivid and great as is the effect on the world of film and rock music. Part of the function of...
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