Literary theory Books
Yale University Press What Ever Happened to Modernism
Book SynopsisCharts some of Modernism's key stages, from Durer, Rabelais, and Cervantes to the present, bringing together an array of artists, musicians, and writers - including Beckett, Borges, Friedrich, Cezanne, Stevens, Robbe-Grillet, Beethoven, and Wordsworth.Trade Review"'This short, fierce book is clearly very personal... Nevertheless, I enjoyed the sinuousness and vigour of Josipovici's arguments.' (Sam Leith, Sunday Times) 'What can't be faulted is the plaintive logic running through this book. In cultural terms, we live in deeply conservative times... Yet can anyone, now, name the successful middlebrow writer of 1922 or 1915? Of course not. That alone should give Josipovici comfort.' (Tom McCarthy, The Guardian) 'Josipovici's erudite and intelligent polemic raises more questions than it answers - always a good thing.' (Tom McCarthy, Daily Telegraph) 'Now in his seventies, he is formidably cultivated... Not that he condescends. Josipovici carries his learning lightly and the meditations on Modernism which make up the body of the book are instructive and accessible... This is a book... one can't help rather enjoying.' (John Sutherland, Literary Review) '... a welcome intervention in the long debate about the difference between art and entertainment.' (James Purdon, The Observer) 'His book is similarly eloquent, besides being, in its task of charting modernism's uniqueness, ingenious, unexpected, astute and insightful. It's also - because of its passion and intelligence - readable, in a way a modernist would approve of...' (Amit Chaudhuri, The Independent) 'Entertaining as his assault is, this is a more challenging and ambitious book than simply a jeremiad on the contemporary cultural climate.' (Ronan McDonald, The London Magazine)"
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Double in NineteenthCentury Fiction Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society
Book SynopsisDuality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs.Table of ContentsPreface - The Psychological and Theological Background - The Emergence and Development of the Double Theme - Terror, Pursuit and Shadows - E.T.A. Hoffmann - James Hogg - Edgar Allan Poe - The Russian Double - The Double in Decline - Into Psychology - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Salvaging Spenser Colonialism Culture and Identity Language Discourse Society
Book SynopsisSalvaging Spenser is a major new work of literary revision which places Edmund Spenser's corpus, from The Shepheardes Calender to A View of the Present State of Ireland, within an elaborate cultural and political context.Table of ContentsPreface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Salvaging Spenser - 'Who knowes not Colin Clout?': The Shepheardes Calender as Colonial Text - Spenser's Irish English: Language and Identity in Early Modern Ireland - Varieties of Englishness: Planting a New Culture Beyond the Pale - 'Who knowes not Arlo-hill?': Changing Places in The Faerie Queene - 'And nought but presed gras where she had Iyen': Royal Absenteeism and Viceregal Verses - How Milton and Some Contemporaries read the View - The View from Scotland: Combing the Celtic Fringe - Spensership: a Judicial Review - Select Bibliography: Spenser and Ireland - Notes - Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Posthumanism Readers in Cultural Criticism
Book SynopsisNEIL BADMINGTON is a Lecturer at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Virginia Woolf Interpreting the Modernist Text
Book SynopsisThis volume covers a wide range of editorial confrontations with Virginia Woolf's writings, touching on almost every genre in which she wrote: fiction, diary, letter, biography.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Works Commonly Cited Introduction: Editing and Interpreting the Texts of Virginia Woolf; J.H.Stape & J.M.Haule Editing Virginia Woolf's Diary; A.O.Bell The Editor as Ethicist; J.T.Banks The Writing of A Room of One's Own ; S.P.Rosenbaum 'Women Must Weep': the Serialization of Three Guineas ; N.Black The Texture of the Text: Editing Roger Fry: A Biography ; D.F.Gillespie A Book she Never Made: Editing The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf ; S.Dick Text and Counter Text: Trying to Recover Mrs Dalloway ; M.Beja The Alfa and the Avant-texte : Transcribing the Jacob's Room Manuscript; E.Bishop The Changing Shape(s) of Orlando and the Myth of Authorial Control; J.H. Stape Version and Intention in the Novels of Virginia Woolf; J.M.Haule Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Julia Kristeva and Literary Theory Transitions
Book SynopsisMEGAN BECKER-LECKRONE is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, where she teaches literary theory and nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Helene Cixous
Book SynopsisABIGAIL BRAY is Honorary Research Fellow at Murdoch University. She has published articles on feminist theory and philosophy.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Literary Terms and Criticism
Book SynopsisJOHN PECK and MARTIN COYLE are Senior Lecturers in English at Cardiff University. They are the General Editors of the New Casebooks series, and the Palgrave Critical Issues series.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory
