We are adding new titles to the Cybereditions list every month. Here is our current list of titles.

Frederick Crews  Skeptical Engagements

This carefully reasoned and witty book presents a searing critique of the pretension and folly infecting the literary academy. Beyond targeting the excesses of "theory," the essays cover such diverse figures as Joseph Conrad, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Philip Rahv, and Leslie Fiedler.  $15.95  More information...

Mark Turner  Death Is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism

In this book, Mark Turner shows that the languages of literature and everyday life are different expressions of the same universal mechanisms of the mind. Drawing on the languages and metaphors of kinship and causation, and on myriad examples in English literature from Chaucer to Wallace Stevens, he argues convincingly that all our thinking with language depends on a restricted range of deep metaphors and inference patterns.  $12.95  More information...

Alfred R. Louch  Explanation and Human Action

Louch argues that there can be no scientific theory of social behavior similar to those found in the natural sciences. In this rich and profound book, he shows why human actions can by their nature only be explained ad hoc, and cannot be detached from moral assessments.  $15.95  More information...

Peter Lamarque  Philosophy and Fiction: Essays in Literary Aesthetics

These bracing, polemical essays rigorously explore a range of issues of philosophical interest in the analysis of literature, including the role of the author, literary appreciation, the nature of fiction, the pleasures of tragedy, and the question of censorship.  $12.95  More information...

Tibor R. Machan  Capitalism and Individualism

The purely economic view of individualism (homo economicus) falls far short of providing a basis for understanding human reality. Machan mounts a robust argument for a conception of the individual that recognizes the values of the free market and civil liberties but avoids licensing the unbridled pursuit of self-interest.  $15.95  More information...

Francis E. Sparshott  The Concept of Criticism

This eloquent essay by a scholar recognized as perhaps our greatest contemporary philosopher of art is a classic of modern aesthetics. It is one of the few sustained analyses of the logical nature of art and literary criticism ever to appear in print.  $12.95  More information...

Robert and Jon Solomon  Up the University: Re-creating Higher Education in America

Ranging from academic freedom and tenure to multiculturalism and football, this timely and provocative book offers both a scathing indictment of today's university and a set of simple, but radical, solutions to the problems of higher education.  $17.95  More information...

Norman Holland   Poems in Persons

This book gives the study of literature a powerful psychoanalytic model for the literary process. The first edition of Poems in Persons established American-style reader-response criticism and showed how this new understanding applies to all kinds of human psychological processes. This second revised edition adds important new developments to the first.  $15.95  More information...

Arnold Berleant   The Aesthetic Field

Arguing that traditional answers to the question "What is art?" are partial at best, Arnold Berleant contends that we need to understand art in a different way, as a complex field, an aesthetic field encompassing all the factors that form the context of art and our experience of art.

Tobin Siebers   The Mirror of Medusa

Tobin Siebers exposes the role of superstition in unexpected areas of modern life, explaining how exclusionary behavior and superstitious beliefs about human difference influence thinking in the social and human sciences. Combining literary and anthropological insights, his radical interpretations cast new light on the history of narcissism, the worldwide belief in the evil eye, Freud's theories of uncanniness and group psychology, and the role played by ethnocentrism and marginality in power relations between western and nonwestern peoples.

David Novitz   The Boundaries of Art

Hailed as a "breakthrough book in aesthetics" when it first appeared in 1992, this lucidly written and persuasively argued work explores the various often unnoticed relations between art and everyday life. In this revised and expanded edition, the author proposes a new and refreshingly different direction for the study of the philosophy of art.

John Garrett Jones   Tales and Teachings of the Buddha: The J×taka Stories in Relation to the P×li Canon

Originally published in 1979, this book, now carefully pruned, corrected and modified, builds on the ground-breaking work done by Gombrich, Spiro and Tambiah in their field studies of lay Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, by demonstrating that, within the Buddhist tradition itself, there is a vast fund of folkloric material which is more in touch with lay concerns than the more austere teaching found in the Canon proper - although it sometimes departs alarmingly from the orthodox tradition. In this compact study, both sources, J×taka and Canon, each vast in extent, have been thoroughly explored and compared, making them more accessible than they have ever been before.

Jonathan Yardley   Our Kind of People

In an afterword for this new edition of Our Kind of People, Jonathan Yardley notes that a reviewer of the first edition was upset by the title, finding it offensive to non-WASP Americans. But the title is, as the author notes, "the only right title for the book." It captures, with droll irony, precisely what the book so brilliantly provides - in his words, "a mixture of familial piety and tongue-in-cheek commentary." In recounting the story of his family and his parents' fifty-year marriage, Yardley combines the talents of biographer and social historian with the affection of a loving son to create a chronicle which is at once sharply perceptive and deeply moving.

Brian Boyd   Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness

Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness explores the relationship between the obvious dazzle of Nabokov's style and the unsuspected depths of his thought before focusing on his richest and most surprising novel. This "stunning," "magnificent" first book by "the great man of Nabokov studies," which "provides not only the best commentary on [Ada], but also . . . a brilliant overview of Nabokov's metaphysics," has now been updated with a new preface, four additional chapters and two comprehensive new indexes.

Richard Lanham   Tristram Shandy: The Games of Pleasure

Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy stands as one of the oddest comic novels in English literature. The Victorians were too morally earnest to see its meaning, while in our time critics have been too resolutely philosophical to grasp it. In contrast, Richard Lanham's introduction to Tristram Shandy combines clarity, wit, and grace. His account of the novel in terms of the simple pursuit of pleasure reveals historic and rhetorical models for the text while never straying from its playful spirit.

Josephine Donovan   Sarah Orne Jewett

An updated and revised edition of a classic study, this widely cited book presents a lucid review of all of Jewett's work, which includes nearly 200 stories and novels. In a new preface Donovan discusses the "culture war" that has recently erupted over Jewett.

Thomas Hoving   King of the Confessors

King of the Confessors is Thomas Hoving's gripping account of the extraordinary events surrounding the Metropolitan Museum of Art's purchase, in 1963, of the magnificent medieval carved walrus ivory cross which the Museum calls 'The Cloisters Cross', but Hoving calls 'The Bury St Edmunds Cross'. This new edition contains revelations that render the events even more extraordinary, and explains why Hoving thinks the Museum has got it wrong.  $17.95  More information...

Maurice Goldsmith   Private Vices, Public Benefits

Private Vices, Public Benefits puts Bernard Mandeville's social and political thought in its historical context. Goldsmith shows how Mandeville initially framed his views in The Female Tatler (1709-10) where, opposing Richard Steele's advocacy of public and private virtue in The Tatler, he contended that the development of society, prosperity and well-being depends on the vicious and selfish aspects of human nature. In The Fable of the Bees and its sequels Mandeville transformed this claim into an elaborate conjectural history of human progress. By rejecting the aristocratic model of human fulfilment, he was able to recognize other ways of pursuing happiness and also the denigrated capacities of women.

Also in development, and soon to be available:

Noam Chomsky  Cartesian Linguistics

Ihab Hassan  The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture

Ronald Radosh  Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism

H. Gene Blocker  Philosophy of Art

Dabney Townsend  Aesthetic Objects and Works of Art

Donald W. Crawford  Kant's Aesthetic Theory

Laurence A. Goldstein  The Flying Machine and Modern Literature

Norman Etherington  Theories of Imperialism: War, Conquest and Capital

Jeffrey Kittay and Vlad Godzich  The Emergence of Prose: An Essay in Prosaics

Christopher Stray  The Politics of Latin Grammar

Jeffrey Malpas  Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning

Stephen Booth  King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy

Josephine Donovan  Uncle Tom's Cabin