In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty -- "a telling of the future," as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck."

In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty -- "a telling of the future," as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck."

It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evident victim, she is also an inadvertent victimiser - her impossible lovingness...(展开全部)

Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of this century. While her novels masquerade as witty comedies of manners, set in the lavish country houses of the Anglo-Irish or in elegant London homes, they mine the depths of private tragedy with a subtle ferocity and psychological complexity reminiscent of Henry James.The Death of the Heart, a story o...(展开全部)

伊丽莎白•鲍恩 Elizabeth Bowen，1899—1973 英国小说家，以其关于战时伦敦生活的小说而闻名。鲍恩于1899年出生于都柏林，中学时期就读肯特郡的唐屋中学。在伦敦艺术学校学习了一段时间后，她决定开始写作。1923年，出版短篇小说集《遭遇》（Encounters）。1937年，鲍恩成为爱尔兰文学院的一员。“二战”期间，鲍恩在伦敦的英国信息部工作，这段经历帮助她写出了关于战时伦敦生活最伟大的作品《炎热的一天》（In The Heat of the Day），1948年，她被授予大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）。 鲍恩一生创作了十部长篇小说、七十多个短篇小说，以及大量的文学评论和随笔。她的作品洞察入微，主要关注英格兰和爱尔兰中上阶层人群的情感和彼此之间的微妙关系。她早期创作的小说以机智和嘲弄著称，二十世纪三十年代之后的作品则表现出一种悲剧情感。...(展开全部)

雅克•德里达（1930—2004），20世纪后半期最重要的法国哲学家之一，曾任教于巴黎高等师范学校、巴黎社会科学高等研究院、加州大学人文学院等，并创建国际哲学学院。他开创了解构的思想方法，成为后结构主义的主要代表，其理论动摇了传统人文科学的基础，也是各种后现代思潮最重要的理论起点之一。20世纪90年代前后，德里达越来越关注当代政治和伦理论题，在研讨班和著作中进行更富有现实意味的解构实践，引起了广泛持久的探讨和争论。 王钦，毕业于美国纽约大学比较文学系，哲学博士，现为北京大学国际批评理论研究中心博士后。译著有《新自由主义简史》、《根本恶》（合译）、《野性唯物主义》（主译）等。

A collection of macabre mysteries, including the superlative story Witness for the Prosecution...Twelve unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation! A dog-shaped gunpowder mark; an omen from 'the other side'; a haunted house; a chilling seance; a case of split personalities; a recurring nightmare; an eerie wireless message; an elderly lady's hold over a young man...(展开全部)

Begun while the author was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, this extraordinary and profound novel is widely regarded as one of the great works of 20th-century modernism. A work that is part historical novel and part prose poem, it recreates the last 18 hours on the life of Virgil, author of the Aeneid, and the squalor and splendor of imperial Rome.

The Malady of Death (French: La Maladie de la mort) is a 1982 novella by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It tells the story of a man who pays a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea.

In this impassioned critique of America's growing disengagement from civic life and ideals, Drum Major Institute Executive Director Andrea Batista Schlesinger dissects the forcible erosion of our youngest generation's capacity for inquiry and provides recommendations.