Semiotics / semiology Books

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: TRAJECTORIES OF MYSTICISM IN LITERATURE AND THEORY Language and Mysticism in the 'Spiritual Canticle' by St John of the Cross; A.Barro The Metaphysics of Language in Emily Dickinson (As...

The volume shows in which sense the study of culture, literature and the arts contributes to the understanding of human cognition. It explores evolutionary substrates of narrative; the interfaces between culture, stories and cognition; the cognitive...

Der Band präsentiert derzeit bestehende Forschungsansätze zur Lehrer- und Unterrichtsforschung in der Literaturdidaktik. Themenbereiche sind: Vermittlungsprozesse im Unterricht und das Unterrichtshandeln, Selbstkonzepte von Lehrpersonen und Lernenden,...

Der Tagungsband enthält Beiträge von internationalen Experten im Bereich der Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Russisch und Türkisch sowie die gemeinsamen Pressemitteilungen der Veranstalter und das im Rahmen der Tagung...

Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces explores phenomena of urban mapping in the discourses and strategies of a variety of postwar artists and practitioners of space: Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg,...

Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot analyzes literary reproductions of everyday intimacies through a microsociological lens to demonstrate the value of reading microsocially. The text investigates the interplay between...

This original and authoritative book offers a first-ever attempt to define a poetics of the editing arts. It proposes a new field of editing studies, in which the 'ideal editor' can be understood in relation to the long-theorised author and reader. The...

Literary Studies Deconstructed critiques the state of Literary Studies in the modern university and argues for its comprehensive reconstruction. It argues that Literary Studies as currently practised avoids engaging with much of literary experience and...

This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative theology, which proposes using negative statements as a...

This book presents a critique of neoliberalism within UK Higher Education, taking its cue from approaches more usually associated with literary studies. It offers a sustained and detailed close reading of three works that might be understood to fall...

This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world's population has been transformed into a society of refugees and émigrés seeking -indeed, demanding- an alternative way of political belonging. Focusing on the interregnum we have...

This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly approaches by combining both praxis and theory in a case study of a new international collaborative digital project, the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP). MAPP is an...

This book analyzes a collection of literary memoirs to demonstrate how this genre is an avenue for participation in public life. Writers are repurposing the memoir, a genre known for its personal and expressive function, to engage in debate and serve...

In 1929, T. S. Eliot claimed that "Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them; there is no third." Ulysses Explained argues that James Joyce may now be numbered along with Dante and Shakespeare among the giants of Western literature whose...

A bold work of synthetic scholarship, Writing Australian Unsettlement argues that the history of Australian literature contains the rough beginnings of a new literacy. Michael Farrell reads songs, letters and visual poems by Indigenous farmers and...

Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative addresses key aspects of narrative mapping while arguing for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Literary Cartographies surveys a broad expanse of literary...

Postmodernism, deconstruction and subversion have been the buzzwords of the last few decades. But not any longer. Ever since the end of the millennium an increasingly perceptible desire to turn towards other concerns can be noted. Only, what comes after...

This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about technology-now the dominant feature of our civilization-in fiction, non-fiction, film, and advertising. It answers important questions about the meanings people...

We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and developments in the publication and consumption of literature continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual...

As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors.

Because every literary image is also a mental image, and because every mental image is a representation of an absent entity, Christopher Collins argues, imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader. In a book that...

This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities.  It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material...

When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work centred on the quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. In Alternative Shakespeares, John Drakakis brought...

This volume integrates new studies by leading researchers in sociolinguistics, sociology, social psychology, and cultural theory. It explores the many interfaces of body and discourse, organized under three main themes: the body as an interactional...

Acknowledgements Introduction Romantic Promontories All at Sea Les Fleurs du mal de mer Modernity in Transit Conclusion: In Between The English Channel/La Manche: A Cultural Chronology, 1778-2001 Notes Index

Before Modernism Was places modernist writing within the texture of modern history. Texts by Woolf, James, Freud, Wyndham Lewis, Stein, Malinowski, and others are read through a range of figures that construct and disrupt modern meaning: the ghost that...

For the last twenty-five years, Language, Discourse, Society has been the most intellectually challenging series in English. Its titles range across the disciplines from linguistics to biology, from literary criticism to law, combining vigorous...

Acknowledgements and Abbreviations Introduction The Arzamas Horror: A Sample of Tolstoy's Psychopathology Tolstoy and his Mother Tolstoy's Case for Sexual Abstinence Sexual Abstinence: The Hidden Agenda Tostoy's Problematical Self

Introduction; J.B.Winston After Zigzagging; L.Donh Rap Music; N.Q.Chanh Playing with Identities: Everyday Pleasures in Colonial Vietnam; E.J.Peters Moving Along the Edge of Summer; P.H.Thu Cultural Encounters in French Colonial Literature; P.Laude After...

Cosmopolitanism is now understood as a perspective that regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved. Here, Cyrus K. Patell asks does this perspective lie behind all ""great"" literature, which asks its...

This study uncovers a vital thematic unity within Blake's early work: his far-reaching use of humor. Although often dismissed as a product of his eccentricity, the comic was an essential key to Blake's concept of Vision. With special reference to...