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Mimologics by Gerard Genette
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Do words-their sounds and shapes, their lengths and patterns-imitate the world? Mimology says they do. First argued in Plato's Cratylus more than two thousand years ago, mimology has left an... -
Fiction and Diction by Gerard Genette
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £18.01'About the AuthorCatherine Porter is Professor of French at State University of New York College at Cortland.Book InformationISBN 9780801480867Author Gerard GenetteFormat P -
Essays in Aesthetics by Gerard Genette
Booksplease Price: £25.41Over the course of the past forty years, Gerard Genette's work has profoundly influenced scholars of narratology, poetics, aesthetics, and literary and cultural criticism, and he continues to be one... -
Narrative Discourse Revisited by Gerard Genette
Booksplease Price: £20.89In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only... -
Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation by Gerard Genette
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.24Paratexts 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... -
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree by Gerard Genette
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.25By definition, a palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible." Palimpsests... -
The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence by Gerard Genette
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.20What art is-its very nature-is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman and referring to a wide... -
Bardadrac by Nicholas Levett 9781802078022
Booksplease Price: £104.10Here is an unexpected Gerard Genette, looking back at his life and time with humour, tenderness and lucidity. 'Bardadrac' is the neologism a friend of his once invented to name the jumbled contents... -
Fictional Discourse and Historical Space by Andrew Wright 9781349185665
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349185665Author Andrew WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint -
The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel: Literature and the Left in the Wake of Engagement by Danielle Marx-Scouras 9780271025568
Booksplease Price: £37.39Founded in 1960 by a group of relatively unknown young writers, Tel Quel quickly became one of the most influential literary journals and controversial intellectual movements in France. During the... -
Resonant Themes: Literature, History, and the Arts in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe by Stirling Haig 9780807892671
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12This collection of twelve essays written in English and French honors Victor Henri Brombert, the eminent humanist, thinker, and scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European letters. Though... -
Handbook of Narrative Analysis by Luc Herman
Booksplease Price: £38.51Stories are everywhere, from fiction across media to politics and personal identity. Handbook of Narrative Analysis sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories, providing the necessary... -
Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare by Christy Desmet 9783319632995
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.50This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once "be" and "not be" Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may... -
The Narrator: A Problem in Narrative Theory by Sylvie Patron 9781496231406
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £48.80The narrator (the answer to the question "who speaks in the text?") is a commonly used notion in teaching literature and in literary criticism, even though it is the object of an ongoing debate in... -
Bardadrac by Nicholas Levett 9781802078039
Booksplease Price: £31.16Here is an unexpected Gérard Genette, looking back at his life and time with humour, tenderness and lucidity. ‘Bardadrac’ is the neologism a friend of his once invented to name the jumbled contents... -
Paratexts and Performance in the Novels of Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros by Ellen McCracken 9781137602619
Booksplease Price: £45.30Part of a new phase of post-1960s U.S. Latino literature, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz and Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros both engage in unique networks of paratexts that center on... -
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture by Beth Driscoll
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Works of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside popular genres of fiction,... -
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture by Beth Driscoll 9781625346629
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64Works of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside popular genres of fiction,... -
Intertextual Transactions in Contemporary British Fiction by Patrycja Podgajna 9783631670682
RRP: £42.30Booksplease Price: £38.43This study focuses on presenting the techniques of reworking and incorporating intertextual material into contemporary British fiction. Analysing emblematic intertextual strategies: adaptation,... -
On the Fringe of Commentary: Metatextuality in Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Cultures by S.H. Aufrère 9789042930735
RRP: £118.00Booksplease Price: £114.19This volume contains the papers of the second meeting of the international scholarly network "The Hermeneutic of Judaism, Christianity and Islam," held in Aix-en-Provence... -
