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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, Narra...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Vi...

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Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of t...

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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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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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A book that calls us to witness our place in history Sally Rooney An urgent and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Womens Prize shortlisted author of Enter Ghost. Award-winning author Isabella Hammad deliv...

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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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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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One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle th...

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"A feminist classic."Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is no...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Austen's best-loved tale of love, marriage an...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was readi...

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A daily page that provides a historical fact, linked to a well known poem and an inspirational thought or reflection. Poetry and history have always gone well together: history has often been recorded in verse and much poetry has been written abou...

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The first book to address everyone who relishes reading Proust and wants to know more about how his writing works.This is a matchless close reading of a literary masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, and a lesson in how to read the Great Books prof...

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Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbust...

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

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Social anthropologist Jean Lave and computer scientist Etienne Wenger?s seminal Situated Learning helped change the fields of cognitive science and pedagogy by approaching learning from a novel angle. Traditionally, theories of learning and educat...

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'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth a...

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Vad är läsning? Vad gör vi egentligen när vi läser och vilka är villkoren för läsning? Anders Olsson vill med hjälp av Marcel Proust och samtida tänkare visa hur läsningens erfarenhet kan återskapa förlorade förbindelser mellan tiden, rummet och d...

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An updated edition of the classic book on digital storytelling, with a new introduction and expansive chapter commentaries. I want to say to all the hacker-bards from every fieldgamers, researchers, journalists, artists, programmers, scriptwriters...

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Since the 1960s, many people around the world have challenged the idea that western perspectives are the only ones that count. This book examines the history of that challenge, outlining the ideas behind it, and showing the ways in which the histo...

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Hur kan en författare beskriva ansvar inom skrivandet, och hur kan skrivande utgöra motstånd, utan att göra avkall på den konstnärliga gestaltningen? Kan Andras skrivande utgöra ett särskilt sätt att ta ansvar och hur skulle en teori om Andras skr...

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A new book by Americas leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Blooms manifesto for the preponderance of written culture. In the vastly influential The Western Canon, Harold...

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A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Harts lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms and number-lovers alike will discover much they didnt know abo...

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Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the develop...

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This thoroughly updated fourth 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; psychoana...

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People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use wit...

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Selma Lagerlöfs resa genom den svenska litteraturhistorien är på flera sätt fantastisk och exceptionell. I elva decennier har hennes författarskap uppmärksammats på vitt skilda sätt av våra mest inflytelserika kritiker och litteraturhistoriker. De...

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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 discu...

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This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and ...

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