This encyclopedia provides accessible entries on the important concepts, theorists and trends in post-1900 literary and cultural theory. --from publisher description.
This encyclopedia provides accessible entries on the important concepts, theorists and trends in post-1900 literary and cultural theory. --from publisher description.
"This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a ma…
"This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a ma…
"Schizophrenia has been one of psychiatry's most contested diagnostic categories. It has also served as a metaphor for cultural theorists to interpret modern and postmodern understandings of the self. These radical, compelling, and puzzling appropriations of clinical accounts of…
In this book, French-Caribbean writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex vision of a world in transformation. He sees the islands of the Antilles as enduring as "invalid" suffering imposed by history, yet also as a…
In this book, French-Caribbean writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex vision of a world in transformation. He sees the islands of the Antilles as enduring as "invalid" suffering imposed by history, yet also as a…
En este ambicioso trabajo, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak disecciona la compleja articulación de la experiencia colonial en el corazón de las mismas disciplinas que han conformado la modernidad occidental, demostrando que la filosofía, la literatura, la historia y la cultura occiden…
