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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory

Faking Literature (Hardcover): K. K Ruthven Faking Literature (Hardcover)
K. K Ruthven
R2,708 Discovery Miles 27 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Literary forgeries are usually regarded as spurious versions of genuine literature. Faking Literature argues that the production of a literary forgery is an act that reveals the spurious nature of literature itself. Literature has long been under attack because of its alliance with rhetoric (the art of persuasion) rather than with logic and ethics. One way of deflecting such attacks is to demonize literary forgery: literature acquires the illusion of authenticity by being dissociated from what are represented as ersatz approximations of the real thing.

Theory of Mind and Science Fiction (Hardcover, New): N. Pagan Theory of Mind and Science Fiction (Hardcover, New)
N. Pagan
R1,484 Discovery Miles 14 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Theory of Mind and Science Fiction shows how theory of mind provides an exciting 'new' way to think about science fiction and, conversely, how science fiction sheds light not only on theory of mind but also empathy, morality, and the nature of our humanity.

Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face (Paperback): Paul Morrison Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face (Paperback)
Paul Morrison
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywood - Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor - and the gay male fetishization of those faces. Classical Hollywood cinema is given to an aesthetic and ideological struggle between rival scopic economies: an erotics of "to-be-looked-at-ness" is countered by a hermeneutics of "to-be-seen-through-ness." The latter emerges triumphant, but the legendary female faces of Hollywood resist, in their different ways, a coercive and normalizing knowledge, which is the source of the gay male investment in them. A disciplinary society privileges a hermeneutics of gaze; the iconomic female faces of classical Hollywood cinema demand an erotics. Classical Holly Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face explores the tension between the two through detailed readings of Ninotchka, Sunset Boulevard, and Suddenly, Last Summer in the context of early and mid-century cinema and culture. It includes, for instance, an analysis of D. W. Griffith and blackface, the Stonewall riots and the coming-into-voice of the modern gay subject, several major films by Hitchcock, Citizen Kane, and the emergence of rival standards of beauty, both female and male, in figures such as Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Rock Hudson, and James Dean. This is an important study for students of queer theory, film theory and history, and gender and sexuality studies.

The Lever as Instrument of Reason - Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800 (Hardcover): Jocelyn Holland The Lever as Instrument of Reason - Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800 (Hardcover)
Jocelyn Holland
R4,229 Discovery Miles 42 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The lever appears to be a very simple object, a tool used since ancient times for the most primitive of tasks: to lift and to balance. Why, then, were prominent intellectuals active around 1800 in areas as diverse as science, philosophy, and literature inspired to think and write about levers? In The Lever as Instrument of Reason, readers will discover the remarkable ways in which the lever is used to model the construction of knowledge and to mobilize new ideas among diverse disciplines. These acts of construction are shown to model key aspects of the human, from the more abstract processes of moral decision-making to a quite literal equation of the powerful human ego with the supposed stability and power of the fulcrum point.

A Rhetoric of Silence and Other Selected Writings (Hardcover): Lisa Block de Behar A Rhetoric of Silence and Other Selected Writings (Hardcover)
Lisa Block de Behar
R5,437 Discovery Miles 54 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Language, Discourse and Literature - An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics (Paperback): Ronald Carter, Paul Simpson Language, Discourse and Literature - An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics (Paperback)
Ronald Carter, Paul Simpson
R1,625 Discovery Miles 16 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection shows students of English and applied linguistics ways in which language and literary study can be integrated. By drawing on a wide range of texts by mainly British and American writers, from a variety of different periods, the contributors show how discourse stylistics can provide models for the systematic description of, for example, dialogue in fiction; language of drama and balladic poetry; speech presentation; the interactive properties of metre; the communicative context of author/reader. Among the texts examined are novels, poetry and drama by major twentieth-century writers such as Joyce, Auden, Pinter and Hopkins, as well as examples from Shakespeare, Donne and Milton. Each chapter has a wide range of exercises for practical analysis, an extensive glossary and a comprehensive bibliography with suggestions for further reading. The book will be particularly useful to undergraduate students of English and applied linguistics and advanced students of modern languages or English as a foreign language.

