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Description: The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry.Comprises 35 original essays written by lea...
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Description: Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this Concise Companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of t...
Author: Lucy, Niall Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida’s complex and extensive works. This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida’s complex and extensive works. From ‘aporiaR...
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Description: Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural...
Description: A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism. Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for cri...
Author: Belsey, Catherine Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism. Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for cri...
Author: Radhakrishnan, R. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W. Said through the crucial terms and concepts central to his work. Comp...
Author: Hartman, Geoffrey Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity. L...
Author: Garber, Marjorie Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls ...
Author: Cazdyn, Eric / Szeman, Imre Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization. After esta...
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Description: This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the diff...
Author: Coates, Ruth Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies of Bakhtin begins to do justice, however...
Author: Cascardi, A. J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi revisits the arguments advance...
Author: Schwarz, Henry Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India provides a detailed overview of the phenomenon of the “criminal tribe” in India from the early days of colonial rule to the present. Trace...
Author: Bogue, Ronald Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Deleuze and Guattari are two of the most important intellectual figures of their generation. In this first book-length study of their work in English, Ronald Bogue provides lucid readings of several o...
Author: Mills, Sara Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A concise survey which will be invaluable to introductory students of literary theory, philosophy, linguistics, feminist studies and post-colonial studies. From the author of Ways of Reading^n and Dis...
Author: Newton, Adam Zachary Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A reading of African American and Jewish American writers from Henry Roth and Ralph Ellison to Philip Roth and David Bradley. Reading the work of such writers alongside and through one another, Newton...
Author: Bowie, Andrew Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "From Romanticism to Critical Theory" explores the philosophical roots of literary theory through the traditions of German philosophy that started with the Romantic reactions to Kant. Andrew Bowie tra...
Author: Bowie, Andrew Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This study offers a new view of literary theory as an essential part of modern philosophy and contests the view that it is a product of deconstruction.
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Description: Re-examines the principal themes of Lukcs's work, considering their relevance for a new generation of scholars interested in the relations between politics and aesthetics.
Author: Wegner, Phillip E. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. ...
Author: Brodsky, Claudia Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "refere...
Author: Knowles, Murray Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Introducing Metaphor" is an accessible introduction to the different ways in which metaphor permeates all areas of language, and other methods of communication, covering both theoretical and practica...
Author: McAfee, Noelle Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introduct...
Author: Carroll, Joseph Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and revie...
Author: Pardes, Ilana Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ...
Author: Limon, Jose E. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politica...
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Description: This anthology presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors.Presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers enga...
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Description: This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism. A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism Presents a critical history from th...
Author: Mahaffey, Vicki Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.Chal...
Author: Johnson, Barbara Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most...
Author: Johnson, Barbara Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most...
Author: Burke, Kenneth Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth...
Author: Al-Kassim, Dina Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On Pain of Speech tracks the literary rant, an expression of provocation and resistance that imagines the power to speak in its own name where no such right is granted. Focusing on the "politics of ad...
Author: Kearney, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on the work of James Joyce, the story of Sigmund Freud's patient Dora and the case of Oscar Schindler, Richard Kearney skillfully illuminates how stories are deep at work in fictional writing,...
Author: Alter, Robert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning--and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed biblical tra...
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Description: Cognitive scientists working in neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and other fields have made rapid strides in the past twenty years in understanding perception, empathy, spatiality, e...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: These bracing, polemical essays explore issues of philosophical interest in the analysis of literature, including the role of the author, literary appreciation, the nature of fiction, the pleasures of...
Author: New, Christopher Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Literature, like the visual arts, posess its own characteristic philosophical problems. Literary theorists have discussed widely the nature of literature, while analytic philosophers have dealt with l...
Author: New, Christopher Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lucid,,well-organised and free of jargon, Philosophy of Literature: An Introduction offers fresh approaches to traditional issues and raises new questions about the nature of philosop- hical problems ...
Author: Holland, Norman Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 ...
Author: Kertzer, Jonathan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Literature reveals the intense efforts of moral imagination required to articulate what justice is and how it might be satisfied. Examining a wide variety of texts including ShakespeareǃÙs plays, ...
Author: Clayton, Michelle Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in m...
Author: Morris, Pam Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Coming to prominence with the nineteenth-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn away from the more sordid and harsh aspects of human ex...
Author: O'Rourke, James Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an an...
Author: O'Rourke, James Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an an...
