The Death of the Author
By: Roland Barthes
4.00
Format: 126 pages,
"The Death of the Author" is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes…
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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser
4.00
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more
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"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
2. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
By: Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and… read more
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"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating us…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic par…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
3. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
4. Axolotl
By: Julio Cortázar
4.15
Format: 7 pages, None
"They looked and knew. That laid the claim. They were not animals." read more
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"Above all else, their eyes obsessed me. In the standing tanks on either side of them, different fishes showed me the simple stupidity of their handsome eyes so similar to our own. The eyes of the axo…"-Julio Cortázar, Axolotl
5. Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
By: T.S. Eliot
3.84
Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition
a selection from the In English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply… read more
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"One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is no…"-T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
6. Sarrasine
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.87
Format: 400 pages,
They lowered their voices and walked away in order to talk more at their ease on some retired couch… read more
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7. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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8. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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9. Patriotism
By: Yukio Mishima , Geoffrey W. Sargent
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima's masterpiece about the erotics … read more
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10. The Art of Fiction
By: Henry James , Walter Besant
4.17
Format: 200 pages,
In this classic essay which originally appeared in his 1888 collection Partial Portraits, Henry Jam… read more
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11. The Intentional Fallacy
By: William K. Wimsatt , None
3.61
Format: 192 pages,
W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley wrote in their essay The Intentional Fallacy: "the design or inte… read more
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12. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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13. The Miller's Prologue and Tale
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , James Winny
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an … read more
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14. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
By: Jonathan D. Culler
3.91
Format: 20 pages,
What is Literary Theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is L… read more
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15. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
By: Jacques Lacan
4.25
Format: None pages,
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16. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
By: Franz Kafka , Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
In KafkaDeleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditio… read more
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17. Wages Against Housework
By: Silvia Federici
2.00
Format: 375 pages,
They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work. They call it frigidity. We call it absenteeism. Eve… read more
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18. The Death of the Author
By: Roland Barthes
4.00
Format: 126 pages,
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19. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
3.86
Format: None pages,
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20. Postscript on the Societies of Control
By: Gilles Deleuze
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
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21. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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22. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
By: Adrienne Rich
3.75
Format: 166 pages,
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23. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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24. The Laugh of the Medusa
By: Hélène Cixous
4.09
Format: None pages,
Cixous is issuing her female readers an ultimatum of sorts: either they can read it and choose to s… read more
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25. What is an Author?
By: Michel Foucault
3.44
Format: 330 pages,
What is an Author?is an influential lecture given by French philosopher, sociologist and historian,… read more
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26. Literary Theory: An Introduction
By: Terry Eagleton
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Written in 1982, this work appeared, as Professor Eagleton explains, at the watershed of two very d… read more
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27. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
28. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: 5 pages, ebook
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more
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29. On the Concept of History
By: Walter Benjamin
4.33
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
On The Concept of History written by legendary author Walter Benjamin is widely considered to be on… read more
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"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation"-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History
"There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism."-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History
"Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably."-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History
"Articolare storicamente il passato non significa conoscerlo <>. Significa impadronirsi di un ricordo come esso balena nell'istante di un pericolo."-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History
30. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
By: Laura Mulvey
3.99
Format: 15 pages, None
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31. Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
By: Judith Butler
4.10
Format: None pages, None
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