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THEORY AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE SERIES

Giorgio Agamben
Stanzas
Word and Phantasm in Western Culture
Translated by Ronald L. Martinez
Through rereadings of Freud and Saussure, Agamben proposes a radical reconfiguration of the epistemological foundation of Western culture.
27 ISBN 0-8166-2037-7 $42.95 cloth Sale price: $8.00
224 pages o 1992 o volume 69

Doris-Louise Haineault and Jean-Yves Roy
Unconscious for Sale
Advertising, Psychoanalysis, and the Public
Translated by Kimball Lockhart with Barbara Kerslake
Psychoanalysts analyze the processes by which advertising succeeds in soliciting the participation of the buying public by selling itself, not the products it purports to represent.
28 ISBN 0-8166-2185-3 $19.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
240 pages o 1993 o volume 86

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
The Subject of Philosophy
Lacoue-Labarthe spans the history of philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, and addresses such major moments in the history of literature as Greek tragedy and German romanticism.
29 ISBN 0-8166-1698-1 $19.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
30 ISBN 0-8166-1697-3 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $11.00
226 pages o 1993 o volume 83

Renate Lachmann
Memory and Literature
Intertextuality in Russian Modernism
Combines literary theory with textual analysis in a consideration of some of the major works of Russian modernism.
31 ISBN 0-8166-2907-2 $34.95 paper Sale price: $10.00
32 ISBN 0-8166-2906-4 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $22.00
512 pages o 1997 o volume 87

Jean-François Lyotard and Jean-Loup Thébaud
Just Gaming
Translated by Wlad Godzich
Lyotard investigates the legitimation of knowledge when there is no unified public sphere, only discordant language games.
33 ISBN 0-8166-1277-3 $12.95 paper Sale price: $6.00
129 pages o 1985 o volume 20

Géza von Molnar
Romantic Vision, Ethical Context
Novalis and Artistic Autonomy
Exploring the full range of Novalis's work, Géza von Molnar shows how he dealt, in theory and practice, with a central issue in Romanticism-the emerging concept of the autonomous self and its relation.
34 ISBN 0-8166-1497-0 $17.95 paper Sale price: $3.00
322 pages o 1987 o volume 39

Vladimir Propp
Theory and History of Folklore
Anatoly Liberman, editor
Translated by Ariadna Y. Martin and Richard P. Martin
Seven essays and three chapters which together reveal the full range of Vladimir Propp's thought.
35 ISBN 0-8166-1182-3 $19.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
252 pages o 1984 o volume 5

Peter Sloterdijk
Critique of Cynical Reason
Translated by Michael Eldred
A philosophical treatise which finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture.
36 ISBN 0-8166-1586-1 $24.95 paper Sale price: $12.00
597 pages o 1988 o volume 40

Paul Smith
Discerning the Subject
A critique of the debates on the status of the "subject."
"Sets the standard for discussions in 'theory' for some time to come." Dalhousie Review
37 ISBN 0-8166-1639-6 $16.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
220 pages o 1988 o volume 55

Tzvetan Todorov
Introduction to Poetics
Translated by Richard Howard
A clear, concise, and masterly exposition of the structuralist approach to literature, Introduction to Poetics is one of the key documents of French structuralism.
38 ISBN 0-8166-1011-8 $13.95 paper Sale price: $7.00
117 pages o 1981 o volume 1

N. S. Trubetzkoy
Writings on Literature
Translated by Anatoly Liberman
An illuminating introduction to the literary writings of one of the most influential scholars in the history of linguistics.
39 ISBN 0-8166-1793-7 $14.95 paper Sale price: $3.00
143 pages o 1990 o volume 72