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Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media & Cultural Studies With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-28
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Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of meaning, which relies largely on either the concept of truth conditions or the concept of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-10-26
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What does contemporary French poetry do to the subject? This book examines the means and effects of the subject’s transmutation into various processes of (de-)subjectivation by looking at the works of four contemporary writers: Christian Prigent, Dominique Fourcade,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-10-18
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The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic inquiry to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-12
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Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A ground-breaking study addressing and theorizing the relationship between postcolonial studies, colonial history, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Der Blick auf Cato war nach seinem Tod und in der Antike zum größten Teil positiv geprägt. Die romantische Vorstellung vom freiheitsliebenden Widerstandskämpfer, der für seine Ideale eher in den Tod ging als zur ausgestreckten Hand Caesars, wurde erst mit dem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-20
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The question on salvation with its multifarious dimensions had always been a significant subject-matter of discussion from time immemorial. All the religious traditions attempt to formulate appropriate answers to the questions related to this, one of the most crucial...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-25
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Skandale begleiten die Literatur zwar seit ihren Anfängen, doch erst in der Moderne gehören sie zu ihren immer wiederkehrenden Begleiterscheinungen. Im Skandal treten Normkonflikte zutage, an denen die Wirkung von Literatur ablesbar wird. Mit den historisch neuen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-16
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This volume of essays, which is dedicated to the late Richard Bales, one of the doyens of Proust studies, considers Proust’s pivotal role at the threshold of modernity, between nineteenth- and twentieth-century forms of writing and thinking, between the Belle Epoque and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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This volume presents a number of close readings of Latin American literary and cultural phenomena. The overarching theme of the collection is the revision of the accepted view of Latin American national identities as represented in twentieth-century Latin American...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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This study focuses on fictional representations of albinism in the work of the French writers Didier Destremau and Patrick Grainville, and the Francophone Guinean writer Williams Sassine. The focus on selected novels allows for an in-depth study of each narrative and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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The early twenty-first century is witnessing a paradigm shift across the humanities away from an obsession with language and towards an engagement with the way in which physical space is imagined. This book showcases the impact of that shift upon the work of diverse...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini were two of the most eclectic cultural personalities of the past century, as elusive as they were influential. Despite the glaring differences between them, they also shared a number of preoccupations, obsessions and creative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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One of the most outstanding properties of Russian postmodernist fiction is its reliance on metafictional devices which foreground aspects of the writing, reading or structure, and draw attention to the constructed nature of fiction writing. Some common metafictional...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-11
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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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-07-28
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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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-07-28
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Das vorliegende Werk untersucht, – ausgehend vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg als Grimmelshausens Schreibmotivation – wie die im Traktat Satyrischer Pilgram (1667) formulierte These, dass der Krieg der Natur, der Vernunft und der christlichen Lehre widerspreche, in Fiktion...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-25
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In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization. After establishing seven theses (on education, morality, history, future,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-03
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The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-03
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In Subjectivity of ‘Différance’, Heecheon Jeon carefully explores the question of living well together in the midst of myriad differences and otherness in our living world. Living well together is not a concept void of naïve togetherness of various subjectivities, but...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-07
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