The Limits of Critique
By: Rita Felski
4.01
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always w…
Want to Read $ 15.33"Education is not just about acquiring knowledge and skills but about being initiated into a certain sensibility."-Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique
"Education is not just about acquiring knowledge and skills but about being initiated into a certain sensibility."-Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique
"What if we refused to be railroaded into the false choice between the critical and the uncritical? How might argument and interpretation proceed if critique were no longer our ubiquitous watchword and ever-vigilant watchdog? What other shapes of thought could we imagine? And how else might we venture to read, if we were not ordained to read suspiciously?"-Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique
"What if we refused to be railroaded into the false choice between the critical and the uncritical? How might argument and interpretation proceed if critique were no longer our ubiquitous watchword and ever-vigilant watchdog? What other shapes of thought could we imagine? And how else might we venture to read, if we were not ordained to read suspiciously?"-Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique
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1. The Politics of Aesthetics
By: Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill
3.92
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aestheti… read more
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2. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. The Cultural Politics of Emotion
By: Sara Ahmed
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the em… read more
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4. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
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Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
5. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
By: Pierre Bourdieu , Richard Nice
4.15
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois … read more
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"Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others."-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
"Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to the various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, literatu…"-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
"Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a …"-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
6. The Gay Science
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.11
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more
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7. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker
4.21
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more
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"Waves are the practice of the water."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
8. The Theory of the Novel
By: György Lukács , Anna Bostock
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Georg Lukacs wrote The Theory of the Novelin 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Ro… read more
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9. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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10. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
11. Till We Have Faces
By: C.S. Lewis
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more
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12. Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
By: Caroline Levine
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, … read more
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13. Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities
By: Stanley Fish
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a… read more
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14. The Last Days of the Incas
By: Kim MacQuarrie
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of t… read more
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15. Of Human Bondage
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3.99
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The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an … read more
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16. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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17. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
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3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first… read more
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18. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
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Format: 201 pages,
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19. Manifesto Cyborg
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.26
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Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realta sociale econtemporaneamente de… read more
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20. The Winter's Tale
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4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
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21. The House of Mirth
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4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, p… read more
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22. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
23. Kabale und Liebe
By: Friedrich Schiller
3.06
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
ISBNs moved from this edition Das 1784 erschienene und uraufgeführte Drama 'Kabale und Liebe' (ur… read more
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"Bei uns wird nur selten eine Mariage geschlossen, wo nicht wenigstens ein halb Dutzend der Gäste - oder der Aufwärter- das Paradies des Bräutigams geometrisch ermessen kann."-Friedrich Schiller, Kabale und Liebe
24. American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in … read more
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25. Afropessimism
By: Frank B. Wilderson III
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of Bla… read more
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"As a boy I seldom lived in the present. It hurt too much to be in the present. When I occurred to myself I was myself in the future."-Frank B. Wilderson III, Afropessimism
26. Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self (Mit Press)
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3.76
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
What altered states of consciousness--the dissolution of feelings of time and self--can tell us abo… read more
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27. The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
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4.02
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A “flip,” writes Jeffrey J. Kripal, is “a reversal of perspective,” “a new real,” often born of an … read more
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"The materialist interpretation of the world and of science itself is protected not by the facts or by the data of our honest experiences, but by what is essentially social and professional peer press…"-Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
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4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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29. The Limits of Critique
By: Rita Felski
4.01
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always w… read more
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"Education is not just about acquiring knowledge and skills but about being initiated into a certain sensibility."-Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique
"What if we refused to be railroaded into the false choice between the critical and the uncritical? How might argument and interpretation proceed if critique were no longer our ubiquitous watchword an…"-Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique
30. The Spider's Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry
By: Keith James Holyoak
4.00
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31. Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
By: John Guillory
4.12
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
A sociological history of literary study—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanit… read more
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