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Seduction of the Mediterraneanby Robert Aldrich
Routledge 1993; US$ 44.95Through an exploration of forty figures in European culture, the author argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. more...
Paul de Manby Martin McQuillan
Routledge 2001; US$ 22.95This book explains why de Man is such an important voice, detailing his critical position, exploring his intellectual and historical contexts, tracing the influence of his work and enabling readers to undertake independent study of his criticism. more...
Fredric Jamesonby Adam Roberts
Routledge 2000; US$ 22.95Widely recognised as one of today's most important cultural critics, Adam Roberts offers an engaging introduction to this crucial figure, which will convince any student of contemporary theory that Jameson must be read. more...
Geoffrey Hartmanby G. Douglas Atkins
Routledge 1990; US$ 125.00Geoffrey Hartman is the first book devoted to an exploration of the `intellectual poetry' of the critic who, whether or not he `represents the future of the profession', is a unique and major voice in twentieth-century criticism. more...
Realismby Pam Morris
Routledge 2003; US$ 22.95A clear, reader-friendly guide to debates around realism, this guide is vital reading for students of literature, in particular those working on the realist novel. more...
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literatureby Jennifer Richards
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00This book explores the early modern interest in conversation. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the philosopher Cicero. Recognising his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers new ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. more...
The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literatureby David M. Posner; Stephen Orgel
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 48.00This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Through detailed readings of major authors, David Posner examines the tensions between literary or imaginative representations of 'nobility', and the increasingly problematic historical position of the noble classes themselves. more...
Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literatureby David Ellison
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 40.00Ellison's book is an ambitious presentation of the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of Modernist literature. Ellison brings together philosophical, theoretical, and literary texts ranging over a century and a half of intellectual history. He shows, through close readings, how the struggle between aesthetic and ethical issues characterises each of them. more...
Textual Practiceby Terence Hawkes
Routledge 1992; US$ 33.95Textual Practice has established itself as Britain's leading journal of radical literary theory. more...
Julia Kristeva 1966-96by Griselda Pollock
Routledge 1998; US$ 160.00In June 1996, the Centre for Cultural Studies hosted a conference entitled Aesthetics. Politics. Ethics: Julia Kristeva 1966?96. It was held at the Leeds City Art Gallery whose monumental neighbour is the equally nineteenth century structure of Cuthbert Broderick?s Town Hall: the proximities of, and the tensions between the state and culture are often the very topics of Cultural Studies. This conference could have been hosted by one of several subgroups within the University of Leeds and the Department of Fine Art in particular. As an art historian, I could have planned this event to consider the contributions of Julia Kristeva to ways of thinking about the aesthetic, the image, and the larger historical frameworks within which certain themes... more...