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The Inhuman: Reflections on Time
by Jean Franco Lyotard  Publisher Comments "Extremely important for everyone interested in issues of (post)modern literature, art, and music."--Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University "In this collection of 17 essays, all written or presented between 1980 and 1989, Lyotard addresses a variety...
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The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire
by Teresa De Lauretis Publisher Comments In an eccentric reading of Freud through Laplanche and the Lacanian and feminist revisions, Teresa de Lauretis delineates a model of "perverse" desire and a theory of lesbian sexuality as represented in Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness...
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
by Julia Kristeva Publisher Comments Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse....
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The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence, 1982-1985
by Jean Franco Lyotard Publisher Comments A major figure in the contemporary critical world, Jean-Francois Lyotard originally introduced the term 'postmodern' into current discussions of philosophy. The Postmodern Explained is an engaging collection of letters addressed to young philosophers...
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The Post-Colonial Studies Reader
by Bill Ashcroft Publisher Comments The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics, featuring nearly ninety of the discipline's most widely read works. The...
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Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment (Harvest Books)
by I A Richards Publisher Comments A landmark of twentieth-century criticism that provided new standards and new techniques for examining literature. "Richards is a master of the psychology of criticism" (Saturday Review). Index.<BR>...
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World on Fire
by Michael Brownstein Publisher Comments In our era of apocalyptic change, everything from terrorism to a stifling cultural sameness has become globalized. World on Fire is a poet's impassioned, prophetic examination of the human and environmental consequences of transnational capitalism. From...
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Image, Music, Text
by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative...
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The End: Closing Words for the Millenium
by Mark Morton Publisher Comments In approximately 10,000 hours or less the planet will erupt in celebrations as the new millennium dawns. In The End Closing Words for the Millennium, Mark Morton and Gail Noble present a collection of writings from the eve of previous centuries -- the...
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Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism
by Carl E Schorske Publisher Comments In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siècle Vienna--draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultures. In most...
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The Translator's Turn (Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society)
by Douglas Robinson Publisher Comments "Robinson's book is original and stimulating, and I suspect it will remain a provocative landmark in its field for some time to come."--Steven Rendall, Philosophy and...
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Decentring Leisure
by Chris Rojek Publisher Comments This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of feminsim, Marxism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a survey - and rethinking - of...
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War of Desire and Technology (95 Edition)
by Allucqjere R. Stone Publisher Comments In this witty, far-reaching, and utterly original work, AllucquandAtilde;anduml;re Rosanne Stone examines the myriad ways modern technology is challenging traditional notions of gender identity.Face-to-face meetings, and even telephone conversations...
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The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting
by Darren Wershler-Henry Publisher Comments The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it...
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Theories of Contemporary Culture #7: Studies in Entertainment
by Tania Modleski Publisher Comments Exploring various forms of contemporary mass art and culture, from rock-'n'-roll music to "slasher" films, from women's romances to "retro" fashion style, these innovative and politically engaged essays reflect the paradox inherent in taking a critical...
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The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology
by Wolfgang Iser Publisher Comments "Iser is an influential figure, and aficionados will welcome the comprehensive exposition he provides here."--Terence Cave, TLS The pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive exploration of this new field...
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Cavalier History of Surrealism
by Francois Dupuis Publisher Comments A down-and-dirty survey of the surrealist movement written by leading situationist theorist Raoul Vaneigem. Vaneigem's sketch bars no holds, blistering on surrealism's artistic and political aporias, and packed with telling quotations, it gives respect...
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Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myth and Meanings
by Gail Godwin 
Publisher Comments "The Italians have a musical notation not found in any other language: tempo giusto 'the right tempo.' It means a steady, normal heat, between 66 and 76 on the metronome. Tempo giusto is the appropriate heat of the human heart." One of the preeminent...
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The Grain of the Voice
by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments This book brings together the great majority of Barthes's interviews that originally appeared in French in "Le Figaro Litteraire, Cahiers du Cinema, France-Observateur, L'Express, and elsewhere. Barthes replied to questions--on the cinema, on his own...
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Theories of Contemporary Culture #18: The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language
by Gabriele Schwab Synopsis Gabriele Schwab revitalizes debates about literature's cultural function by exploring literary experience as an encounter with otherness. Drawing on literary theory, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, Schwab contends that literature facilitates contact...
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