Product Description: Art and Argument is an interdisciplinary romp combining metaphysics, literary criticism, and consideration of everyday events to offer a theory of how words work in argument and in artworks.

Product Description: The works of Modernism (ca. 1910-1930), in the last years of our century, tend to be treated as mere facts, mines for history and biography. In fact the Modernist work, whether of literature, philosophy, film, or dance, is a radical and potentially powerful entity...read more

Product Description: Literary theory of the twentieth century in the Anglo-American tradition forms a coherent whole, dividing into discrete clusters. This theory is riddled with purely logical problems inherent in its enterprise, resulting from the fact that Modernist theory develops as an offshoot of Romanticism...read more

Product Description: One of the greatest challenges facing Western society today is that of coming to terms with societies other than our own. Caging the Lion summarizes the current contradictions surrounding this challenge, considers the ways in which the West expresses its uneasy relationship with the world outside, and offers some clarity regarding a troubling topic...read more

Product Description: Offers a theory of art that overturns post-Romantic, prescriptive theories and reclaims the independent and direct experience of art as being of primary importance. The text examines the relevance of perception and attacks social usefulness as the criterion of excellence in the arts...read more