The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing
Covering a wide range of textual forms and geographical locations, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing: New Contexts, New Narratives, New Debates is an advanced introduction to prominent issues in contemporary postcolonial literary studies. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing includes: ·Explorations of key contemporary topics, from ecocriticism, refugeeism, economics, faith and secularism, and gender an...
The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature
by Professor Maria Nikolajeva
Stealing the Fire (French Literature, #37)
This highly acclaimed study analyzes the various trends in English criticism during the first four decades of this century.
Freud: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)
by Dr Celine Surprenant
Tendenzkunst-Debatte 1910-1912 (Textausgaben Zur Fruhen Sozialistischen Literatur In Deutschland, #27)
Though one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dalí is typically seen as peripheral to the dominant practices of modernist painting. Roger Rothman’s Tiny Surrealism argues that this marginal position is itself a coherent response to modernism. It demonstrates how Dalí’s practice was organized around the logic of the inconsequential by focusing on Dalí’s identification with things that are literally tiny (ants, sewing needles, breadcrumbs, blackheads, etc.) as well as t...
This new collection of J. Hillis Miller?s essays centres on the question ?why and to what end should we read, teach, and spend our time with literary and/or cultural studies?? At a time when electronic media seem to dominate the market completely, and jobs follow the money flows into electronic and technical fields, literary and cultural studies might appear as a decorative addenda but not really necessary for the process of growth and development, neither in business nor in the area of personal...
The Humanities and the Understanding of Reality
In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowledge, three eminent literary scholars and a distinguished journalist in these essays address themselves to the question, "Do the humanities provide a form of understanding of reality that the sciences do not?" Monroe C. Beardsley maintains that the humanities considered as contributors to knowledge must deal with the same subject matter as the sciences, but literature and the arts can enlarge our p...
The Crossroads in Folklore and Myth (American University Studies. Series 4: English Language and)
by Martin Puhvel
Toward a Sacramental Poetics
Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature. What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from a strictly secular one? This volume develops the theory of "sacramental poetics" advanced by Regina Schwartz in her 2008 book on English Reformation writers, taking the theory in new directions while de...
This new edition includes a sizeable body of new material, in addition to the original selection of texts and accompanying editorial commentary. A new section on postcolonialism has been added to reflect the increasing challenge to Western thought and representation. Along with this are examples of the writings of many key figures in the field together with seminal essays that have explored and extended the implications of critical theory. Questions are raised about the compatibility or otherwis...
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the foundations for this research, and worked examples from analysts working with a range of different texts. The editors Ian Parker and David Pavon-Cuellar begin with an introduction which reviews the key themes in discourse analysis and the problems faced by researchers in that field of work including an overvie...
Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction. (DQR Studies in Literature, #48)
This volume is the first book of criticism to provide a systematic analysis of a corpus of emblematic contemporary British fictions from the combined perspective of trauma theory and ethics. Although the fictional work of writers such as Graham Swift has already been approached from this perspective, none of the individual works or authors under analysis in the twelve essays collected in this volume has been given such a systematic and in-depth scrutiny to date. This study, which is addressed to...
Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism
by Edward T. Duffy
Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism serves as both introduction to Cavell for Romanticists, and to the larger question of what philosophy means for the reading of literature, as well as to the importance and relevance of Romantic literature to Cavell's thought. Illustrated through close readings of Wordsworth and Shelley, and extended discussions of Emerson and Thoreau as well as Cavell, Duffy proposes a Romanticism of persisting cultural relevance and truly trans-Atlantic scope. The turn t...
Un phenomene nouveau est sur le point de modifier en profondeur la representation traditionnelle, vieille de plus de deux siecles, de la creation litteraire : l'atelier d'ecriture. Entre une pratique scripturale de plus en plus ouverte et un systeme qui repose encore sur une conception sacree de la litterature, du moins en France, une situation inedite s'enonce : les mythes de l'ecriture et de l'ecrivain sont-ils en passe d'etre detrones ? Afin de mieux comprendre la faveur dont jouissent les at...
Les Journaux d'Ecrivains: Enjeux Generiques Et Editoriaux (Litteratures de Langue Francaise, #19)
Les journaux d'ecrivains representent des cas de journaux personnels particuliers par le statut meme des diaristes qui les ont ecrits. Etudier ces journaux d'ecrivains pose plusieurs questions: tenir un journal ou pas ? Pour qui et pour quoi tenir un journal ? Les diaristes eux-memes, par leur pratique et leurs interrogations, soulignent combien le journal d'ecrivain releve d'une categorie generique litteraire propre. Dans la relation complexe entre diaristes et destinataires se redefinissent to...
From the ForewordThese pieces are selections from work done in the Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of assembling them under the title, "While Everything Flows." Their primary interest is in speculation on the nature of linguistic, or symbolic, or literary action--and in a search for more precise ways of locating or defining such action. Words are aspects of a much wider communicative context, most of which is not verbal at all. Yet words also have a nature peculiarly th...
Licht ist seit jeher ein prominenter Untersuchungsgegenstand der Wissenschaften gewesen. In seinen spezifischen Ausformungen, Strahlungen und Spiegelungen beschaftigt es Astrophysiker und Kosmologen, Philosophen und Religionswissenschaftler, Informatiker und Ingenieure, Kunsthistoriker und Kulturwissenschaftler - um nur einige Facher zu nennen. Und tatsachlich sind die moeglichen Perspektiven fur eine Erforschung des Leuchtenden nahezu unerschoepflich. Sie reichen von der absoluten Geschwindigke...