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  • Bakhtin in Contexts

    Price: $16.95

    Contributors include Caryl Emerson, Gary Saul Morson, R. Bracht Branham, Dale E. Peterson, Lisa Eckstrom, Stanley Aronowitz, Vincent Crapanzano, John Dore, and Amy Mandelker.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dialogue on Every Corner, Bakhtin in Every Class 1Pt. 1 Bakhtin and Literary StudiesSlavic StudiesProsaic Bakhtin: Landmarks, Anti-Intelligentsialism, and the Russian Countertradition 33ClassicsInventing the Novel 79African American StudiesResponse and Call: The African American Dialogue with Bakhtin and What It Signifies 89American LiteratureMoral Perception and the Chronotope: The Case of Henry James 99Pt. 2 Bakhtin and Social TheorySociologyLiterature as Social Knowledge: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Reemergence of the Human Sciences 119AnthropologyThe Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory 137LinguisticsThe Emergence of Language from Dialogue 151SemioticsLogosphere and Semiosphere: Bakhtin, Russian Organicism, and the Semiotics of Culture 177Notes 191Notes on Contributors 217

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  • Marxism Beyond Marxism

    Price: $28.95

    Marxism Beyond Marxism is a collection of essays that critically rethinks Marxism at time when its practice and theory has been seemingly taken to task by the events in 1989 in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Containing essays from a group of internationally distinguished writers and intellectuals, this collection addresses Marxism as a cultural-political problematic. Contending that Marxism is deeply embedded in specific cultural practices, the contributors illuminate Marxism’s contribution to discussions of labor in post-industrial capitalism, to controversies surrounding compulsory heterosexuality and queer theory, and to debates about the institutionalization and academicization of the “New” Left. In examining Marxism’s relationship to cultural practices, the contributors make a vigorous and compelling case for Marxism’s continued relevance. By combining a diversity of perspectives, these essays demonstrate that Marxism addresses urgent needs that are often foresaken by other political and ideological practices. They show how–now more than ever–Marxism’s reaffirmation can serve as a sophisticated and cunning response to the latest global devlopments–and travesties....

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  • Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986

    Price: $13.95

    In all his essays, Jameson explores theoretical territory then unknown to most American critics, brings back ideas, explains and criticizes them, and does so both inventively and systematically. The ‘system’ he helps to construct is a set of critical attitudes rather than a stale enclosure of interpretive rules, and those attitudes have changed the shape of American thought about literature and culture, not only in the academy but also in the literate press.

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  • Ideologies of Theory: Essays 1971-1986

    Price: $12.95

    In all his essays, Jameson explores theoretical territory then unknown to most American critics, brings back ideas, explains and criticizes them, and does so both inventively and systematically. The ‘system’ he helps to construct is a set of critical attitudes rather than a stale enclosure of interpretive rules, and those attitudes have changed the shape of American thought about literature and culture, not only in the academy but also in the literate press.

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  • Fantasies of Salvation

    Price: $39.95

    Eastern Europe has become an ideological battleground since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with liberals and authoritarians struggling to seize the ground lost by Marxism. In^I Fantasies of Salvation^N, Vladimir Tismaneanu traces the intellectual history of this struggle and warns that authoritarian nationalists pose a serious threat to democratic forces. A leading observer of the often baffling world of post- Communist Europe, Tismaneanu shows that extreme nationalistic and authoritarian thought has been influential in Eastern Europe for much of this century, while liberalism has only shallow historical roots. Despite demo-cratic successes in places such as the Czech Republic and Poland, he argues, it would be a mistake for the West to assume that liberalism will always triumph. He backs this argument by showing how nationalist intellectuals have encouraged ethnic hatred in such countries as Russia, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia by reviving patriotic myths of heroes, scapegoats, and historical injustices. And he shows how enthusiastically these myths have been welcomed by people desperate for some form of “salvation”...

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  • Information Inequality

    Price: $24.95

    Herbert Schiller, long one of America’s leading critics of the communications industry, here offers a salvo in the battle over information. In Information Inequality he explains how privatization and the corporate economy directly affect our most highly prized democratic institutions: schools and libraries, media, and political culture. A master media-watcher, Schiller presents a crisp and far-reaching indictment of the “data deprivation” corporate interests are inflicting on the social fabric.

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