Semiotics & Theory

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...

This study asks, ""What is the relation of criticism to literature?"", ""What does it mean to call oneself a woman?"", and ""What does a (feminine) coming to writing imply?"". Lydon identifies...

An assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States, this text challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate concerns. It also addresses the question of objectivity in humanistic study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781084183803Author Rafael Duarte Oliveira VenancioFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently...

The Ethics of Mourning dramatically shifts the critical discussion of the lyric elegy from psychological economy to ethical responsibility. Beginning from a reevaluation of famously inconsolable mourners such as Niobe and Hamlet, R. Clifton Spargo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993895319Author Peter Pericles TrifonasFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PosttextePublisher PosttexteWeight(grams) 299g

"All is true," realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, Lilian R. Furst seeks to reconcile these contradictory claims. In doing...

In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how...

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism has become the indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. The long-awaited second edition includes 48 new entries and subentries and has been revised...

Certain post-Romantic conceptions have seen literature as a sanctioned space for the articulation of social dissidence and heterogeneity. Yet recent scholarship has shown that literature did not always have an oppositional character, that in its modern...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563833Author Francois BoutonnetFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

Michael McKeon, author of The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, here assembles a collection of influential essays on the theory of the novel. Carefully chosen selections from Frye, Benjamin, Levi-Strauss, Lukacs, Bakhtin, and other prominent...

Stanley Cavell's work is distinctive not only in its importance to philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range. Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for...

The short story has been a staple of American literature since the nineteenth century, taught in virtually every high school and consistently popular among adult readers. But what makes a short story unique? In Reading for Storyness, Susan Lohafer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816629336Author James BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

A new approach to feminist thought that challenges current critical theories.In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544313156Author Italo CalvinoFormat HardbackImprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest BooksWeight(grams) 590g

Rae Greiner proposes that sympathy is integral to the form of the classic nineteenth-century realist novel. Following the philosophy of Adam Smith, Greiner argues that sympathy does more than foster emotional identification with others; it is a way of...

Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. "Bloody Murder" is the first full-length critical study of this pervasive theme of murder in...

If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism...

Despite the long history of Menippean satire, from antiquity through the early modern era in Europe and up to the present, the genre often has resisted precise definition and has evoked critical controversy. In this magisterial work, Howard D. Weinbrot...

The contributors to The Moral of the Story, all preeminent political theorists, are unified by their concern with the instructive power of great literature. This thought-provoking combination of essays explores the polyvalent moral and political impact...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714509129Author Robert CreeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788121510417Author Subhakanta BeheraFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Munshiram Manoharlal PublishersPublisher Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers