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Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism
by Clarence Major  Publisher Comments Bringing together critical essays, articles, and reviews by 1999 National Book Award for Poetry finalist, this landmark collection is an impressive look back-and forward-by one of our most visionary authors. From essays on the craft of writing, to...
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What Is Literature? and Other Essays
by Jean Paul Sartre Publisher Comments ""What is Literature?" remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. ""What is Literature...
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Roadframes: The American Highway Narrative
by Kris Lackey Publisher Comments "RoadFrames" illuminates many of the grandiose myths and unsentimental realities that have shaped modern American life. Lackey examines--and debunks--the theme of rediscovering America, with drivers seeking to escape industrialized America and recover a...
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Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French
by Christopher Miller Publisher Comments ""Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French "is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world...
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Reading on the Edge: Exiles, Modernities, and Cultural Transformation in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin
by Cy Johnson Roullier Publisher Comments Reading on the Edge explores the notion of multiple cultural identity and exile in the work of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and James Baldwin. Focusing on the cultural politics of modernism through the prism of cultural theory, the book reconceives each...
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Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age: Critical Essays in Comparative Literature (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)
by Gregory Maertz Publisher Comments It has been observed that the reevaluation of Romanticism is a special feature of post-New Critical or revisionist criticism in America. Constituting a lively ecumenical dialogue between literary historians and theorists, and between critics based in...
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Disciplinarity & Dissent in Cultural Studies
by Cary Nelson Publisher Comments As recently as the early 1990s, people wondered what was the future of cultural studies in the United States and what effects its increasing internationalization might have. What type of projects would cultural studies inspire people to undertake? Would...
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Popular & the Canonical
by David Johnson Publisher Comments This volume ranges from the Second World War to the postmodern, considering issues of the "popular" and the competing criteria by which literature has been judged in the later twentieth century. As well as tracing the transition from modernism to...
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Helene Cixous (Modern Cultural Theorists)
by Verena Ander Conley Publisher Comments Reflecting the broad spectrum of modern European and American theory, this introductory series focuses on those cultural theorists who have had the most significant impact in the twentieth century. This series aims to show how modern thinkers differ in...
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Critical Vision: Random Essays and Tracts Concerning Sex, Religion, Death
by David Kerekes Publisher Comments P>Critical Vision collects together the best articles from the rare early issues of Headpress journal: long out-of-print collectors'items. Updated and revised-with the inclusion of new material-Critical Vision is at once a powerful, unique, and often...
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Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems
by Stanley Aronowitz Publisher Comments In these far-reaching essays, Stanley Aronvitz examines some of the crucial cultural shifts associated with the crisis of modernity and argues that art is a kind of social knowledge....
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A Vision of a New Liberalism?: Critical Essays on Murakami's Anticlassical Analysis
by Kozo Yamamura Publisher Comments Nine essays critically evaluate Murakami's sanguine vision for the future which is sustained by "polymorphic liberalism, " a new type of liberalism that reflects the needs of both developed and developing economies and the realities of the diversity of...
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Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication
by Marty Roth Publisher Comments This invigorating work traces the cultural history of convivial drinking before the concept of addiction overshadowed intoxication's reputation as a creative, philosophical, and spiritual force. Marty Roth's Drunk the Night Before illustrates...
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Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)
by Edward S Cutler Publisher Comments An innovative look at the process and development of nineteenth-century modernism....
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The Cultural Politics of Fur
by Julia Emberley Publisher Comments Fur has been sparking controversies ever since sumptuary laws marked it as a luxury item and as a sign of medieval class privilege. Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary sources, Julia Emberley explains how a material goods has become both...
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Theory & History of Literature #0064: Narrative as Communication
by Didier Coste Book News Annotation An explication and critique of structuralist and post-structuralist narrative theory, employing all the analytic tools developed in the last twenty years. Coste (French, San Diego State U.) defines and analyzes narrative discourse, with reference to...
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Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature (Suny Series, Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)
by Ethan Goffman Publisher Comments Imagining Each Other explores Black-Jewish relations by examining the complex ways they have portrayed each other in recent American literature. It illuminates their dramatic alliances and conflicts and their dilemmas of identity and assimilation, and...
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Readers Guide To Contemporary Literary 4TH Edition
by Raman Selden Synopsis < P> This edition of the bestselling guide retains the strong features of the original book; offering a comprehensive coverage of the main literary theories, further readings and bibliographies. At the same time, the new edition adds material on...
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Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology
by Joseph Tabbi Publisher Comments The twelve original essays, published here for the first time, are the work of distinguished scholar-critics on both sides of the Atlantic. They cover the range of contemporary literature, from the canonical novels of high modernism and postmodernism...
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Intimate Revolt: The Powers and the Limits of Psychoanalysis (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought & Cultural Criticism)
by Julia Kristeva Publisher Comments A thorough examination of the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers -- Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes -- affirm their personal rebellion followed by Kristeva's own ideas on the future of rebellion....
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