Literary Theory

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel ...

St. Augustines Confessions is one of the most important works in the history of literature and Christian thought. Written around 397, when Augustin...

What is the ultimate goal of any human society? There have been many answers to this question. But by producing a series of notably well-structured...

Franz Boass 1940 Race, Language and Culture is a monumentally important text in the history of its discipline, collecting the articles and essays t...

David Humes Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of re...

Nineteenth-century American politician John C. Calhoun occupies a paradoxical place in the history of political thought and of critical thinking. ...

Seeking to understand the economic relations between author and publisher, this study analyzes the place of Roberto Bolaño in the Latin American li...

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A definitive biography of a twentieth century gay author whose work has recently been rediscovered and enjoys a cult following. One of the most ic...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What can underground pipes tell us abou...

The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world's g...

John Lockes 1689 Two Treatises of Government is a key text in the history of political theory one whose influence remains marked on modern politic...

It is said that this book reached an important milestone in the study of literature by crystalizing a movement that had been under way for two deca...

Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre. Basing her research on records of a bizar...

Arjun Appadurais 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers...

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents th...

The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at...