Books in the Theory and History of Literature series

A paradigmatic contribution to literary theory and interpretation from Latin American writing.

What is multiculturalism? This collection offers critiques of the term and its uses. The contributors look at the current use of the rubric "multicultural" and offer analyses of complex relationships between popular culture, political events and intellectual trends.

Sets out an ordered system of the arts - music, painting, sculpture, narrative, poetry and tragedy - based on the precepts of German Idealism.

The fourteen contributors to this volume address de Man's theory and practice of reading, the nature of those readings and what they signify for reading in general, not just literary texts.

Costa Lima examines European literary traditions from the perspective of a Latin American who sees the culture of his native Brazil haunted by unresolved questions from the Northern Hemisphere.

Presents a sustained examination of the relation between literature and philosophy with special emphasis on the problem of the subject and of representation.

The texts that comprise this volume were selected from Cixous' seminars on the work of Clarice Lispector. They reflect Cixous' meditations on the art of reading, writing and related themes such as giving and loving as well as trace the influence of Lispector on Cixous' own development.

Explores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.

Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of society to the primeval. This collection of prewar writings remains the volume in which Batailles¿s positions are most clearly, forcefully, and obsessively put forward.This book challenges the notion of a ¿closed economy¿ predicated on utility, production, and rational consumption, and develops an alternative theory that takes into account the human tendency to lose, destroy, and waste. This collection is indispensible for an understanding of the future as well as the past of current critical theory.Georges Bataille (1897-1962), a librarian by profession, was founder of the French review Critique. He is the author of several books, including Story of the Eye, The Accused Share, Erotism, and The Absence of Myth.

Bringing together a variety of texts about modern China, Chow examines the relationship of "woman" with issues of non-Western culture, including ethnic spectatorship, popular literature, the construction of literary history and the revolutionary production and reception of national literature.

Twenty-five essays and reviews, not available in earlier collections of de Man's work. His subjects include the work of Montaigne, Rousseau, Keats, Goethe, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Sartre, Gide, and Camus.

This work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the individual.