Semiotics / semiology Books

The Radical Spaces of Poetry introduces a diverse range of experimental writing from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines the political, social and cultural implications of some of the most exciting and dynamic work of recent years, and...

Acknowledgements Introduction: 'I told You we'd been invaded by Victoriana' Memory Texts: History, Fiction and the Historical Imaginary Contemporary Victorian(ism)s A Fertile Excess: Waterland, Desire and the Historical Sublime (Dis)Possessing Knowledge:...

Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limits of deconstructionist...

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction; M.Bryden & M.Topping PART I: READING ENCOUNTERS The Embarrassment of Meeting: Burroughs, Beckett, Proust (and Deleuze); M.Bryden The Search for Strange Worlds: Deleuzian...

This book presents a Minimalist analysis of syntactic relations. The authors argue that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance, and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building couched...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Taboo, Trans�gression and Literature: An Introduction; S.Horlacher Taboo and Transgression: A Socio-Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspective; U.Böker Against Censorship: Literature, Transgression and Taboo...

Focusing on orally transmitted cultural forms in the Caribbean, this book reaffirms the importance of myth and symbol in folk consciousness as a mode of imaginative conceptualization. Paul A. Griffith cross-references Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott's

Introduction: The Province of Public Intellectualism: Emerson, Du Bois, Emotion, and Reform Writing Race: You'll Know It When You Feel It Double Consciousness: It's More Than What You Think Losing Your Head: Why Du Bois and Emerson (Mostly) Like John...

A collection of new essays, Imagining Transatlantic Slavery offers the latest research and thinking on current debates about the representation - past and present - of transatlantic slavery. Building on the interest generated by the bicentenary in 2007-8...

In this lively and original book, eighteenth-century philosophy is called to account for what it owes to the early novel. Through the figure of the romance reader, the author tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and...

The first academic account of the 21st century antiwar and peace movement. Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, AntiWar Activism pays especially close attention to the changed information environment of protest, the complex alliances of...

This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and...

Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and original argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.

Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks...

This book, now available in paperback, reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and...

A fascinating collection of essays looking at the concept of 'intermediality' - the relationship between various forms of art and new media - including case studies ranging from music, film and architecture to medieval ballads, biopoetry and Lettrism.

Acknowledgements Introduction First Person Reflection: Origins of the Marginal Disposition Of Home and Hearth: Maps, Histories and Territorial Claims The Subject Missing: Erasure and the Reflective Margin Conflation, Contradiction and the Colonised Mind...

"Recent historical scholarship has shown the way towards a geographically capacious conception of the early modern world. Featuring essays by nine leading scholars of early modern Asia and Europe, Comparative Early Modernities casts aside the legacies...

This book relates the dramatic story of the struggle that took place between the Indian press and the British government for control of the Indian public sphere between 1870 and 1910. The contest gave the Indian reading publics their first taste of a...

One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary provides an extended analysis of Ellis's works to argue that his fiction, through the technique of underwriting, offers a new politics of...

Environmentalists today debate whether ecological harmony means we must manage the natural world or appreciate its incomprehensible complexity. This argument has a long history, beginning with Francis Bacon's claim that through science, humanity could...

Why was Henry James drawn to the supernatural and what narrative purpose did his repeated use of the ghostly fulfill? Covering a wide range of James's fiction and non-fiction, distinguished James scholars deal with the complex ways in which James's...

This groundbreaking collection of essays represents Herman Melville as an artist for whom questions of sensation, pleasure, and form cannot be separated from philosophical and political concerns. Contributors offer original and provocative readings that...

Modernist Fiction and News characterizes modernist fiction in terms of its intimate, creative, and experimental relationship with the newly reorganized and rapidly expanding news industry of the early twentieth century. This original study reveals the...

In this interdisciplinary work that ranges from the ancients through the Renaissance to the present, Jonathan Hart examines systems, law, theatre, nature, stereotype, otherness, authority, new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, reading,...

Despite the devastation of combat in WWII, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb, the fiction produced in America in the decade following resolutely avoided the events and their implications. Repression and Realism in Postwar American Literature challenges...

Drawing on Louis Althusser's concept of internal distantiation, Reconstituting Americans reads post-1960s U.S. literature to reveal the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood. This engaging study uses historicist and formalist...

Chomsky and Deconstruction responds to Noam Chomsky's criticisms of deconstructive theorists by exploring the historical dimensions of Chomsky's own philosophy of language. Wise suggests that the Cartesian basis of the linguist's own thought complicates...

Ekphrasis, a genre of poetry describing a work of art, has traditionally existed on the ideological battleground between the verbal and visual arts. Medieval ekphrases, however, reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and show how it works with...

Media Literacy and Semiotics provides helpful tools to guide readers to think critically about the meanings and effects of the media they are exposed to on a daily basis. In this comprehensive book, a basic model of semiotic logic is applied to a variety...

This work explores matrophobia - the fear not of one's mother or of motherhood but of becoming one's mother - in past and present white feminist analyses of motherhood and mothering. By tracing white second wave feminism's strategic choice to organize...

Speaking of Gods in Figure and Narrative analyzes the figurative-narrative creation of gods, their heavenly abodes, and behaviors, reaching back to the beginning of history in Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Persia, and Greece, and continuing through a biblical...

In this ambitious book, Allan H. Pasco closely analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French prose to suggest a comprehensive definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulties. This book permits literary aficionados to...

This book provides a study of the socio-political and cultural climate in Turkey in the aftermath of the Cold War, which resulted in a major voter re-alignment in the Turkish political system in the mid - 1990s. Except for a brief period of coalition...

These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengthening the interdisciplinarity of both. By focusing not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating o

Primo Levi's hold on scholarly, critical and public attention grows with the passing of time. He commands a position of prominence in discourses ranging across the disciplines of Holocaust studies, Jewish studies, Italian literature, politics, history...

Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination argues that exiled and migrant novelists create alternate worlds which teach their readers to construct new, nation-like communities. Taking Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie as model practitioners,...

Despite the explosion of scholarship on Shakespeare in popular culture, too little attention has been paid to the Renaissance itself as an imagined historical period. The English Renaissance in Popular Culture considers popular culture's confrontations...