Literature, Culture, Theory – serie
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51 produkter
Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics
Av Peter Szondi
Inbunden, 1995
1872 kr
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Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished post-war literary critics. This first English edition of one of his most lucid and interesting series of lectures opens up his work in hermeneutics for English-speaking readers. The question of what is involved in understanding a …
Paratexts
Thresholds of Interpretation
Häftad, 1997
470 kr
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Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English …
Possible Worlds in Literary Theory
Av Ruth Ronen, Anthony Cascardi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1778 kr
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The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, has recently gained interdisciplinary influence; it proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. In this book Ruth Ronen develops a comparative reading of the …
Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism
Häftad, 2008
710 kr
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Wordsworth's poetry has been a focus for many of the theoretical schools of criticism that comprise modern literary studies. Don Bialostosky here proposes to adjudicate the diverse claims of these numerous schools and to trace their implications for teaching. Bialostosky draws on the work of …
Novels behind Glass
Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative
Häftad, 2008
729 kr
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Drawing on work in critical theory, feminism and social history, this book traces the lines of tension shot through Victorian culture by the fear that the social world was being reduced to a display window behind which people, their actions and their convictions were exhibited for the economic …
The Poetics of Personification
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater prominence as 'the master trope of poetic discourse'. James Paxson here offers a much-needed critical and theoretical appraisal of personification in the …
Theory and the Novel
Narrative Reflexivity in the British Tradition
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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Narrative features such as frames, digressions, or authorial intrusions have traditionally been viewed as distractions from or anomalies in the narrative proper. In Theory and the Novel Jeffrey Williams exposes these elements as more than simple disruptions, analysing them as registers of narrative …
Onomatopoetics
Theory of Language and Literature
Inbunden, 1992
1797 kr
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The relationship of words to the things they represent and to the mind which forms them has long been the subject of linguistic enquiry. Joseph Graham's challenging book, first published in 1992, takes this debate into the field of literary theory, making a searching enquiry into the nature of …
Onomatopoetics
Theory of Language and Literature
Av Joseph F. Graham, Anthony Cascardi
Häftad, 2010
598 kr
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The relationship of words to the things they represent and to the mind which forms them has long been the subject of linguistic enquiry. Joseph Graham's challenging book, first published in 1992, takes this debate into the field of literary theory, making a searching enquiry into the nature of …
Kenneth Burke
Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism
Av Robert Wess
Inbunden, 1996
1489 kr
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Kenneth Burke, arguably the most important American literary theorist of the twentieth century, helped define the theoretical terrain for contemporary literary and cultural studies. His perspectives were literary and linguistic, but his influences ranged across history, philosophy, and the social …
Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism
Inbunden, 1992
2153 kr
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Wordsworth's poetry has been a focus for many of the theoretical schools of criticism that comprise modern literary studies. Don Bialostosky here proposes to adjudicate the diverse claims of these numerous schools and to trace their implications for teaching. Bialostosky draws on the work of …
Paratexts
Thresholds of Interpretation
Inbunden, 1997
2715 kr
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Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English …
Kenneth Burke
Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism
Av Robert Wess, Anthony Cascardi m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
654 kr
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Kenneth Burke, arguably the most important American literary theorist of the twentieth century, helped define the theoretical terrain for contemporary literary and cultural studies. His perspectives were literary and linguistic, but his influences ranged across history, philosophy, and the social …
The Subject of Modernity
Häftad, 1992
538 kr
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The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Our own self-styled postmodern age has seen no end to this debate, which now receives a major and wide-ranging intervention from the theorist and critic Anthony J. Cascardi. Offering an …
Parody
Ancient, Modern and Post-modern
Häftad, 1993
600 kr
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In this definitive work Margaret Rose presents an analysis and history of theories and uses of parody from ancient to contemporary times and offers a new approach to the analysis and classification of modern, late-modern, and post-modern theories of the subject. The author's Parody/Meta-Fiction …
Theory and the Novel
Narrative Reflexivity in the British Tradition
Inbunden, 1998
1489 kr
