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Books by Professor Catherine Porter
  | | Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language(Updated) (Softshell Books) by Professor Oswald Ducrot, Professor Tzvetan Todorov, Professor Catherine Porter, Oswald Ducrot, And Tzvetan Todorov Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1983 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-2857-7, ISBN: 0-8018-2857-0 ""All of [the] articles are well-informed and useful and many... are models of lucidity and acumen... Porter's translation is stylish, accurate, and highly readable."--MLN"A valuable addition to any linguistics or stylistics library and is helpful reading for anyone who wishes to find his bearings in, particularly, Continental, modern linguistics."--Style."The attempted coverage is nothing if not panoramic: linguists from Panini through ..." |
 | | Fighting Theory(1st Edition) by Professor Avital Ronell, Anne Dufourmantelle, Professor Catherine Porter, Catherine Porter, Anne Ronell Dufourmantelle Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07623-7, ISBN: 0-252-07623-0 "&&LI&& &&LI&& &&LI&& /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-siz ..." |
 | | Oedipus, Philosopher(1st Edition) (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jean-Joseph Goux, Catherine Porter, Professor Catherine Porter Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 1994 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2171-4, ISBN: 0-8047-2171-8 "If the logic of the Oedipus myth were subjected to rigorous and thoroughgoing analysis with the tools of anthropology, comparative mythology, and narratology, might it invalidate the approach to the 'Oedipus complex' that Freud derived from his psychoanalytic experience? This book answers 'yes', arguing that instead of the Oedipus complex explaining the myth, the Oedipus myth explains the complex. The author argues that the Oedipus myth ..." |
 | | The Animal Side (Hardcover) by Jean-Christophe Bailly, Catherine Porter, Professor Catherine Porter, Translator-Catherine Porter Hardcover, 87 Pages, Published 2011 by Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-3443-1, ISBN: 0-8232-3443-6 "The Animal Side is a manifesto on the importance of animals for human thought. It attempts to characterize the importance, for human beings, of the fact that animals exist. Adopting a philosophical and poetic approach, the book seeks to show that animals' ways of inhabiting the earth are, for human consciousness, an expansion and an exploration of what philosophers and poets have tried to name by speaking of the Open.Beginning with the ..." |
 | | The Animal Side(1st Edition) by Jean-Christophe Bailly, Catherine Porter, Professor Catherine Porter Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2011 by Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-3444-8, ISBN: 0-8232-3444-4 "The Animal Side is a manifesto on the importance of animals for human thought. It attempts to characterize the importance, for human beings, of the fact that animals exist. Adopting a philosophical and poetic approach, the book seeks to show that animals’ ways of inhabiting the earth are, for human consciousness, an expansion and an exploration of what philosophers and poets have tried to name by speaking of the Open.Beginning with the ..." |
 | | How to Be French Nationality in the Making since 1789 by Patrick Weil, Catherine Porter, Professor Catherine Porter Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2008 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4331-8, ISBN: 0-8223-4331-2 "How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France’s foremost historians. First published in France in 2002, it is filled with captivating human dramas, with legal professionals, and with statesmen including La Fayette, Napoleon, Clemenceau, de Gaulle, and Chirac. France has long pioneered nationality policies. It was France that first made the parent’s na ..." |
 | | Crisis In The Philippines (Paperback) by Professor Catherine Porter Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2007 by Porter Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4067-6129-0, ISBN: 1-4067-6129-X "The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general." |
 | | Good Bread Is Back A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It by Steven Laurence Kaplan, Professor Catherine Porter Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2015 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5924-1, ISBN: 0-8223-5924-3 "Good Bread Is Back is a beautifully illustrated book for foodies and Francophiles alike. Widely recognized as a leading expert on French bread, the historian Steven Laurence Kaplan takes readers into aromatic Parisian bakeries as he explains how good bread began to reappear in France in the 1990s, following almost a century of decline in quality.Kaplan sets the stage for the comeback of good bread by describing how, while bread comprise ..." |
 | | The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge by Jacques Brunschwig, Pierre Pellegrin, Catherine Porter, Geoffrey Lloyd, Professor Catherine Porter Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2003 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02155-6, ISBN: 0-674-02155-X "RHETORIC In The Contemporary Usage of all modern European languages, outside the specialized vocabulary of ... rhetoric is "the tool of persuasion," and an education in rhetoric is an education in the elaborate technical expertise ... and appreciate persuasive discourse, oral and written, sometimes stretched to include the visual arts, architecture, and music. ... the earliest Greek phase of the history of rhetoric, only an examina ..." |
 | | The Scandal of the Speaking Body(1st Edition) Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Shoshana Felman, Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Professor Emeritus Stanley Cavell, Professor Catherine Porter Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2002 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-4453-9, ISBN: 0-8047-4453-X "What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Molière’s Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth-century philosopher, she explores the relation between speech and the erotic, using a literary tex ..." |
