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  • Nationalisms & Sexualities

    Edited by Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, Patricia Yaeger ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1992, Nationalisms and Sexualities addresses questions of how notions of identity are shaped by discussions of nationalism and sexuality. The book looks at a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, on a wide range of geographical regions and historical moments. The volume departs from social scientific paradigms that treat nation and sexuality as discrete and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Polka Dot Sue

    by Mary Russo, PhD ...
    Polka Dot Hair Girl Teaches Lesson of Self-Esteem Extraordinary girl and her special dog share self-empowerment in colorful new children's book. San Jose, CA The new children's book by Mary Russo, PhD; skillfully shares practical advice for the young reader with the use of a fanciful character named Polka Dot Sue. This story encourages a sense of self-acceptance and pride despite obstacles, thus ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grandma Loves Pillows

    by Mary Russo PhD ...
    Illustrated by Donna Collins ...
    How does an old woman with a very kind heart end up all by herself outside on her front lawn? Her friends are nowhere to be seen. Something is wrong. What is it? Sometimes acquiring things we believe we need can create problems. This book is about the choices we make. Grandma learns that collecting too much has consequences, and she must reflect on her own choices. This positive message is gently ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Female Grotesque

    Risk, Excess and Modernity

    by Mary Russo ...
    The grotesque - the exagggerated, the deformed, the monstrous - has been a well-considered subject for students of comparative literature and art. In a major addition to the literature of art, cultural criticism and feminist studies, Mary Russo re-examines the grotesque in the light of gender, exploring the works of Angela Carter David Cronenberg Bahktin Kristeva Freud Zizek. Mary Russo looks at ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

    by Steven J. Venturino PhD ...
    From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Essays on Modern Art: Andy Warhol - Criticisms and Essays on Previously Unseen Art in the Koolhaas Collection

    by Justice Koolhaas ...
    Justice Koolhaas's Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist's works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism written in deliberate opacity, is inspired by her collection of art refuse. She unblinkingly ... Read more

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  • How To Be Gay

    by David M. Halperin ...
    A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes—aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers—and in the social meaning of style. ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Literary Theory Toolkit

    A Compendium of Concepts and Methods

    by Herman Rapaport ...
    The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context.Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and genresFeatures a chapter on performance, something not usually covered in similar textsCovers differing theories of the public sphere, ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Travelling Concepts in the Humanities

    A Rough Guide

    by Mieke Bal ...
    Series series Green College Thematic Lecture Series
    Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways and the reader can follow or willfully ignore any of the paths it maps or signposts.Bal's focus for ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    "Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."-Gore Vidal ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Hold It Against Me

    Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

    by Jennifer Doyle ...
    In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing performance art, painting, and photography, Doyle provides new perspectives on artists ... Read more

    $19.49 USD