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Things
Av Bill Brown
Häftad, 2004
282 kr
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This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; and what has been described as …
Questions of Evidence
Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines
Av James Chandler, Arnold I. Davidson m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
347 kr
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Biologists, historians, lawyers, art historians, and literary critics all voice arguments in the critical dialogue about what constitutes evidence in research and scholarship. They examine not only the constitution and "blurring" of disciplinary boundaries, but also the configuration of the …
Comics & Media
A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry"
Av Hillary L. Chute, Patrick Jagoda
Häftad, 2014
175 kr
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The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success - and that new prominence has led to increasing interest within the academy as well. Comics & Media, a special issue of the journal Critical Inquiry, reflects that, using the …
Identities
Av Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Häftad, 1996
256 kr
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The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class and gender in feminist, lesbian and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies. The work aims …
Edward Said
Continuing the Conversation
Av Homi K. Bhabha, W. J. T. Mitchell
Häftad, 2005
253 kr
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In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they left off following his death in the fall of 2003. The essays, imagining and recalling the cadences of Said's conversation, take various forms, including …
Language of Images
Häftad, 1980
194 kr
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"A remarkably rich and provocative set of essays on the virtually infinite kinds of meanings generated by images in both the verbal and visual arts. Ranging from Michelangelo to Velazquez and Delacroix, from the art of the emblem book to the history of photography and film, The Language of Images …
On Narrative
Häftad, 1981
223 kr
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The fourteen distinguished contributors to this volume explore ways we tell, understand, and use stories. More important, through their exploration they collectively demonstrate that the study of narrative, like the study of other significant human creations, has taken a quantum leap in the modern …
Against Theory
Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism
Häftad, 1985
203 kr
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"Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge—issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in Critical Inquiry (8:4)—strikes some critics as scandalous, others as provocative and …
On Metaphor
Häftad, 1979
177 kr
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On Metaphor, a collection of fourteen essays by eminent philosophers, literary critics, theologians, art historians, and psychologists, illustrates and explores a striking phenomenon in modern intellectual history: the transformation of metaphor from a specialized concern of rhetoricians and …
Canons
Häftad, 1984
256 kr
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Canon formation: ". . . the traditional dream of ambitious critics. A canon is commonly seen as what other people, once powerful, have made and what should now be opened up, demystified, or eliminated altogether." So writes editor Robert von Hallberg in his introduction. This collection of essays …
Signature Derrida
Av Jacques Derrida, Jay Williams
Häftad, 2013
279 kr
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Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with "Critical Inquiry" and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from the responses to his writing that "Critical …
Saints
Faith without Borders
Av Francoise Meltzer, Jas Elsner
Häftad, 2011
307 kr
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While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity - categories that define the saint. In this collection, Francoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across …
Late Derrida
Av W. J. T. Mitchell, Arnold I. Davidson
Häftad, 2007
256 kr
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The title "The Late Derrida", with all puns and ambiguities cheerfully intended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vast outpouring of new writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. In this period, Derrida published more than he had produced during his entire …
