Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy - called deconstruction - changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that these disciplines would have previously ......
The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is perfect for anyone undertaking a reading of Joyce's novel, whether as a student, a member of a reading group, or a lover of literature finally crossing this novel off the bucket list.
Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an ......
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic contentwhich White dubs the ""metahistorical ......
In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our centuryboth in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand itwe can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. Through the notion of trauma, she ......
Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of ''The Red Mask of Death,'' ''The Black Cat,'' and ''The Murders of the Rue Morgue,'' Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. ''The Raven'' and ''The Tell-Tale Heart'' have been read as signs of his ......
Reading eighteenth-century legal and prose fiction, DeGooyer draws attention to an overlooked period of immigration history and compels readers to reconsider the creative potential of naturalization.
A sweeping history of how writing has preserved cultural practices, traditions, and knowledge throughout human history. In How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now, Walter Stephens condenses the massive history of the written word into an accessible, engaging narrative. The history of writing is not merely a record of technical ......
In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along predictable lines: the humanities foster empathy, the humanities encourage critical thinking, the humanities offer a counterweight to the cold calculations of the natural and social sciences. The essays in Latour and the Humanities take a different approach. Exploring ......
