Litteraturvetenskap

Umberto Eco's wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, published in English for the first time. By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name …

How librarians can be radical positive change agents in their communities, dedicated to learning and making a difference.This book offers a guide for librarians who see their …

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death …

A framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates the concepts and methods of information organization and information retrieval.Organizing is such a common …

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact. Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of …

An updated edition of the classic book on digital storytelling, with a new introduction and expansive chapter commentaries.I want to say to all the hacker-bards from every …

Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism brings …

The first major collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, "the first American Dada."As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, man-chasing …

Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate …

An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht's "photoepigrams."From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his …