Aesthetic Theory

Theodor W Adorno Adorno

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 88
• Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the in... Lees meer

Infinite Conversation

Maurice Blanchot

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 82
• In this landmark volume, Blanchot sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers whose contributions have marked turning points in the history of Weste... Lees meer

Inoperative Community

Jean-Luc Nancy

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 76
• This work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the individ... Lees meer

Language and Death

Giorgio Agamben

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 78
• A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deco... Lees meer

Noise

Jacques Attali

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 16
• "Noise is a model of cultural historiography. . . . In its general theoretical argument on the relations of culture to economy, but also in its specia... Lees meer

Border Writing

D Emily Hicks

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 80
• Border Writing was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, a... Lees meer

Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics

Mikhail Bakhtin

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 8
• This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky's studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produce... Lees meer

Resistance to Theory

Paul de Man

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 33
• Explores reasons why the theoretical enterprise is blind to, or "resists," the radical nature of reading, in six essays that offer a new level of crit... Lees meer

Modernism and Hegemony

Neil Larsen

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 71
• Modernism and Hegemony was first published in 1990. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again acces... Lees meer

Philosophy Beside Itself

Stephen W Melville

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 27
• Philosophy Beside Itself was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again acc... Lees meer

Questing Fictions

Djelal Kadir

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 32
• Questing Fictions was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible... Lees meer

From Topic to Tale

Eugene Vance

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 47
• From Topic to Tale was first published in 1987. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessibl... Lees meer

Theory of the Avant-Garde

Peter Burger

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 4
• Suggests a theory of art, tests against the French and German avant-garde movements of the twenties, and discusses hermeneutics, ideology, aesthetic c... Lees meer

The Yale Critics

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 6
• The Yale Critics was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible,... Lees meer

Visions of Excess

Georges Bataille

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 14
• Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist con... Lees meer

The Postmodern Condition

Jean-Francois Lyotard

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 10
• Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Post... Lees meer

The Emergence of Social Space

Kristin Ross

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 60
• The 1870s in France - Rimbaud's moment, and the subject of this book - is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories of France. Yet it was ... Lees meer

Framed Narratives

Jay Caplan, Jochen Schulte-Sasse

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 19
• Framed Narratives was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible... Lees meer

Pictorial Nominalism

Thierry de Duve

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 51
• Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, "No more painting, get a job," Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictoria... Lees meer

Reading with Clarice Lispector

Helene Cixous

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 73
• The texts that comprise this volume were selected from Cixous' seminars on the work of Clarice Lispector. They reflect Cixous' meditations on the art ... Lees meer

Aesthetic Ideology

Paul de Man

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 65
• An important reconsideration of ideology by one of this century's most eminent theorists. This long-awaited volume by one of the major figures of twen... Lees meer

Oral Poetry

Paul Zumthor

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 70
• Aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral poetry. The author discusses its development from antiquity t... Lees meer

Memory and Literature

Renate Lachmann

• Hardcover | Theory and History of Literature
• Combining literary theory with textual analysis in a consideration of some of the major texts of Russian modernism, this study reflects on works by Pu... Lees meer

The Wolf Man's Magic Word

Nicolas Abraham, Maria Torok

• Paperback | Engels | Theory and History of Literature | nr. 37
• The Wolf Man's Magic Word reopens the examination of the "Wolf Man," a Russian emigre who was Freud's patient and who wrote his own memoirs. Nicolas A... Lees meer