Overview :A ROYAL AFFAIR is the true story of an ordinary man who wins the queen's heart and starts a revolution. Centering on the intriguing love tri... Read More
Overview :Here is the fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched Camille Paglia's exceptional career as one of ... Read More
Overview :The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 191 pieces by ... Read More
Overview :As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began t... Read More
Overview :An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of ... Read More
Overview :Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's... Read More
Overview :A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne... Read More
Overview :Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's... Read More
Overview :A sociological history of literary studies--both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a... Read More
Overview :All adult speakers in Western cultures have life stories argues Charlotte Linde, and the ways in which these life stories are formed and exc... Read More
Overview :"Revision is the spiritual practice of transformation--of seeing text, and therefore the world, with new eyes. Done well, revision returns u... Read More
Overview :A perfect square is transformed in this adventure story that will transport you far beyond the four equal sides of this square book. ... Read More
Overview :"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more prop... Read More
Overview :Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropoli... Read More
Overview :From the producers of The Ring and Disturbia comes a nail-biting thriller, THE UNINVITED. Following the suspicious death of their mother, si... Read More
Overview :A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential li... Read More
Overview :Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusi... Read More
Overview :Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradit... Read More
Overview :For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected... Read More