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Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction (Frontiers of Narrative) Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction (Frontiers of Narrative)
by Hilary Dannenberg

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In Coincidence and Counterfactuality, a groundbreaking analysis of plot, Hilary P. Dannenberg sets out to answer the perennial question of how to tell a good story. While plot is among the most integral aspects of storytelling, it is perhaps the least... (read more)

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Literary Lives Literary Lives
by Edward Sorel

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With amusing vignettes, award-winning caricaturist Sorel uses his distinctive style to illustrate the strange and eccentric lives of ten iconic literary figures: Tolstoy, Sartre, Eliot, Proust, Yeats, Brecht, Jung, Rand, Mailer, and Hellman.... (read more)

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NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America
by Constance Penley

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Penley investigates the American fascination with space, examining issues of sex and sexuality through Star Trek and NASA.... (read more)

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Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature
by Steven R Serafin

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Ten years in the making, this comprehensive single-volume literary survey is for the scholar, student and general reader.... (read more)

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Mapping Ideology Mapping Ideology
by Slavoj Zizek

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Essays by Theodor W. Adorno, Peter Dews, Seyla Benhabib, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Michel Picheux, Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill, Bryan S. Turner, Goran Therborn, Terry Eagleton, Richard Rorty, Michele Barrett, Pierre Bourdieu, Fredric Jameson,... (read more)

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Lacan: The Absolute Master Lacan: The Absolute Master
by Mikk Borch Jacobsen

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This lucid, philosophically sophisticated book is the first account of Lacan's development in its intellectual-historical context, the first account of the philosophical significance of his theory, and to date the best introduction to his thought.... (read more)

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Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies
by Stephen Greenblatt

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In this collection of essays, 24 leading scholars examine the major developments that have expanded the horizons of English and American literary studies during recent decades. The volume reviews the significant scholarship for major historical periods... (read more)

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The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis
by Jacques Lacan

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Jacques Lacan's commentaries on Freud had revolutionary implications not only for the analytic movement but also for contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. Lacan held that if the unconscious, as Freud described it, exists, it functions... (read more)

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Alternative Modernities (Public Culture) Alternative Modernities (Public Culture)
by Dilip Param Gaonkar

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To think in terms of alternative modernities is to admit that modernity is inescapable and to desist from speculations about modernity's end. Modernity today is global and multiple and no longer has a Western governing center to accompany it. The essays... (read more)

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The Death of Discourse The Death of Discourse
by Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover

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"No other book on the First Amendment even approximates it or rivals its creativity." David M. O'Brien, author of Constitutional Law... (read more)

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Writing Degree Zero Writing Degree Zero
by Roland Barthes

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In his first book, French critic Roland Barthes defines the complex nature of writing, as well as the social, historical, political, and personal forces responsible for the formal changes in writing from the classical period to recent times.... (read more)

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The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness
by Stephen P Knadler

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Denying its formative dialogues with minorities, the white race, Stephen P. Knadler contends, has been a fugitive race. While the white question, like the Negro question, and the woman question a century earlier, has garnered considerable critical... (read more)

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Subject to Negotiation: Reading Feminist Criticism and American Women's Fictions (Feminist Issues) Subject to Negotiation: Reading Feminist Criticism and American Women's Fictions (Feminist Issues)
by Elaine Neil Orr

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In Subject to Negotiation, Elaine Neil Orr proposes negotiation as both a state of consciousness and a significant movement for women writers as well as feminist critics. Challenging the "subversive" model of feminist criticism, she argues for the... (read more)

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Julia Kristeva, Interviews Julia Kristeva, Interviews
by Julia Kristeva

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A collection of 22 interviews and one personal essay, Julia Kristeva Interviews presents an intimate and accessible portrait of one of France's most important critical thinkers and intellectual personalities.... (read more)

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C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor
by Lionel Adey

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This new study by Lionel Adey is unique in its attempt to trace the development of C.S. Lewis as a maker and reader of books. Adey shows how the two sides of Lewis's personality, "Dreamer" and "Mentor" affected his writing in its various modes... (read more)

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Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
by Julia Kristeva

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In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. In her discussion she analyzes Holbein's... (read more)

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Suspect Suspect
by John Knechtel

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What is the condition of the suspect in a post-9/11 world? Do perpetual detention, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and the legal apparatus of the USA Patriot Act target suspects accurately or generate suspicion indiscriminately? Suspect, the latest in a... (read more)

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The Culture We Deserve The Culture We Deserve
by Jacques Barzun

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The essence of culture is interpenetration. From any part of it the searching eye will discover connections with another part seemingly remote. If from my descriptions the reader finds this wide-angled view sharpened or expanded, my purpose in publishing... (read more)

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Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies
by Gail E. Hawisher

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A work on the cutting edge of technology and composition.... (read more)

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American Visions #3: The American Body in Context: An Anthology: An Anthology American Visions #3: The American Body in Context: An Anthology: An Anthology
by Jessica R Johnston

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The body is a physical entity and a symbolic artifact. It is both created in the world of nature and also physically reconstructed by a culture. The body is both an internal, subjective environment and simultaneously an object for others to observe and... (read more)

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