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After Theoryby Terry EagletonISBN 0465017746 (0-465-01774-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Theory'Book summary:For anyone forced to wrestle with the likes of Derrida and Foucault during their college days, Terry Eagleton needs no introduction. His clear and accessible primer on literary theory was (and is) an indispensable guide to the post-modern era in the humanities. Now Eagleton argues that the golden age of cultural theory has ended, and with characteristic wit and verve, he traces its rise and fall from structuralism to post-colonial studies and beyond. In a new era of globalization and terrorism, Eagleton warns, the bundle of ideas known as post-modernism is essentially toothless.In this eloquent synthesis of a lifetime of learning, Eagleton challenges contemporary intellectuals to engage with a range of vital topics-love, evil, death, morality, religion, and revolution-that they've ignored over the past thirty years. Lively and provocative, Eagleton's latest will engage readers inside and outside the academy who are eager for a more holistic and humane way of "reading" the world."A rare opportunity to enjoy the art of cultural and social diagnosis at its purest! Eagleton offers a unique combination of theoretical stringency and acerbic common-sense witticism, of critical historical reflection and the ability to ask the 'big' metaphysical questions."-Slavoj Zizek[via]-
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essaysby Northrop FryeISBN 0691069999 (0-691-06999-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays'Book summary:Northrop Frye was one of the most influential 20th-century literary scholars, and Anatomy of Criticism is his most influential book. In this rigorous and readable work of scholarship, Frye feistily champions literary criticism's legitimacy and independence--both by differentiating criticism from other academic disciplines, and by banishing any conception of the critic as "parasite or jackal" (this latter view, Frye notes, is still quite popular, "especially among artists"). The book began as something quite different, and took nearly a decade to write. Frye published his first major work--Fearful Symmetry, on the Romantic poet William Blake--in 1947 and had set out to produce a second tome on Edmund Spencer. But the critical insights accumulating in his fertile mind were too insistent, so the book on Spencer became Anatomy of Criticism.
Anatomy of Criticism remains provocative and enlightening in no small part because of its ambitious breadth. Frye's comprehension of literary history is breathtaking, as is the complexity but also the clarity of his thought. Four chapters treat historical, ethical, archetypal, and rhetorical modes of criticism, bracketed by a "Polemical Introduction" and a "Tentative Conclusion." Frye's ultimate aim is to confirm for the reader that literary criticism is a science in its own right: "Criticism," he says, "is to art what history is to action and philosophy is to wisdom.... And just as there is nothing which the philosopher cannot consider philosophically, and nothing which the historian cannot consider historically, so the critic should be able to construct and dwell in a conceptual universe of his own." Rather than promote any particular critical approach over another, he tries to construct a theoretical structure sturdy and expansive enough to accommodate and inter-relate a broad range of critical approaches. --Russell Prather [via]
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essaysby William CalinISBN 0802092721 (0-8020-9272-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays'Book summary:Northrop Frye was one of the most influential 20th-century literary scholars, and Anatomy of Criticism is his most influential book. In this rigorous and readable work of scholarship, Frye feistily champions literary criticism's legitimacy and independence--both by differentiating criticism from other academic disciplines, and by banishing any conception of the critic as "parasite or jackal" (this latter view, Frye notes, is still quite popular, "especially among artists"). The book began as something quite different, and took nearly a decade to write. Frye published his first major work--Fearful Symmetry, on the Romantic poet William Blake--in 1947 and had set out to produce a second tome on Edmund Spencer. But the critical insights accumulating in his fertile mind were too insistent, so the book on Spencer became Anatomy of Criticism.
Anatomy of Criticism remains provocative and enlightening in no small part because of its ambitious breadth. Frye's comprehension of literary history is breathtaking, as is the complexity but also the clarity of his thought. Four chapters treat historical, ethical, archetypal, and rhetorical modes of criticism, bracketed by a "Polemical Introduction" and a "Tentative Conclusion." Frye's ultimate aim is to confirm for the reader that literary criticism is a science in its own right: "Criticism," he says, "is to art what history is to action and philosophy is to wisdom.... And just as there is nothing which the philosopher cannot consider philosophically, and nothing which the historian cannot consider historically, so the critic should be able to construct and dwell in a conceptual universe of his own." Rather than promote any particular critical approach over another, he tries to construct a theoretical structure sturdy and expansive enough to accommodate and inter-relate a broad range of critical approaches. --Russell Prather [via]
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Aristotle on Poeticsby Aristotle, Michael Davis, Seth BenardeteISBN 1587310260 (1-58731-026-0)
Softcover, St Augustine Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle on Poetics'Book summary:Aristotle's much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. The late Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it anew with a view to rendering Aristotle's text into English as precisely as possible. A literal translation has long been needed, for in order to excavate the argument of On Poetics one has to attend not simply to what is said on the surface but also to the various puzzles, questions, and peculiarities that emerge only on the level of how Aristotle says what he says and thereby leads one to revise and deepen one's initial understanding of the intent of the argument. As On Poetics is about how tragedy ought to be composed, it should not be surprising that it turns out to be a rather artful piece of literature in its own right.
