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Onomatopoetics - Theory Of Language And Literature

by Joseph F. Graham

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 The relationship of words to the things they represent and to the mind which forms them has long been the subject of linguistic enquiry. Joseph Graham's challenging book, first published in 1992, takes this debate into the field of literary theory, making a searching enquiry into the nature of literary representation.
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Possible Worlds In Literary Theory

by Ruth (Tel-Aviv University) Ronen

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 The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, is here used to explain the notion of fictional worlds. Through a comparative reading of the use of possible worlds in philosophy and in literary theory Ruth Ronen proposes a radical rethinking of fictionality in general and fictional narrativity in particular.
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Theory And The Novel - Narrative Reflexivity In The British Tradition

by Jeffrey (University Of Missouri, Columbia) Williams

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 In Theory and the Novel Jeffrey Williams analyses a range of novels - Tristram Shandy, Joseph Andrews, The Turn of the Screw, Wuthering Heights, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness - and shows how narrative technique is never beyond or outside plot. He offers a striking and original contribution to readings of the English novel, as well as to current discussions of theory.
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The Poetics Of Personification

by James J. Paxson

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 James Paxson offers a critical and theoretical appraisal of literary personification in the light of developments in poststructuralist thought, reassessing early theories and examining medieval and early modern texts to show how personification reveals and advertises the problems and limits inherent in poetic or verbal creation.
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Paratexts - Thresholds Of Interpretation

by Gérard Genette

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 Genette shows how paratexts - titles, forewords, publishers' blurbs - shape both individual readings and literature as cultural institution.
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The Subject Of Modernity

by Anthony J. Cascardi

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 The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Anthony J. Cascardi offers an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject of self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth.
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Parody - Ancient, Modern And Post-Modern

by Margaret A. Rose

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 In this definitive study of parody Margaret Rose presents a history of theories and uses of parody from ancient to contemporary times. The book expands and revises her earlier Parody/Meta-Fiction (1979), providing a full and detailed account of the subject which will become a standard work.
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Novels Behind Glass - Commodity Culture And Victorian Narrative

by Andrew H. (Indiana University) Miller

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 Drawing on work in critical theory, feminism and social history, this book explains the relationship between the novel and the emergent commodity culture of Victorian England. Analysing the work of Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, Trollope, and Gaskell, Novels behind Glass will interest students of Victorian literature, history, and social and cultural theory.
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Wordsworth, Dialogics And The Practice Of Criticism

by Don H. (University Of Toledo, Ohio) Bialostosky

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 Wordsworth's poetry has been a focus for many of the theoretical schools of criticism that comprise modern literary studies. This challenging book uses the case of Wordsworth studies to make a far-reaching survey of modern literary theory and its implications for the practice of criticism and teaching today.
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Mikhail Bakhtin - Between Phenomenology And Marxism

by Michael F. (University Of Missouri, Columbia) Bernard-Donals

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 Michael Bernard-Donals explores the ambivalence underlying the language theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, and the mirroring difficulties experienced by antifoundationalist and materialist strands in literary scholarship. This book is a contextualized study of Bakhtin, a critique of contemporary criticism, and an original contribution to literary theory.
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Theories Of Mimesis

by Arne (Universitetet I Oslo) Melberg

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 Mimesis has long been cited as a key concept in the exploration of art and reality. In this major study Arne Melberg discusses the theory and history of mimesis through analysis of major texts, charting the movement of the concept from the Platonic philosophy of similarity to modern ideas of difference.
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Introduction To Literary Hermeneutics

by Peter Szondi

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 Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished post-war literary critics: this is the first English translation of his important lectures on hermeneutics. He traces the historical development of hermeneutics through examination of the work of German Enlightenment theorists, and explores its relevance for the contemporary critic.
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The Practice Of Theory - Rhetoric, Knowledge, And Pedagogy In The Academy

by Michael F. (University Of Missouri, Columbia) Bernard-Donals

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 The practical application of theory as a pedagogical aid has yet to be fully addressed. The Practice of Theory, examines the connection between theory and pedagogy at the level of practice and offers a sustained reflection on the production of knowledge across a range of contemporary disciplines.
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Possible Worlds In Literary Theory

by Ruth (Tel-Aviv University) Ronen

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 The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, is here used to explain the notion of fictional worlds. Through a comparative reading of the use of possible worlds in philosophy and in literary theory Ruth Ronen proposes a radical rethinking of fictionality in general and fictional narrativity in particular.
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The Practice Of Theory - Rhetoric, Knowledge, And Pedagogy In The Academy

by Michael F. (University Of Missouri, Columbia) Bernard-Donals

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 The practical application of theory as a pedagogical aid has yet to be fully addressed. The Practice of Theory, examines the connection between theory and pedagogy at the level of practice and offers a sustained reflection on the production of knowledge across a range of contemporary disciplines.
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Cinema, Theory, And Political Responsibility In Contemporary Culture

by Patrick (Louisiana State University) Mcgee

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 This 1997 book explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of cultural and film studies. Patrick McGee shows how film can be both a product and a critique of the culture industry. He analyses the function of the university in producing interpretations of such highly political art forms and in determining the limits of critical discussion.
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Singularities - Extremes Of Theory In The Twentieth Century

by Thomas Adam (University Of Miami) Pepper

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 In Singularities, Thomas Pepper addresses the relationship between text, philosophical value, and critical difficulty. Through a rich sequence of nuanced close readings of especially demanding texts, this book addresses key moments in the work of seminal twentieth-century theorists, and questions the whole direction of contemporary critical thought.
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Chronoschisms - Time, Narrative, And Postmodernism

by Ursula K. (Columbia University, New York) Heise

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 An analysis of way developments in technology have transformed our understanding of time and affected the structure of the novel. This wide-ranging study offers readings of postmodernist theory the relationship between literature and science.
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Rhetoric And Culture In Lacan

by Gilbert D. (Indiana University) Chaitin

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 This is the first book to explore Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to subjectivity and history. Chaitin's lucid study explores Lacan's move beyond the polarities of poetics and philosophy to embrace literature's role in the creation of self hood. This book is a definitive study of Lacan's theoretical development across the entire career.
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The Object Of Literature

by Pierre (Universite De Lille Iii, Charles De Gaulle) Macherey

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 This 1995 book is Pierre Macherey's first on literature and theory since A Theory of Literary Production. It offers both a new theory of the relationship between literature and philosophy, and a series of speculations on important texts and problems in the French literary tradition.
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Critical Conditions - Postmodernity And The Question Of Foundations

by Horace L. (University Of Houston) Fairlamb

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 The postmodern debate has been heavily influenced by often contradictory conclusions about the foundations of knowledge. In this 1994 book, Horace Fairlamb examines the history of foundationism and analyses the work of leading theorists including Fish, Foucault, Gadamer and Habermas, in order to argue for a less reductive and less arbitrary theory of knowledge and meaning.
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Theorizing The Avant-Garde - Modernism, Expressionism, And The Problem Of Postmodernity

by Richard (University Of Sussex) Murphy

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 Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde and assesses its importance for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Combining film and literature, this project will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century modernist movements and postmodernity.
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Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism

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 The pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece, has attracted new interest in the context of postmodernist thought. This volume explores ways in which rhetoric, sophistry, and pragmatism contribute to rethinking the human sciences and cultural politics.
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Derrida And Autobiography

by Robert (University Of Oxford) Smith

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 The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories; here Robert Smith offers a reading of Derrida's philosophy and an investigation of theories of autobiography. Smith thinks through Derrida's texts in a new way, and finds new perspectives on the work of classical writers including Hegel, Nietszche, Kierkegaard, Freud and de Man.
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