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71 produkter
Joyce Effects
On Language, Theory, and History
Häftad, 2000
842 kr
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Joyce Effects is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce. Joyce's books, Derek Attridge argues, go off like fireworks, and one of this book's aims is to enhance the reader's enjoyment of these special effects. He also examines another sort of effect: the …
Joyce Effects
On Language, Theory, and History
Inbunden, 2000
1872 kr
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Joyce Effects is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce. Joyce's books, Derek Attridge argues, go off like fireworks, and one of this book's aims is to enhance the reader's enjoyment of these special effects. He also examines another sort of effect: the …
Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry
E-bok, 2013
525 kr
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The contemporary reader of English poetry is able to take pleasure in the sounds and movements of the English language in works written over the past eight centuries, and to find poems that convey powerful emotions and vivid images from this entire period. This book investigates the ways in which …
Experience of Poetry
From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers
E-bok, 2019
506 kr
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Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson''s Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting …
Experience of Poetry
From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers
E-bok, 2019
506 kr
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Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson''s Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting …
James Joyce's Ulysses
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2004
2504 kr
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James Joyce's Ulysses is probably the most famous-or notorious-novel published in the twentieth century. Its length and difficulty mean that readers often turn to critical studies to help them in getting the most out of it. But the vast quantity of secondary literature on the book poses problems …
James Joyce's Ulysses
A Casebook
Häftad, 2004
841 kr
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James Joyce's Ulysses is probably the most famous-or notorious-novel published in the twentieth century. Its length and difficulty mean that readers often turn to critical studies to help them in getting the most out of it. But the vast quantity of secondary literature on the book poses problems …
Moving Words
Forms of English Poetry
Häftad, 2015
640 kr
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The contemporary reader of English poetry is able to take pleasure in the sounds and movements of the English language in works written over the past eight centuries, and to find poems that convey powerful emotions and vivid images from this entire period. This book investigates the ways in which …
The Work of Literature
Inbunden, 2015
1851 kr
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What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible criticism? These are some of the questions …
The Work of Literature
Häftad, 2017
549 kr
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What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible criticism? These are some of the questions …
The Experience of Poetry
From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers
Inbunden, 2019
1978 kr
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Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting …
The Experience of Poetry
From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers
Häftad, 2021
623 kr
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Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting …
Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry
Inbunden, 2013
1400 kr
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The contemporary reader of English poetry is able to take pleasure in the sounds and movements of the English language in works written over the past eight centuries, and to find poems that convey powerful emotions and vivid images from this entire period. This book investigates the ways in which …
J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading
Literature in the Event
E-bok, 2021
584 kr
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Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee is one of the most widely taught contemporary writers, but also one of the most elusive. Many critics who have addressed his work have devoted themselves to rendering it more accessible and acceptable, often playing down the features that discomfort and …
Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal
Writing Scotland & South Africa
Häftad, 2020
813 kr
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This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings together interdisciplinary essays from the UK, USA, …
Literature and Event
Twenty-First Century Reformulations
Av Mantra Mukim, Derek Attridge
Inbunden, 2021
3161 kr
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If "event" is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable, then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of …
Meter and Meaning
An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry
Av Thomas Carper, Derek Attridge
Inbunden, 2003
2104 kr
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Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can sense its unique use of rhythm. From this …
Meter and Meaning
An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry
Av Thomas Carper, Derek Attridge
Häftad, 2003
478 kr
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Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can sense its unique use of rhythm. From this …
Peculiar Language
Inbunden, 2004
2590 kr
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First published in 1988, Peculiar Language is now established as one of the most important discussions of the language of literature. This thought-provoking book challenges traditional notions of literary criticism, arguing that all attempts by writers, critics and literary theorists to define the …
Peculiar Language
Häftad, 2004
668 kr
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First published in 1988, Peculiar Language is now established as one of the most important discussions of the language of literature. This thought-provoking book challenges traditional notions of literary criticism, arguing that all attempts by writers, critics and literary theorists to define the …
Theory After 'Theory'
Av Jane Elliott, Derek Attridge
Inbunden, 2011
2187 kr
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This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory’s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, …
Theory After 'Theory'
Av Jane Elliott, Derek Attridge
Häftad, 2011
746 kr
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This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory’s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, …
Acts of Literature
Av Jacques Derrida, Derek Attridge
Häftad, 1991
847 kr
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First published in 1992. "Acts of Literature", compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts on the question of literature. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare and Kafka. …
Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
E-bok, 2004
525 kr
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This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce''s politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an …
Well-Weighed Syllables
Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres
Häftad, 1979
842 kr
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Sidney's statement in his Apology for Poetry that quantitative verse on the Latin model is more suitable than the accentual verse of the English tradition 'lively to express divers passions, by the low and lofty sound of the well-weighed syllable' is only one of numerous assertions of the …
Post-Structuralism and the Question of History
Av Derek Attridge, Geoff Bennington m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
787 kr
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Recent developments in literary theory (such as structuralism and deconstruction) have come under attack for ignoring history, while historically based approaches have been criticised for failing to take account of the problems inherent in their methodological foundations. This collection of essays …
Poetic Rhythm
An Introduction
Häftad, 1995
486 kr
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This is the first introduction to rhythm and meter that begins where students are: as speakers of English familiar with the rhythms of ordinary spoken language, and of popular verse such as nursery rhymes, song and rap. Poetic Rhythm builds on this knowledge and experience, taking the reader from …
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
Häftad, 2004
542 kr
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This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an …
Writing South Africa
Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995
Av Derek Attridge, Rosemary Jolly
Inbunden, 1998
2060 kr
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During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or …
Writing South Africa
Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995
Av Derek Attridge, Rosemary Jolly
Häftad, 1998
842 kr
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During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or …
