Semiotics / semiology Books

This collection explores the consequences of accentism-an under-researched issue that intersects with racism and classism-in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures, past and present. It adopts a transmedia and transhistorical approach to...

Dante and the Other brings together noted and emerging Dante scholars with theologians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists, bridging the Florentine's premodern world to today's postmodern context. Exploring how alterity has become a...

This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical...

Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these...

This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author's private and artistic persona; it also...

In this self-titled inaugural release, we`ve set out to explore the textobject and its relationship to ideations of concealment / surveillance / visibility.CLOAK is not intended to fully encompass these relationships, but instead to instigate new...

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Haussman's Paris and the Immeuble The London Suburbs The Rise of the Parisian Banlieue The London Council Estate Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Theorizing Postcolonial Diasporas; M.Keown, D.Murphy & J.Procter PART ONE: DISCOVERING EUROPE European Tribes: Transnational Diasporic Encounters; J.McLeod Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the...

This book explores stylistic techniques that interweave different viewpoints in Modernist fiction. Consciousness was a central concern of the Modernist novel and there has been a strong critical interest in the techniques of its presentation. Critics are...

The Counter-Memorial Impulse describes the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to resist commemorative models and to treat grief as an occasion for social critique. At a time when public memorial projects are hotly debated in the media and 'archive...

Since the end of the Cold War and re-unification, Germany's policy toward and within the European Union has undergone significant changes. Once a model 'Europeanist', Germany has become increasingly reluctant to support the progressive implementation of...

This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterised by faith, the other by...

Introduction: The Millennial Dream The Great Family of Man Geography Made Easy Reorienting the World Pax Britannica Postscript: America, Anglobalization and the Great Exhibition Works Cited Index

This innovative volume draws on sociobiology to develop and apply an interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature. The resultant essays offer fresh, concerted, and challenging interpretations of canonical literary works that reconcile scientific...

This new volume in the 'Teaching the New English' series aims to provide a historical view of the teaching of literary theory in universities, a current survey and aims for the teaching of theory in the future.

Introduction: Beyond the Canon: History in a Globalizing World; S.Stuurman & M.Grever PART 1: THE FRAMING OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE Who Needs a Canon?; P.Seixas Plurality, Narrative and the Historical Canon; M.Grever From National Canon to Historical...

Acknowledgements Introduction Anglo-Jewish History and Early Modern England Puritans and Judaism: From Scholarship to Sedition Anglicans and Judaism: From Ceremony to Legalism Religious Toleration: Jews and Jewish Precedents in the Christian Church and...

American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative explores the contorted and often conflicted relationship writers have with their images and reputations as authors, particularly when they choose to write about themselves and their personal lives. By...

Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora: Exploring Tactics combines the fields of queer and diasporic writing. It opens up an entire new domain where social and cultural meanings of sexuality within Caribbean space become objects of historical,...

After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important...

Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that challenges accepted...

A volume of specially commissioned papers which draws on the diverse expertise of academic researchers, policy makers and educational practitioners to address the changing patterns of competition and provision, in international higher education. Topics...

Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and establishes a new critical discourse for postcolonial...

Each with their own logic, fictional and historical worlds provide different ways to view reality. This book is about those worlds, past and present, and it concentrates on literature and history as two of the keys to culture. Underneath a dazzling...

This is the first book-length critical study of E. B. White, the American essayist and author of the beloved Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Complementing On the Familiar Essay, this book is intended for anyone interested in...

This book is a conceptualization of the literary aesthetic in relation to ethics, in particular, an ethics for a concern for the Self. Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's constructivist thinking into a practical domain, Sabrina Achilles rethinks...

This volume analyzes the Serial podcast, situating it in the trajectory of other popular crime narratives and contemporary cultural theory. Contributors focus on topics such as the ethics of the use of fiction techniques in investigative journalism, the...

Over the past decade 'singularity' has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging from philosophy to literary and cultural studies to science and technology studies. This volume intervenes in this broad discussion of singularity and its...

Foreword by Bernard Crick PART I: PORTRAYAL OF CONTINENT Charlotte Bront�s Alternative European Community; J.B.Gordon Nation and Narration: Continental Europe and the English Novel; S.Mergenthal Guglhupf and Ancient Castles: Images of Austria and Germany...

General Introduction PART I: ARE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN GENRES STILL RELEVANT? A Compulsive Search for Taxinomy? Major Themes and Genres PART II: REALITY, REALISM AND MIMESIS A Brief Historical Reminder of the Relationship Between Art and Mimesis Art and a...

Preface The Philosophical Realism of Virginia Woolf Bertrand Russell: The Logic of a Literary Symbol Bloomsbury Letters Keynes, Lawrence and Cambridge Revisited E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Literary History Towards the Literary History of A...

Introduction PART ONE: A TALE OF TWO DISCOURSES 'Knowledge is Power': The Working Class 'Unstampeds' as an Example of Public Discourse The Formation of the Journalistic Field PART TWO: DISCOURSE AND METHOD: OPTIONS FOR SOCIOLOGY Beyond the Prison-House...

Acknowledgements Preface; M.Grey Contributors Introduction; A.Hogan & A.Bradstock The Drunkard, the Brute and the Paterfamilias: The Temperance Fiction of the Early Victorian Writer Sarah Stickney Ellis; H.Twycross-Martin The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:...

Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most...

Acknowledgements - Preface - PART 1: THEORY - The Inescapable Lesson of the Master - Things That Appear - A Special Language - The Human Experience - PART 2: PRACTICE - Towards Perfection - Imperfection - Perfection - PART 3: CODA - Answers to Your...

Acknowledgements - Does a Sex have a History? - Progresses of the Soul - 'The Social', 'Women', and Sociological Feminism - The Womanly Vote - Bodies, Identities, Feminisms - Select Bibliography

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

Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications? Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the...

Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field. Since then a generation of readers has used the book as an...

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Introduction The Experimental and the Absurd in Two on a Tower Some Surrealist Elements in Hardy's Prose and Verse Chance and Indeterminacy in Hardy's Novels and Poetry Discoveries of...

Introduction: Philology in A New Key Corage/Courage Estat/Estate Fre/Free Gloss Kynde/Kind Lewed/Lewd Providence Queynte/Quaint Sely/Silly Thrift Virtù/Virtue After Words References Cited Index

Introduction; W.Chernaik & M.Dzelzainis Marvell and Secret History; A.Patterson Marvell's Ghost; N.von Maltzahn The Romantic Marvell; P.Hamilton The Alchemical Republic: A Reading of the Horatian Ode ; L.Abraham & M.Wilding Rude Heaps and Decent Order; D...

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Knowles A Short Report and Not Otherwise: Jack Cade in 2 Henry VI ; S.Longstaffe Carnival and Death in Romeo and Juliet ; R.Knowles The Carnivalesque in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; D.Wiles...