Semiotics & Theory

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

The concept of textuality in recent decades has come to designate a fundamentally contested terrain within a number of academic disciplines. How it came to occupy this position is the subject of John Mowitt's book, a critical genealogy of the social and...

By adding consideration of age to that of race, gender, and class, this volume seeks to show how growing older affects literary creativity and psychological development and to examine how individual writing careers begin to change in middle age. The...

Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations-drama,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781071409749Author AntheyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 222g

Musica Naturalis delivers the first systematic account of speculative music theory as a discursive horizon for literary poetics. The title refers to the late medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps, whose 1392 treatise on verse writing, L'Art de Dictier,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816610068Author Hans Robert JaussFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams)...

In 1984 Fredric Jameson wrote that “everything in our social life—from economic value and state power to practices and to the very structure of the psyche itself—can be said to have become ‘cultural’ in some original and yet untheorized sense.” The...

Internationally recognized for its superior scholarship, Modern Fiction Studies was one of the first journals to publish articles on postcolonial studies. Since postcolonialism's inception, scholars have defined, clarified, and enriched its conceptions...

In this volume Guillemette Bolens examines the ways in which artists, authors, and readers draw on skills, sensorimotor capacities, and embodied knowledge when creating and experiencing artistic and literary works. In so doing, Bolens offers a new...

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory...

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory...

We live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about each other's thoughts and feelings, what we want each other to think we...

It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded...

This book introduces advanced students of literature to the latest critical thinking. Following a scene-setting Introduction which reflects on the state of 'theory' today, the 11 chapters in this volume introduce new areas of critical thinking which go...

Literary history, the dominant form of literary scholarship throughout the nineteenth century, is currently recapturing the imaginations of a new generation of scholars eager to focus on the context of literature after a half-century or more of "close"...

This critique of the postmodern turn discusses the distinctive aspects of postmodern scholarship: the pervasiveness of the literary and the flight from grand theory to local knowledge. Simpson examines defining features of postmodern thought -...

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...

In a new approach to interdisciplinary literary theory, Literature, Analytically Speaking integrates literary studies with analytic aesthetics, girded by neo-Darwinian evolution. Scrutinizing narrative fiction through a lens provided by analytic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789058673237Author Jan Van LooyFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 340g

A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"Some 25 years ago Derrida called for a 'cultural graphology' which would study the material practices, institutions, and ideologies of writing. Goldberg takes up this call. . . . He adds a political edge by...

Because every literary image is also a mental image, and because every mental image is a representation of an absent entity, Christopher Collins argues, imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader. In a book that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615767000Author David R ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061735271Author Carmela CiuraruFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985480295Author John David EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Post Egoism MediaPublisher Post Egoism MediaWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615612034Author Dj ReadiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 77g

The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past...

Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably linked. Like the Aristotelian virtue of moderation, which requires the presence of excess and...

The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd...

In the 1990s, the emerging field of ecocriticism--nature-sensitive literary studies--began to establish and define itself. Arguing that the field has matured to the point where it requires a thorough critique and new theoretical underpinnings, Patrick D...

This book examines Ronsard's participation in the heated paragone debate between poets and painters: the Renaissance contest for superiority in the ranking of the arts that emerged in counterpoint to the parity-centered, pseudo-Horatian principle of ut...

Since it was first published in 1959, this book has been generally acclaimed as "the most thorough and reliable exposition of the works of Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir to have appeared in this country" (Chicago Sun-Times). Book InformationISBN...

By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on printed works and rethink the way we read, hear, and talk...

In Being Apart, LaRose Parris draws on traditional and radical Western theory to emphasize how nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africana thinkers explored the two principal existential themes of being and freedom prior to existentialism's rise to...

This study delineates a theory of epistolary epic that refutes historical notions of a siecle sans poesie. It argues that monophonic, epistolary texts written during the Ancien Regime both reflect and resist the classical legacy and at the same time...

Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinkingAllegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential...

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 9780920604892Author Memorial University of NewfoundlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint English Literary StudiesPublisher English Literary...