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This list contains works which may be read by students as further reading for assignments in which research or related discussion may be helpful to your writing and/or critical projects. The books hereunder describe a wide range of "related" work - from philosophy to theater studies to biology - so that any number of interdisciplinary projects may be explored. |
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Acker, Kathy |
Bodies of Work: Essays |
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Adorno, T.W. |
The Jargon of Authenticity |
| The Authoritarian Personality | |
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Allison, Dorothy |
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature |
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Alter, Jean |
A Socio-semiotic Theory of Theater |
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Amato & Fleischer |
"Reforming Creative Writing Pedagogy: history as knowledge, knowledge as activism" online @ altx.com/ebr |
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Amrine, F., ed. |
Literature and Science as Modes of Expression |
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Anzaldua, Gloria |
Borderlands: The New Mestiza=la Frontera |
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Arendt, Hannah |
The Human Condition |
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The Life of the Mind |
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The Origins of Totalitarianism |
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Aristotle |
Organon |
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Poetics |
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Rhetoric |
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Artaud, Antonin |
The Theater and its Double |
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Bachelard, Gaston |
The Poetics of Space |
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Baker ed. |
Onward: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics |
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Baldwin, James |
Collected Essays |
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The Price of the Ticket |
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Barthes, Roland |
Camera Lucida |
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Mythologies |
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S/Z |
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The Pleasure of the Text |
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The Responsibility of Forms |
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Bataille |
Eroticism: Death and Sensuality |
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Bateson, Gregory |
Men Are Grass... |
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Mind and Nature... |
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind |
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Baudelaire, Charles |
The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays |
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Baudrillard, Jean |
The Transparency of Evil |
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Beach, ed., Christopher |
Artifice and Indeterminacy |
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Benjamin, Walter |
Illuminations |
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Bentley, Eric |
Critical Works: What is Theater? |
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The Brecht Commentaries |
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Berger, John |
Another Way of Telling |
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Ways of Seeing |
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Bergson, Henri |
Laughter |
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The Creative Mind |
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Time and Free Will |
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Bernstein, Charles, ed. |
Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word |
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The Politics of Poetic Form |
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Bigelow, Gordon |
The Poet's Third Eye |
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Blackmer, Corrine |
En Travesti: Gender, Subversion, Opera |
| Blanchot, Maurice | The Writing of the Disaster |
| Blau, Herbert | Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point |
| The Audience | |
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Boal, Augusto |
Games for Actors and Non-Actors |
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Theater of the Oppressed |
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Bogart, Anne |
Viewpoints |
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Borges, Jorge Luis |
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings |
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Selected Non-Fictions |
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Seven Nights |
| Boman, Lars | Criticism and Construction in the Philosophy of the American New Realism |
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Borroughs, William |
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays |
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Bourdieu, Pierre |
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste |
| Bowers, Jane Palatini | They Watch Me as They Watch This: Gertrude Stein's Metadrama |
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Bowles & Gintis |
Schooling in Democratic America |
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Brathwaite, Kamau |
Roots |
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Bruns, Gerald |
Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language |
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Buber, Martin |
I and Thou |
| Buzan, Barry | The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism |
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Calvino, Italo |
Six Memos for the Next Millenium |
| Canguilhem, Georges | The Normal and the Pathological |
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Capra, Fritjof |
The Tao of Physics |
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Carson, Rachel |
Silent Spring |
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Cassirer, Ernst |
Language and Myth |
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Cavell, Stanley |
A Pitch of Philosophy |
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In Quest of the Ordinary |
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Must We Mean What We Say? |
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The Claim of Reason |
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Caws, Mary Ann, ed |
Manifesto: A Century of Isms |
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Clifford, James, ed. |
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography |
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Conrad, Peter |
Romantic Opera and Literary Form |
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Conte, Joseph |
Unending Design: the Forms of Postmodern Poetry |
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Copeland, Roger, ed. |
What is Dance? |
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Cromwell, Jason |
Transmen and FTMs |
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Danto, Arthur |
Beyond the Brillo Box: Art in Post-Historical Perspective |
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The Transfiguration of the Commonplace |
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Darwin, Charles |
The Origin of the Species |
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Davenport, Guy |
The Geography of the Imagination: 40 Essays |
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Davis, Angela |
Women, Race and Class |
