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Suburban Ambush: Downtown Writing and the Fiction of Insurgency
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3.67 · 3 Ratings · published 1989 · 4 editions
Suburban Ambush is a cultural history of a downtow…

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    Fictional Truth
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    3.56     · 25 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1990 · 5 editions
    In Fictional Truth Riffaterre identifies and discu…

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    Eroticism and the Body Politic
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    3.92     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1990 · 4 editions
    By the end of the nineteenth century, women had be…

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    Cultural Imperialism
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    3.62     · 42 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1991 · 11 editions
    Cultural imperialism is treated as the central cri…

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    The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture
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    3.89     · 28 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Qui…

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    The New Medievalism
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    2.33     · 3 Ratings · published 1991 · 5 editions
    "This is a substantial and readable volume, and it…

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    Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film
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    3.94     · 36 Ratings · published 1989 · 5 editions
    Subversive Pleasures offers the first extended app…

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    The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1993 · 3 editions
    In The Well-Tempered Self , Toby Miller argues tha…

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    Death and Representation
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    3.00     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1993 · 2 editions
    Death is a subject of increasing interest in virtu…

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    National Culture and the New Global System
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1994 · 3 editions
    "The three worlds theory is perhaps still the basi…

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    Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
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    3.29     · 34 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1994 · 2 editions
    In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has …

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    Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives
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    4.14     · 14 Ratings · published 1995 · 4 editions
    How did the creation of the "Other" woman in Engli…

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    The Fate of Carmen
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1996 · 4 editions
    "[The] ongoing proliferation of new versions of Ca…

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    On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language and Practices
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    4.00     · 32 Ratings · published 1996 · 12 editions
    The importance of history has been powerfully reaf…

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    What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy
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    3.64     · 25 Ratings · published 1990 · 7 editions
    In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critique…

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    The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography
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    3.85     · 26 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1997 · 3 editions
    This study of familiar medieval histories and chro…

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    Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds
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    4.07     · 102 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1998 · 8 editions
    "The universe of possible worlds is constantly exp…

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    Kantorowicz: Stories of a Historian
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    3.40     · 5 Ratings · published 1990 · 6 editions
    Ernst Kantorowicz was a complex figure whose long …

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    The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski
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    3.82     · 11 Ratings · published 2001 · 4 editions
    The laudatory essay, in which one author praises t…

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    Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Europe
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    4.06     · 17 Ratings · published 2002 · 6 editions
    Honorable Mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglion…

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    Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction
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    4.00     · 15 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions
    Co-winner of the Perkins Prize from the Society fo…

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    The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2003 · 4 editions
    Drawing upon poststructuralist theories of nationa…

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    Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency
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    4.25     · 8 Ratings · published 2003 · 5 editions
    Arguably the single most influential literary work…

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    France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 2 editions
    During the First Crusade launched in 1095, thousan…

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    History Out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History
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    2.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 2 editions
    In History Out of Joint, Sande Cohen considers the…

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    The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750–1815
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    4.60     · 5 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 3 editions
    Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlighten…

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    Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization
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    3.49     · 76 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2005 · 6 editions
    George Landow's widely acclaimed Hypertext was the…

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    Passions of the Sign: Revolution and Language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist
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    0.00     · published 2006 · 5 editions
    Passions of the Sign traces the impact of the Fren…

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    The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan: The Unnatural World
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    4.20     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 3 editions
    Paul Celan has long been regarded as the most impo…

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    Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 6 editions
    In Framing Attention , Lutz Koepnick explores diff…

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    Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · published 2006 · 4 editions
    Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its …

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    The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2007 · 5 editions
    The new practices and theories of parliamentary re…

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    Rules for the Endgame: The World of the Nibelungenlied
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    4.12     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 4 editions
    The source of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, the Nib…

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    Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage / Fascinations / Frames
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · published 2007 · 4 editions
    How much can we know about sensory experience in t…

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    Gilles Deleuze's ABCs: The Folds of Friendship
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    3.90     · 10 Ratings · published 2007 · 2 editions
    Friendship, in its nature, purpose, and effects, h…

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    Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht
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    3.00     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 5 editions
    Drawing together the estrangement theories of Vikt…

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    Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy
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    3.56     · 34 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 7 editions
    2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine I…

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    The Cynic Enlightenment: Diogenes in the Salon
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    3.80     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 5 editions
    This original study reveals the importance of anci…

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    Writing History, Writing Trauma
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    3.83     · 183 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2000 · 10 editions
    Trauma and its often symptomatic aftermath pose ac…

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    Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution
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    2.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2005 · 4 editions
    In Revolutionary Acts Susan Maslan shows how theat…

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    Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices
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    0.00     · published 2004 · 3 editions
    A major figure in twentieth-century letters, Alber…

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    Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2004 · 2 editions
    Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmat…

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    The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2006 · 4 editions
    The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudela…

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    The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing From Edgar Poe to the Internet
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    3.40     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 4 editions
    In The Cryptographic Imagination, Shawn Rosenheim …

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