In "Getting Medieval", Carolyn Dinshaw examines communities - dissident and orthodox - in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer history. Reaching beyond both medieval and queer studies, Dinshaw demonstrates in this challenging work how intellectual inquiry into pre-modern societies can contribute invaluably to current issues in cultu...(展开全部)

This interdisciplinary collection examines the shaping of local sexual cultures in the Asian Pacific region in order to move beyond definitions and understandings of sexuality that rely on Western assumptions. The diverse studies in "AsiaPacifiQueer" demonstrate convincingly that in the realm of sexualities, globalization results in creative and cultural admixture rather than a...(展开全部)

Divided into three parts - history, theory and praxis - this book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of Enlightenment, is t...(展开全部)

Divided into three parts - history, theory and praxis - this book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of Enlightenment, is t...(展开全部)

伊哈布•哈桑（Ihab Hassan，1925—2015）埃及裔美国人，文学评论家，威斯康辛大学密尔沃基校区教授，最早也最为重要的后现代主义研究者之一。两次荣获古根海姆研究基金。代表作有《后现代转向》《当代美国文学》《奥尔菲斯的解体》等。 译者简介 刘象愚，北京师范大学退 休 教授、博士生导师。长期从事比较文学与英美文学的教学与科研工作。著有：《比较文学与比较文化》《比较文学概论》（合著）等；编有《乔伊斯精选集》《爱伦坡精选集》等；译有《文学理论》（合译）、《比较文学与文学理论》《当代文学理论导读》等。

伊哈布•哈桑（Ihab Hassan，1925—2015）埃及裔美国人，文学评论家，威斯康辛大学密尔沃基校区教授，最早也最为重要的后现代主义研究者之一。两次荣获古根海姆研究基金。代表作有《后现代转向》《当代美国文学》《奥尔菲斯的解体》等。 译者简介 刘象愚，北京师范大学退 休 教授、博士生导师。长期从事比较文学与英美文学的教学与科研工作。著有：《比较文学与比较文化》《比较文学概论》（合著）等；编有《乔伊斯精选集》《爱伦坡精选集》等；译有《文学理论》（合译）、《比较文学与文学理论》《当代文学理论导读》等。

How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ punitive responses to such differences. In this compelling and original study, Ke...(展开全部)

Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures p...(展开全部)

Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures p...(展开全部)

"Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey. From the artificial time of the scientific laboratory to the distinctively modern yearning for one's own time, she regards every topic in this wide-ranging book from a fresh angle of vision, one which reveals unsuspected affi...(展开全部)