• Criticism and Truth

    A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice—close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In this book, Jonathan Kramnick explains literary…

    $99.00
  • Dockside Reading

    In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early…

    $22.95
  • Dockside Reading

    In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early…

    $84.95
  • Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

    Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key…

    $79.95
  • From Laughter to Forgetting

    A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde.   In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-garde has been increased attention to texts…

    $45.00
  • Habermas and Literature

    Although Habermas has written about the cultural role of literature and about literary works, he has not systematically articulated a literary-critical method as a component of either communicative reason or…

    $39.95
  • Histopias

    The present monograph looks closely at and identifies a new subgenre, histopias. A (late) postmodernist phenomenon, histopias are fictional retellings of the history of the world. They often use utopian/dystopian…

    $19.00
  • Illegibility

    The philosophical significance of Maurice Blanchot’s writings has rarely been in doubt. Specifying the nature and implications of his thinking has proved much less easy, particularly in reference to the…

    $39.95