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Essays on Life Writing
From Genre to Critical Practice
Häftad, 1992
425 kr
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Life writing is the most flexible and open term available for autobiographical fragments and other kinds of autobiographical-seeming texts. It includes the conventional genres of autobiography, journals, memoirs, letters, testimonies, and metafiction, and in earlier definitions it included …
Body Language in Literature
Häftad, 1997
510 kr
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The tilt of a head, the quirk of an eyebrow, or a shift in position can eloquently portray a wide range of emotions without a single word being spoken. Body language is a critical component of everyday communication, yet the importance of body language, or non-verbal communication, in such a verbal …
Fictions of Discourse
Reading Narrative Theory
Häftad, 1996
393 kr
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The fundamental principle upon which contemporary narratology is constructed is that narrative is an essentially divided endeavour, involving the story (`what really happened') and the discourse (`how what happened is presented'). For traditional criticism, the primary task of narrative discourse …
Foregrounded Description in Prose Fiction
Five Cross-Literary Studies
Av José Lopes
Häftad, 1995
393 kr
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In this wide-ranging study, JosÉ Manuel Lopes proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the role of description in prose fiction. He offers readings of texts drawn from four national literatures-French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian-testing his model across a cultural and temporal …
Foregrounded Description in Prose Fiction
Five Cross-Literary Studies
Av José Lopes
E-bok, 1995
450 kr
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In this wide-ranging study, JosÉ Manuel Lopes proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the role of description in prose fiction. He offers readings of texts drawn from four national literatures-French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian-testing his model across a cultural and temporal …
Foregrounded Description in Prose Fiction
Five Cross-Literary Studies
Av José Lopes
E-bok, 1995
488 kr
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In this wide-ranging study, JosÉ Manuel Lopes proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the role of description in prose fiction. He offers readings of texts drawn from four national literatures-French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian-testing his model across a cultural and temporal …
Acts of Narrative
Textual Strategies in Modern German Fiction
E-bok, 1996
1019 kr
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Because German literary criticism tends to be strongly historicist in character, modern and postmodern German narrative has remained relatively unexplored by poststructuralist critics. In the eight individual analyses of twentieth-century German texts that make up this book, Patrick O'Neill …
Body Language in Literature
E-bok, 1998
1216 kr
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The tilt of a head, the quirk of an eyebrow, or a shift in position can eloquently portray a wide range of emotions without a single word being spoken. Body language is a critical component of everyday communication, yet the importance of body language, or non-verbal communication, in such a verbal …
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory
Approaches, Scholars, Terms
E-bok, 2000
917 kr
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The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of thought exist, and sometimes conflict, within it. I.R. Makaryk has compiled a welcome guide to the field. Accessible and jargon-free, the …
Essays on Life Writing
From Genre to Critical Practice
E-bok, 1992
713 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Life writing is the most flexible and open term available for autobiographical fragments and other kinds of autobiographical-seeming texts. It includes the conventional genres of autobiography, journals, memoirs, letters, testimonies, and metafiction, and in earlier definitions it included …
Fictions of Discourse
Reading Narrative Theory
E-bok, 1996
713 kr
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The fundamental principle upon which contemporary narratology is constructed is that narrative is an essentially divided endeavour, involving the story (`what really happened') and the discourse (`how what happened is presented'). For traditional criticism, the primary task of narrative discourse …
Hermeneutics of Poetic Sense
Av Mario Valdes
E-bok, 1998
1050 kr
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In his earlier books, Shadows in the Cave (1982) and Phenomenological Hermeneutics and the Study of Literature (1987), Mario Valdés laid the foundation for his phenomenological-hermeneutic approach to literary criticism. With this book he continues the development of his ideas, using his views of …
Masculine Migrations
