Tag: Jacques Derrida

January 28, 2016

Why Study Literature?

Reading expands our social imaginations and literary criticism can tell us why.

Culture & Media Studies, Literary Theory, Sociology
October 1, 2015

Plants Are The New Animals

In an era of humanist biopower it’s not animality that gets left behind, but plants.

Philosophy
September 2, 2014

Our Fall Catalog (as Told by A Flowchart)

A quick visual guide to help you navigate our Fall 2014 offerings. You're welcome. A new season means new books, and as we steadily transition into Fall, it's time for SUP to roll out our Fall 2014 catalog, featuring books on everything from intellectual property …

Stanford Press News
June 10, 2014

Deconstructing Frankenstein

Celebrated literary critic, Barbara Johnson dissects Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to discover Shelley's "proto-feminist" message.   Now a shoe-in for any self-respecting English curriculum from high school through graduate studies, the 1818 novel, Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, has been ascribed as the archetypal text of the …

Literary Theory, Philosophy
April 23, 2014

The Bard’s Birthday Quiz

Think you know Shakespeare? Think you know what famous philosophers would say about Shakespeare? Centuries after Shakespeare first put quill to paper, his plays continue to provoke philosophical questions that run the gamut from sexual ethics to narrative form. In 2009 Comp Lit professor, Paul …

Literary Theory