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The Aesthetics of Chaos
UPF 2003; US$ 59.95?An invigorating (and convincing) challenge to the cornerstone assumptions of virtually all contemporary literary criticism . . . this study lays the groundwork for a dynamic new approach to reading literature. Sure to be controversial, its fundamental right-headedness should help to open debate on the nature of literary criticism across numerous disciplines. more...
Of Literature and Knowledge
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 37.95" Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting." ? Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University. Framed by the theory of evolution, this colourful and engaging volume presents a new understanding of the mechanisms... more...
Language and History in Theodore W. Adorno's Notes to Literature
CRC Press 2006; US$ 70.00This is the first book-length study of Adorno's philosophical criticism of literature contained in his four-volume Notes to Literature. Rather than relying exclusively on aesthetic concepts inherited from his predecessors in the Western tradition (such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard), Adorno's essays on literature seek to transgress and... more...
The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 36.00The representation of the Jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into uniquely sharp focus. more...
Bram Stoker
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 90.00This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, including friendships with many of the major figures of the age and as manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, with his literary career. It offers critical evaluation of Dracula and of Stoker's lesser-known works, yielding much interest when reinserted into their original cultural contexts. more...
Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature
Routledge 2006; US$ 375.00A two-volume work that contains some 540 entries on erotic literature, which examine the history of the literature in different countries and languages since classical antiquity. This encyclopedia deals with sexually explicit texts characterized by sexual representations and suggestions. It includes various types of sexuality. more...
Exotic Parodies
University of Minnesota Press 1995; US$ 75.00This groundbreaking text begins with the premise that postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and Marxism continue to present certain problems with the self/other distinction. It goes on to offer the first extended critique of the work of Gayatri Spivak; challenge the critical reception of Adorno in the American academy; examine Said's... more...
Genealogy and Literature
University of Minnesota Press 1995; US$ 60.00Traditionalists insist that literature transcends culture. Others counter that it is subversive by nature. By challenging both claims, Genealogy and Literature reveals the importance of literature for understanding dominant and often violent power/knowledge relations within a given society. more...
Arrow of Chaos
University of Minnesota Press 1997; US$ 120.00By modeling ways to think through chaos and through the mutual deformations of Romanticism and postmodernity, Arrow of Chaos contributes to alternative alignments of knowledge across time and technique. more...
Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture
University of Minnesota Press 1991; US$ 67.50Traces literature?s function in the formation of the nation-state through the ?belated? emergence of a national aesthetic culture in Greece. more...









