In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his work, as was the case in the late work of Thomas Mann, Richard Strauss, Jean Gene...(展开全部)

In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet, Mozart, Lampedusa, Euripides, Cavafy, and Mann, among others. He unco...(展开全部)

In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his work, as was the case in the late work of Thomas Mann, Richard Strauss, Jean Gene...(展开全部)

On the problems of translation in literary study Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred fro...(展开全部)

On the problems of translation in literary study Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred fro...(展开全部)

Bogue provides a systematic overview and introduction to Deleuze's writings on music and painting, and an assessment of their position within his aesthetics as a whole. Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts breaks new ground in the scholarship on Deleuze's aesthetics, while providing a clear and accessible guide to his often overlooked writings in the fields of music and pain...(展开全部)

Long out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs are by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula. Originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984, in these essays and images Sekula sought to portray the inextricable bond between labour and material culture, drawing deeply on Marxist theory to argue passionately for a collective ...(展开全部)

This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years. Bringing together a wide variety of contributors, not only writers, architectural and literary s...(展开全部)

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secu...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·C.斯科特（James C. Scott），1936年生，现为耶鲁大学政治学和人类学斯特林讲席教授，创立并主持耶鲁农政研究中心。斯科特于1992年当选为美国人文与科学院院士，1997年至1998年担任亚洲研究协会主席。2020年，美国社会科学研究委员会将最高荣誉“阿尔伯特·赫希曼奖”授予斯科特，以表彰他“广博而卓越的跨学科研究”。其主要著作《农民的道义经济学》《弱者的武器》《支配与抵抗艺术》《国家的视角》《逃避统治的艺术》均有中译本，读者众多。 田雷，华东师范大学法学院教授、立法与法治战略研究中心主任。先后就读于南京大学法学院、香港中文大学政治学系、耶鲁大学法学院，2008年于香港中文大学获得政治学博士。近期出版专著《继往以为序章：中国宪法的制度展开》，译著《我们的孩子》《娇惯的心灵》《寒门子弟上大学》。“雅理”出版策划与主理人。