Benardete and Davis supplement their edition of On Poetics with extensive notes and appendices. They explain nuances of the original that elude translation, and they provide translations of passages found elsewhere in Aristotle's works as well as in those of other ancient authors that prove useful in thinking through the argument of On Poetics both in terms of its treatment of tragedy and in terms of its broader concerns. By following the connections Aristotle plots between On Poetics and his other works, readers will be in a position to appreciate the centrality of this work for his entire thought.
In an introduction that sketches the overall interpretation of On Poetics presented in hisThe Poetry of Philosophy (St. Augustine's Press, 1999; see p. 33 of this catalogue), Davis argues that, while On Poetics is certainly about tragedy, it has a further concern extending beyond poetry to the very structure of the human soul in its relation to what is, and that Aristotle reveals in the form of his argument the true character of human action. [via]
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Aristotle: Poeticsby D.W. LucasISBN 019814024X (0-19-814024-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Aristotle Poeticsby S.H. ButcherISBN 0486200426 (0-486-20042-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle Poetics'Book summary: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 interpretation of Aristotle's ideas. Seminal discussions of art and morality, poetic truth, much more.[via]More editions of Aristotle Poetics:
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Aristotle Poetics/Longinus on the Sublime/Demetrius on Styleby Aristotle, Donald Russell, Demetrius, Longinus, Stephen Halliwell, Dorren C. Innes, W. H. FyfeISBN 0674995635 (0-674-99563-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle Poetics/Longinus on the Sublime/Demetrius on Style'Book summary:This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, naturne, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a reliable text and a translation that is both accurate and readable. His authoritative introduction traces the work's debt to earlier theorists (especially Plato), its distinctive argument, and the reasons behind its enduring relevance.
The essay On the Sublime, usually attributed to "Longinus" (identity uncertain), was probably composed in the first century CE; its subject is the appreciation of greatness ("the sublime") in writing, with analysis of illustrative passages ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plato. In this edition, Donald Russell has revised and newly annotated the text and translation by W. Hamilton Fyfe, and supplied a new introduction.
The treatise On Style, ascribed to an (again unidentifiable) Demetrius, was perhaps composed during the secod century BCE. It is notable particularly for its theory and analysis of four distinct styles (grand, elegant, plain, and forceful). Doreen Innes' fresh rendering of the work is based on the earlier Loeb translation by W. Rhys Roberts. Her new introduction and notes represent the latest scholarship.
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Aristotle's on the Art of Poetryby AristotleISBN 0198141106 (0-19-814110-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle's on the Art of Poetry'Book summary:This book, "Aristotle, On the art of poetry (1920)", by Aristotle, Bywater, Ingram, 1840-1914, Murray Gilbert, is a replication of a book originally published before 1920. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature. [via]
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Aristotle's Poeticsby Aristotle, James HuttonISBN 0393952169 (0-393-95216-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle's Poetics'Book summary:A work of transcendent importance, both for the history of literary criticism and in its own right[via]More editions of Aristotle's Poetics:
- Aristotle: Poetics: ISBN 0472061666 (0-472-06166-6)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr - Aristotle's Poetics: ISBN 0773516123 (0-7735-1612-3)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr - Aristotle's Poetics: ISBN 0809005271 (0-8090-0527-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Aristotle Poetics: ISBN 0198141750 (0-19-814175-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Aristotle's Poetics: ISBN 0393952169 (0-393-95216-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Aristotle: Poetics: ISBN 0472061666 (0-472-06166-6)
Aristotle's Poeticsby Hippocrates G. Apostle, Morris A. Parslow, Elizabeth A. DobbsISBN 0911589090 (0-911589-09-0)
Softcover, Peripatetic Pr
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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theoryby Peter BarryISBN 0719062683 (0-7190-6268-3)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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De Arte Poetica Liberby Aristotle, Rudolf V. KasselISBN 0198145640 (0-19-814564-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essaysby M.M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist, Caryl EmersonISBN 029271534X (0-292-71534-X)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays'Book summary:These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevskyas a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology.
Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.
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A Dictionary of Literary Termsby J.A. CuddonISBN 0140511121 (0-14-051112-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theoryby J. A. Cuddon, C. E. PrestonISBN 0631202714 (0-631-20271-4)
Hardcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory'Book summary:In the new edition of this work many of the 2000 terms it defines have completely revised entries, and there are several hundred new entries. The coverage of the dictionary has been expanded to cover literary theory and the critical developments that have grown up since the first edition of the book was published in 1976. Now, in addition to its informative entries on the language of literature and literary criticism, from Bascarole and courtesy books to sprung rhythm and Vorticism, the dictionary contains entries on theorietical topics from aporia to Yale School. Amongst these are Freudian and psychoanalytic criticism, formalism, grammatology, hermeneutics, post-modernism and structuralism. [via]
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The Double Invention of Komoby Jay WrightISBN 0292715277 (0-292-71527-7)
Softcover, University of Texas Press
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Fragments D'UN Discours Amoureuxby Roland BarthesISBN 2020046059 (2-02-004605-9)
Hardcover, Editions Du Seuil
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A Glossary of Literary Termsby M. H. Abrams, Geoffrey Galt HarphamISBN 1413002188 (1-4130-0218-8)
Softcover, Heinle
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Glossary of Literary Terms'Book summary:First published in 1957, A Glossary of Literary Terms contains succinct essays on the terms used in discussing literature, literary history, and literary criticism. This text is an indispensable reference for students. [via]
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Softcover, Cengage Learning - A Glossary of Literary Terms: ISBN 0030119537 (0-03-011953-7)
Softcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston - A Glossary of Literary Terms: ISBN 0030541662 (0-03-054166-2)
Softcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston - A Glossary of Literary Terms: ISBN 0030549825 (0-03-054982-5)
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- A Glossary of Literary Terms: ISBN 1413004563 (1-4130-0456-3)
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Illuminationsby Walter BenjaminISBN 0805202412 (0-8052-0241-2)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illuminations'Book summary:Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history.
Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times. [via]More editions of Illuminations:
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Literary Language & Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Agesby Erich Auerbach, Ralph ManheimISBN 0691024685 (0-691-02468-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literary Language & Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages'Book summary:In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his Mimesis: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.
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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introductionby Jonathan CullerISBN 019285383X (0-19-285383-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction'Book summary:What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These questions and more are addressed in Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, a book which steers a clear path through a subject which is often perceived to be complex and impenetrable.
Jonathan Culler, an extremely lucid commentator and much admired in the field of literary theory, offers discerning insights into such theories as the nature of language and meaning, and whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience. Concise yet thorough, Literary Theory also outlines the ideas behind a number of different schools: deconstruction, semiotics, postcolonial theory, and structuralism, among others.
From topics such as literature and social identity to poetry, poetics, and rhetoric, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction is a welcome guide for anyone interested in the importance of literature and the debates surrounding it. [via]More editions of Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction:
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Literary Theory: An Introductionby Terry EagletonISBN 081661251X (0-8166-1251-X)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literary Theory: An Introduction'Book summary:A concise, witty, and entertaining introduction to the seemingly impenetrable world of modern literary [via]
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Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr - Literary Theory: An Introduction: ISBN 0816612382 (0-8166-1238-2)
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Lover's Discourse: Fragmentsby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521611 (0-374-52161-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lover's Discourse: Fragments'Book summary:The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire'. This book revives beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culture - the notion of the amorous subject. It will be enjoyed and understood by two groups of readers: those who have been in love (Or think they have, which is the same thing), and those who have never been in love (or think they have not, which is the same thing). This book might be considered, in its restless search for authorities and examples, which range from Nietzsche to Zen, from Ruysbroek to Debussy, an encyclopaedia of that affirmative discourse which is the lover's. [via]
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literatureby Erich AuerbachISBN 069111336X (0-691-11336-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature'Book summary:A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which Auerbach responds to his critics. [via]
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Mythologiesby R. BarthesISBN 0374521506 (0-374-52150-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythologies'Book summary:L'Antiquité avait son Oedipe, le Grand Siècle son roi Soleil, et voilà que Barthes donne à la France de l'après-guerre ses nouveaux emblèmes : la DS Citroën, le Tour de France, le steak frites... Tous objets d'un culte bourgeois, ils deviennent de véritables mythes pour une société qui finit par se penser à travers eux. Mais si Barthes se penche avec la rigueur de l'ethnologue sur ces nouveaux mythes, c'est pour mieux en dénoncer les mécanismes : l'idéologie dominante ne s'inventerait ainsi des valeurs que pour légitimer des "normes bourgeoises" qui en manquent singulièrement...
