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An introduction to Flaubert that discusses the entire body of his work, beginning by discussing the early novels in sequence, and following by isolating and identifying in them the themes of the novelist’s later works. The mature works are then treated at length — not discretely or in chronological order, but as a whole — to create a proper context in which reading can take place. More…

 

Steven Connor’s Samuel Beckett, Repetition, Theory and Text, is the first book to have presented an extended poststructuralist reading of Beckett’s work. Drawing on the theories of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze to show the centrality of repetition in Beckett’s work, Connor explored the paradoxical forms and effects of repetition across a wide range of Beckett’s texts, from the early fiction through to the most recent drama. More…

 

A Wrinkle in History argues, through a broad engagement with a variety of historical periods and literary texts, for the inextricability of history and theory when writing about literature.

The application paradigm of literary studies, in which one spices up a text with fashionable theory, represents the bankrupt extreme of theoretical tendencies, while the denigration of theory in the name of historical accuracy at times covers for a simple and lamentable lack of anything interesting to say.  More…

In this reissue of a highly praised intellectual history, which traces historical and anti-historical themes from Nietzsche, Croce, and Heidegger to Gadamer, Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty, David Roberts pinpoints tendencies toward overreaction in the postmodern turn, and shows how historians can deepen their self-understanding and play a more central role in a postmodern culture ….  Included is a new preface that responds to critics and places the work within the changing framework of debate over postmodernism and history. More…

 

Much of the controversy that surrounds the writings of Jacques Derrida is the result of the transformation of his thought in North American literature departments in the sixties and seventies into a method for reading texts called ‘deconstruction’. In Views and Interviews: On 'Deconstruction' in America, Gasché takes issue with this interpretation of Derrida's thought by both his followers and detractors. More…

In Betrayal of Spirit: Jew-hatred, the Holocaust, and Christianity Thomas Idinopulos draws on a unique combination of personal experience and theological reflection to examine how anti-Semitism invaded, occupied, and dominated the human mind throughout history. His insightful theological interpretation of the history of Jew-hatred in Christendom provides a way of understanding how anti-Judaism differs from anti-Semitism, and reveals how anti-Semitism created the possibility of, but was not a direct cause of, the Holocaust. More…

 

New for fall, 2007

 

Modernity Out of Joint

Emanuela Fornari

 

Betrayal of Spirit

T. A. Idinopulos

 

The Originary Hypothesis

Adam Katz

 

After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis

Julia Reinhard Lupton and Kenneth Reinhard

 

In Medias Res

Catherine Madsen

 

Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism

Raoul Eshelman

 

 

 

 

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