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Making Sense in Life and Literature
“The translation of these essays by Gumbrecht on literary theory and history marks the appearance in English of one of Europe’s most learned, productive, and inventive scholars. …
Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture
This work considers the role literature played in the construction of a national culture - that sphere of shared sentiments, values, and beliefs that define the nation-state in …
Border Writing
Border Writing was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered …
Inoperative Community
This work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the individual. Contrary to popular …
Social Semiotics As Praxis
The past 15 years have witnessed a renewed interest in the theoretical and epistemological issues which underpin the institutionalized study of literary texts. In particular, the …
Woman and Chinese Modernity
Examines the relationship of “woman” to issues of non-western culture.Examines the relationship of "woman" to issues of non-Western culture: ethnic spectatorship, popular …
Reading With Clarice Lispector
The texts that comprise this volume were selected from Helene Cixous's seminars on the work of Clarice Lispector. They reflect Cixous's own meditations on problems of reading and …
Writings On Literature
Nikolay Trubetzkoy (1890-1938), one of the most influential scholars in the history of linguistics, is remembered as the author of "Principles of Phonology" - the foundation text …
Oral Poetry
This book aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral, or spoken, poetry. Paul Zumthor, a literary theorist, discusses the development …