Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 15
• The skeptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the pre-Socratic Sophists and developed through an ... Lees meer

Critical Conditions

Horace L Fairlamb

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 8
• The postmodern debate has been heavily influenced by often contradictory conclusions about the foundations of knowledge. Horace Fairlamb contends that... Lees meer

Genres in Discourse

Tzvetan Todorov

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory
• This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate o... Lees meer

Paratexts

Gerard Genette

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 20
• Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that mediate between book, author and reader: titles, forewords... Lees meer

Possible Worlds in Literary Theory

Ruth Ronen

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 7
• The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to expla... Lees meer

Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 15
• The skeptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the pre-Socratic Sophists and developed through an ... Lees meer

Chronoschisms

Ursula K Heise

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 23
• In Chronoschisms Ursula Heise explores the way developments in communication and information technology have led to the emergence of a new culture of ... Lees meer

Paratexts

Gerard Genette

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 20
• Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that mediate between book, author and reader: titles, forewords... Lees meer

Theorising Textual Subjects

Meili Steele

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 21
• This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: the attempts to theorize the subject as both a construct of discourse and a dialogica... Lees meer

The Subject of Modernity

Anthony J Cascardi

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 3
• The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Our own self-styled postmodern age has seen n... Lees meer

Onomatopoetics

Joseph F Graham

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 4
• The relationship of words to the things they represent and to the mind that forms them has long been the subject of linguistic enquiry. Joseph Graham'... Lees meer

Parody

Margaret A Rose

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 5
• In this definitive work, Margaret Rose presents an analysis and history of theories of parody from ancient to contemporary times. Her earlier Parody/M... Lees meer

Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan

Gilbert D Chaitin

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 19
• This is the first book to explore Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject and historicity. Gilbert Chaitin's... Lees meer

Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan

Gilbert D Chaitin

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 19
• This is the first book to explore Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject and historicity. Gilbert Chaitin's... Lees meer

Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism

Don H Bialostosky

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 2
• In recent decades, Wordsworth's poetry has become a point of focus for a great many of the proliferating schools of criticism and theoretical paradigm... Lees meer

Chronoschisms

Ursula K Heise

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 23
• In Chronoschisms Ursula Heise explores the way developments in communication and information technology have led to the emergence of a new culture of ... Lees meer

Ideology and Inscription

Tom Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 27
• Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures i... Lees meer

Novels Behind Glass

Andrew H Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 17
• Drawing on recent work in critical theory, feminism, and social history, this book explains the relationship between the novel and the emergent commod... Lees meer

The Practice of Theory

Michael F Bernard-Donals

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 26
• Theory has become a common language in the humanities in recent years, but its practical application as a pedagogical aid has yet to be fully addresse... Lees meer

The Subject and the Text

Manfred Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory
• The dominance in literary theory of perspectives derived from French poststructuralism is shown by the priority accorded to language. In this collecti... Lees meer

Theorizing the Avant-Garde

Richard Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 32
• In Theorizing the Avant-Garde Richard Murphy mobilizes theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde and assesses its i... Lees meer

Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock

Tom Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 10
• The material elements of writing have long been undervalued; but analysis of these elements--sound, signature, letters--can transform our understandin... Lees meer

Possible Worlds in Literary Theory

Ruth Ronen

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 7
• The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to expla... Lees meer

Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics

Peter Szondi

• Paperback | Engels | Literature, Culture, Theory | nr. 9
• Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished postwar literary critics. This first English edition of one of his most lucid an... Lees meer