Book SynopsisJeremy Hawthorn is a professor of Modern British Literature at Norwegian University of Technology, Trondheim. His other works include Travel as Incarceration: Jean Rhys's After Leaving Mr Mackenzie; Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism. Palgrave, 2008.Trade Review'The clean, supple writing highlights the difficulty and contested nature of terms, some of which assiduously elude lexical clarification. Doubly helpful because it both defines terms and advises on next-step reading, Hawthorn is more comprehensive than 'The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism',...and complements M.H. Abrams' 'A Glossary of Literary Terms'.' Choice 'I have used the 'Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory' in my upper level literature courses at the University of Houston-Downtown for several years. My students find it invaluable and less confusing than other texts of the some type ... covers all the important literary terms with a thorough and engaging approach.' Gillian Hanson, Amazon.com
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reproductions of Reproduction
Book SynopsisReproductions of Reproduction is about the loss of the paternal metaphor and how the ensuing scramble to relocate it has set off a series of representational crises. Examining the sudden popularity of such figures as cyborgs, bodybuilders, and vampires; shifts in legislation about abortion, paternity and copyright; the transition to a digital-based society; the emergence of lesbian and gay studies; the growing infatuation with hyper-realistic patterns in television, this book argues that each of these manifestations represents an attempt to resituate the paternal metaphor. While this shift affects our understandings of everything from narratives to law to time, it also suggests a point of potential political intervention, allowing us to identify the full implications of these changes.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1a REPRODUCTIVE PREHISTORIES; Chapter 2 THE END OF POP; Chapter 3 LAW IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION; Chapter 4 UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION; Chapter 5 DIGITAL DAD;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Fiction of Bioethics Reflective Bioethics
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Taylor & Francis Time and the Literary Essays from the English Institute
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Penguin Publishing Group The Art of Nonfiction A Guide for Writers and Readers
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce Cambridge
Book SynopsisThis second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.Trade Review'These essays offer introductions to numerous ways of locating Joyce in the wider world of theory and ideas, and are useful springboards back into the works themselves … reading adding another layer to our understanding of the man and the work.' The Irish TimesTable of ContentsPreface; Contributors; Chronology of Joyce's life; 1. Reading Joyce Derek Attridge; 2. Joyce the Irishman Seamus Deane; 3. Joyce the Parisian Jean-Michel Rabaté; 4. Joyce the Modernist Christopher Butler; 5. Dubliners Garry Leonard; 6. Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: transforming the nightmare of history John Paul Riquelme; 7. Ulysses Jennifer Levine; 8. Finnegans Wake Margot Norris; 9. Joyce's shorter works Vicki Mahaffey; 10. Joyce and feminism Jeri Johnson; 11. Joyce and sexuality Joseph Valente; 12. Joyce and consumer culture Jennifer Wicke; 13. Joyce, colonialism and nationalism Marjorie Howes; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearean and Jacobean Tragedy Cambridge Contexts in Literature
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Cambridge University Press TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH DRAMA BY SMART JOHNAUTHORPAPERBACK
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
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Mariner Books Classics Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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iUniverse A Book Worth Reading
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Punctum Books Intimate Bureaucracies A Manifesto
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Punctum Books Traffic Jams Analysing Everyday Life Through the Immanent Materialism of Deleuze Guattari
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Random House USA Inc Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison
Book SynopsisA brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
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Pluto Press How to Read Barthes ImageMusicText
Book SynopsisAn accessible guide to Barthes' most widely taught workTrade Review'A triumph of exposition and illustration, be it in narrative analysis, visual theory, cultural studies, or textual essayism' -- Andy Stafford, Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of LeedsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Photographic Message 2. The Rhetoric of the Image 3. The Third Meaning 4. Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein 5. Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative 6. The Struggle with the Angel 7. The Death of the Author 8. Musica Practica 9. From Work to Text 10. Change the Object Itself 11. Lesson in Writing 12. The Grain of the Voice 13. Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers Index
