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Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century.

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This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyzes previous contributions to a Marxist ... More

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`Taken together, The Pleasure of the Text and S/Z force us to notice how much of the most interesting thought today is being carried forward in what ... More

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These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of ... More

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Best translation of one of the most influential books in all history. Greek and English on facing pages, plus Butcher's famed 300-page exposition and ... More

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Six Memos for the Millennium is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: ... More

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This edition of the Middle High German epic presents a text close to the ms., but in which the orthography has been normalised to aid readability. It ... More

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All the poems of a great 20th-century poet. From the astonishing debut "Hawk in the Rain" (1957) to "Birthday Letters" (1998), Ted Hughes was one of ... More

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These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the ... More

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In one of the most perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history, third century B.C. Greek philosopher Aristotle examines ... More

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One of the great ironic moral comedies of the late Middle Ages, Libro de Buen Amor holds a place in Spanish literature comparable with that of ... More

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First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous ... More

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For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the ... More

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CRITICAL THEORY SINCE PLATO is a chronologically-arranged anthology that presents a broad survey of the history and development of literary criticism ... More

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In these essays, Edward Said challenges contemporary literary criticism. He examines, among other things, narrative, focusing on Joseph Conrad and ... More

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As an incisive and provocative critic of literature, language, and culture, George Steiner has acquired an international reputation and a devoted ... More

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"Tropics of Discourse" develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and ... More

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Originally published in French in 1953 by Editions du Seuil, France, as Le degre zero de l'ecriture.

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Yvor Winters has here collected, with an introduction, the major critical works--Primitivism and Decadence, Maule's Curse, and The Anatomy of ... More

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Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in ... More

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In the culmination of a series that began with "The Anxiety of Influence" and "A Map of Misreading," Harold Bloom expands upon his controversial ... More

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