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De Laurentis, Teresa |
Technologies of Gender: Theory, Film, Fiction |
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Delany, Samuel |
Longer Views |
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Shorter Views |
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Deleuze, Gilles |
A Thousand Plateaus |
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Anti-Oedipus |
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Bergsonism |
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The Deleuze Reader |
| Nomadology: The War Machine | |
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Dolan, Jill |
Feminist Spectator as Critic |
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Doniger, Wendy |
Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in India and Greece |
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Dorfman, Ariel |
How to Read Donald Duck |
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Douglas, J. Yellowlees |
The End of Books or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives |
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Drucker, Johanna |
Figuring the Word |
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Du Bois, W.E.B. |
The Souls of Black Folk |
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Du Plessis, Rachel Blau, ed. |
The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics |
| Duberman, Martin | Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community |
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Duncan, Robert |
Fictive Certainties |
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Eco, Umberto, et al |
Interpretation and Overinterpretation |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
Self-Reliance and Other Essays |
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Evernden, Neil |
The Natural Alien |
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Fanon, Franz |
Black Skin, White Masks |
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The Wretched of the Earth |
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Felshin, Nina |
But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism |
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Foreman, Richard |
Balancing Acts |
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Forster, E.M. |
Aspects of the Novel |
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Foster, Hal |
Postmodern Culture |
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Recodings |
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The Return of the Real |
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Foster, Paul |
Beckett and Zen |
| Foster, Steven C. | Dada: The Coordinates of Cultural Politics |
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Dada Spectrum: The Dialectics of Revolt |
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| Freire, Paulo | Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage |
| The Paulo Freire Reader | |
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Freud, Sigmund |
"The Rat Man" |
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"The Uncanny" |
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Civilization and its Discontents |
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Delusion and Dream |
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Fried, Michael |
Absorption and Theatricality |
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Fuller, R. Buckminster |
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking |
| Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to his Studies | |
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Gann, Kyle |
American Music in the 20th Century |
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Garber, Marjorie |
Vested Interests: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety |
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Gass, William |
The Word Within the World |
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Gates, Henry L. |
"Race" Writing and Difference |
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Figures in Black |
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism |
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Gilroy, Paul |
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness |
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Ginsberg, Allen |
Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics and Consciousness |
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Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays |
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Gizzi, Peter |
The House that Jack Built: the Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer |
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Glass, Philip |
Music by Philip Glass |
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Goffman, Erving |
Relations in Public |
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Stigma |
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Goldberg, Rose Lee |
Performance: Live Art since 1960 |
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Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present |
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Gombrich, E.H. |
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation |
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Gomez-Pena, Guillermo |
Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back |
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Gould, Stephen Jay |
The Mismeasure of Man |
| Greenberg, Allan | Artists and Revolution: Dada and the Bauhaus |
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Gross, Alan |
The Rhetoric of Science |
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Hagberg, G.L. |
Art as Language |
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Hale, Jacob |
"Consuming the Living" JGLS, Duke Univ. Transgender Issue, v.4, no.2, 1998 |
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Haraway, Donna |
Primate Visions |
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Simians, Cyborgs and Women |
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Hayden, V. |
Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect |
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Hayles, N. Katherine |
Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science |
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Chaos Bound |
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How We Became Posthuman |
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Heidegger, Martin |
Poetry, Language, Thought |
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The Question of Technology |
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Hejinian, Lyn |
The Language of Inquiry |
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Henderson, Linda |
The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art |
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Howe, Susan |
My Emily Dickenson |
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The Birthmark |
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Huxley, Michael, ed. |
The 20th Century Performance Reader |
| Icrin, Gill | Philosophical Realism |
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Jackson, Shelley |
Stitch Bitch: Hypertext overview (online @ ineradicablestain.com) |
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Jameson, Frederic |
Brecht and Method |
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The Prison-House of Language |
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The Political Unconscious |
| Jones, Andrew | Plunderphonics, Pataphysics, and Popular Mechanics |
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Jordanova, Ludmilla, ed. |
Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature |
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Jung, C.G. |
