Cultural & Literary Theory

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  Graphs, Maps, Trees

  by Franco Moretti
  The “great iconoclast of literary criticism” reinvents the study of the novel.

  2 posts

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  Ideology

  by Terry Eagleton
  The best guide available to this complex concept, newly updated.

  2 posts

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  The Modernist Papers

  by Fredric Jameson
  A new perspective on Proust, Joyce, Kafka and others from a master of literary theory.
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  Archaeologies of the Future

  by Fredric Jameson
  The relationship between utopia and science fiction, in the age of globalization.

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  Samuel Beckett

  by Pascale Casanova
  A radical new reading of Samuel Beckett, by the author of The World Republic of Letters.
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  Late Marxism

  by Fredric Jameson
  A lively and lucid introduction to the work of Theodor Adorno.

  1 post

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  Politics of Modernism

  by Raymond Williams
  The founding father of cultural theory posits a radical new direction for avant-garde art.
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  The Indivisible Remainder

  by Slavoj Žižek
  Confronts Schelling with Hegel, and illuminates popular culture and modern subjectivity.

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  Jorge Luis Borges

  by Beatriz Sarlo
  An essential study of Borges as a Latin American writer.
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  Criticism and Ideology

  by Terry Eagleton
  The fiery literary and cultural critic returns with a new edition of his classic work.
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  Lust For Life

  Edited by Carla Harryman, Avital Ronell, et al.
  Scholars and artists on the transgressive twentieth-century literary icon.

  1 post

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  The Function of Criticism

  by Terry Eagleton
  A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, from Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida.

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  Signs Taken for Wonders

  by Franco Moretti
  A compelling account of the relations between high and mass culture, across various genres.
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  Sexuality in the Field of Vision

  by Jacqueline Rose
  Feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.

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  Figures of Dissent

  by Terry Eagleton
  All figures here are subjected to Eagleton's pugnacious wit, scathing critical pen, and brilliant literary investigations.
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  The Two Lolitas

  by Michael Maar
  A leading German scholar reveals the secret history of Nabokov's infamous novel.