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Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory
Av Various
2016
67491 kr
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This set reissues 27 books on literary theory originally published between 1965 and 1992. Top academics in the field examine different aspects of literary theory, including structuralism, post-structuralism, stylistics and semiotics, and approach these theories in a variety of ways. This set will …
Future of Literary Theory
Av Ralph Cohen
E-bok, 2016
818 kr
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In this book, first published in 1989, twenty-give eminent critics and theorists write about different aspects of literary theory. These essays represent leading research in psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, Continental theory, feminism, Afro-American studies, philosophy, cybernetics, …
Postmodern Brecht
A Re-Presentation
Inbunden, 2016
2445 kr
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In this radical and deliberately controversial re-reading of Brecht, first published in 1989, Elizabeth Wright takes a new view of the playwright, giving us a more ‘Brechtian’ reading than so far achieved and making his work historically relevant here and now. The author discusses in detail …
Postmodern Brecht
A Re-Presentation
Häftad, 2018
709 kr
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In this radical and deliberately controversial re-reading of Brecht, first published in 1989, Elizabeth Wright takes a new view of the playwright, giving us a more ‘Brechtian’ reading than so far achieved and making his work historically relevant here and now. The author discusses in detail …
Taming of the Text
Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2016
876 kr
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The contributors of this text, first published in 1988, provide a dynamic view of the social functioning of texts, taking account of linguistic, literary and cultural elements. They bring together innovative perspectives on literary analysis and theory, on pragmatics and discourse analysis, as well …
Taming of the Text
Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture
Häftad, 2018
358 kr
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The contributors of this text, first published in 1988, provide a dynamic view of the social functioning of texts, taking account of linguistic, literary and cultural elements. They bring together innovative perspectives on literary analysis and theory, on pragmatics and discourse analysis, as well …
Nature and Language
A Semiotic Study of Cucurbits in Literature
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
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There exists an area of overlap where language and nature meet, and this book, first published in 1980, illuminates that fascinating territory. When real-world things, such as plants, are used in literature or language as symbols, these special signs have a double allegiance. They function as …
Nature and Language
A Semiotic Study of Cucurbits in Literature
Häftad, 2018
642 kr
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There exists an area of overlap where language and nature meet, and this book, first published in 1980, illuminates that fascinating territory. When real-world things, such as plants, are used in literature or language as symbols, these special signs have a double allegiance. They function as …
Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts
Inbunden, 2016
2445 kr
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In this original and significant contribution to literary controversy, first published in 1989, Professor Jackson argues on semantic grounds that historical criticism, which he defines as the attempt to read works of literature and criticism as they were read when they were new, is a necessary …
Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts
Häftad, 2018
642 kr
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In this original and significant contribution to literary controversy, first published in 1989, Professor Jackson argues on semantic grounds that historical criticism, which he defines as the attempt to read works of literature and criticism as they were read when they were new, is a necessary …
William Empson
The Man and His Work
Av Roma Gill
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
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This volume of commemorative and celebratory essays, first published in 1974, concentrates on William Empson – the critic, the poet and friend. The papers range from the biographical to the academic, but what every one suggests is the impossibility of separating the man from his work and the ‘life’ …
William Empson
The Man and His Work
Av Roma Gill
Häftad, 2018
642 kr
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This volume of commemorative and celebratory essays, first published in 1974, concentrates on William Empson – the critic, the poet and friend. The papers range from the biographical to the academic, but what every one suggests is the impossibility of separating the man from his work and the ‘life’ …
Black Literature and Literary Theory
Av Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
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The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical …
Black Literature and Literary Theory
Av Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Häftad, 2018
709 kr
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The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical …
Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Av Roger Fowler
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
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This book, first published in 1987, differs from many other ‘dictionaries of criticism’ in concentrating less on time-honoured rhetorical terms and more on conceptually flexible, powerful terms. Each entry consists of not simply a dictionary definition but an essay exploring the history and full …
Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Av Roger Fowler
Häftad, 2018
793 kr
