Overview :Here is the fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched Camille Paglia's exceptional career as one of ... Read More
Overview :Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism." Jameson's inquiry looks at t... Read More
Overview :A ROYAL AFFAIR is the true story of an ordinary man who wins the queen's heart and starts a revolution. Centering on the intriguing love tri... Read More
Overview :A perfect square is transformed in this adventure story that will transport you far beyond the four equal sides of this square book. ... Read More
Overview :Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's... Read More
Overview :Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordina... Read More
Overview :"This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today... Read More
Overview :Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradit... Read More
Overview :"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more prop... Read More
Overview :As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began t... Read More
Overview :A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne... Read More
Overview :First published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist's most original work--a brilliant and playful text,... Read More
Overview :For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected... Read More
Overview :What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in... Read More
Overview :Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the ... Read More
Overview :What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler... Read More
Overview :What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? An epic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like ico... Read More