 | | On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods (Science and Cultural Theory) by Bruno Latour, Professor Catherine Porter, Heather Maclean, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2010 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4825-2, ISBN: 0-8223-4825-X ""On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods" continues the project that the influential anthropologist, philosopher, and science studies theorist Bruno Latour advanced in his book "We Have Never Been Modern." There he redescribed the Enlightenment idea of universal scientific truth, arguing that there are no facts separable from their fabrication. In this concise work, Latour delves into the "belief in naive belief," the suggestion that fet ..." |
 | | Sublime Poussin(1st Edition) (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Louis Marin, Catherine Porter, Nicolas Poussin, Giovanni Careri, Francoise Marin, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Daniel Arasse, Daniele Cohn, Alain Cantillon, Professor Catherine Porter Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 1999 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3477-6, ISBN: 0-8047-3477-1 ""Art history and art theory are inseparable. A history of art can be achieved only through the simultaneous construction of a theory of art." These words of the eminent scholar and critic Louis Marin suggest why he considered the paintings and the writings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), painter and theoretician of painting, an enduring source of inspiration. Poussin was the artist to whom Marin returned most faithfully over the years. ..." |
 | | Absent without Leave French Literature under the Threat of War by Denis Hollier, Catherine Porter, Professor Catherine Porter Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 1997 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-21271-8, ISBN: 0-674-21271-1 " They were not the "Banquet Years," those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those writers and critics in the 1930s and 1940s that shaped French literature--the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur--and has so profoundly influenced literary enterprise in the English-speaking world since 1968. This literary h ..." |
 | | How to Be French - Nationality in the Making since 1789 by Patrick Weil, Professor Catherine Porter Hardcover, 438 Pages, Published 2008 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx) ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4348-6, ISBN: 0-8223-4348-7 "How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France s foremost historians. First published in France in 2002, it is filled with captivating human dramas, with legal professionals, and with statesmen including La Fayette, Napoleon, Clemenceau, de Gaulle, and Chirac. France has long pioneered nationality policies. It was France that first made the parent s na ..." |
 | | Good Bread Is Back A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It by Steven Laurence Kaplan, Professor Catherine Porter Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2006 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3833-8, ISBN: 0-8223-3833-5 "Good Bread Is Back is a beautifully illustrated book for foodies and Francophiles alike. Widely recognized as a leading expert on French bread, the historian Steven Laurence Kaplan takes readers into aromatic Parisian bakeries as he explains how good bread began to reappear in France in the 1990s, following almost a century of decline in quality.Kaplan sets the stage for the comeback of good bread by describing how, while bread comprise ..." |
 | | Miller's Collecting Books by Professor Catherine Porter Pasta Dura, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Antique Collectors Club Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85732-766-3, ISBN: 1-85732-766-7 "Describes the parts of a book and how books are produced, and provides advice on collecting early printed books, modern first editions, books notable for their typography, bindings, or illustrations, children's books, and books on specific ..." |
 | | English Connections by Professor Catherine Porter, Darcy Jack Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 1994 by Ntc/Contemporary Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-0-8092-3704-3, ISBN: 0-8092-3704-0 |
 | | Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity(Updated) (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Robert Sayre, Michael Löwy, Professor Catherine Porter, Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish, Professor Fredric Jameson Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2002 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2794-3, ISBN: 0-8223-2794-5 "Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary d ..." |
 | | Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Robert Sayre, Michael Löwy, Professor Catherine Porter, Professor Fredric Jameson Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2002 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2784-4, ISBN: 0-8223-2784-8 "Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary d ..." |
 | | The Freudian Subject(1st Edition) by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Catherine Porter, Professor Catherine Porter, Francois Roustang Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1991 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-1839-4, ISBN: 0-8047-1839-3 "Just what is the subject in Freud? The author draws on a wide range of French critical thought to argue that the subject is always fundamentally identification, in an even more radical sense than has previously been postulated. Rigorously examining the texts of Freud, he arrives at compelling rereadings of familiar concepts, concluding with a disturbing new analysis of the social bond." |
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