In ShakespeareBrechtandtheInterculturalSign renowned Brecht scholar Anton...In Shakespeare Brecht and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama to investigate cultural crossings and to show how intercultural readings or performances question the settled assumptions we bring to interpretations...more
In ShakespeareBrechtandtheInterculturalSign renowned Brecht scholar Anton...In Shakespeare Brecht and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama to investigate cultural crossings and to show how intercultural readings or performances question the settled assumptions we bring to interpretations...more
Jean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provoca...Jean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provocative writers of our age. Variously termed France s leading philosopher of postmodernism and a sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left he might also be called...more
How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors...How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors-Wyatt Donne and Marvell-the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman Laura whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held...more
Through the concept of social choreography Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how chor...Through the concept of social choreography Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance...more
CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condit...CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting /...more
The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the rec...The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin American dictatorships particularly those in Argentina Brazil and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy of social trauma and obliteration of...more
Fredric Jameson is one of the most influential literary and cultural critics w...Fredric Jameson is one of the most influential literary and cultural critics writing today. He is a theoretical innovator whose ideas about the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and...more
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Po...A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). A leading Brazilian theorist and author of the highly...more
In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination o...In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse he makes a case for the agency-or the capacity to resist...more
Available in English for the first time Hegel andthe Freedom of Moderns reviv...Available in English for the first time Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel s thought....more
In this second edition of The Repeating Island Antonio BenÃtez-Rojo a master ...In this second edition of The Repeating Island Antonio BenÃtez-Rojo a master of the historical novel short story and critical essay continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs...more
Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film television and...Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film television and fiction Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 fostered a...more
Television can be imagined in a number of ways: as a profuse flow of images as...Television can be imagined in a number of ways: as a profuse flow of images as a machine that produces new social relationships as the last lingering gasp of Western metaphysical thinking as a stuttering relay system of almost anonymous messages as...more