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  • Language, Literature and Critical Practice

    Ways of Analysing Text

    by David Birch ...
    Series series Interface
    Using a wide-ranging variety of texts the author reviews and evaluates a broad range of approaches to textual commentary, introducing the reader to the fundamental distinction between `actual' and `virtual' worlds in critical practice. ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

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  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Culler ...
    What is Literary Theory? What is the relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is Literature, and does it matter? These are the sorts of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in a book which steers a clear path through a subject often perceived to be impenetrable. It offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, whether literature is a form of self ... Read more

    $8.06 USD

  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Culler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter?These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study of culture and society in the past two decades, literary theory is accused of undermining ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Event of Literature

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... Read more

    $16.91 USD

  • Jacques Lacan

    by Sean Homer ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as literature, film, gender and social theory. This book covers the full extent of Lacan's career and provides an accessible guide to Lacanian concepts ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Narrative Fiction

    Contemporary Poetics

    by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan ...
    Series series New Accents
    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? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions.In contrast to many other studies, Narrative Fiction is organized arround issues - such as events, time, ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • The Arts in Education

    An introduction to aesthetics, theory and pedagogy

    by Mike Fleming ...
    Do the arts improve academic achievement? What does it mean to ‘teach’ art? What should the balance of classic and pop be in the music curriculum? Should we encourage young children on the stage? How do we judge whether what a child produces is good? How do we justify the arts in the curriculum? What should be the balance between form and content when teaching art?The arts in education inspire ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Rorty

    by Gideon Calder ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Popular Great Philosopher's Series.An accessible overview of the work of one of our most influential living philosophers, as part of the popular Great Philosophers series. Richard Rorty is often cited as the most prominent philosophical defender of postmodernism. Best known for his unusually readable books and articles on philosophy - most notably Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Performance Analysis

    An Introductory Coursebook

    Edited by Colin Counsell, Laurie Wolf ...
    This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance. The editors put their texts to work in examining such key topics as: * decoding the sign * the politics of performance * the politics of gender and sexual identity * performing ethnicity * the performing body * the ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Studying English Literature

    A Practical Guide

    by Tory Young ...
    Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to write essays, Studying English Literature invites students to engage with the subject's history and theory whilst at the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy ...
    Series Book 94 - Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field.Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguisticsExamines ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Critical Practice

    by Catherine Belsey ...
    Series series New Accents
    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 head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation? And what is the role of the text? Catherine Belsey considers these and other questions ... Read more

    $45.89 USD