An intensive examination of the theoretical writings of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish....... more

The Stanley Fish Reader assembles for the first time the best work of this brightest intellectual light....... more

The Stanley Fish Reader assembles for the first time the best work of this brightest intellectual light....... more

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "post... more

entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and...... more

This comprehensive study of fossilized invertebrates in the Mazon Creek area reveals the diverse ran... more

This comprehensive study of fossilized invertebrates in the Mazon Creek area reveals the diverse ran... more

Stanley Fish is one of America’s most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound...... more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge ... more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge ... more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge ... more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge ... more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge ... more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge ... more

Stanley Fish s provocative New York Times essays, pieces that have generated passionate discussion and debate. Addressing...... more

From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish’s provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and...... more

Stanley Fish, one of the foremost critics of literature working today, has spent much of his career writing and...... more

Stanley Fish, one of the foremost critics of literature working today, has spent much of his career writing and...... more

citizens? In Save the World On Your Own Time, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might be, there is but one...... more

Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a p... more

Stanley Fish’s Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its...... more

Cultures of the Death Drive is a comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie... more

explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis...... more

For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism--the rise of the military-industr... more

The expression laissez les bons temps rouler--"let the good times roll"--conveys the sense of exuber... more

The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely h... more

"Let me tell you where I’m coming from . . ."--so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. cult... more

A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto S... more

The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discour... more

In Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama ... more

At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Wes... more

Stanley Fish is an equal opportunity antagonist. A theorist who has taken on theorists, an academician who has riled...... more

This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern ident... more

The conviction that Gilles Deleuze is doing something radical in his work has been accompanied by a ... more

Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent t... more

Although Chinese Marxism--primarily represented by Maoism--is generally seen by Western intellectual... more

The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and ... more

The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi... more

In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth centu... more

, Stanley Fish raises a provocative challenge to those who try to turn literary studies into an instrument of political change...... more

For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to "discover" the... more

a rich variety of contemporary debates have been played out. Contributors such as Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Nancy...... more

and C. S. Lewis) that the poet s sympathies are obviously with God and the angels loyal to him. The achievement of Stanley...... more

Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of communist authors in East Ger... more

Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colon... more

Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather... more

Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist ... more

In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most in... more

In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at... more

Posthumously published to wide acclaim, The Lettered City is a vitally important work by one of Lati... more

Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel--displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, mig... more

How is history produced? How do individuals write--or rewrite--their parts while engaged in the prod... more

Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem exa... more

Imagine Fredric Jameson--the world’s foremost Marxist critic--kidnapped and taken on a joyride throu... more

"I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and pro... more

with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an...... more

Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between pos... more

In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel ... more