Essays from the English Institute

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1. Polemic

   Critical or Uncritical

   Edited by Jane Gallop

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny,...

   Published October 15th 2004 by Routledge
2. Compassion

   The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

   Edited by Lauren Berlant

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how "being compassionate" is shaped by historical specificity and social training, and how the idea of compassion takes...

   Published March 1st 2004 by Routledge
3. Time and the Literary

   Edited by Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay "Literary History and Literary...

   Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge
4. Cosmopolitan Geographies

   New Locations in Literature and Culture

   Edited by Vinay Dharwadker

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   This book highlights the best new interdisciplinary research on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, with a special focus on the cosmopolitan literatures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, from medieval times to the present....

   Published December 18th 2000 by Routledge
5. What's Left of Theory?

   New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory

   Edited by Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   Published July 24th 2000 by Routledge
6. Language Machines

   Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production

   Edited by Masten Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   Published November 9th 1997 by Routledge
7. Human, All Too Human

   Edited by Diana Fuss

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   Published November 26th 1995 by Routledge
8. Performativity and Performance

   Edited by Andrew Parker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what "performance" is all about. At the same moment, "performativity"--a new concept in language theory--has become a ubiquitous term in literary studies. This volume grapples with the...

   Published October 23rd 1995 by Routledge
9. Borders, Boundaries, and Frames

   Edited by Mae Henderson

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working out -- or reworking -- the problematics of the borders, the boundaries and the frameworks that structure our various and multiple notions of identity -- textual, personal, collective, generic, and disciplinary. The contributors to this...

   Published November 28th 1994 by Routledge
10. English Inside and Out

    The Places of Literary Criticism

    Edited by Susan Kamholtz Gubar

    Series: Essays from the English Institute

    Published December 20th 1992 by Routledge