Ｙ．Ａ - Theory 4

This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, ……続きを見る

China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a model of economic and political strength, viewed by many as the greatest empire in the world. While the importance of China to eighteenth-cent……続きを見る

This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Law……続きを見る

From a critically acclaimed cultural and literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of the memoir. From Saint Augustine?s Confessions to Augusten Burroughs?s Running with Scissors, from Juli……続きを見る

For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today. Although attacked as a terrorist and derided as a fraud for his work on behalf of his ……続きを見る

The Poetic Edda translated by Henry Adams Bellows This edition is a reprint of the 1923 Bellows translation of Scandinavian mythology. Table Of Contians.... Voluspo Hovamol Vafthruthnismol Grimnism……続きを見る

First Published in 2002. Advanced technologies challenge conventional understandings of the human subject by transforming the body into a conduit between external forces and the internal psyche. Thi……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Set ten years after ‘Little Men’, ‘Jo’s Boys’ is the final novel in the unofficial series that follows the u……続きを見る

In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman interrogates and challenges cultural theorists' interpretations of sexual transgression in African American literature. She argues that, from the mid-n……続きを見る

Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence. Inspired by the unexpected lines of influence and sympathy th……続きを見る

Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth centuryーa uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglec……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.’ In mid-nineteen……続きを見る

Rethinking textuality, mimesis, and the cognitive processing of texts in light of new modes of artistic world construction. Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Stu……続きを見る

Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on t……続きを見る

Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study s……続きを見る

The first book-length study of the figure of the black Indian in American Literature, this project explores themes of nation, culture, and performativity. Moving from the Post-Independence period to……続きを見る

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a central figure in the thought of his time, but he was also something of an outsider. His father died in the First World War, he enjoyed his mother’s unfailing love, ……続きを見る

For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost f……続きを見る

Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on t……続きを見る

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents that determined its course took place in the northern……続きを見る

How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to anothe……続きを見る

El indispensable exceso de la estética aborda, por primera vez en esta disciplina, la evolución de la sensibilidad desde sus manifestaciones primigenias. Trata de rastrear la estesis a partir de sub……続きを見る

In the summer of 1876, Mark Twain started to write Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel surrounding the murder of Huck’s father, Pap Finn. The case is unresolved in the novel as it ex……続きを見る

Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in nineteenth century American literature. The book argues th……続きを見る

Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real proposes writing as a mathematical and logical operation to build a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Samuel Beckett's prose works. A……続きを見る

Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Vict……続きを見る

This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk. The author bases his investigation on the belief that traditional African philosophy is hidd……続きを見る

In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both West……続きを見る

« Il y a un temps pour tout, un temps pour vivre, un temps pour mourir, un temps pour pleurer, un temps pour rire, un temps pour aimer, un temps pour haïr, le temps est venu d’agir et de secourir la……続きを見る

Before Literature examines storytelling that, whether due to historical, technological, or socio-economic circumstance, is neither shaped nor influenced by alphabetic literacy. How does a story unfo……続きを見る