This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the di……続きを見る
How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?
To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformula……続きを見る
著者:Brian Edwards
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年05月13日
Drawing on developments in critical theory and postmodernist fiction, this study makes an important contribution to the appreciation of playforms in language, texts, and cultural practices. Tracing ……続きを見る
著者:Alissa G. Karl
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年01月11日
Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace re……続きを見る
The Psychology of Creative Writing takes a scholarly, psychological look at multiple aspects of creative writing, including the creative writer as a person, the text itself, the creative process, th……続きを見る
Debates about the ‘Black Atlantic’ have alerted us to an experience of modernization that diverges from the dominant Western narratives of globalization and technological progress. This outstanding ……続きを見る
Verhalen bieden ons bijzonder veelzijdige en duurzame inzichten in de menselijke conditie en hebben al sinds Aristoteles de aandacht van de filosofie getrokken. Het leidmotief van Vertellingen is da……続きを見る
First published in 1996. Intertextuality the phenomenon is as old as literature itself. And to medievalists in particular, it was a critical commonplace long before the term was coined: we have rout……続きを見る
著者:John J. Su
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws……続きを見る
The unconscious is a term which is central to the understanding of psychoanalysis, and, indeed everyday life. In this introductory guide, Antony Easthope provides a witty and accessible overview of ……続きを見る
Strangers, Gods and Monsters is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves and others, Ri……続きを見る
著者:Michelle Ann Abate
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2013年03月01日
"Off with her head!" decreed the Queen of Hearts, one of a multitude of murderous villains populating the pages of children's literature explored in this volume.
Given the long-standing belief that ……続きを見る
著者:Roger Sabin
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年10月11日
In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted a……続きを見る
By illuminating the striking affinity between the most innovative aspects of postmodern thought and religious mystical discourse, Shadow of Spirit challenges the long established assumption that wes……続きを見る
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, first published in 2004, offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultura……続きを見る
Unbuttoned McLuhan! An intimate exploration of Marshall McLuhan’s ideas in his own words
In the last twenty years of his life, Marshall McLuhan published – often in collaboration with others – a ser……続きを見る
著者:Seán Hand
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2008年09月12日
Best known for his theories of ethics and responsibility, Emmanuel Levinas was one of the most profound and influential thinkers of the last century. In this clear, accessible guide, Seán Hand exami……続きを見る
Amid diverse theoretical debates about the canon in the media and in academia, in English Inside and Out leading proponents of literary studies take a close look at the discipline and the profession……続きを見る
We must, many now argue, `get back' to history. but which one? History has always been a problematical concept in Western theory, particularly for Marxism. In the wake of postmodernism, its status h……続きを見る
Working with processes of translocation enabled Edward Said to point out interdependence and complementarity across geographical borders and disciplinary boundaries while recognizing cultural differ……続きを見る
著者:Philippa Berry
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
Philippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory, to challenge existing critical notions of what is fundamental to Shakespearean tragedy. She shows how, through a network……続きを見る
When Joe Bodenland is suddenly transported back in time to the year 1816, his first reaction is of eager curiosity rather than distress…
This is Aldiss’ response to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, avai……続きを見る
In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained t……続きを見る
著者:D. H. Lawrence
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2010年06月03日
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'There was one place in the world that stood solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother was. Everybo……続きを見る
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical……続きを見る
For several years, write the editors of What's Left of Theory , a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far……続きを見る
A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism.
Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for c……続きを見る
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2013年01月15日
Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contextsーpolitical, social, and culturalーthat have shaped the study of Canadia……続きを見る
著者:Anitra Nelson
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
This work relates Marx's theory of money to his overall political economy, and places it firmly within the wider context of his political and philosophical thought. It has for some time been held th……続きを見る
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‘Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of th……続きを見る