Semiotics & Theory

This collection of essays explores the main concepts and methods of reading launched by French philosopher Jacques Derrida who died in 2004. Derrida exerted a huge influence on literary critics in the 1980s, but later there was a backlash against his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312716445Author Ucb ClujFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039124905Author Richard W BevisFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 835g

Literary Theories in Praxis analyzes the ways in which critical theories are transformed into literary criticism and methodology. To demonstrate the application of this analysis, critical writings of Roland Barthes, Harold Bloom, Cleanth Brooks, Jacques...

Frank Kermode's work has always been important to students of English literature. In these essays, leading scholars critically assess Kermode's texts and question his representation of literary study, offering their own interpretative strategies.Book...

The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok,...

Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.Book InformationISBN 9780253337221Author Eero TarastiFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Indiana...

This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from Jose Marti's late nineteenth century cronicas, to Mario Bellatin's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo...

Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an...

Brian Moore (1921-1999) is one of the few novelists whose literary portrayal of Catholicism effectively spans the period prior to and following the Second Vatican Council. His novels - from Judith Hearne (1955) to his final work, The Magician's Wife...

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This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, the essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the New...

Surveying 2500 years of philosophically-oriented literary theory, Patrick Colm Hogan provides this explication and application of the philosophical underpinnings of literary study. It begins with Greek, Arabic and Sanskrit classics and works through to...

Dr.Beitchman has created a variety, a plethora of interconnections and links and lines that connect many seemingly unconnectable literary elements and forms. Take for example the two "political" chapters ...the first Shakespeare's King John and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772884035Author Jan RosiekFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the ""self-conscious Anthropocene,"" a period in which there is widespread awareness of the scale and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810108103Author Gary Saul MorsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams)...

Galicia occupies an ambiguous position, at the crossroads between land and sea, the Atlantic north and the Mediterranean south, Spanish and Portuguese. For two centuries, its nationhood was ignored or disputed and its people migrated in great numbers to...

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...

Despite significant changes since the mid-twentieth century in American critical culture-the culture emanating from the serious review of books, ideas, and the arts-it attracts only a small and declining minority of Americans. However productive this...

Electronic literature is a rapidly growing area of creative production and scholarly interest. It is inherently multimedial and multimodal, and thus demands multiple critical methods of interpretation. Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William...

Spiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon's ""Vineland"", Toni Morrison's ""Paradise"", and Louise Erdrich's ""Love Medicine"". What connects such varied works is...

Postmodern critics fail to ask the truth-seeker's essential question, What does the evidence prove? Instead they trust the generalizations and slogans of ideologies to guide their interpretations. Attempting to be up-to-date and profound, these critics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869770586Author Valeria CammarataFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

New Forms and Interactions is a collection of eleven articles highlighting the controversial relation between the two traditionally opposed realms. By determining the forms, conditions and consequences of interaction between fiction and reality, the...

Theory After Theory provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn about theory and an intellectual history of the recent past in literary criticism for those interested in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039100323Author Fritz GutbrodtFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 430g

What is the powerful cultural significance of mangoes to contemporary Hispanic American writers? How does the strange sex life of figs relate to literature? Why are bananas the humorous fruit par excellence, and how are grapefruits anomalous among the...

Critical Confrontations extends beyond the encyclopedia-like treatment found in most introductory volumes to broaden the interpretive landscape of critical theory and make it more useful. Contending that the dominant paradigms of contemporary critical...

Seeking the Beautiful: A Study in Literary Aesthetics comprises essays both theoretical and applied, with a focus on English medieval and Renaissance texts. While the term aesthetics may imply simply sensory perception or expression, this volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551302225Author Francesca TrussoFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Brown Bear PressPublisher Brown Bear Press

Modern fantasy is the generic revival of the chivalric romance. The quest motif, adventures to other worlds, imaginary characters, exotic settings, battles between light and darkness, circular plot patterns, and anachronism all highlight a substantial...

This book examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after crisis, specifically poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The text argues that, recognizing both the possibilities and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857523910Author Gianfranco MarroneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

In a world where the acceptance of relativism has caused erosion in the tradition of Cartesian dualism, representationalism in the arts has come under serious questioning. The contributors to this book seek new standards for defining and evaluating works...

Falk presents the first comprehensive exposition of this great Polish phenomenologist's views of literature as art, drawing on Ingarden's writing that are relevant to the ontology of the literary work of art and to reading and the experiencing of reading...

An account of the influence of Cleanth Brooks, a literary critic, and a survey of literary criticism in 20th-century America. The book explains how Brooks helped to steer literacy study away from historical and philological scholarhips by emphasizing the...

Guerrilla Theory examines the political, ontological, and technological underpinnings of the guerrilla in the digital humanities (DH). The figure of the guerrilla appears in digital humanities' recent history as an agent of tactical reformation. It...

This collection of essays discusses and explores the wide range of literary theory taught to undergraduates today.Book InformationISBN 9780873523684Author Dianne F. SadoffFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint Modern Language Association of...

Building on critical theories of narrative, this study analyses temporal and continuity relations in fictionBook InformationISBN 9780838638637Author Ken IrelandFormat HardbackPage Count 331Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.Publisher...