Telling Stories

Steven Cohan, Linda M. Shires

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• Argues that any story, whether a Bette Davis film or a Jane Austen novel, must be related to larger cultural networks. Calls for a critical practice t... Lees meer

Fantasy

Jackson

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• This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoreti... Lees meer

Making a Difference

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• Feminist scholarship employs gender as a fundamental organizing category of human experience, holding two related premises: men and women have differe... Lees meer

The Empire Writes Back

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth (University of West Australia) Griffiths, Helen Tiffin

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• This was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, ... Lees meer

Metafiction

Patricia Waugh

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• Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic facto... Lees meer

Sexual/Textual Politics

Toril Moi

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• What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspective... Lees meer

Alternative Shakespeares

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• Alternative Shakespeares , published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to th... Lees meer

Reception Theory

Robert C. Holub

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• First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Lees meer

Fantasy

Rosemary Jackson

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• This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoreti... Lees meer

Telling Stories

Steven Cohan, Linda M Shires

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• Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel ... Lees meer

Dialogism

Michael Holquist

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• Michael Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings, providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. This edition include... Lees meer

Translation Studies

Susan Bassnett

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• At a time when millions travel around the planet - some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile - translation of the written and spoken ... Lees meer

Narrative Fiction

Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan

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• What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text... Lees meer

Literature & Propaganda

A P Foulkes

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• First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact tha... Lees meer

Structuralism and Semiotics

Terence Hawkes

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• Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to tho... Lees meer

Sexual Fiction

Maurice Charney

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• First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact tha... Lees meer

Translation Studies

Susan Bassnett

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• At a time when millions travel around the planet - some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile - translation of the written and spoken ... Lees meer

Language and Style

E L Epstein

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• We are living in a time of rapid radical social change. In New Accents each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process... Lees meer

Sexual/Textual Politics

Toril Moi

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• This book examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French, paying particular a... Lees meer

Deconstruction

Christopher Norris

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• While in no way oversimplifying its complexity or glossing over the challenges it presents, Norris's book sets out to make deconstruction more accessi... Lees meer

The Politics of Postmodernism

Linda Hutcheon

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• This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism. Perhaps more importantly, it is a compelling discussio... Lees meer

Critical Practice

Catherine Belsey

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• What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's he... Lees meer

Post-Colonial Shakespeares

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• Postcolonial Shakespeares is an exciting step forward in the dialogue between postcolonial studies and Shakespearean criticism. This unique volume fea... Lees meer

Alternative Shakespeares

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• This volume takes up the challenge embodied in its predecessors, Alternative Shakespeares and Alternative Shakespeares 2 , to identify and explore the... Lees meer