Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson

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• Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism". Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmod... Lees meer

Class Fictions

Pamela Fox

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• Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In this... Lees meer

The Story of All Things

Marshall Grossman

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• In The Story of All Things Marshall Grossman analyzes the influence of major cultural developments, as well as significant events in the lives of Rena... Lees meer

The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital

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• Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate ... Lees meer

Time-Fetishes

Ned Lukacher

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• For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to "discover" the truth of time, to determine whether time is infin... Lees meer

Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain

Dennis Dworkin

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• In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought. Tracing ... Lees meer

Total Speech

Michael Toolan

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• Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how langu... Lees meer

Entertaining the Third Reich

Linda Schulte-Sasse

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• In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at Nazi cinema, examining Nazi films as movies that ... Lees meer

House/Garden/Nation

Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez

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• How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista's electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorr... Lees meer

Novalis

William Arctander O'Brien

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• Novalis traces the meteoric career of one of the most striking--and most strikingly misunderstood--figures of German Romanticism. Although Friedrich v... Lees meer

The Spectacle of History

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• How is history produced? How do individuals write--or rewrite--their parts while engaged in the production of history? Michael Lynch and David Bogen t... Lees meer

Socialist Realism Without Shores

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• Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism--an aesthetic that, contrary to expectatio... Lees meer

Lucchesi and the Whale

Frank Lentricchia

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• Lucchesi and The Whale is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., is a co... Lees meer

Tokens of Exchange

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• The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translat... Lees meer

The Story of Stone

Jing Wang

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• In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition-all concerning stones endowed with magical properties-Jing Wan... Lees meer

The Gothic Family Romance

Margot Backus

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• Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. Such recurring... Lees meer

Lines of Flight

Stefan Mattessich

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• For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism-the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and spe... Lees meer

The Dialectics of Our America

José David Saldívar

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• Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the ca... Lees meer

Masculine/Feminine

Nelly Richard

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• Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile's neo-avantgarde, Richard work... Lees meer

Althusser and His Contemporaries

Warren Montag

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• Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages ... Lees meer

Utopia Limited

Marianne Dekoven

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• Utopia Limited is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Marianne DeKoven a... Lees meer

Socialist Realism without Shores

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• Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism-an aesthetic that, contrary to expectation... Lees meer

Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre

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• Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields--not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, po... Lees meer

The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital

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• Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate ... Lees meer