Telling Stories - A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction (Paperback): Steven Cohan, Linda M. Shires Telling Stories - A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction (Paperback)
Steven Cohan, Linda M. Shires
R1,281 Discovery Miles 12 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a "Cathy" comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity do not exist in isolation, but are manufactured by the narratives our culture reads and watches every day. They call for a critical practice that, through the fracturing of texts, can alter the grounds of knowledge and interpretation. This study should interest critics of narrative and culture, as well as students wanting to extend post-Saussurean theories to popular and canonical cultures, and to the dynamics of story-telling itself.

Narrative Bonds - Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel (Hardcover): Alexandra Valint Narrative Bonds - Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel (Hardcover)
Alexandra Valint
R2,371 Discovery Miles 23 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Possible Worlds in Literary Theory (Hardcover): Ruth Ronen Possible Worlds in Literary Theory (Hardcover)
Ruth Ronen
R2,818 Discovery Miles 28 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, has recently gained interdisciplinary influence; it proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. In this book Ruth Ronen develops a comparative reading of the use of possible worlds in philosophy and in literary theory, and offers an analysis of the way the concept contributes to our understanding of fictionality and the structure and ontology of fictional worlds. Dr Ronen suggests a new set of criteria for the definition of fictionality, making rigorous distinctions between fictional and possible worlds; and through specific studies of domains within fictional worlds - events, objects, time, and point of view - she proposes a radical rethinking of the problem of fictionality in general and fictional narrativity in particular.

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory (Hardcover): Paul Dawson, Maria Makela The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory (Hardcover)
Paul Dawson, Maria Makela
R6,932 Discovery Miles 69 320 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The scholars collected here explore new theories of causality, experientiality, and fictionality; challenge normative modes of storytelling; and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction, nonfiction, and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory, the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative theory and a point of departure for new scholarship.

Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): M. Guiney Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
M. Guiney
R1,548 Discovery Miles 15 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The emergence of national education in France is often viewed as a struggle between spiritual and secular authorities, church and state. When one looks at the role of literature in education, however, a different picture appears. By assuming control over the teaching of French language and literature, the state claimed spiritual guardianship over the nation. The issue was therefore not so much of conflict between spiritual and secular forces, as the attempt by one institution to appropriate the spiritual authority of another. Situated at the intersection of history and literary criticism, this book casts new light on literary pedagogy, canon formation, and the relationship between culture and the modern French state.

Translation as a Form - A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" (Paperback): Douglas... Translation as a Form - A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" (Paperback)
Douglas Robinson
R1,259 Discovery Miles 12 590 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This is the first full commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator,". the essay is very popular and widely taught at p/g level, but is also cryptic and misunderstood, hence the need for this detailed and nuanced treatment. It is also the only commentary on Benjamin's essay at book or article length ever to experiment with the mode of translating that he himself championed.

Ann Leckie's "Ancillary Justice" - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): David M Higgins Ann Leckie's "Ancillary Justice" - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
David M Higgins
R1,453 R1,303 Discovery Miles 13 030 Save R150 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book argues that Ann Leckie's novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice's exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters.

Science Fiction and Narrative Form (Hardcover, POD FIRST): David Roberts, Andrew Milner, Peter Murphy Science Fiction and Narrative Form (Hardcover, POD FIRST)
David Roberts, Andrew Milner, Peter Murphy
R3,028 Discovery Miles 30 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Locating science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as presented in the conventional modern novel. Inspired by, and building upon, Georg Lukacs's criticism of the orthodox novel for its depiction of life as alienating and disjointed, Milner, Murphy and Roberts posit that science fiction steps beyond this contemporary form to be a more constructive literature, better able to conceive of society as complete, integrated and well-rounded. Taking stock of three kinds of science fiction which lie outside the scope of the modern novel - theological or ontological science fiction, the science fiction of future history and epic science fiction - this book demonstrates science fiction's unique capacity to encapsulate the whole world, persons and events, things and objects in a glance, and address the motive behind the wish for a meaningful totality. With reference to a vast array of works by authors such as Michel Houellebecq, Elias Canetti, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Marge Piercy, Iain M. Banks, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Dirk C. Fleck, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book offers a compelling argument for rethinking the position and potential of the science fiction novel and to challenge the way we perceive our culture.

