Structuralism
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...
View ArticleCulture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks (Cambridge...
Richard Grusin's innovative study investigates how the establishment of national parks contributed to the development of American national identity after the Civil War. Although parks are seen as an...
View ArticleDoing Things with Texts (Paperback)
A collection of essays and literary reviews taken from over three decades of the author's work. The essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the new
View ArticleTouch and Intimacy in First World War Literature (Hardback)
Santanu Das uncovers the intimate history of how war was experienced by the body.
View ArticleTextual Practice:Vol 7, Issue 3. Special Issue - Desire
Since its launch in 1987, Textual Practice has established itself as Britain's leading journal of radical literary theory. This special issue examines the theme of Desire.
View ArticleWrites of Passage - Travel Writing, Place and Ambiguity
A discussion of the interplay between an homogenizing system of othering which travellers bring to a place and the geographical difference they discover on arrival. The tensions between the imaginary...
View ArticleEnglish in America: A Radical View of the Profession
When it first appeared in 1976, this groundbreaking exploration of the influences of capitalism on the profession of English touched a nerve among educators and inspired Library Journal to declare,...
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