Certain people pretend to tell us what birth and death are like: a mother, for instance, has her point of view about birth; a doctor, a religious, have their ...more

Do the arts mean? Do all the arts mean? Do they all mean in the same way? Does an art work mean in the same way in which a street sign means? More importantly, ...more

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the european enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of enlightenment, Anthony...more

The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies ...more

Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement.

A critical ...more

For students of modern criticism and theory, Walter Benjaminâ''s writings have become essential reading. His analyses of photography, film, language, history...more