Mikhail Bakhtin: Between Phenomenology and Marxism (Literature, Culture, Theory)
The work of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under a single rubric, because its philosophical foundation rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension between these...
View ArticleConcepts of Criticism (Paperback)
14 essays cover literary theory, criticism, and history, concepts of form and structure, the Baroque, Romanticism, realism, positivism, comparative literature, and American and twentieth-century...
View ArticleFaking Literature
Literary forgeries are usually regarded as spurious versions of genuine literature. Faking Literature argues that the production of a literary forgery is an act that reveals the spurious nature of...
View ArticlePoetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau: Romantic Souls, Realist Lives
This book features readings of over twenty key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau. Simon Haines argues that the history...
View ArticleThe Textual Condition (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) by Jerome...
Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his
View ArticleFields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life
How do the specific circumstances in which we write affect what we write? How does what we write affect who we become? How can we maintain professsional and personal integrity in today's
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