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Polity Press Walter Benjamin Critical Constellations
Book SynopsisThe works of Walter Benjamin (1892--1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth--century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines.Trade Review"This is an excellent introduction to Benjamin's thought, written with great clarity and richly located within his biography. Gilloch's focus upon Benjamin's reconstruction of the 'afterlife' of things enables him to reveal new interconnections and interpretive trajectories within Benjamin's themes and texts, whether they be his writings on language, literature, the city, the new media or the Arcades Project. A most welcome addition to Polity's series on contemporary thinkers." David Frisby, University of Glasgow "A fine text to accompany a firsthand reading of Benjamin, such reading is necessary to understand the thinker critiqued here." Library Journal "The book highlights some major motifs of Benjamin's work and will probably be of interest, above all, to students of media and related aspects of social history or theory" Brendan Moran, Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Abbreviations x Introduction: Benjamin as a Key Contemporary Thinker 1 1 Immanent Criticism and Exemplary Critique 27 2 Allegory and Melancholy 57 3 From Cityscape to Dreamworld 88 4 Paris and the Arcades 113 5 Culture and Critique in Crisis 140 6 Benjamin On-Air, Benjamin on Aura 163 7 Love at Last Sight 198 Conclusion: Towards a Contemporary Constellation 234 Notes 249 Bibliography 289 Index 298
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Polity Press Psychoanalytic Criticism
Book SynopsisWhat is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide--ranging introduction to psychoanalytic criticism from Freud to the present day.Trade Review"In this new edition of her indispensable Psychoanalytic Criticism, Elizabeth Wright not only brings the story up to date by sketching the major developments of the last fifteen years but prepares psychoanalysis and its readers for the centenary of the movement in the year 2000. Wright asks all the key questions about psychoanalysis as an instrument of cultural criticism, explores the whole range of schools and tendencies and is unfailingly alert and judicious in her own critical judgements. Her book helps us to grasp the essential paradox of psychoanalysis today: the more insistently it is exposed to attack, the more profound and provocative its central insights seem." Malcolm Bowie, All Souls College, University of Oxford "Elizabeth Wright's Psychoanalytic Criticism is the only place I know where two vital discourses, psychoanalysis and literary criticism, can achieve more than a passing acquaintance with each other. Professor Wright's central concern, the problematic relation of art to psychoanalysis, shapes the confrontations she carefully stages between the various Freudian and post-Freudian theories and their literary-critical counterparts. The new chapters that include contemporary work by Zizek, feminists, and the new Lacanians maintain this book as crucially relevant." Juliet Flower MacCannell, The University of California "Psychoanalytic Criticism provided a judicious and indispensable guide to this often bewildering and complex field of literary studies ... This second and updated edition, therefore, is to be welcomed. Wright has not just reissued the book but has used the opportunity to take stock of the field and reappraise the current state of play in psychoanalytic studies." Psychoanalytic Studies 'One cannot but admire its breadth and energy.' Psychoanalysis, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Part One. . 1. Classical Psychoanalysis: Freud. 2. Classical Freudian Criticism: Id-Psychology. 3. Post-Freudian Criticism: Ego-Psychology. 4. Archetypal Criticism: Jung and the Collective Unconscious. Part Two. 5. Object-Relations Theory: Self and Other. Part Three. . 6. Structural Psychoanalysis: Psyche as Text. 7. Post-structural Psychoanalysis: Text as Psyche. Part Four. . 8. Psychoanalysis and Ideology I: Focus on Subversion. 9. Psychoanalysis and Ideology II: Focus on Dialectic. Part Five. 10. Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism. Conclusion. References. Further Reading. Index.
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Prospecting From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology
Book SynopsisWhy do we need literature and what does this need tell us about human nature? Iser shows how these questions come from his work on reader-response criticism and that the answers may lie in the new field of literary anthropology. He relates theoretical issues to analyses of individual works.Trade ReviewAn important transitional book, usefully summarizing the past and thoughtfully mapping out the future of a significant critic's theoretical project. Modern Philology There is a much greater emphasis on the reader's function as 'performer' of the text in Prospecting than in Iser's other books. The two brilliant chapters on Beckett's fiction and drama are crucial here... Literature becomes 'play' and 'game,' and the reader becomes a performer of himself. This idea of performance becomes central to Iser's new theory. Art does not present life; it performs it. Yearbook of English Studies.
