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Questing Fictions: Latin America’s Family Romance Questing Fictions Latin America’s Family Romance Djelal Kadir 1986 Fall
Analyzes 20th-century Latin American fiction in the light of contemporary literary theory and focuses on the predicament of writers caught between the cultural domination of Europe and the need to strive for cultural autonomy.
The Scientific Marx The Scientific Marx Daniel Little 1986 Fall
Vengeance of the Victim: History and Symbol in Giorgio Bassani’s Fiction Vengeance of the Victim History and Symbol in Giorgio Bassani’s Fiction Marilyn Schneider 1986 Fall
Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life Reproductions of Banality Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life Alice Yaeger Kaplan 1986 Fall
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature Kafka Toward a Minor Literature Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 1986 Fall
Instead of interpreting Kafka’s work according to pre-existing categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of “minor literature”—the use of a major language that subverts it from within.
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image Cinema 1 The Movement-Image Gilles Deleuze 1986 Fall
A revolutionary work in philosophy and a book about cinema that identifies three principal types of image-movement using examples from the work of a diverse group of filmmakers including Griffith, Eisenstein, Cassavetes, and Altman.
Demarcating the Disciplines: Philosophy, Literature, Art Demarcating the Disciplines Philosophy, Literature, Art Samuel Weber, Henry Sussman and Wlad Godzich, Editors 1986 Fall
The Resistance to Theory The Resistance to Theory Paul de Man 1986 Fall
Explores reasons why the theoretical enterprise is blind to, or “resists,” the radical nature of reading, in six essays that offer a new level of critical and cultural understanding in reference to the works of Jauss, Riffaterre, Benjamin, and Bakhtin.
Literature Among Discourses: The Spanish Golden Age Literature Among Discourses The Spanish Golden Age Wlad Godzich and Nicholas Spadaccini, Editors 1986 Fall
The Colonial Harem The Colonial Harem Malek Alloula 1986 Spring
A collection of picture postcards of Algerian women exploited by the French, this “album” illustrates a powerful analysis of the distorting, denigrating effects of their presence on Algerian Society.