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Narrative features such as frames, digressions, or authorial intrusions have traditionally been viewed as distractions from or anomalies in the narrative proper. In Theory and the Novel Jeffrey Williams exposes these elements as more than simple disruptions, analysing them as registers of narrative …
The Poetics of Personification
Inbunden, 1994
1797 kr
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Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater prominence as 'the master trope of poetic discourse'. James Paxson here offers a much-needed critical and theoretical appraisal of personification in the …
Critical Conditions
Postmodernity and the Question of Foundations
Inbunden, 1994
1797 kr
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The postmodern debate has been heavily influenced by often contradictory conclusions about the foundations of knowledge: hermeneutics challenges epistemology, politics challenges science, identity theory challenges critical theory, pragmatism challenges formalism, and so on. Horace Fairlamb …
Possible Worlds in Literary Theory
Av Ruth Ronen, Anthony Cascardi m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
823 kr
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The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, has recently gained interdisciplinary influence; it proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. In this book Ruth Ronen develops a comparative reading of the …
Critical Conditions
Postmodernity and the Question of Foundations
Häftad, 1994
692 kr
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The postmodern debate has been heavily influenced by often contradictory conclusions about the foundations of knowledge: hermeneutics challenges epistemology, politics challenges science, identity theory challenges critical theory, pragmatism challenges formalism, and so on. Horace Fairlamb …
Theories of Mimesis
Av Arne Melberg
Häftad, 1995
538 kr
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Mimesis, with its connecting concepts of imitation, simile, and similarity, has been cited since classical times in the exploration of the relationship between art and reality. In this major study Arne Melberg discusses the theory and history of mimesis through narratological analysis of texts by …
Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics
Av Peter Szondi, Anthony Cascardi
Häftad, 1995
654 kr
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Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished post-war literary critics. This first English edition of one of his most lucid and interesting series of lectures opens up his work in hermeneutics for English-speaking readers. The question of what is involved in understanding a …
Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock
Av Tom Cohen, Anthony Cascardi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1704 kr
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The material elements of writing have long been undervalued, and have been dismissed by recent historicising trends of criticism; but analysis of these elements - sound, signature, letters - can transform our understanding of literary texts. In this 1994 book Tom Cohen shows how, in an era of …
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
Inbunden, 1995
1797 kr
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The anti-sceptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece and developed through an American tradition including William James and John Dewey has attracted new attention in the context of late twentieth-century …
Derrida and Autobiography
Av Robert Smith, Anthony Cascardi m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
538 kr
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The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories. In this book Robert Smith offers both a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and an investigation of current theories of autobiography. Smith argues that for Derrida autobiography is not so much subjective self-revelation as …
Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock
Av Tom Cohen, Anthony Cascardi m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
654 kr
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The material elements of writing have long been undervalued, and have been dismissed by recent historicising trends of criticism; but analysis of these elements - sound, signature, letters - can transform our understanding of literary texts. In this 1994 book Tom Cohen shows how, in an era of …
Mikhail Bakhtin
Between Phenomenology and Marxism
Häftad, 1995
654 kr
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The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric - 'dialogism,' 'marxism,' 'prosaics,' 'authorship' - because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension of these positions creates …
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
Häftad, 1995
710 kr
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The anti-sceptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece and developed through an American tradition including William James and John Dewey has attracted new attention in the context of late twentieth-century …
Novels behind Glass
Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative
Inbunden, 1995
1489 kr
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Drawing on work in critical theory, feminism and social history, this book traces the lines of tension shot through Victorian culture by the fear that the social world was being reduced to a display window behind which people, their actions and their convictions were exhibited for the economic …
The Object of Literature
Häftad, 1995
538 kr
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This 1995 book by Pierre Macherey was his first dealing with literature and theory since his seminal A Theory of Literary Production. Continuing the project of Althusserian theory, Macherey engages in a series of close exegeses of classical texts in French literature and philosophy, from the late …
