Acts of Literature, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare, and Kafka, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection includes a substantial new interview with him on questions of lit...(展开全部)

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the majo...(展开全部)

Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. 1. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read 2. Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock 3. Argues for a new “phenomenology” in literary studies that incorporates the his...(展开全部)

▼ 作者简介 芮塔·菲尔斯基（Rita Felski），曾任《新文学史》主编，弗吉利亚大学英语系小威廉·柯南讲座教授；美学、文学理论、女性主义理论、现代性与后现代性、文化研究等领域的杰出学者。 她1979年获剑桥大学学士学位，1987年获莫纳什大学博士学位。 主要代表作：《批评的 极限》《女性主义之后的文学》《创制时间：女性主义理论与后现代文化》《现代性的性别》《超越女性主义美学:女性主义文学与社会变迁》。 2010年，获古根海姆奖。 2000年，获威廉·帕克·赖利奖获（美国现代语言协会颁发给在协会期刊上发表“杰出文章”，并被广泛认为是现代语言和文学研究中最有声望的学者）。 ▼ 译者简介 刘洋，南京大学英语系博士研究生（牛津大学英语系联合培养）。主要研究方向为早期现代英国文学。文章见于《外国文学评论》等。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sell...(展开全部)

Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers - among them are Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international literary consciousness. "The Space of Literature", first published in France in 1955, is central to the development of B...(展开全部)

In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Translated by Patrick Creagh. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers - among them are Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international literary consciousness. "The Space of Literature", first published in France in 1955, is central to the development of B...(展开全部)

刘若愚（James Liu，1926-1986），生前为美国斯坦福大学教授，主要研究中国古典诗歌、诗论和文论，以及中西比较文学、比较诗学。他还著有《中国诗艺》、《中国之游侠》、《李商隐的诗》、《北宋主要诗人》、《中国文学艺术基础》、《跨语种批评家》、《悖论—语言—诗学》。