Litteraturteori

Varför liknar de stora klassiska berättelserna och filmerna varandra på ett nästan kusligt sätt? Och hur skapar vi nya historier som kan leva lika länge? I Den odödliga sagan förklarar dramaturgen John Yorke vad våra mest populära sagor, böcker, f...

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The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Third Edition, is more comprehensive and more va...

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Det litteraturanalytiska arbetet är i dag problembaserat, snarare än format av en specifik teori eller metod. Därför har författarna till den här boken valt bort ett traditionellt kronologiskt upplägg där olika teorier presenteras i tur och ordnin...

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Boken diskuterar olika svar på frågan om vad lyrik är och presenterar lyrikanalysens grundläggande begrepp. Den går igenom olika lässtrategier och sätt att se på lyrikläsning. Centrala lyriska former och undergenrer tas upp, liksom frågan om dikte...

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How to Interpret Literature presents a concise yet wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory. Ideal for courses in literary and critical theory, this is the only book that thoroughly merges literary and cultural s...

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Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The be...

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This enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies. This long awaited new edition contains a new chapter on `Contemporary Gothic', an expanded section on American Gothic and more dis...

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Edited by Patricia Waugh, this comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding international team of academics. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the key philo...

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Now in its seventh edition, Studying the Novel is an authoritative introduction to the study of the novel at undergraduate level. Updated throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the contemporary study of lit...

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Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at `The Beginning' and concluding with `The End', chapters range from the familiar, such as `Character',...

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A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from ...

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Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and ...

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Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy explores how and why Freud's late work on fetishism led to the beginnings of a re-formulation of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Freud himself, however, was unaware of the long history of the co...

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Förintelsemonumentet i Berlin, baletten Svansjön liksom verk av Pina Bausch, Mona Hatoum och Robert Saviano för att nämna några blir belysta i denna angelägna och mycket aktuella bok. Författaren diskuterar sambandet mellan konst, demokrati och yt...

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Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social co...

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This thoroughly updated third edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today, including: feminism; psychoanal...

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Because of its close link with stage performance, the theory of drama is of interest not only to practitioners (playwrights, dramaturges, performers) but also to the general reader and the play-goer. Modern Theories of Drama provides a crucial res...

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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, human identity, and the power of language. Fully updated for 2011 and including a new chapter on 'Ethics and aesthetics', it steers ...

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A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.

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Reports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era-widely discussed and reviewed in online readers' forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five ...

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The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops a highly original approach to the study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that...

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The Ruins of Urban Modernity examines Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day through the critical lens of urban spatiality. Navigating the textual landscapes of New York, Venice, London, Los Angeles and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Against ...

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Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive upda...

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Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the esse...

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This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relati...

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Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers in...

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Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Moebius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might...

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This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, `The Adolescent Novel', in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an `open structure'. It is this blend of the literary with the psycho...

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In recent decades, there has been a substantial turn towards narrative and life history study. The embrace of narrative and life history work has accompanied the move to postmodernism and post-structuralism across a wide range of disciplines: soci...

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"This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that have made academic criticism both intriguing and off-putting to the outsider." --New York ...

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