Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Frontier Taiwan
An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2001
Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of modern Taiwanese poetry parallels and tells the story of this transformation from periphery to frontier. Containing translations of nearly 400 poems from...
by Rachel Brownstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
From the first publication of Pride and Prejudice to recent film versions of her life and work, Jane Austen has continued to provoke controversy and inspire fantasies of peculiar intimacy. Whether celebrated for her realism, proto-feminism, or patrician gentility, imagined as a subversive or a political...
by William Deresiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2005
This elegant and thoughtful work offers an important new way of understanding Jane Austen by defining the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on her later novels. In comparing the earlier and later phases of Austen's career, Deresiewicz addresses an important yet neglected issue...
Before Victoria
Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
It might not have the been the revolution that Mary Wollstonecraft called for in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), but the Romantic era did witness a dramatic change in women's lives. Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable,...
Video Revolutions
On the History of a Medium
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate,...
Time and the Other
How Anthropology Makes Its Object
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live...
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods
Poetry in the Shadow of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair...
by Julia Kristeva
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths...
Jacques Lacan, Past and Present
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser....
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt
The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings...
by Rick Altman
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Narrative is a powerful element of human culture, storing and sharing the cherished parts of our personal memories and giving structure to our laws, entertainment, and history. We experience narrative in words, pictures, and film, yet regardless of how the tale is told, story remains independent from...
Everyone Dies Young
Time Without Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
"We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose...
Mute Speech
Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "distributions of the sensible," which configure the limits of what can be seen and said. Widely recognized as a seminal work in Rancière's corpus, the translation of which...
Philosophy in Turbulent Times
Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives. These troubled...