Écrites quotidiennement de 1954 à 1956, ces mythologies déploient une écriture fine, cultivée et juste, à lire comme autant de petites chroniques savoureuses. Toutefois, on les retiendra avant tout pour l'actualité de leurs propos : sur le même modèle, on trouverait sans peine de nouvelles mythologies, qui ne seraient sans doute pas très éloignées de celles que Barthes, en son temps, mettait en évidence. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Mythologiesby Yves Bonnefoy, Wendy Doniger, Gerald HonigsblumISBN 0226064530 (0-226-06453-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythologies'Book summary:"The appearance of this monumental work in a beautifully produced and richly illustrated English edition is a publishing event of considerable significance."Mark C. Taylor, New York Times Book Review[via]
"The almost 100 contributors combine, with characteristic precision and elan, the arts of science and poetry, of analysis and translation. The result is a treasury of information, brilliant guesswork, witty asides, and revealing digressions. This is a work of genuine and enduring excitement."Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science MonitorMore editions of Mythologies:
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticismby Vincent B. LeitchISBN 0393974294 (0-393-97429-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Of Grammatologyby Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakISBN 0801858305 (0-8018-5830-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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On Deconstructionby Jonathan CullerISBN 041504555X (0-415-04555-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Culler's book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a new preface by the author that surveys deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place within cultural theory today.
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On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralismby Jonathan CullerISBN 0801492017 (0-8014-9201-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism'Book summary:From reviews of the first edition?"Academic literary crticism continues to be dominated by 'theory' and the struggle between deconstructionist and humanist approaches to the business of reading. Jonathan Culler's On Deconstruction is a typically patient, thoughtful, illuminating exposition of the ideas of Jacques Derrida and their application to literary studies."-David Lodge, Commonwealth"Culler is lucid and thorough, can move into and out of other people's arguments without losing the sense of his own voice and argument, and can manage to seem equally at home with Freudianism, feminism, and traditional literary criticism."-Times Literary Supplement"As a practicing critic Culler has always been a deconstructor, and he approaches this topic with special immediacy and force. In On Deconstruction he offers generous summaries of numerous representative articles and a fine annotated bibliography. . . . His magisterial way of tracing particular topics and techniques through our diaspora of critical texts, and his provocative analyses, cannot fail to focus any critic's thinking about deconstruction."-Modern Language Quarterly"Gifted with grace and clarity, Culler provides us with a stimulating survey of contemporary literary criticism."-Antioch ReviewWith an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics. Culler's book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a new preface by the author that surveys deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place within cultural theory today. [via]
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On Poetry and Styleby AristotleISBN 0872200728 (0-87220-072-8)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Poetry and Style'Book summary:Contains the 'Poetics' and the first twelve chapters of the 'Rhetoric, Book III'. [via]
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Orientalismby Edward W. SaidISBN 039474067X (0-394-74067-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orientalism'Book summary:For generations now, Edward W. Said's "Orientalism" has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism. Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian-American cultural critic and author, born in Jerusalem and educated in Egypt and the United States. His other books include "The Question of Palestine", "Culture and Imperialism" and "Out of Place: A Memoir". If you enjoyed "Orientalism", you might like Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth", also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious". ("Observer"). "Beautifully patterned and passionately argued". ("New Statesman"). "Very exciting ...his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive". (John Leonard, "New York Times"). "Magisterial". (Terry Eagleton). [via]
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theoryby J.A. Cuddon, Claire PrestonISBN 0140513639 (0-14-051363-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory'Book summary:This edition of an established dictionary of literary terms, is brought up-to-date by the inclusion of new terms from literary theory and structuralist, post-structuralist and deconstructuralist criticism. [via]
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The Pleasure of the Textby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521603 (0-374-52160-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pleasure of the Text'Book summary:What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthess answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge." --Richard Howard[via] -
Poeticsby AristotleISBN 1419142402 (1-4191-4240-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetics'Book summary:The original, Aristotle's short study of storytelling, written in the fourth century B.C., is the world's first critical book about the laws of literature. Sure, it's 2400 years old, but Aristotle's discussions--Unity of Plot, Reversal of the Situation, Character--though written in the context of ancient Greek Tragedy, Comedy and Epic Poetry, still apply to our modern literary forms. The book is quite short, and Aristotle illuminates his points with clear examples, making the Poetics perfectly readable, the better to impress people at parties when you say, "Of course, as Aristotle says..." [via]
