An engaging collection of 12 essays...In them she discusses fundamental themes such as creation and love, the relations between aesthetics and politics, and the place of beauty in contemporary art. Her book is to be read as a 'mediated, fragmented, nontotalized, postmodern, and fortunately still unfinished autobiography'...This well-orchestrated collection of essays highlights Suleiman's very personal views on contemporary artistic and literary expression.
   --Library Journal

Suleiman offers an arresting vantage point on the progress of postmodern thought as it grapples with its own proscriptions.
   --Estella Lauter, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Susan Rubin Suleiman is the Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Read More by Susan Rubin Suleiman:

• The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives
• Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde
• Coming to Writing" and Other Essays
• Crises of Memory and the Second World War