Product Description: Ken Aptekar's paintings examine Jewishness, masculinity, autobiography, identity, and the slippery history of art. By appropriating paintings from Western art history, repainting them on wood panels, and covering them with sandblasted texts that include witty and poignant autobiography, Aptekar amplifies and extends art history's discursive dialogue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Stanley Fish Reader assembles for the first time the best work of this brightest intellectual light.

Product Description: Confessions of the Critics provides a revealing look into the thoughts and experiences of some of the most influential and important critics of the twentieth century. The writers included avoid pretention and gross self-misrepresentation, giving way to raw, wholly believable emotion...read more

Product Description: Confessions of the Critics provides a revealing look into the thoughts and experiences of some of the most influential and important critics of the twentieth century. The writers included avoid pretention and gross self-misrepresentation, allowing for valuable and revealing insights...read more

Product Description: The New Historicism Reader documents the New Historicists' multiplex achievement, spanning Renaissance and Reagan studies, American realism, English romanticism, gender studies, feminism, and communications and rhetoric. Harold Veeser's introduction locates allies and opponents, surveys related fields, and identifies now-emerging New Historicist themes: the go-between, hybridization, embarrassment, autobiographical moves and personal writing...read more

Product Description: Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick descriptions" seize upon an event or anecdote--colonist John Rolfe's conversation with Pocohontas's father, a note found among Nietzsche's papers to the effect that "I have lost my umbrella"--and re-read it to reveal through the analysis of tiny particulars the motive forces controlling a whole society...read more