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Offers an account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking. This work is divided into three sections, dealing with the concept of literature, with poetry and poetics, and with modernity, drama and
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Hughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyzes the hierarchies of cultural value that inform the work of
View ArticleWordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism
In recent decades, Wordsworth's poetry has become a point of focus for a great many of the proliferating schools of criticism and theoretical paradigms that dominate modern literary studies. Don...
View ArticleJoyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History
Joyce Effects is a collection of essays by a leading commentator on James Joyce. Joyce's books, Derek Attridge argues, go off like fireworks, and one of this book's aims is to enhance
View ArticleWorks on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
A stunning collection of essays on the craft of biography and autobiography by the acclaimed biographer of George Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey. Works on Paper is a selection by one of
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John Sturrock's classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associated with the thought of such key figures as...
View ArticleDerrida: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader)
Jacques Derrida's prolific output has been the delight (and sometimes the despair) of philosophers and literary theorists for over twenty years. His influence on the way we read theoretical texts...
View ArticleWilliam Empson (Hardback)
An account of William Empson's career as a critic, this work sets out to rescue him from the conflicting camps of deconstruction and cultural criticism placing him alongside such critics as Walter
View ArticleTransvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh
This book is the first of its kind-a comprehensive account of transvestism and the performance of gender in Latin American literature and culture. Ben. Sifuentes-Jauregu explores the figure of the...
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