Synchronicity |
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Kierkegaard, Soren |
Fear and Trembling |
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Kim, Elaine, ed. |
Writing Self/Writing Nation: On Teresa Cha's Dictee |
| Kittler, Friedrich | Gramophone, Film, Typewriter |
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Kraus, Rosalind |
October #6, #9 |
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Kristeva, Julia |
Powers of Horror |
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Kuenzli, Rudolf, ed. |
Marcel Duchamp: Artist of the Century |
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Kuhn, Thomas |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
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Kundera, Milan |
Testaments Betrayed |
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The Art of the Novel |
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Langer, Suzanne |
Feeling and Form |
| Latour, Bruno | We Have Never Been Modern |
| Science in Action | |
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Lao Tzu, |
The Tao te Ching |
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Le Guin, Ursula K. |
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places |
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Lear, Jonathan |
Love and Its Place in Nature |
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Open Minded |
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Lemon & Reis, trans |
Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays |
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Levin, David, ed. |
Opera Through Other Eyes |
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Lippard, Lucy |
Changing |
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Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change |
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Mixed Blessings: New Art in Multi-Cultural America |
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On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place |
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The Lure of the Local |
| List, Peter, ed. | Radical Environmentalism: Philosophy and Tactics |
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Lodge, David |
After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism |
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Lukacs, George |
Studies in European Realism |
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The Theory of the Novel |
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Lyotard, Jean-Francois |
The Postmodern Condition |
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Macheray, Pierre |
A Theory of Literary Production |
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Mackay, Nathaniel |
Discrepant Engagements: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing |
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Marcuse, Herbert |
One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society |
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Marranca, Bonnie |
Ecologies of Theater |
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Marranca, Bonnie, ed |
The Theater of Images |
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Marx, Karl |
On bureaucracy |
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Maso, Carole |
Break Every Rule |
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Mathews, Harry, ed. |
Oulipo Compendium |
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Maturana, Humberto |
The Tree of Knowledge: Biological Roots of Human Understanding |
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McCann, Christopher |
Four Phenomenological Philosophers |
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McKeon, Michael, ed. |
The Theory of the Novel |
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McLuhan, Marshal |
City as Classroom |
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice |
The Prose of the World |
| Mitchell, Angelyn | Within the Circle: An Anthology of Afro-American Literary Criticism |
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Montaigne, Michel de |
Essays |
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Morris, Adalaide |
Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies |
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Morrison, Toni |
Whiteness in the American Literary Imagination |
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Decolonizing the Mind |
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Nichols, David |
American Experimental Music 1890-1940 |
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Nielson, A.L. |
Black Chants: Languages of African-American Postmodernism |
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Reading Race in American Poetry |
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Reading Race: White American Poets and Racial Discourse |
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Nietzsche, Friedrich |
The Birth of Tragedy and Geneology of Morals |
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
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North, Michael |
The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language and 20th Century Literature |
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Novarina, Valere |
The Theater of the Ears |
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Olson, Charles |
Selected Writings |
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O'Neill, Patrick |
Fictions of Discourse: Reading Narrative Theory |
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Ong, Walter |
Orality and Literacy |
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Orr, David |
Ecological Literacy |
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Ortega y Gasset, Jose |
Notes on the Novel |
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The Dehumanization of Art |
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O'Sullivan, Maggie |
Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and U.K. |
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Panofsky, Erwin |
Perspective as Symbolic Form |
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Pavis, Patrice |
Languages of the Stage |
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Perloff, Marjorie |
John Cage: Composed in America |
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Postmodern Genres |
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Radical Artifice: Poetry in the Age of Media |
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The Poetics of Indeterminacy |
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Wittgenstein's Ladder |
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Pierce, John R. |
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise |
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Poizat, Michel |
The Angel's Cry: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera |
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Pound, Ezra |
The ABC's of Reading |
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Prigogine, Ilya |
The End of Certainty |
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Pritchett, James |
The Music of John Cage |
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Quammen, David |
The Song of the Dodo |
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Raven, Arlene, ed. |
Art in the Public Interest |
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Retallack, Joan |
The Poethical Wager |
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Review of Contemp Fiction |
Antin 2001, Maso/Queneau 1997, Beckett 1987, Future of Fiction 1996 |
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Rich, Adrienne |
On Lies, Secrets and Silence |
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Rich, Alan |
