Stanley Fish: 71 books
by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism...
Lines of Flight
Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism—the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and specialization in the workplace, standardization at all levels of social life, and the growing influence of the mass media—all point to a transformation...
Questions of Travel
Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 1996
Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel—displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces...
Theodor W. Adorno
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) was one of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers. In light of two pivotal developments—the rise of fascism, which culminated in the Holocaust, and the standardization of popular culture as a commodity indispensable to contemporary capitalism—Adorno sought...
Working Fictions
A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Working Fictions takes as its point of departure the common and painful truth that the vast majority of human beings toil for a wage and rarely for their own enjoyment or satisfaction. In this striking reconceptualization of Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak interrogates the relationship...
Chinese Modern
The Heroic and the Quotidian
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of...
The Expediency of Culture
Uses of Culture in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2004
The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly globalized world. George Yúdice explores critically how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource...
Full Metal Apache
Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan’s leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan’s love of both Japanese and American art and literature, he is perhaps uniquely well situated to offer this study of the dynamic crosscurrents...
Jameson on Jameson
Conversations on Cultural Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Fredric Jameson is one of the most influential literary and cultural critics writing today. He is a theoretical innovator whose ideas about the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and social sciences. Bringing together ten interviews conducted...
The Dialectics of Our America
Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1991
Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical conception of American...
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism
Machado de Assis
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2001
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839–1908). A leading Brazilian theorist and author of the highly influential notion of “misplaced ideas,” Schwarz...
Aesthetics and Marxism
Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2000
Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese...
Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001
U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fostered a unique consciousness and represented a moment of...
by David Simpson, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2001
“Let me tell you where I'm coming from . . .”—so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. culture. Pressed by an almost compulsive desire to situate ourselves within a definite matrix of reference points (for example, “as a parent of two children” or “as an engineer” or “as a...