The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of After Babel. “A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves” (The ...
Continue Reading →On Difficulty is as provocative and relevant today as when its essays were first published. Ranging from critical topics such as the understanding of language ...
Continue Reading →When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In ...
Continue Reading →Werner Hamacher’s witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanities—and particularly academic philology—that assume language to be a given entity rather than an ...
Continue Reading →In her 1993 essay ‘Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body’, Kathy Acker muses on her experiences in body-building and why it is so ...
Continue Reading →Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the ...
Continue Reading →This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This ...
Continue Reading →By this otherwise unknown author, we have a short book, coming from sometime in the 2nd century BCE. His work, the Art of Grammar ...
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