Semiotics & Theory

Does the Devil lie at the heart of the creative process? In The Devil as Muse, Fred Parker offers an entirely fresh reflection on the age-old question, echoing William Blake's famous statement: "the true poet is of the Devil's party." Expertly examining...

Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906540951Author Paul BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Maney PublishingPublisher Modern Humanities Research AssociationWeight(grams) 386g

This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue's gallery of outsiders-the more outlandish the better, with human...

In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so by identifying three distinct but largely unrecognized voices within the well-studied genre of the elegy: the dying voice,...

In The Eagleton Reader, Stephen Regan presents a lively and judicious selection of Terry Eagleton's essays, lectures and reviews, demonstrating the breadth and incisiveness of Eagleton's critical judgements, his playful, ironic intelligence, and his...

Paramita Satpathy belongs to the second generation of modern fiction writers in Odia. In her career spanning two decades, she has carved out a niche for herself with seven short story collections and a novel to her credit. This work is a collection of 14...

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is still considered one of the most significant figures of postwar French thought and remains central to anglophone cultural theory. He is read by academic researchers and students in modern languages, comparative literature,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052017334Author Ana Raquel Lourenco FernandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses...

The book investigates African American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston's cultural space. More specifically, different aspects of the interplay of space and place are studied in two of her novels: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and...

Comics and Cognition develops an analytical approach to multimodal communication in comics through insights from embodied cognitive science, especially cognitive linguistics and visual psychology. Mike Borkent extends previous cognitive poetic frameworks...

In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain, sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert of Karbala, Iraq, to resist the debauched ruler Yazid. In twentieth-century India, when the communal conflict...

The Second World War was a common experience of cultural and historical rupture for many European countries, but studies of this period and its after-images often remain locked in national frameworks. Jones' comparative study of national memory...

The early work of Mikhail Bakhtin is notable for its emphasis on questions in ethics and philosophy. Focusing on these early writings, though also informed by Bakhtin's later works of the early 1970s, the authors in this volume explore the human and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959054539Author Bernd SchererFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 148mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791457993Author Paul EisensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

In a critique of the full range of theoretical discourses that have come into favour in literary studies since the 1960s, this work shows that these forms of criticism present themselves as unquestionable - ways of thinking that are too self-evident to...

In Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary, Sean Miller examines the cultural currency of string theory, both as part of scientific discourse and beyond it. He demonstrates that the imaginative component of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598808Author Joan S FreilichFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 367g

While research on autism has sometimes focused on special talents or abilities, autism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to language. Autistic Disturbances reveals the ways interpreters have failed to register the real...

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...

The Task of the Interpreter offers a new approach to what it means to interpret a text, and reconciles the possibility of multiple interpretations with the need to consider the author's intention. Vandevelde argues that interpretation is both an act and...

In Shakespearean Cultures, Rene Girard's ideas on violence and the sacred inform an innovative analysis of contemporary Latin America. Castro Rocha proposes a new theoretical framework based upon the "poetics of emulation" and offers a groundbreaking...

Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442651760Author Geoffrey BulloughFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791454138Author Paul MaltbyFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Philological practices have served to secure and transmit textual sources for centuries. However, this volume contends, it is only in the light of the current radical media change labeled the "digital turn" that the material and technological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843917151Author Duncan MinshullFormat HardbackImprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 242g

This book analyses a representative selection of discursive and ceremonial practices in which one finds the most evident articulation of common 'principles of vision and division' symbolically constructing the professional space of academic literary...

The atlas, one of the oldest types of geographic encyclopedias and reference works, has often been thought of as simply a group of maps bound together. Yet every atlas is conceived and shaped, put into meaningful order and made uniform in some way by its...

Art history as we know it would not exist without Vasari, and Barolsky shows us that something of the same claim should be made for literary history. He demonstrates the ways in which a literary approach to Vasari's book deepens our understanding of its...

Theories of memory and fictional recreations of the remembering mind have occupied a central place in French literature since Montaigne. The author investigates the shifting relation between cognitive or "scientific" memory and emotional or...

The Promise and Premise of Creativity considers literature in the larger context of globalization and "the clash of cultures." Refuting the view that the study of literature is "useless," Eoyang argues that it expands three distinct...

Here Professor Frye analyses the way in which the structure and imagery of literature have been affected by the complex of ideas and images surrounding the word 'creation.' Traditionally, everything associated with nature, reality, settled order, the way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791459669Author Mustapha MarrouchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The Gaelic Revival has long fascinated scholars of political history, nationalism, literature, and theater history, yet studies of the period have neglected a significant dimension of Ireland's evolution into nationhood: the cultural crusades mounted by...

Due to computers' ability to combine different semiotic modes, texts no longer exclusively comprise static images and mute words. How have digital media changed the way we write and read? What methods of textual and data analysis have emerged? How do we...

Gerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a...

Volume 6 of this landmark edition contains 66 writings mainly from the unsettled period in Peirce's life just after he moved from New York to Milford, Pennsylvania, followed shortly afterward by the death of his mother. The writings in this volume reveal...

This book looks beyond the concepts of carnival and dialogue and traces the transformation of the Bakhtin Circle's thought from its introduction to the West in Julia Kristeva's seminal late-1960s theory of intertextuality, through Tzvetan Todorov's...