Product Description: "I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm." With these words, Roland Barthes describes a concept that profoundly shaped his work and was the subject of a landmark series of lectures delivered in 1978 at the Collège de France, just two years before his death...read more

Product Description: Key texts from leading theorists in postwar French literary criticism. In Literary Debate, the second volume in The New Press's Postwar French Thought Series, editors Denis Hollier and Jeffrey Mehlman present a selection of texts, many available in English for the first time, that together offer an illuminating and provocative overview of the last half-century of French literary criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Key texts from the leading theorists in postwar French literary criticism. In Literary Debate, the second volume in the Series, editors Denis Hollier and Jeffrey Mehlman present a selection of texts, many available in English for the first time, that together offer an illuminating and provocative overview of French literary criticism, its revolutions and obsessions, institutions and interpretations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: New Lower Price~Premises: Invested Spaces in Visual Arts, Architecture & Design from France, 1958-1998 brings together more than 100 visual artists and architects working in France over the past 40 years. This catalogue explores the relationship between ideas about space and their physical manifestation in installation, film, video, photography, architecture and design...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: October: The Second Decade collects examples of the innovative critical and theoretical work for which the journal October is known. A journal anthology draws a collective portrait; together, the gathered texts demonstrate the journal's ambitions and strengths...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: They were not the "Banquet Years," those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those writers and critics in the 1930s and 1940s that shaped French literature--the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur--and has so profoundly influenced literary enterprise in the English-speaking world since 1968...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume focuses on "critique genetique" - or genetic criticism, a form of criticism which favours a return to the text, meaning not just the printed text of classical philology but also the manuscript or draft, the "textual unconscious" of the book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D. to the present decade is the most imaginative single-volume guide to the French literary tradition available in English. Conceived for the general reader, this volume presents French literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles, but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary critical perspectives...read more

Discusses the influential French philosopher, and examines the connections he drew between philosophy and architecture

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