Reading the Postcolonial Male in New Canadian Narratives
E-bok, 1998
919 kr
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This book examines the representation of masculinities in the fictions and autobiographies of some of Canada's most exciting writers, including Austin Clarke, Dany Laferrière, Neil Bissoondath, Michael Ondaatje, Ven Begamudré, and Rohinton Mistry, to show how cross-cultural migration disrupts …
McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse
E-bok, 1996
1058 kr
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Our lives are increasingly dominated by new forms of image, sound, data, and language media. Marshall McLuhan called this new order of things the Global Village, and he strove to be true to it as the media-popular `McLuhan.' Having little use for traditional critical forms or values, and courting …
Touch Monkeys
Nonsense Strategies for Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry
E-bok, 1994
1087 kr
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All too often Nonsense is relegated to the nursery. Marnie Parsons argues that, rather than being mere child's play, nonsense is a major force in poetic language. In Touch Monkeys she presents us with an original reading of a much-maligned linguistic pursuit. Parsons distinguishes between nonsense …
Unsex'd Revolutionaries
Five Women Novelists of the 1790's
Av Eleanor Ty
E-bok, 1993
713 kr
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Women had been writing long before the French Revolution, but the reactionary character of the 1790s infused their work with a public importance and an urgency. The decade was one of intense argument and reflection on the role of women in society. Eleanor Ty studies the ways in which five women …
Voices of Fire
Art, Rage, Power, and the State
Av Bruce Barber, Serge Guilbaut m. fl.
E-bok, 1996
638 kr
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On 7 March 1990 the National Gallery of Canada issued a press release announcing its purchase of a large abstract painting by the American artist Barnett Newman for $1.8 million. Within 72 hours the gallery was under attack both for its selection of Voice of Fire and for the price tag attached to …
Worrying the Nation
Imagining a National Literature in English Canada
E-bok, 1998
919 kr
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How can a national literature in English-Canada be possible if Canadians cannot agree on who we are? This is the central question that Jonathan Kertzer 'worries' over in his book, Worrying the Nation: Imagining a National Literature in English Canada. The book is a critical fretting over the …
Acts of Narrative
Textual Strategies in Modern German Fiction
Inbunden, 1996
778 kr
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Because German literary criticism tends to be strongly historicist in character, modern and postmodern German narrative has remained relatively unexplored by poststructuralist critics. In the eight individual analyses of twentieth-century German texts that make up this book, Patrick O'Neill …
Hermeneutics of Poetic Sense
Av Mario Valdes
Inbunden, 1998
778 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In his earlier books, Shadows in the Cave (1982) and Phenomenological Hermeneutics and the Study of Literature (1987), Mario Valdés laid the foundation for his phenomenological-hermeneutic approach to literary criticism. With this book he continues the development of his ideas, using his views of …
Worrying the Nation
Imagining a National Literature in English Canada
Inbunden, 1998
698 kr
Tillfälligt slut
How can a national literature in English-Canada be possible if Canadians cannot agree on who we are? This is the central question that Jonathan Kertzer 'worries' over in his book, Worrying the Nation: Imagining a National Literature in English Canada. The book is a critical fretting over the …
McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse
Häftad, 1996
370 kr
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Our lives are increasingly dominated by new forms of image, sound, data, and language media. Marshall McLuhan called this new order of things the Global Village, and he strove to be true to it as the media-popular `McLuhan.' Having little use for traditional critical forms or values, and courting …
Unsex'd Revolutionaries
Five Women Novelists of the 1790's
Av Eleanor Ty
Häftad, 1993
409 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Women had been writing long before the French Revolution, but the reactionary character of the 1790s infused their work with a public importance and an urgency. The decade was one of intense argument and reflection on the role of women in society. Eleanor Ty studies the ways in which five women …
Masculine Migrations
Reading the Postcolonial Male in New Canadian Narratives
Häftad, 1998
457 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This book examines the representation of masculinities in the fictions and autobiographies of some of Canada's most exciting writers, including Austin Clarke, Dany Laferrière, Neil Bissoondath, Michael Ondaatje, Ven Begamudré, and Rohinton Mistry, to show how cross-cultural migration disrupts …
