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Where the Stress Falls: Essays

7 best books like Where the Stress Falls: Essays (Susan Sontag): Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Pilgrim Hawk, Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Empire of Signs

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
AuthorGilles Deleuze
ISBN0816612250
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...
On the Genealogy of Morals
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
The Pilgrim Hawk
AuthorGlenway Wescott
ISBN0940322560
This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in—with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic...
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
AuthorAlice Oswald
ISBN0571274161
The poetry of Alice Oswald is preternatural…preternaturally gorgeous, preternaturally immediate and relevant and precise. We want to sink into that language and be in that bright place—perhaps not to live (among the flashing swords), but to die there, amongst one’s brethren, with poetry...
The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty
AuthorGeorges Bataille
ISBN0942299213
The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. In the second and third volumes, The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty, Bataille explores...
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
AuthorChristina Sharpe
ISBN0822362945
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead,...
Empire of Signs
AuthorRoland Barthes
ISBN0374522073
Someone here on Good Reads recommended I read this, can't remember who now to thank them...

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