Twenty-five essays and reviews, not available in earlier collections of de Man's work. His subjects include the work of Montaigne, Rousseau, Keats, Goethe, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Sartre, Gide, and Camus.
Twenty-five essays and reviews, not available in earlier collections of de Man's work. His subjects include the work of Montaigne, Rousseau, Keats, Go...
Presents a sustained examination of the relation between literature and philosophy with special emphasis on the problem of the subject and of representation.
Presents a sustained examination of the relation between literature and philosophy with special emphasis on the problem of the subject and of represen...
This treatise on narrative and narrative theory uses all of the analytic tools developed in the last 20 years. It defines narrative discourse, distinguishing it from other discourses, and analyzes what it entails.
This treatise on narrative and narrative theory uses all of the analytic tools developed in the last 20 years. It defines narrative discourse, disting...
Aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral poetry. The author discusses its development from antiquity to the present in all its aspects, including forms of oral poetry, the epic in the West and other parts of the globe and styles of performance.
Aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral poetry. The author discusses its development from antiquity t...
Barilli traces rhetoric from its Greek origins to today's media technologies, emphasizing its changing status as it impinges on ethics, politics, art, and philosophy within the larger history of Western culture.
Barilli traces rhetoric from its Greek origins to today's media technologies, emphasizing its changing status as it impinges on ethics, politics, art,...
The texts that comprise this volume were selected from Cixous' seminars on the work of Clarice Lispector. They reflect Cixous' meditations on the art of reading, writing and related themes such as giving and loving as well as trace the influence of Lispector on Cixous' own development.
The texts that comprise this volume were selected from Cixous' seminars on the work of Clarice Lispector. They reflect Cixous' meditations on the art ...
In this book, Gumbrecht describes an intellectual trajectory that can be traced from the interdisciplinary reorientation of the humanities in Germany between 1975 an 1990 to similar issues being discussed in North America today.
In this book, Gumbrecht describes an intellectual trajectory that can be traced from the interdisciplinary reorientation of the humanities in Germany ...
In this landmark volume, Blanchot sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers whose contributions have marked turning points in the history of Western thought and have influenced virtually all the themes that inflect the contemporary literary and philosophical debate today. "Blanchot waits for us still to come, to be read and reread. . . I would say that never as much as today have I pictured him so far ahead of us." Jacques Derrida
In this landmark volume, Blanchot sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers whose contributions have marked turning points in the history of Weste...
Reading Proust was first published in 1994.What readers of Proust in English translation miss, along with most of his critics, is how precisely his writing works, how exactly his subtle craftsmanship weaves the spell that seems to enchant and distract those who encounter it. Even critics who take up the idiosyncrasies of Proust's text, Maria Paganini asserts, refuse to test its limits for fear of running into the writer's deliberate opacities. Reading Proust puts an end to this interpretive arrest by focusing on the specificity of Proustian writing, revealing the patterns of thought and play...
Reading Proust was first published in 1994.What readers of Proust in English translation miss, along with most of his critics, is how precisely his wr...
Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world.
Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that ...