France and the Holy Land

• Hardcover | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• During the First Crusade launched in 1095, thousands of Europeans fought to liberate Jerusalem from the Seljuk Turks. By 1099, they had succeeded, and... Lees meer

The New Medievalism

• Paperback | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a questi... Lees meer

Styles of Enlightenment

Elena Russo

• Paperback | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displaye... Lees meer

What's Wrong with Postmodernism?

Christopher Norris

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• In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the "postmodern-pragmatist malaise" of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds... Lees meer

The Well-Tempered Self

Toby Miller

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• In The Well-Tempered Self , Toby Miller argues that the modern capitalist state musters a variety of cultural forces to send deliberately mixed messag... Lees meer

Suburban Ambush

Robert Siegle

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• Suburban Ambush is a cultural history of a downtown scene just beginning to attract mainsteam attention. From a neighborhood where pushers and poststr... Lees meer

Heterocosmica

Lubomir Dolezel

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• "The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and hands... Lees meer

On the Edge of the Cliff

Roger Chartier

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• The importance of history has been powerfully reaffirmed in recent years by the appearance of major new authors, pathbreaking works, and fresh interpr... Lees meer

Decadent Subjects

Charles Bernheimer

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• Honorable Mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association Charles Bernheimer des... Lees meer

Writing History, Writing Trauma

Dominick LaCapra

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• Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra cri... Lees meer

Gilles Deleuze

Paola Marrati

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• 2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine In recent years, the recognition of Gilles Deleuze as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth ... Lees meer

Perpetual Motion

Michel Jeanneret

• Hardcover | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• The popular conception of the Renaissance as a culture devoted to order and perfection does not account for an important characteristic of Renaissance... Lees meer

Eroticism and the Body Politic

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• By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in... Lees meer

The Fate of Carmen

Evlyn Gould

• Paperback | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• "[The] ongoing proliferation of new versions of Carmen presents an ideal opportunity to study relationships between literature and the performing arts... Lees meer

Food for Thought

Louis Marin

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• A wicked queen orders the palace cook to kill her grandchildren and serve them up for dinner--"in a sauce Robert." But as any good cook knows, this sa... Lees meer

Torrid Zones

Felicity A Nussbaum

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• How did the creation of the "Other" woman in English narratives contribute to the displacement of sexuality onto the exotic or savage woman? How did t... Lees meer

The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan

Rochelle Tobias

• Hardcover | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• Paul Celan has long been regarded as the most important European poet after 1945 but also the most difficult owing to the numerous references in his w... Lees meer

Revolutionary Acts

Susan Maslan

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• In Revolutionary Acts Susan Maslan shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground... Lees meer

Fictional Truth

Michael Riffaterre

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• "All literary genres are artifacts", writes Michael Riffaterre, "but none more blatantly so than fiction. Its very name declares its artificiality, an... Lees meer

Cultural Imperialism

John Tomlinson

• Paperback | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• Cultural imperialism is treated as the central critical concept in a number of related disourses: the debate about 'Media Imperialism'; the discourse ... Lees meer

National Culture and the New Global System

Frederick Buell

• Paperback | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• "The three worlds theory is perhaps still the basis for our dominant assumptions about geopolitical and geocultural order," writes Frederick Buell, "b... Lees meer

Fortune's Faces

Daniel Heller-Roazen

• Hardcover | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has tradi... Lees meer

Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism

• Paperback | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful--and controversial--influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In ... Lees meer

Death and Representation

• Paperback | Engels | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society
• Death is a subject of increasing interest in virtually all academic disciplines, yet there is surprisingly little theoretical work on the representati... Lees meer