Identities

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• The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class, and gender in feminist, les... Lees meer

The Language of Images

W J T Mitchell

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• A remarkably rich and provocative set of essays on the virtually infinite kinds of meanings generated by images in both the verbal and visual arts. Ra... Lees meer

Things

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• This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry... Lees meer

Comics & Media

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• The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success . Comics & Media reflects that, b... Lees meer

Edward Said

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• In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation , Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left ... Lees meer

The Late Derrida

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• The rubric "The Late Derrida," with all puns and ambiguities cheerfully intended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vast outpouring of n... Lees meer

Signature Derrida

Jacques Derrida

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• Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with Critical Inquiry and its editors. He saved some of his most i... Lees meer

Canons

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• Canon formation: ". . . the traditional dream of ambitious critics. A canon is commonly seen as what other people, once powerful, have made and what s... Lees meer

On Metaphor

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• On Metaphor , a collection of fourteen essays by eminent philosophers, literary critics, theologians, art historians, and psychologists, illustrates a... Lees meer

Questions of Evidence

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• Biologists, historians, lawyers, art historians, and literary critics all voice arguments in the critical dialogue about what constitutes evidence in ... Lees meer

Against Theory

W J T Mitchell

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• "Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This cha... Lees meer

Saints

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• While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and p... Lees meer