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1. Literature and Literary Theory Bundle RC

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge
2. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

   By Jack Zipes

   Series: Routledge Classics

   The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and...

   Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
3. Bodies That Matter

   On the Discursive Limits of Sex

   By Judith Butler

   Series: Routledge Classics

   In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of...

   Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
4. Les Liaisons Dangereuses

   By Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

   Series: Routledge Classics

   ‘I resolved to write a book which would create some stir in the world and continue to do after I had gone from it.’ - Choderlos de Laclos A great sensation at the time of first publication, Les Liaisons Dangereuses reads as much the most 'modern' of eighteenth-century novels. Viewed by some...

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
5. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers

   Literature as Uncanny Causality

   By Marjorie Garber

   Series: Routledge Classics

   The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts – and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. Ghosts take the form of absences, erasures, even forgeries and...

   Published May 10th 2010 by Routledge
6. Outside in the Teaching Machine

   By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie's controversial...

   Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
7. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful

   By Edmund Burke

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton. 'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'– The Guardian Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many...

   Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge
8. RC Literature and Literary Theory Bundle

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge
9. Enjoy Your Symptom!

   Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

   By Slavoj Zizek

   Series: Routledge Classics

   The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie...

   Published October 29th 2007 by Routledge
10. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

    The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

    By Jacques Lacan

    Series: Routledge Classics

    A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural and media studies. He gained his reputation as a lecturer, disseminating his ideas to audiences that...

    Published September 2nd 2007 by Routledge