Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this committed political art and the relation between beauty, violence, and memory. A tour de force.

Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless