M.D. - Theory 1

This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies……続きを見る

The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of interest by no means confined to literary studies. The Darwin Anniversary celebr……続きを見る

This book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as a general sign theory and in the medical sense as «……続きを見る

L’ouvrage réunit des contributions consacrées aux variations du français et à la (re)construction discursive des significations linguistiques dans les espaces francophones, qu’il s’agisse de définit……続きを見る

Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these change……続きを見る

This book is a simple and clear presentation of the lexis of Camfranglais, an urban youth sociolect in Cameroon. It presents this sociolect as an outgrowth of language contact phenomena that have fo……続きを見る

Dans le champ de la linguistique française, Olga Galatanu est de ceux qui ont muni l’analyse du discours et des interactions verbales d’un modèle sémantique de description. La Sémantique des Possibl……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage se situe à la croisée des études en littérature de jeunesse et en traductologie, emprunte à la stylistique et à la sociologie et interroge un phénomène qui prend toute son ampleur au cou……続きを見る

Comparative literary studies face new challenges today in a world marked by the migration of people, languages, ideas and texts across diverse and increasingly porous borders. The field is restricte……続きを見る

This book provides a view of literary life under the Nazis, highlighting the ambiguities, rivalries and conflicts that determined the cultural climate of that period and beyond. Focusing on a group ……続きを見る

Quand une construction fait-elle figure ? Et quel type de figure fait-elle ? Comment sont interprétées et parsées les figures ? À quoi servent-elles ? Quels outils, développés par la linguistique co……続きを見る

The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault’s critical thought. With cutting edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as dramat……続きを見る

Included in "The Best Scholarly Books of 2024" - The Chronicle of Higher Education Can ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? What happens when th……続きを見る

From the four-time Nebula Award–winning author, a keystone text in literary theory and science fiction analyzing a 1972 work of dystopian fiction. The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Scienc……続きを見る

Bringing together some of the figures most closely associated with Edward Said and his scholarship, Waiting for the Barbarians looks at Said the public intellectual and literary critic, and his poli……続きを見る

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades have……続きを見る

This book reports findings of a qualitative study intended to disrupt notions of heteronormativity amongst preservice elementary teachers by engaging them in multimodal writing and text production a……続きを見る

This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with tradi……続きを見る

First published in 1987. While there have been commentaries on his humour, his seriousness, his social concerns, and other specific aspects of his work such accounts have only tended to divide our u……続きを見る

This book examines the concept of “ Neurosemantics”, a term currently used in two different senses: the informational meaning of the physical processes in the neural circuits, and semantics in its c……続きを見る

M. D. Allen's study deals with T. E. Lawrence's lifelong interest in the medieval world, especially medieval literature, and its considerable influence on his view of himself and of the Arabs with w……続きを見る

In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogen……続きを見る

This book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. The book begins with Julia Kristeva’s attempts to relate Hegelian thought to a psych……続きを見る

The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It……続きを見る

Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature, 1900 - 1940 is the first study of informality in modernist literature. Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, the b……続きを見る

Oriental Wells explores the manifold ways in which the East was a major source of inspiration for the British Romantic poets, who generously borrowed from the Eastern sources in their effort to rein……続きを見る

This book argues that contemporary world literature is defined by peripheral internationalism. Over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a range of aesthetic forms beyond the metropolitan West ……続きを見る

William Dean Howells（March 1，1837May 11，1920）was an American realist author and literary critic. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters"， he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of ……続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

Europe (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insight……続きを見る