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Metaphors We Live by
by George Lakoff  Publisher Comments conversion in...
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Orientalism
by Edward W. Said 
Publisher Comments The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs....
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Death of Adam (05 Edition)
by Marilynne Robinson Publisher Comments In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing Calvinism and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive puritan stereotype, or considering how...
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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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Very Short Introductions #4: Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
by Jonathan Culler Publisher Comments What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These questions and more are addressed in Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, a book which steers a clear path...
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Subculture : the Meaning of Style (79 Edition)
by Dick Hebdige Synopsis Complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks...
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The Gift of Death & Literature in Secret (Religion & Postmodernism)
by Jacques Derrida Publisher Comments The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida’s most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by...
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores...
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Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses
by Howard Hampton Publisher Comments Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hardnosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged space between Apocalypse Now Reduxand Nirvanaandrsquo;s...
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French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States
by Francois Cusset Publisher Comments “A great story, full of twists and turns. . . . Careers made and ruined, departments torn apart, writing programs turned into sensitivity seminars, political witch hunts, public opprobrium, ignorant media attacks, the whole ball of wax. Read it...
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Imagined Communities Reflections Rev Edition
by Benedict Anderson Publisher Comments What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality – the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation –...
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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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Radical Alterity Radical Alterity (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments Alterity is in danger. It is a masterpiece in peril, an object lost or missing from our system, from the system of artificial intelligence and the system of communication in general.--from Radical AlterityWhere is the Other today? Can Otherness challenge...
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Fatal Strategies Fatal Strategies (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
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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A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer’s imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out...
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Rhetoric of Fiction (2ND 83 Edition)
by Wayne C. Booth Publisher Comments The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form...
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Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture
by Russell Ferguson Publisher Comments Images by Felix Gonzales-TorresOut There addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It is a wide-ranging anthology that juxtaposes...
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Texts and Contexts #11: Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania
by Avital Ronell Synopsis Avital Ronell asks why "there is no culture without drug culture." She deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud's cocaine, Baudelaire's hashish, the Victorians' laudanum), and moves beyond them to addictions that are...
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Culture, Media, and Identities #02: Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
by Stuart Hall Synopsis This text outlines how visual images, language and discourse work as "systems of representation". It analyzes questions of meaning, truth, knowledge and power in representation, and the relations between representation, pleasure and fantasy....
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—...
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