Books in the Essays from the English Institute series

The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working - or reworking - the problematics of the borders, boundaries and frameworks that structure our various notions of identity. Includes essays by Nancy Miller, Sara Suleri and Jane Marcus.

A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? This book brings together not only outstanding questioners, but outstanding questions.

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, Polemic makes criticism a critical issue.

The rise of international capital, the alteration of borders, and local and transnational demands for autonomy are all making cosmopolitanism a key concept in the study of people and language, writing and space. This work asks if we we can sustain the geo-cultural ideal of cosmopolitan identity.

From eleventh-century France to a science-fiction future, Time and the Literary shows how these two concepts have been and will continue to influence each other.

This text considers how we radicalize our notion of the human. Can the human be thought outside humanism? Any rethinking of the human places us immediately inside an ever-widening field of contrasting labels: animated and inanimated, natural and artificial, living and dead, organic and mechanistic.

In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion

A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? This book brings together not only outstanding questioners, but outstanding questions.

A collection of essays that examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters: Michael Warner on Kant's views of critical reading, Louis Menand on the Andrew Sarris-Pauline Kael slugfest over popular movies, and other essays on Foucault, Habermas and Boswell with Dr Johnson.

Amid diverse theoretical debates about the canon in the media and in academia, in English Inside and Out leading proponents of literary studies take a close look at the discipline and the profession and envisage its future.

This volume questions any easily progressive model of technological change, demonstrating the persistence rather than the obsolescence of language technologies over time, the continuous and complicated overlap of pens, presses, screens and voice.

The essays in this volume focus on 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.

Human, All Too Human considers how we radicalize our notion of the human. The nine essays in this book all attempt to rethink the category of the human, challenging some of our most cherished cultural classifications.