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Zur Aktualität von Homi K. Bhabha
Springer 2013; US$ 23.99Dritter Raum, Hybridität, Mimikry oder Übersetzung: Homi K. Bhabha, einer der einflussreichsten und innovativsten postkolonialen Theoretiker der Gegenwart, prägt in seinen Untersuchungen ebenso schillernde wie voraussetzungsreiche Metaphern für ein neues Denken von Kulturkontakt und... more...
The Use of Imaginary, Historical, and Actual Maps in Literature
The Edwin Mellen Press 2013; US$ 179.95In this text, the author highlights unrecorded discoveries about how maps and literature are associated. Not only do maps give us a tool by which to understand a physical reality as it actually exists, but maps can support the realm of literary fiction - such as Tolkiens Middle Earth, or Stevensons Treasure Island. There are also maps that... more...
The Game of Probability
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 35.00There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scientific terms. Indeed, mathematical probability would... more...
The Revival of Antique Philosophy in the Renaissance
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit. more...
Man Fail
Michael O' Mara Books 2012; US$ 9.99Features a selection of the side-splitting bloopers, mistakes and misunderstandings that have been boldly uttered by the male sex. Spanning from the rich and famous, to the everyday man on the street, this title is filled with anecdotes that defy belief and typify the failings of the male species in general. more...
Modernism and Magic
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 112.00While modernisms engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, an attempt to draw on science as the primary discourse of modernity, or as a hidden history of ideas, Leigh Wilson argues that these discourses have at their heart a magical practice which remakes the relationship between... more...
Julia Kristeva (RLE Feminist Theory)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 115.00A leading literary critic and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva is one of the most significant French thinkers writing today. In this up-to-date survey of her work, John Lechte outlines fully and systematically her intellectual development. He traces it from her work on Bakhtin and the logic of poetic language in the 1960s, through her influential theories... more...
Polemic
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, Polemic makes criticism a critical issue. more...
Lies That Bind
Sourcebooks 2012; US$ 9.99Praise for The Liar Society : "A page?turning, pearl?clutching mystery!"?Kimberly Derting, author of The Body Finder and Desires of the Dead "A book for mystery lovers everywhere...will suck you in and leave you hanging until the very end."? RT Book Reviews Another Sister Gone?You Can't Let Them Get Away With This Kate has heard... more...
The Location of Culture
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 27.95Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture , he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always... more...









