Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: philosophy, margins
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 1985-01-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0226143260
ISBN-13: 9780226143262
"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger—each dealt with in one or more of the essays. There are essays too on linguistics (Saussure, Benveniste, Austin) and on the nature of metaphor ("White Mythology"), the latter with important implications for literary theory. Derrida is fully in control of a dazzling stylistic register in this book—a source of true illumination for those prepared to follow his arduous path. Bass is a superb translator and ann
Author: Kaja Silverma
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: margins, subjectivity, male
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1992-04-22
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0415904196
ISBN-13: 9780415904193
In her provocative new book, Kaja Silverman offers a bold new look at some masculinities which deviate from the social norm. Male Subjectivity at the Margins brilliantly reads male filmmakers, novelists and literary cinematic characters who position themselves more as "women" than as "men" and in so doing surrender male power and privilege. Silverman writes about male masochism, homosexuality, exhibitionism from a sympathetic point of view, arguing that these so-called "perversions" can be better undrstood from a political perspective rather than a moral one. In fact Male Subjectivity at the M
Author: Timothy F. Weiss
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: naipaul, exile, art, margins
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1992-12
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0870238205
ISBN-13: 9780870238208
This study explores the theme of exile in the literary career of V.S. Naipaul, approaching the subject from two perspectives: as an idea that recurs in Naipaul’s writings and as a personal experience that has shaped his vision of the world. Informed by the theoretical insights of Mikhail Bakhtin and Tzvetan Todorov, "On the Margins" offers readings of Naipaul’s major works, from "Miguel Street" (1959) to "India: A Million Mutinies Now" (1990). Timothy F. Weiss reads Naipaul critically yet empathetically, examining his writings in chronological order and situating them in the cultur
Author: R. A. Scrutto
Publisher: Amer Geophysical Unio
Keywords: series, geodynamics, margins, passive, dynamics
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1982-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0875905099
ISBN-13: 9780875905099
Author: Liangyan Ge
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: fiction, vernacular, chinese, rise, margins
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2001-09
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0824823702
ISBN-13: 9780824823702
The novel "Water Margin" ("Shuihu zhuan"), China’s earliest full-length narrative in vernacular prose, first appeared in print in the 16th century. The tale of 108 bandit heroes evolved from a long oral tradition; in its novelized form, it played a pivotal role in the rise of Chinese vernacular fiction, which flourished during the late Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) periods. Liangyan Ge’s multidimensional study considers the evolution of "Water Margin" and the rise of vernacular fiction against the background of the vernacularization of premodern Chinese literature as a whol
Author: Graham Huggan
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: margins, marketing, exotic, postcolonial
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-04-25
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 041525034X
ISBN-13: 9780415250344
Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of so-called postcolonial writing? In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial "products" are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption. This timely and challenging
Author: Niran Abbas
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: margins, reading, pynchon, thomas
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-01
List price: $43.50
ISBN-10: 0838639542
ISBN-13: 9780838639542
This volume is a collection of essays by various academics looking at how identity is shaped, gendered, and contested throughout Pynchon’s work. By exploring sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions, the contributors revise important ideas in the debate over individualism using political and feminist theory and examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narratives generated by America’s culture.