The American Pioneers: Ives to Cage |
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Robbe-Grillet, Alain |
For A New Novel |
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Rorty, Richard |
Contingency, irony, and solidarity |
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
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Ryan, Paul |
Video Mind, Earth Mind: Art, Communications and Ecology |
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Sabin, R. |
Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels |
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Said, Edward |
Culture and Imperialism |
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Orientalism |
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Sanders, Ed |
Investigative Poetry |
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Sanders, Jay, ed. |
Poetry Plastique |
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Sarraute, Nathalie |
The Uses of Speech |
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Sartre, Jean-Paul |
Saint Genet |
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Schipper, Mineke |
Beyond the Boundaries: Text and Context in African Literature |
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Schlovsky, Viktor |
"Art as Technique" |
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Scott, Bonnie, ed. |
The Gender of Modernism |
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Scott, Gail |
La Theorie, un dimanche |
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Spaces Like Stairs |
| Sheppard, Richard | Modernism-Dada-Postmodernism |
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Silverman, Kaja |
Beyond the Visible World |
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The Subject of Semiotics |
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World Spectators |
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Singh, A., ed. |
Postcolonial Theory and the U.S: Race, Ethnicity and Literature |
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Sitney, P. Adams |
Modernist Montage |
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Smith, Keith |
Text in the Book Format |
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Sogyal, Rinpoche |
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying |
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Sontag, Susan |
Aids and its Metaphors |
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Illness as Metaphor |
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On Photography |
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Spahr, Juliana |
Everybody's Autonomy |
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Spivak, Gayatri C. |
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason |
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In Other Worlds |
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Outside in the Teaching Machine |
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States, Bert O. |
The Pleasure of the Play |
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States, Burt |
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms |
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Stauber, John |
Toxic Sludge is Good for You! Lies, Damn Lies and the PR Industry |
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Stein, Gertrude |
"Portraits and Repetition" |
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"Composition as Explanation" |
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"Narration: Four Lectures" |
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"Plays" |
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"What are Masterpieces" |
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How to Write |
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Sukenick, Ron |
Degenerative Prose |
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In Form: Digressions on the Art of Fiction |
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Narralogues, Truth in Fiction |
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Suvin, Darko |
To Brecht and Beyond: Soundings in Modern Dramaturgy |
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Suzuki, D.T. |
Introduction to Zen Buddhism |
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind |
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Syverson, M.A. |
The Wealth of Reality: An Ecology of Composition |
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Tabbi, J., ed. |
Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology |
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Taruskin, R. |
Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance |
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Taussig, Michael |
Mimesis and Alterity |
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The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader |
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Thomas, Lorenzo |
Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th Century American Poetry |
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Todorov, Tzvetan |
The Poetics of Prose |
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Theories of the Symbol |
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Tolstoy, Leo |
What is Art? |
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Tomkins, Calvin |
The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp, Tinguely,Cage, Raushenberg, Cunningham |
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Toqueville, Alexis de |
Democracy in America |
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Trinh, T. Minh-ha |
Woman, Native, Other: Writing, Postcoloniality and Feminism |
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Venturi, R. |
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form |
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Vitz, Paul C. |
Modern Art and Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision |
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Wagner, Richard |
On Music and Drama |
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The Artwork of the Future |
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Waldman, Anne |
Vow to Poetry |
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Warhol, Andy |
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol |
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Wellman, Mac |
"A Chrestomathy of 22 Answers..." |
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"The Theater of Good Intentions" |
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White, Hayden |
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Represenation |
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Wilde, Oscar |
"The Critic as Artist" |
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"The Decay of Lying" |
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"The Truth of Masks" |
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Wilhelm/Baynes, trans. |
The I Ching |
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Willett, John, ed. |
Brecht on Theater: the Development of an Aesthetic |
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Williams, William Carlos |
Imaginations |
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Wittig, Monique |
The Straight Mind and Other Essays |
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Wojnarowicz, David |
Brush Fires in the Social Landscape |
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Woods, Tim |
Beginning Postmodernism |
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Worringer |
Abstraction and Empathy |
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Yu-Lan Fung |
A Short History of Chinese Philosophy |
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Zweig, Janet |
"Ars Combinatoria" (in Art Journal, fall 1997) |
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