Semiotics / semiology Books

Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment postcolonialism, Beyond Postcolonial Theory posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of color as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony. The testimonies and signifying practices of...

This is a collection of essays that addresses the absence of real confrontation with Jean-Paul Sartre's work by shedding light on Sartre's contribution to critical trends that have been developing over the last twenty years, including feminism, gender...

Taking issue with Transformational Grammar Theory, which has dominated language study since Noam Chomsky introduced it more than 30 years ago, Shaumyan separates language from psychology, arguing that language occupies a different world, that of the...

In an important new book, Laura Gillman argues that in this post-identity politics era, identities can still yield reliable knowledge. Focusing on womanist and mestiza theoretical writings, literary texts, and popular cultural representations, Gillman...

This volume deconstructs the underlying assumptions behind youth-culture Shakespeare and then analyzes specific "texts," from 10 Things I Hate about You to The Bomb-itty of Errors, from The Sandman to Reviving Ophelia. The authors explore the...

Our images of non-Western cultures are often based on stereotypes that are replicated over the years. These stereotypes often appear in popular media and are responsible for a pre-set image of otherness. The present book investigates these processes and...

The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues...

This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to...

Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as...

Perhaps no two nations in modern times have had a more complex cultural engagement than imperial Britain and colonised India. This unique anthology of stories, poems, historical documents and extracts from novels - most unavailable elsewhere - enables...

General Editor's Preface - Preface - Introduction - Poetry, Belief and Devotion - The Poetry of the Resurrection - Morality and the Text - Beauty, the True and the Good - Hermeneutics, Literary Theory and the Bible - The Limits of Formalism and the...

A collection of essays on the work of Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel, focusing on his ethics of liberation.

The purpose of Sheriff's work is to expound Peirce's unified theory of the universe--from cosmology to semiotic--and to discuss its ramifications for how he should live.

Lacan, Language, and Philosophy explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed by a background in...

Examines Lacan's key seminar on sexual difference, knowledge, desire, and love.

Donna Haraway’s celebrated observation that “our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselves are frighteningly inert” has given this issue a certain currency in contemporary cyber-theory. But what is in- teresting about...

Is there anything that can be said about the value of a novel, story or film other than that one likes it? If such factors were made known, writers could use them to write books that readers would not only like better but would feel are worth reading. ...

This book analyzes literary representations of the American experience in selected works from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Marek Paryz reveals the ambivalence underneath the cultural and political development of the United...

Using a cognitive approach to literature, Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. This innovative study offers new...

Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts,this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental issues associated with it, questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape, from the first Greek...

To many, Edward Said's seminal 1978 work Orientalism is an enduring touchstone, a founding text of the field of postcolonial studies and a book that continues to influence debates in literary and cultural studies, Middle Eastern Studies, anthropology,...

This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in...

Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the past in recent American fiction, outlines the development of the postmodernist historical novel and considers the waning...

Acheraiou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on métissage and the "Third Space," arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism. Hybridity is examined in the light of globalization, indicating how...

Arguing that art is a form of social praxis, this book examines the capitalist ethos of serial reproduction of objects as one that also produces individuals as serial types. Art as praxis makes possible the reconstruction of one's identity and material...

Alles Leben ist Wiederkehr und Wiederholung, notiert Thomas Mann 1940 in Anspielung auf die Tetralogie Joseph und seine Brüder. Der Gedanke des Imitierens vorgelebter Spuren ist für Mann von immenser Bedeutung. Als eines der prägendsten Vorbilder dürfte...

With references to the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, this book offers a critical investigation into such epic issues as the end of art and the inherent laws of literature's evolution, while conflating the two into one...

This book introduces scholars and students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. It focuses on representative works and authors like Joyce, Dickinson, Beckett, Eliot. It also examines modern literary schools of thought: structuralism,...

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Keynote Address; L.Stanley PART I: PLACING THE SUBJECT First Person Suspect, or, The Enemy Within...; J.Swindells Korean American National Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee...

It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language,...

The poet, the unknown being... a loony, a dreamer, a hermit. The poet writes poetry... but really, what is poetry? Arts, politics, mere amusement?This little book is an insight into the mindset of someone who just can't help but to be a poet. It is a...