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Philosophy and Fiction
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 12.95Peter Lamarque's refreshing, polemical anthology on the philosophy of literature covers the field's key debates: the role of the author, literary appreciation, the nature of fiction, the pleasures of tragedy, and the question of censorship. After a comprehensive and engaging introduction, five robust essays examine the central themes of the aesthetics... more...
Explanation and Human Action
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 15.95Alfred Louch's classic demolition of the scientific pretenses of the social studies remains unmatched in its philosophical insight and polemical impact. Since the first edition of Explanation and Human Action , fashions and theories in social science have changed, but Louch's fundamental analysis remains valid: understanding human actions can... more...
The Concept of Criticism
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 12.95In The Concept of Criticism , Sparshott gives an elegant account of his view that the idea of performance is central to the place of criticism in the life of the arts. Applied to the arts in general, performance retains the notion that art is characterized by intentionality without applying to it the kinds of strictures we would apply to the... more...
Nabokov's Ada
Cybereditions 2001; US$ 17.95Brian Boyd's classic study explores the relationship between the obvious dazzle of Nabokov's style and the unsuspected depths of his thought before focusing on his richest and most surprising novel. This 'stunning', 'magnificent' first book by 'the great man of Nabokov studies', which 'provides not only the best commentary on Ada , but also a... more...
Skeptical Engagements
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 15.95This carefully reasoned and witty book presents a searing critique of the pretension and folly infecting the literary academy. Beyond targeting the excesses of ?theory,? the essays cover such diverse figures as Joseph Conrad, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Philip Rahv, and Leslie Fiedler. more...
Death Is the Mother of Beauty
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 12.95In this book, Mark Turner shows that the languages of literature and everyday life are different expressions of the same universal mechanisms of the mind. Drawing on the languages and metaphors of kinship and causation, and on myriad examples in English literature from Chaucer to Wallace Stevens, he argues convincingly that all our thinking with... more...
Capitalism and Individualism
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 15.95The purely economic view of individualism, homo economicus, cannot provide a basis for understanding human reality. Machan mounts a robust argument for a conception of the individual that recognizes the values of the free market and civil liberties but avoids licensing the unbridled pursuit of self-interest. more...
Poems in Persons
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 15.95This book gives the study of literature a powerful psychoanalytic model for the literary process. The first edition of Poems in Persons established American-style reader-response criticism and showed how this new understanding applies to all kinds of human psychological processes. This second revised edition adds important new developments to... more...
The Aesthetic Field
Cybereditions 2001; US$ 12.95Arguing that traditional answers to the question ?What is art?? are partial at best, Arnold Berleant contends that we need to understand art as a complex aesthetic field encompassing all the factors that form the context and experience of art. more...
The Mirror of Medusa
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 12.95Tobin Siebers exposes the role of superstition in unexpected areas of modern life. Combining literary and anthropological insights, his radical interpretations cast new light on the history of narcissism, the worldwide belief in the evil eye, Freud's theories of the uncanny and the role played by ethnocentrism in our view nonwestern peoples. ... more...









