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  • Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism

    "Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge--issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in Critical Inquiry (8:4)--strikes some critics as scandalous, others as...
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  • Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry

    Can poem and picture collaborate successfully in a composite art of text and design? Or does one art inevitably dominate the other? W.J.T. Mitchell maintains that Blake's illuminated poems are an exception to Suzanne Langer's claim that "there are no happy marriages in art--only...
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  • Critical Terms for Media Studies by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Critical Terms for Media Studies

    Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid...
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  • Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology

    "[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read."--Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary SupplementAuthor:...
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  • Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

    Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial...
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  • Landscape and Power, Second Edition by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Landscape and Power, Second Edition

    The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the...
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  • Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia

    How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T....
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  • Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience

    Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own...
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  • On Narrative by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    On Narrative

    The fourteen distinguished contributors to this volume explore ways we tell, understand, and use stories. More important, through their exploration they collectively demonstrate that the study of narrative, like the study of other significant human creations, has taken a quantum leap in the modern...
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  • Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

    What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the...
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  • Seeing Through Race by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    Seeing Through Race

    According to W. J. T. Mitchell, a "color-blind" post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our understanding of social reality. Race is...
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  • The Language of Images by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    The Language of Images

    "A remarkably rich and provocative set of essays on the virtually infinite kinds of meanings generated by images in both the verbal and visual arts. Ranging from Michelangelo to Velazquez and Delacroix, from the art of the emblem book to the history of photography...
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  • What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images by Mitchell, W. J. T.
    W. J. T. Mitchell

    What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images

    Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or...
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