After Theory
9 best books like After Theory (Terry Eagleton): Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia, Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Hold the Enlightenment
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
| ISBN | 0816612250 |
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality...
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0679737324 |
Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer - an American friend and animal...
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0679722165 |
Iyer in his introduction tells us this is “less like a conventional travel diary than a series of essays” of a “casual traveler’s casual observations” of the Asia he saw “over the course of two years... [spending] a total of seven months crisscrossing the continent.” Each chapter covers...
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0679727140 |
A mixture of minute, old-fashioned naturalistic observation of plants, mammals, and especially birds in the Amazonian rain forest, and the vicissitudes of traveling with a motley crew of locals along with O'Hanlon's alcoholic English friend Simon, who comes along for a kind of comic counterpoint...
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to visit.
As...
| Author | Tony Horwitz |
| ISBN | 0452267455 |
"A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--
The New York Times Book Review
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With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia...
| Author | Kira Salak |
| ISBN | 0792274172 |
A Restless Women Travelers title
Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea—often called the last frontier of adventure travel. Traveling by dugout canoe and on foot, confronting the dangers and...
| Author | Vincent B. Leitch |
| ISBN | 0393974294 |
This book does offer a huge selection of important critics. It is nice and heavy, and has a cool dust cover. As an introduction to theory for students, however, it is a bit overwhelming and doesn't offer much in the way of engagement with texts that other lit crit anthologies, such as Shirley Staton's "Literary...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0375713298 |
In his latest collection of death-defying exploits and far-flung travels, Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill visits the side of an active volcano in Ecuador, the Saharan salt mines and the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. He also ventures to find a Caspian tiger in Turkey and giant...
