What comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective is now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. The book thus examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and...(展开全部)

What comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective is now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. The book thus examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and...(展开全部)

From clay tablets to CD-ROM, from book thieves to book burners, bibliophiles, book fools and saints, noted essayist Alberto Manguel follows the quirky and passionate 4,000-year-old history of the written work whose true hero is the reader. Photos & line drawings.

This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands and expectations of the reader, acting alongside the creative will of the writer, that is t...(展开全部)

Book Description Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis of Lacan's work--and the dismissal by "anti-Lacanians" of Lacan as impossibly impenetrable--Subjectivity and Otherness argues for Lacan as a "paradoxically systematic" thinker, and for the necessity of a close analysis of his texts. Lorenzo Chiesa examines, from a philosophical perspective, ...(展开全部)

Book Description Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis of Lacan's work--and the dismissal by "anti-Lacanians" of Lacan as impossibly impenetrable--Subjectivity and Otherness argues for Lacan as a "paradoxically systematic" thinker, and for the necessity of a close analysis of his texts. Lorenzo Chiesa examines, from a philosophical perspective, ...(展开全部)

英语译本

英语译本

作者： 海伦﹒加德纳（Helen Gardner，1908—1986），英国文学评论家，牛津大学文学博士。曾任牛津大学教授、不列颠科学院院士、美国艺术科学院院士、巴伐利亚艺术科学院院士。在玄学派诗歌以及多恩、艾略特研究领域颇为知名。著有《批评的志业》《T.S.艾略特的艺术》《捍卫想象》等。 译者： 李小均：复旦大学文学博士，深圳大学外国语学院教授。著有《自由与反讽》等，译有《语言与沉默》《捍卫想象》等。

作者： 海伦﹒加德纳（Helen Gardner，1908—1986），英国文学评论家，牛津大学文学博士。曾任牛津大学教授、不列颠科学院院士、美国艺术科学院院士、巴伐利亚艺术科学院院士。在玄学派诗歌以及多恩、艾略特研究领域颇为知名。著有《批评的志业》《T.S.艾略特的艺术》《捍卫想象》等。 译者： 李小均：复旦大学文学博士，深圳大学外国语学院教授。著有《自由与反讽》等，译有《语言与沉默》《捍卫想象》等。