The Reader in the Dickensian Mirrors - Some New Language (Hardcover): S. J. Schad The Reader in the Dickensian Mirrors - Some New Language (Hardcover)
S. J. Schad
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through close attention to the representation of the reader in 10 of Dickens novels, this study brings their specifically Victorian assumptions into direct confrontation with the insights of modern critical theory. In doing so, the study locates in Dickens a tendency to reanimate the ancient principle of mimesis that not only does the text become a mirror held up to its reader but, in a radical revision of our post-Saussurean understanding, language becomes not so much a decontructive system of differences as a reconstructive system of resemblances. In short, Schad is finally concerned with some new and quite mythical idea of language.

The Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature - A Fragile Hope (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Alexandra Hartmann The Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature - A Fragile Hope (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Alexandra Hartmann
R3,879 Discovery Miles 38 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents an intellectual history and theoretical exploration of black humanism since the civil rights era. Humanism is a human-centered approach to life that considers human beings to be responsible for the world and its course of history. Both the heavily theistic climate in the United States as well as the dominance of the Black Church are responsible for black humanism’s existence in virtual oblivion. For those who believe the world to be one without supernatural interventions, human action matters greatly and is the only possible mode for change. Humanists are thus committed to promoting the public good through human effort rather than through faith. Black humanism originates from the lived experiences of African Americans in a white hegemonic society. Viewed from this perspective, black humanist cultural expressions are a continuous push to imagine and make room for alternative life options in a racist society.  Alexandra Hartmann counters religion’s hegemonic grasp and uncovers black humanism as a small yet significant tradition in recent African American culture and cultural politics by studying its impact on African American literature and the ensuing anti-racist potentials. The book demonstrates that black humanism regards subjectivity as embodied and is thus a worldview that is characterized by a fragile hope regarding the possibility of progress – racial and otherwise – in the country.

Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis (Hardcover): Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Lasse Horne Kjaeldgaard, Lis Moller,... Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis (Hardcover)
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Lasse Horne Kjaeldgaard, Lis Moller, Lilian Munk Roesing, Peter Simonsen, …
R3,134 Discovery Miles 31 340 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: *Key definitions - from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author *Literature's relationship to the surrounding world - ethics, politics, gender and nature *Modes of literature and criticism - from books to performance, from creative to critical writing With annotated reading guides throughout and a glossary of major critical schools to help students when studying, revising and writing essays, this is an essential introduction and reference guide to the study of literature at all levels. The companion website to the book litdh.au.dk focuses on digital humanities and literary studies. For each topic in the book you will find an introduction to computational aspects of the topic, approaches for both newcomers and advanced users, and references to tools, scripts and articles. The website also has a comprehensive and well-structured reference page.

Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century - American and European Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Cheri Colby Langdell Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century - American and European Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Cheri Colby Langdell
R3,645 Discovery Miles 36 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin's early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of Buddhism on his work, the volume offers new perspectives on Merwin as a major poet. Exploring his works across the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection presents Merwin as a necessary and contemporary poet. It emphasizes contemporary readings of Merwin as an environmental advocate, showing how his poetry seeks to help each reader re-establish an intimate relationship with the natural world. It also highlights how Merwin's work presents our place in history as a pivotal moment of transition into a new era of international cooperation. This volume both celebrates his life and writing and takes scholarship on his work forward into the new century.

