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• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryTerry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a nove...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: GeneralPlaywright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontës, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer -- Terry Eag...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryTerry Eagleton is one of the most important--and most radical--theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture...

• Author(s): Francesco de Cristofaro | Stefano Ercolino | Franco Moretti • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Books & ReadingExperimental Criticism offers a series of close critical engagements with one of the world's most i...

• Author(s): Francis Mulhern • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsAn essential collection of literary criticism from Francis Mulhern, author of The Moment of 'Scrutiny' and Culture/Metaculture Int...

• Author(s): Fredric Jameson • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyCultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the m...

• Author(s): Fred Pfeil • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: American - GeneralThrough his work as a fiction writer, critic and activist, Fred Pfeil has sought to extend the progressive possibilities within contemporary American...

• Author(s): Franco Moretti • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryHow does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in ...

• Author(s): Michael Bérubé • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: GeneralIn the years of the Reagan-Bush era, the controversy over 'political correctness' erupted on American campuses, spreading to the mainstream media as right-w...

• Author(s): Fredric Jameson • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsFredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal...

• Author(s): Jean Baudrillard • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryBaudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the objec...

• Author(s): Aijaz Ahmad • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAfter the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from th...

• Author(s): Alain Badiou • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoetryThe Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous ar...

• Author(s): Fredric Jameson • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureThe giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossma...

• Author(s): Nivedita Majumdar • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsRadical universalism vs postcolonial theory The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the glob...

• Author(s): Christopher Prendergast • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of 'literature' has been something of a poor ...

• Author(s): Valerie Solanas • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: FeministClassic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol "Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being...

• Author(s): Franco Moretti • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: European - GeneralIn this pioneering study Franco Moretti presents a fresh and exciting perspective by mapping the often unexpected relations between literature an...

• Author(s): Walter Benjamin • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryA classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essays, including some of his most celebrated writing Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinati...

• Author(s): Andre Schiffrin • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Books & ReadingPost-war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since André Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but pr...

• Author(s): Peter Wollen | Nicolas Helm-Grovas | Kodwo Eshun • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Film & VideoA new anthology of uncollected writings by Peter Wollen, cultural critic, avant-garde filmmaker and curator of pa...

• Author(s): Francis Mulhern • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsTwo leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice In What Is Cultural Criticism?, two le...

• Author(s): George Scialabba • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Books & ReadingEssays on politics, power, and culture from one of America's most eminent critics In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between...

• Author(s): Ludovico Silva • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsMarx's Literary Style argues that a true understanding of Marx's work requires a careful study of his literary choices In Marx's Li...

• Author(s): Francis Mulhern • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshA bold new vision of the modern English novel The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the pa...

• Author(s): Françoise Waquet • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryA highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries For almost three centuries, Latin dominated...