Renowned literary scholar Linda Hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical denigration. Adaptation, Hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the story-telling imagination and deserves to be studied in all its breadth and range as both a process (of creation and reception) and a product u...(展开全部)

This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: t...(展开全部)

This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: t...(展开全部)

霍华德·里萨蒂，弗吉尼亚联邦大学艺术史系当代艺术与批判理论名誉教授，曾任工艺材料研究系主任。其著作包括Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery, Postmodern Perspectives: Issues in Contemporary Art。 译者简介 陈勇，历史学博士、助理研究员，现供职于南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院。

霍华德·里萨蒂，弗吉尼亚联邦大学艺术史系当代艺术与批判理论名誉教授，曾任工艺材料研究系主任。其著作包括Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery, Postmodern Perspectives: Issues in Contemporary Art。 译者简介 陈勇，历史学博士、助理研究员，现供职于南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院。

A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned with individuals and materialism. But Miller rejects this assumption and follows the surprising route of analysing shopping by means of an analogy with anthropological studies of sacrificial ritual. He argues ...(展开全部)

This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: t...(展开全部)

A Theory of Justice is a widely-read book of political and moral philosophy by John Rawls. It was originally published in 1971 and revised in both 1975 (for the translated editions) and 1999. In A Theory of Justice, Rawls attempts to solve the problem of distributive justice by utilising a variant of the familiar device of the social contract. The resultant theory is known as "...(展开全部)

Eco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs—communication and signification—and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.