Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include Axel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore, To the Finland Station, and Memoirs of Hecate County.

Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this volume and a companion volume devoted to the 30s and 40s--the first two entries in what will be a series devoted to Wilson's wor...(展开全部)

苏珊・巴斯内特：英国沃里克大学(UniversityofWarwick)英国和比较文化研究中心教授。著作包括《翻译研究》(Translation Studies)、《比较文学浅论》(Comparative Literature：A Critical Introduction)以及与安德烈・勒菲弗尔合编的《翻译、历史与文化》(Translation, History and Culture)等。 安德烈・勒菲弗尔(1946-1996)：翻译研究领域世界一流的学术带头人。著述丰厚，包括：《诗歌翻译：七种策略和一个蓝图》(Translation Poetry：Seven Strategies and a Blueprint)、《翻译、重写以及对文学名声的操纵》(Translation，Rewriting and the Manipulation of ...(展开全部)

A sociological history of literary studies—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of “English” have been especially acute and long-standing. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new b...(展开全部)

A sociological history of literary studies—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of “English” have been especially acute and long-standing. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new b...(展开全部)

The work of the German philosopher Manfred Frank has profoundly affected the direction of the contemporary debate in many areas of philosophy and literary theory. This present collection, first published in 1998, brings together some of his most important essays, on subjects as diverse as Schleiermacher's hermeneutics, the status of the literary text, and the response to the wo...(展开全部)

In these eleven extended pieces V. S. Naipaul charts more than half a century of personal enquiry into the mysteries of the written word and of fiction in particular. Here are his boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary fo...(展开全部)

V.S.奈保尔// V.S.Naipaul 英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，50年代进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后开始写作。著有《米格尔街》、《毕司沃斯先生的房子》、《自由国度》、《游击队员》、《大河湾》、“印度三部曲”、《非洲的假面剧》等。2001年，获诺贝尔文学奖。

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul brings his signature gifts of observation, his ferocious impatience with received truths, and his masterfully condensed prose to these eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity—which have been brought together for the first time. Here the subject is Naipaul’s literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a ...(展开全部)

室利•阿罗频多(1872－1950)，印度 “三圣”（圣雄甘地、圣诗泰戈尔、圣哲阿罗频多）之一，居印度近代以来最著名的精神哲学家之列。民族主义者，自由斗士，诗人，哲学家，瑜伽修行者。 　　7岁就去英国求学，毕业于剑桥大学。21岁时回国，开始研究本土文化，渐渐参加独立运动。到34岁已为名教授而被推为大学校长；到36岁已为秘密结社之魁首，主持暴动暗杀等事。同年其秘密结社败露被捕，入狱一年，诉讼获释。获释后仍继续其爱国运动，但得讯又将被逮捕，于是间关抵达南印度之一海滨埠头，名“捧地舍里”（pondicherry），当时是法国属地，为英国势力所不及，时正38岁（1910）。从此隐居著述，凡四十年，以至去世，从未离该地。阿罗频多一生著述有一百多种，其代表性的著作有《神圣人生论》、《薄伽梵歌论》、《综合瑜伽论》等。 　　在中国，其思想的研究者和传播者为徐梵澄（1...(展开全部)