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Critical Theory



link to catalog page FUCHS, Passing for Spain

Passing for Spain

Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity

Author: Barbara Fuchs
Pub Date: January 2003

Cervantes challenges the state’s attempt to categorize its subjects by presenting characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion.   learn more...

link to catalog page GUMBRECHT, The Powers of Philology

The Powers of Philology

Dynamics of Textual Scholarship

Author: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Pub Date: June 2003

A stimulating arguement for the return to the traditional focus of Philology   learn more...

link to catalog page KOMAR, Reclaiming Klytemnestra

Reclaiming Klytemnestra

Revenge or Reconciliation

Author: Kathleen L. Komar
Pub Date: May 2003

The book explores why Klytemnestra, this very problematic female figure from ancient Greece, reemerges so insistently at the end of the last millennium and how late twentieth-century women writers reconceptualize the infamous queen.   learn more...

link to catalog page BRENNAN, When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote

When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote

African-Native American Literature

Author: Edited by Jonathan Brennan
Pub Date: June 2003

An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African-Native American descent   learn more...

link to catalog page FUDGE, Perceiving Animals

Perceiving Animals

Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture

Author: Erica Fudge
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page BAKER, Picturing the Beast

Picturing the Beast

Animals, Identity, and Representation

Author: Steve Baker
Pub Date: 2001

Explores how human beings use animals and images of animals to define themselves   learn more...

link to catalog page HALL, Professions

Professions

Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies

Author: Edited by Donald E. Hall
Pub Date: 2001

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link to catalog page EBERLY, Citizen Critics

Citizen Critics

Literary Public Spheres

Author: Rosa A. Eberly
Pub Date: 2000

The condition of our public discussions about literary and cultural works has much to say about the condition of our democracy and the author argues for more public discourse--in classrooms, newspapers, magazines, etc. to reclaim a public voice on national artistic matters.   learn more...

link to catalog page MILLER, The Disappearance of God

The Disappearance of God

Five Nineteenth-Century Writers

Author: J. Hillis Miller
Pub Date: 2000

In this acclaimed study, J. Hillis Miller focuses on five Victorian authors--Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Thomas DeQuincey, and Gerard Manley Hopkins--to present their various responses to crises of faith in the face of Darwinism, the rise of science, urbanization and other factors that seemed to distance them from God.   learn more...

link to catalog page MAGEE, From Here to Tierra del Fuego Author: Paul Magee
Pub Date: June 2000

Surrealistic in style and content, this intellectual tour guide into the nature of tourists and tourism is a theorist’s field trip, engaged in upside-down anthropology, ethnography, and culture studies to arrive out on the other side of emergent global culture and the nature of personhood. Quirky and difficult, but fun.   learn more...

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