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On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain (Vintage)
by Edward W. Said  Publisher Comments In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its...
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The Field of Cultural Production (European Perspectives Series)
by Pierre Bourdieu Publisher Comments During the last two decades, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has become a dominant force in cultural activity ranging from taste in music and art to choices in food and lifestyles. The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's major essays on...
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Snobbery: The American Version
by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments Joseph Epstein's highly entertaining new book takes up the subject of snobbery in America after the fall of the prominence of the old Wasp culture of prep schools, Ivy League colleges, cotillions, debutante balls, the Social Register, and the rest of it....
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Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
by R Girard Publisher Comments This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary scene, including fashion, advertising, and propaganda techniques. In considering such aspects, the author goes beyond the domain of pure aesthetics and...
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Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts
by Bill Ashcroft Publisher Comments An essential guide to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism. A comprehensive glossary has extensive cross-referencing, a bibliography of essential writings and an easy-to-use A-Z format....
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Being Human: Core Reading in the Humanities
by Leon Kass Publisher Comments How shall we promote and protect human flourishing in a world of ever-emerging technologies? At what point should we limit our quest for physical and mental perfection? The President's Council on Bioethics, composed of doctors, philosophers, and...
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Fatal Strategies New Edition
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the...
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
by Thomas Lynch 
Synopsis A poet and funeral director continues to examine the relationship between the "literary and mortuary" arts in essays speaking to the existentials: between being human and ceasing to be, between birth and death, we are bodies in motion and at rest....
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Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William...
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Critical Cyberculture Studies
by David Silver Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "As more and more people use computers, the Internet and mobile phones, the study of their effects on our culture (and vice versa) becomes increasingly important. Framed as a "how-to...
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The Morals of History: A Leading European Intellectual Offers a Wide-Ranging Study of the Role Of...
by Tzvetan Todorov Publisher Comments The celebrated theorist Tzvetan Todorov offers here a thought provoking study of the complex relationship between 'ethics' and 'history'. In exploring such issues as how one practices and assesses equality among different societies, Todorov confronts...
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Postcolonial Melancholia (Wellek Library Lectures)
by Paul Gilroy Publisher Comments In "Postcolonial Melancholia," Paul Gilroy continues the conversation he began in his landmark study of race and nation, "'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack," "'" by once again departing from conventional wisdom to examine-and defend...
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Fragments for a History of the Human Body #III: Zone 5: Fragments for a History of the Human Body - Part 3
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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Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds
by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments In a monumental achievement of scholarship, America's preeminent literary critic presents an unprecedented celebration of one hundred of the most creative literary minds in history. What is genius? It is the trait, says Harold Bloom, of standing both...
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The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms
by Carla Kaplan Publisher Comments Is feminism in "crisis?" With many feminists now questioning identification and focusing on differences between women, what is the fate of feminist criticism's traditional imperative to rescue women's stories and make their voices heard? In this...
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Saussure: Signs, System & Arbitrariness
by David Holdcroft Publisher Comments This book offers a critical assessment of Saussure's central ideas....
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Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities
by Stanley Fish Publisher Comments Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this new book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticisms most basic assumptions....
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Introducing Postmodernism
by Richard Appignanesi Publisher Comments Takes us on a roller-coaster ride through structuralism, deconstruction, cyberspace and semiotics....
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Introducing Semiotics (Introducing...)
by Paul Cobley Publisher Comments For anybody who wishes to know why signs are crucial to human existence and how we can begin to understand systems of signification, this book is the place to start....
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Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe
by Ian P Watt Publisher Comments Individualism as explored in four modern novels: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Robinson Crusoe....
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