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This book, first published in 1987, differs from many other ‘dictionaries of criticism’ in concentrating less on time-honoured rhetorical terms and more on conceptually flexible, powerful terms. Each entry consists of not simply a dictionary definition but an essay exploring the history and full …
E. M. Forster as Critic
Av Rukun Advani
Inbunden, 2016
1744 kr
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This title, first published in 1984, is a study of E. M. Forster as a liberal-humanist thinker and socio-literary critic. Advani discusses Forster’s ideas on man, society, politics, religion, art, aesthetics, fiction and literary criticism. The author examines why Forster was impelled from fiction …
E. M. Forster as Critic
Av Rukun Advani
Häftad, 2018
525 kr
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This title, first published in 1984, is a study of E. M. Forster as a liberal-humanist thinker and socio-literary critic. Advani discusses Forster’s ideas on man, society, politics, religion, art, aesthetics, fiction and literary criticism. The author examines why Forster was impelled from fiction …
A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning
Linguistics, Semiotics and Discourse Theory
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
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In this book, first published in 1987, Professor Schleifer sets Greimas’ work in its intellectual context and sets forth the development of his distinctive style of interpretation. Moreover, the author goes on to consider Greimas’ work against the latest examinations of discourse in philosophy, …
A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning
Linguistics, Semiotics and Discourse Theory
Häftad, 2018
709 kr
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In this book, first published in 1987, Professor Schleifer sets Greimas’ work in its intellectual context and sets forth the development of his distinctive style of interpretation. Moreover, the author goes on to consider Greimas’ work against the latest examinations of discourse in philosophy, …
Ecstasies of Roland Barthes
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
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In this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman interprets Roland Barthes’s experiments as efforts to reposition the human subject with respect to language and to time in order to let the subject escape from the language of a particular culture and the present time. With her insistent …
Ecstasies of Roland Barthes
Häftad, 2018
709 kr
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In this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman interprets Roland Barthes’s experiments as efforts to reposition the human subject with respect to language and to time in order to let the subject escape from the language of a particular culture and the present time. With her insistent …
Reader's Construction of Narrative
Inbunden, 2016
1744 kr
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In this book, first published in 1981, the author argues that narrative is an interaction between "the presented world and the presentational process" and attempts to define narrative from the perspective of reading. The Reader’s Construction of Narrative includes chapters on narrative language, …
Reader's Construction of Narrative
Häftad, 2018
575 kr
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In this book, first published in 1981, the author argues that narrative is an interaction between "the presented world and the presentational process" and attempts to define narrative from the perspective of reading. The Reader’s Construction of Narrative includes chapters on narrative language, …
Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism
Av Sibel Irzik
Inbunden, 2016
1410 kr
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The purpose of this book, first published in 1990, is to call attention to the contrast between the remarkable politicization of the rhetoric of literary criticism and the scarcity of interest in the concrete historical and political contexts of literary texts. Deconstruction and the Politics of …
Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism
Av Sibel Irzik
Häftad, 2018
492 kr
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The purpose of this book, first published in 1990, is to call attention to the contrast between the remarkable politicization of the rhetoric of literary criticism and the scarcity of interest in the concrete historical and political contexts of literary texts. Deconstruction and the Politics of …
Language, Thought and Comprehension
A Study of the Writings of I. A. Richards
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
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This book, first published in 1965, provides an interdisciplinary approach to the work of I. A. Richards. This study is particularly concerned with ideas about education, literary theory, language, philosophy and psychology, and focuses on many of Richard’s most important works, including The …
Language, Thought and Comprehension
A Study of the Writings of I. A. Richards
Häftad, 2018
709 kr
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This book, first published in 1965, provides an interdisciplinary approach to the work of I. A. Richards. This study is particularly concerned with ideas about education, literary theory, language, philosophy and psychology, and focuses on many of Richard’s most important works, including The …
Structural Models and African Poetics
Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Literature
Inbunden, 2016
2095 kr
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In this pioneering work, first published in 1981, Sunday O. Anozie examines the relevance of structuralism and semiology to literary criticism in general and to African poetics in particular. Behind the growing body of African literature lies an immense reservoir of oral tradition for which the …
Structural Models and African Poetics
Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Literature
Häftad, 2018
525 kr
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In this pioneering work, first published in 1981, Sunday O. Anozie examines the relevance of structuralism and semiology to literary criticism in general and to African poetics in particular. Behind the growing body of African literature lies an immense reservoir of oral tradition for which the …