The Beginnings of University English - Extramural Study, 1885-1910 (Hardcover): A. Lawrie The Beginnings of University English - Extramural Study, 1885-1910 (Hardcover)
A. Lawrie
R1,508 Discovery Miles 15 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Beginnings of University English: Extramural Study, 1885-1910 draws on previously unseen archival material to explore the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to extramural students in England during the fin de siecle. It begins by tracing the development of the subject from 1650 onwards, before looking at the impassioned debates surrounding the introduction of English as an honours degree at Oxford and Cambridge in the 1880s and '90s. The book then examines exactly how the subject was taught in various non-university settings such as novel-reading unions, the University Extension Movement, and informal literary advice columns written by Arnold Bennett for a popular Edwardian newspaper. At a time when the future of the humanities feels increasingly uncertain, this book sheds new light on the modern roots of tertiary-level English teaching.

The Disciplines of Interpretation - Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany 1750-1800 (Hardcover, Reprint 2010):... The Disciplines of Interpretation - Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany 1750-1800 (Hardcover, Reprint 2010)
Robert S. Leventhal
R4,497 Discovery Miles 44 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau - Romantic Souls, Realist Lives (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): S. Haines Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau - Romantic Souls, Realist Lives (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
S. Haines
R2,872 Discovery Miles 28 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf , Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau. Simon Haines presents a thought-provoking and theoretically aware account of Western literature and philosophy, arguing that the history of both can be seen as a struggle between two different conceptions of the self: the 'romantic' (or dualist) vs the 'realist' or ('extended').

Fantasy (Paperback): Lucie Armitt Fantasy (Paperback)
Lucie Armitt; Series edited by John Drakakis
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Fantasy provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the study of this fascinating field. Covering literature, film, television, ballet, light opera and visual art and featuring a historical overview from Ovid to the Toy Story franchise, this book takes the reader through the key landmark moments in the development of fantasy criticism. This comprehensive guide examines fantasy and politics, fantasy and the erotic, quest narratives and animal fantasy for children. The versatility and cultural significance of fantasy is explored, alongside the important role fantasy plays in our understanding of 'the real', from childhood onwards. Written in a clear, engaging style and featuring an extensive glossary of terms, this is the essential introduction to Fantasy.

Techniques of Satire - The Case of Saltykov-Scedrin (Hardcover, Reprint 2013): Emil A. Draitser Techniques of Satire - The Case of Saltykov-Scedrin (Hardcover, Reprint 2013)
Emil A. Draitser
R3,548 Discovery Miles 35 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cognitive Poetics - An Introduction (Paperback, 2nd edition): Peter Stockwell Cognitive Poetics - An Introduction (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Peter Stockwell
R1,289 Discovery Miles 12 890 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis. The second edition of this seminal text features: * updated theory, frameworks, and examples throughout, including new explanations of literary meaning, the power of reading, literary force, and emotion; * extended examples of literary texts from Old English to contemporary literature, covering genres including religious, realist, romantic, science fictional, and surrealist texts, and encompassing poetry, prose, and drama; * new chapters on the mind-modelling of character, the building of text-worlds, the feeling of immersion and ambience, and the resonant power of emotion in literature; * fully updated and accessible accounts of Cognitive Grammar, deictic shifts, prototypicality, conceptual framing, and metaphor in literary reading. Encouraging the reader to adopt a fresh approach to understanding literature and literary analyses, each chapter introduces a different framework within cognitive poetics and relates it to a literary text. Accessibly written and reader-focused, the book invites further explorations either individually or within a classroom setting. This thoroughly revised edition of Cognitive Poetics includes an expanded further reading section and updated explorations and discussion points, making it essential reading for students on literary theory and stylistics courses, as well as a fundamental tool for those studying critical theory, linguistics, and literary studies.

Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing - Crip Enchantments (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Arianna Introna Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing - Crip Enchantments (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Arianna Introna
R3,121 Discovery Miles 31 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments explores the intersection between imaginaries of disability and representations of work, welfare and the nation in twentieth and twenty-first century Scottish literature. Disorienting effects erupt when non-normative bodies and minds clash with the structures of capitalist normalcy. This book brings into conversation Scottish studies, disability studies and Marxist autonomist theory to trace the ways in which these "crip enchantments" are imagined in modern Scottish writing, and the "autonomist" narratives of disability by which they are evoked.

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