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The Way We Argue Now : A Study in the Cultures of Theory
Amanda Anderson
Paperback - $45.95
"How do we argue now? Vigorously and with vim, if Amanda Anderson's new book is any indication. Anderson worries that the poststructuralist critique of reason, together with identity politics' sociological reductionism, threatens to undermine our cap ...
Semites : Race, Religion, Literature
Gil Anidjar
Paperback - $35.95
This book is a collection of essays about the invention--and disappearance--of the 'Semites' and the lingering effects, both institutional and theologico-political, of this invention.
Passive Constitutions or 7 1/2 Times Bartleby
Branka Arsic
Hardcover - $128.95
Through analysis of Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener," this book analyzes major questions in Melville's literature as well as philosophical, theological, political, juridical, psychiatric, and literary discourses of his age and the America in whic ...
The Singularity of Literature
Derek Attridge
Hardcover - $191.95
There is no shortage of testimony to literature's puzzling, unsettling, intoxicating, affecting, delighting powers. Nor has there been a shortage of attempts to define literature as a concept, a body of texts or a cultural practice. However, no defin ...
The Singularity of Literature
Derek Attridge
Paperback - $58.95
brilliantly retheorizes its place in the realm of the ethical. The author acknowledges the impossibility of definition and rather offers us an account of his particular "living-through" of the literary in the terms above and invites us to share with ...
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry : Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
Paula R. Backscheider
Paperback - $75.95