Modern philosophers generally assume that music is a problem to which philosophy ought to offer an answer. Andrew Bowie's Music, Philosophy, and Modernity suggests, in ...more

"From Romanticism to Critical Theory" explores the philosophical roots of literary theory through the traditions of German philosophy that started with the Romantic reactions ...more

It sounds daunting: all those '-isms', long technical words, weird French thinkers and incomprehensible Germans. You can't read a book nowadays, it seems, without being ...more

An essential guide to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism. A comprehensive glossary has extensive cross-referencing, a bibliography of essential ...more

In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challenge, novelist and poet Fanny ...more

This volume argues that Jack London's Martin eden and Henry Adams' The education of Henry Adams are two of the first works in American literature to embody ...more

Ihab Hassan pioneered studies of postmodernism as a concept of literary theory and a cultural phenomenon. The essays in this collection present his seminal and provocative ...more

This book gives the study of literature a powerful psychoanalytic model for the literary process. The first edition of Poems in Persons established American-style reader-...more

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

This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a ...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, do all art ...more