Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
10 best books like Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (Hélène Cixous): Mauve Desert, The Writing of the Disaster, Simone Weil: An Anthology, Textermination: A Novel, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann, The Language of Inquiry, The Function of Criticism, Tales of Love, What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays, Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire
| Author | Nicole Brossard |
| ISBN | 1552451720 |
First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers alike.
This is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert,...
| Author | Maurice Blanchot |
| ISBN | 0803261209 |
Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels...
| Author | Simone Weil |
| ISBN | 0802137296 |
Philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist, political activist -- Simone Weil was among the foremost thinkers of our time. Best known in this country for her theological writing, Weil wrote on a great variety of subjects ranging from classical philosophy and poetry, to modern labor, to the language...
| Author | Christine Brooke-Rose |
| ISBN | 0811212165 |
In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all...
| Author | Ingeborg Bachmann |
| ISBN | 0810112043 |
There are things in the world that just suck and there is nothing you can do about them. I'm not talking about 'important' things like awful governments and assholes ruining the world or any of that kind of stuff, but rather things that should exist but never will. For example some of mine are that there...
| Author | Lyn Hejinian |
| ISBN | 0520217004 |
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection...
| Author | Terry Eagleton |
| ISBN | 1844670554 |
A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, from Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida.
This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a “public sphere” in which political, ethical, and literary judgements...
| Author | Julia Kristeva |
| ISBN | 0231060254 |
Julia Kristeva, most often in America thought off as a feminist or gender theorist akin to Cixous or Butler, is foremost a linguist concerned with literature and also a practicing psychoanalyst. It is from these approaches that she comes to us in this superb book. "Tales of Love" is concerned with all...
| Author | Giorgio Agamben |
| ISBN | 0804762309 |
The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have...
| Author | Carole Maso |
| ISBN | 1582430632 |
In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Ever refusing to be marginalized or categorized by genre, Maso is an incisive, compassionate writer who deems herself daughter...
This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts span twenty years of intellectual thought...
A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished practitioners, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry is as personal and provocative, accessible and idiosyncratic as the genre itself. With its pioneering introduction, this collection provides a comprehensive...
| Author | Sianne Ngai |
| ISBN | 0674024095 |
This brilliant debut book of literary criticism and theory has received widespread praise and attention--rightly so. Ngai provides a real high-note to the "affective turn" in humanistic scholarship with this volume on the "weak negative affects" that--unlike stronger, more thetic and cathartic...
The Psychoanalysis of Fire
"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand...
| Author | Mary Eagleton |
| ISBN | 0631197346 |
A. Introduction
1. This book attempts to understand feminist literary theory since 1970 (The year when Millet’s Sexual Politics was published). FLC is pluralistic, there is no one defining method or belief. But, this is a good thing because FLC draws on many theoretical positions (Marx,...
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0099289415 |
Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from...
After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misrepresented, vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through internal contradiction and conflict, transformed...
| Author | Leo Bersani |
| ISBN | 0674406206 |
Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, Leo Bersani now addresses homosexuality in America.
Hardly a day goes by without the media focusing an often sympathetic beam on gay life--and, with AIDS, on gay death. Gay plays...
| Author | Michel Serres |
| ISBN | 0816648816 |
Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity...
| Author | David Lodge |
| ISBN | 0582312876 |
'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.' (David Lodge)
This new edition of David Lodge's Modern Criticism and Theory is fully revised and expanded to...
| Author | Fleur Jaeggy |
| ISBN | 8845923789 |
This superbly concentrated book of creative nonfiction should not be knocked back like a shot, but rather sipped slowly like a good grappa. It consists of three hyper-brief biographies of writers: De Quincey, Keats, and Marcel Schwob. The lives herein are, as the original title has it, ‘congetturali’,...
| Author | Robert Boswell |
| ISBN | 1555975046 |
A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, "one of America's finest writers" (Tom Perrotta)
Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience...
