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What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter?These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME - Complete 7 Book Collection (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In Search……続きを見る

Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? is both an introduction to the work of Slavoj Žižek and an investigation into how his work can be used to think about the digital present. Clint Burnham unique……続きを見る

What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond records'? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be linked ……続きを見る

Das Handbuch entfaltet erstmals einen systematischen, theoriegeleiteten und historisch fundierten Überblick zur Kriminalliteratur. Sowohl literaturwissenschaftliche Konzepte von der Gattungsreflexio……続きを見る

‘Whiteness’ is an omnipresent term within research on race and racism. This book differs from existing conceptualizations by adopting a psychoanalytic line of approach and by directing its attention……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society – vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled a……続きを見る

Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore ke……続きを見る

'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan 'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer 'I see how we are all the same, ……続きを見る

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife docum……続きを見る

The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology – and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpreta……続きを見る

Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most i……続きを見る

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science The 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both ……続きを見る

Das mittlerweile als Standardwerk geltende Buch führt in die metrische Formensprache der deutschen Dichtung ein. Die theoretischen und methodischen Voraussetzungen werden einleitend nach Grundsätzen……続きを見る

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond is an exploration of psychoanalysis’ often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness, as well as its……続きを見る

The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more……続きを見る

In 1969 Stanley Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? revolutionized philosophy of ordinary language, aesthetics, ethics, tragedy, literature, music, art criticism, and modernism. This volume of new es……続きを見る

Sigmund Freud’s 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an "unknown" text. In this book Freud’s 1905 theory of sexualit……続きを見る

Seit dem Erscheinen von "Mimesis. Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur" im Jahr 1946 ist Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) als Klassiker der Geisteswissenschaften bekannt. Die Entsteh……続きを見る

James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' is a dense and intricate novel that pushes the boundaries of traditional narrative structure. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style, the book weaves together drea……続きを見る

Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphi……続きを見る

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of lit……続きを見る

Romanticism and Speculative Realism features a range of scholars working at the intersection of literary poetics and philosophy. It considers how the writing of the Romantic era reconceptualizes the……続きを見る

Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century. The essays investigate a diverse range of subjects i……続きを見る

This edited collection builds on recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material world outside human culture. Through the lens of literary analysis and theory,……続きを見る

Radical alternatives to consent and trauma Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pa……続きを見る

A detailed approach to the fiction of a third wave modernism pioneer Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of t……続きを見る

The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading ……続きを見る

In his wonderfully clear and cogent essay On Liberty, Mill contends that individuals should be as free as possible from interference by government. Proposing that individual fulfilment is the surest……続きを見る

Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britai……続きを見る