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Poetics Iby Aristotle, Richard JankoISBN 0872200337 (0-87220-033-7)
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Poetics I With the Tractatus Coislinianus: A Hypothetical Reconstruction of Poetics IIby AristotleISBN 0872200345 (0-87220-034-5)
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The Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentaryby Stephen HalliwellISBN 0807842036 (0-8078-4203-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentary'Book summary:Incorporating the best modern work on the Poetics, Halliwell's translation is aimed at those who want a reliable version of Aristotle's ideas along with concise and stimulating guidance. A running commentary explains the structure and detail of Aristotle's argument, attempts to provoke further thought about the work's strengths and weaknesses, and offers suggestions on relating the Poetics to later stages of literary theory and practice. [via]
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The Poetics of Aristotleby Aristotle, Samuel Henry ButcherISBN 140651022X (1-4065-1022-X)
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The Political Unconsciousby Fredric JamesonISBN 080149222X (0-8014-9222-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Political Unconscious'Book summary:Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement or auxiliary to other methods current today.
Jameson supports his thesis by looking closely at the nature of interpretation. Our understanding, he says, is colored by the concepts and categories that we inherit from our culture's interpretive tradition and that we use to comprehend what we read. How then can the literature of other ages be understood by readers from a present that is culturally so different from the past? Marxism lies at the foundation of Jameson's answer, because it conceives of history as a single collective narrative that links past and present; Marxist literary criticism reveals the unity of that uninterrupted narrative.
Jameson applies his interpretive theory to nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts, including the works of Balzac, Gissing, and Conrad. Throughout, he considers other interpretive approaches to the works he discusses, assessing the importance and limitations of methods as different as Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, dialectical analysis, and allegorical readings. The book as a whole raises directly issues that have been only implicit in Jameson's earlier work, namely the relationship between dialectics and structuralism, and the tension between the German and the French aesthetic traditions.
The Political Unconscious is a masterly introduction to both the method and the practice of Marxist criticism. Defining a mode of criticism and applying it successfully to individual works, it bridges the gap between theoretical speculation and textual analysis.
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The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Actby F. JamesonISBN 0415287510 (0-415-28751-0)
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Rabelais and His Worldby Mikhail BakhtinISBN 0253203414 (0-253-20341-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rabelais and His World'Book summary:This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (18951975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
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S/Zby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521670 (0-374-52167-0)
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S/Zby Honore De Balzac, Roland BarthesISBN 0809083752 (0-8090-8375-2)
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Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theoryby Toril MoiISBN 0415280125 (0-415-28012-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory'Book summary:What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?
Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French, paying particular attention to the works of Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva. In the years since publication this book has rightly attained the status of a classic. Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, Sexual/Textual Politics nevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or apolitical approaches.
With a new afterword in this edition, Sexual/Textual Politics is a must-read for all those interested in feminist literary theory. [via]More editions of Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory:
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Writing and Differenceby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143295 (0-226-14329-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing and Difference'Book summary:First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thoughtone of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models.[via]
The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différencethe untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical "concept" that does not exclude writingfor almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
Writing and Difference reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program, Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading, and writing,new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find Writing and Difference an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkerschallenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.
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De La Grammatologieby Jacques DerridaISBN 2707300128 (2-7073-0012-8)
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La Poetiqueby Aristotle, Roselyne Dupont-Roc, Jean LallotISBN 2020054345 (2-02-005434-5)
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Illuminationen: Ausgew. Schriftenby Walter BenjaminISBN 3518068458 (3-518-06845-8)
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