And with the Teian lyre imitate Anacreon: The reception of Anacreon and the Carmina Anacreontea in Horace's lyric and iambic poetry by Veronika Lütkenhaus 9783525311516
Booksplease Price: £101.25This book explores, for the first time, the influence of Anacreon and the Anacreontic tradition on Horace's Odes and Epodes. It focuses first on the original fragments of Anacreon and their reception... -
Beyond Speculation: Art and Aesthetics without Myths by Jean-Marie Schaeffer
Booksplease Price: £27.15In his well-known work of art criticism Art of the Modern Age, Jean-Marie Schaeffer offered a lucid and powerful critique of what he identified as the historically dominant thinking about art and... -
A Narratology of Drama: Dramatic Storytelling in Theory, History, and Culture from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century by Christine Schwanecke 9783110721379
Booksplease Price: £91.56This volume argues against Gerard Genette's theory that there is an "insurmountable opposition" between drama and narrative and shows that the two forms of storytelling have been productively... -
Leviticus in Hebrews: A Transtextual Analysis of the Tabernacle Theme in the Letter to the Hebrews by Mayjee Philip 9783034302579
RRP: £59.80Booksplease Price: £53.50Scholarly consensus on the relationship of the Letter to the Hebrews to the Old Testament is far from universal or uniform. This book aims to address this area in Hebrews scholarship, which is... -
Why Fiction? by Jean-Marie Schaeffer
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.80In Why Fiction?-one of the most important works of narrative theory to come out of France in recent years-Jean-Marie Schaeffer understands fiction not as a literary genre but, in contrast to all... -
Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel by Bronwen Thomas
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gerard Genette as "one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel." Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key... -
Modern Genre Theory by David Duff 9780582368057
Booksplease Price: £57.60Since Aristotle, genre has been one of the fundamental concepts of literary theory, and much of the world's literature and criticism has been shaped by ideas about the nature, function and value of... -
Intertextuality, Allusion, and Quotation: An International Bibliography of Critical Studies by Udo J. Hebel 9780313265174
Booksplease Price: £35.47This bibliography offers a compilation of more than 2000 critical studies that deal not only with the relatively new concept of intertextuality and its predominantly poststructuralist implications,... -
Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present by Dorothy J. Hale 9780804733564
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In recent decades, literary critics have praised novel theory for abandoning its formalist roots and defining the novel as a vehicle of social discourse. The old school of novel theory has long been... -
Narrative and History by Alun Munslow 9781352002683
Booksplease Price: £28.57Based on the assumption that reality, reference and representation work together, this introductory textbook explains and illustrates the various ways in which historians write the past as history... -
Renaissance Paratexts by Helen Smith
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gerard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical... -
Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow: Gender, Genre, and Visuality in the Creation of a Literary 'Canon' by Shobna Nijhawan 9780199488391
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £51.06Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow centers on the literary activities emerging out of the publishing house Ganga Pustak Mala in colonial Lucknow in the first half of the twentieth century. Closely... -
Renaissance Paratexts by Helen Smith 9781107463424
Booksplease Price: £32.12In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gerard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical... -
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction by Michael J. Hoffman 9780822335214
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several... -
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 9780393919165
Booksplease Price: £16.51Marcel Proust's seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu), has inspired many superlatives, among them "the greatest novel ever written" and "the greatest novel... -
Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania by Rahel Orgis
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania offers the first systematic formal and thematic analysis of Wroth's Urania in its historical context and explores the structural... -
Narrative Devices in the Shiji: Retelling the Past by Lei Yang 9781438497204
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.Narrative Devices in the Shiji: Retelling the Past offers the first systematic analysis of narratives in early... -
Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative by David Wittenberg
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling-and, by extension, about the... -
Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative by David Wittenberg 9780823249961
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £63.53This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling-and, by extension, about the... -
Poetic Revolutionaries: Intertextuality & Subversion by Marion May Campbell 9789042037861
Booksplease Price: £98.05Poetic Revolutionaries is an exploration of the relationship between radical textual practice, social critique and subversion. From an introduction considering recent debates regarding the cultural...