Bücher der Reihe Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society

While traditional scholarship emphasizes the influence of newspapers and books on the French Revolution, Maslan's erudite analysis reveals the rich and powerful impact of theater on France's fledgling democracy.

Anthony Appiah; Emily Apter; Charles Bernheimer; Peter Brooks; Rey Chow; Jonathan Culler; David Damrosch; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Roland Greene; Margaret R. Higonnet; Francoise Lionnet; Marjorie Perloff; Mary Russo; Tobin Siebers; Mary Louise Pratt; Michael Riffaterre; Arnold Weinstein

Contributors are Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Regina Barreca, Elisabeth Bronfen, Carol Christ, Sander Gilman, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret Higonnet, Regina Janes, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Ronald Schleifer, Charles Segal, and Garrett Stewart.

Surveying recent cultural history and theory, Buell shows how our understanding of cultural production relates closely to transformations in models of the world order.

Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of violence.

An introduction and glossary of terms help make this an indispensable volume for the student as well as the specialist.

From a neighborhood where pushers and poststructuralists meet on the street (sometimes violently), where the anger of sixties' activism never cooled, Suburban Ambush is an indispensable introduction to the women and men writing about what the Village Voice has called "the lower east side of sombody's gut."

Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism.

The general category of 'woman' muddles the binaries between mother and whore, self and Other, center and periphery."-from the Introduction

His analysis reveals major problems in the way in which the idea of cultural, as distinct from economic or political, imperialism is formulated.

Exploring a range of competing representations, Gould asks whether Carmen is a dangerous femme fatale, a liberated woman, or, as Nietzsche saw her, a warrior in the vanguard of the battle between the sexes.

Thoroughly expanded and updated, this pioneering work continues to be the "ur-textof hypertext studies.

Throughout, Chartier keeps his focus on historians who have stressed the relations between the products of discourse and social practices.

Contributors: Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University; Rebecca W.

Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose thus acquires an altogether new significance in the history of literature: it appears as a work that incessantly explores its own capacity to be other than it is.

Arguing for the "social logic of the text,Spiegel provides historians with a way to retrieve the social significance and conceptual claims produced by these medieval or any historical writings.

Miller contends that the modern capitalist state musters a variety of mixed messages about the nature of citizenship and the self. Using case studies, he examines mass entertainment, political discourse, and methods of resistance to powerful cultural forces.

By careful attention to philosophical inquiry into possible worlds, especially Saul Kripke's and Jaakko Hintikka's, and through long familiarity with literary theory, Dolezel brings us an unprecedented examination of the notion of fictional worlds.

"-Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College

It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies.

Humanities, film studies, and social science scholars will find this book a valuable contribution to the philosophical literature on cinema and its pertinence in contemporary life.