The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universi ... 続きを読む
Literary artefacts-the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact-are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture. They provide a model of everything that cognition doe ... 続きを読む
Nation and Aesthetics is a unique attempt to examine the ambiguous nature of nationalism and nation by examining them through aesthetics. In this translation by Jonathan E. Abel, Darwin H. Tsen, and H ... 続きを読む
The most substantial book to date on the history of the essay in English
Includes seventeen chapters written by scholars and essayists whose expertise is internationally recognized
Full of orig ... 続きを読む
This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts gen ... 続きを読む
Introduces postcolonialism in both its historical and contemporary manifestations
Analyses the political, social, and cultural realities of the colonial experience, and of decolonization
This n ... 続きを読む
Enjoyable discussion of a subject popular amongst students and general readers interested in contemporary culture
Covers a wide range of theorists, artists, and writers
Highlights the positive ... 続きを読む
An accessible and lively introduction to postructuralism
Illustrated with familiar examples showing the implications of poststructuralist theories
Explains the logic of the poststructuralist ac ... 続きを読む
Introduces the basics, taking nothing for granted in its exploration of why poststructuralism has been so influential.
Offers important, understandable examples to explain each theory.
Addresse ... 続きを読む
Radical Empiricists presents a new history of criticism in the first half of the twentieth-century, against the backdrop of the modernist crisis of meaning. Our received idea of modernist criticism is ... 続きを読む