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Is Literary History Possible
Book SynopsisThis text is a study of the thinking which underlies recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories - most of them contemporary works - Perkins elaborates on fundamental problems that arise in the writing of literary history.Trade ReviewIs Literzry History Possible? is a book you must read. It is pleasure to be able to that the duty is made enjoyable by the clarity of though and expression. When Perkins concisely explains how literary history in also literary criticism but is different from what we usually call history, and why it is both a complex and and worthwhile pursuit, more than antiquarian interest in a 'aesthetic spectacle', anyone can see that most writers on such a topic would have had more words, fewer ideas, and less effect. What more can one ask for than lucid learining on a topic of major importance? Biblioteque d'Humanisme et Renaissance The highest achievement of Perkin's book comes in the clarity he brings to the contestation, the dignified, serious, judicious, and generous rationality he bestows on the subject. He acknowledges the damaging confusion bedeviling humanities at the moment without enlarging it, and goes a long way in this book to showing a way out of the worst excesses the contestation has engendered. -- Theoharis Constantine Theoharis Harvard Review Perkins writes clearly and concisely. Like Rene Wellek and M. H. Abrams, he has an admirable gift for making clear the underlying assumptions of many different writers. Comparative Literature.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin
Book SynopsisMysticism, Connor argues, lies at the heart of Bataille's double identity as an intellectual and as a kind of anarchic prophet.Trade ReviewThis book will contribute to the study of ethics by opening up a new field of writing, Bataille's mystical writings, for study. Virginia Quarterly Review Peter Tracey Connor's Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin is three books in one: a sure-footed analysis of Bataille's notion of 'inner experience' and its distinction from experiences of mystical transport, an equally astute appraisal of a central conception of language, morality, and politics for contemporary critical thought, and a vivid implied history of the reasons why literary theory is practiced and resisted today... an elegant and concise book... indispensable for a wide range of scholars in the fields of religious studies, French studies, and art history. -- Ulrich Baer MLN Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin does a commendable job of demonstrating the extent to which Bataille's Sadean corpus remains indebted to Christian mystics such as Meister Eckert and Jakob Boehme. -- Richard Wolin Bookforum 2004 A careful study of Bataillean 'inner experience' and a sensitive anaylsis of the ways in which the ecstatic experiences Bataille describes inflect the author's style, his political engagements, and his ethical convictions. -- Milo Sweedler French Review 2005
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Basil Bunting on Poetry
Book SynopsisThroughout, editor Peter Makin expands upon and annotates the lectures with additional comments drawn from Bunting's writings.Trade ReviewMakin has edited these lectures conservatively and sensitively: the speaking voice, with all its asides and modest caveats, has not been excised. With publications as useful and thorough as this, Bunting may yet secure his deserved place on the teaching syllabus of twentieth-century British poetry. Forum for Modern Language Studies There are many interesting essays here, and all conspire to make one of the most sustained poetic arguments for poetry as a form of music than any I know... Professor Makin and Johns Hopkins have done a valued service in bringing Bunting's readable and provocative prose writings to print. Oyster Boy Review Carefully and unpedantically edited with scrupulous notes... The book is a fine tribute to Bunting in his centenary year. -- David Latane American Book Review
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University of Toronto Press Essays on Life Writing
Book SynopsisLife writing is the most flexible and open term available for autobiographical fragments and other kinds of autobiographical-seeming texts. It includes the conventional genres of autobiography, journals, memoirs, letters, testimonies, and metafiction, and in earlier definitions it included biography. It is a way of seeing literary and other texts that neither objectifies nor subjectifies the nature of a particular cultural truth.Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars, most of whom are women engaged in larger projects in life writing or in archival research. In the more practical pieces the author has discerned a pattern in autobiographical text, or subtext, that has come to revolutionize the life, the critic’s approach, or the discipline itself. In the theoretical pieces, authors make cogent proposals to view a body of literature in a new way, often in order to in
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Penguin Random House LLC Voice Lessons On Becoming a Woman Writer
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Mythologies The Complete Edition in a New
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The Borgo Press Glorious Perversity Decline and Fall of Literary Decadence 35 IOEvans Studies in the Philosophy Criticism of Literature
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Scarecrow Press The Pedagogy of Adaptation
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays focuses on numerous contexts to emphasize why film adaptations matter to students of literature. Written by specialists in a variety of fields, ranging from film, radio, theater, and even language studies, it is the first such volume devoted exclusively to teaching adaptations from a practical, teacher-centered angle.Trade ReviewA superb resource for teachers....Practical and theoretically aware; will be of service to those who teach courses that involve screen adaptation. Recommended. * CHOICE *
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Ohio State University Press Archive Feelings
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Ohio State University Press Digital Fiction and the Unnatural
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Ohio State University Press Audionarratology
Book SynopsisRadio drama has been around for more than one hundred years and is still vibrant in many countries. A narrative-dramatic genre and art form in its own right, radio drama has traditionally crossed medial and generic boundaries and continues to do so in our age of digitization. Audionarratology: Lessons from Audio Drama, edited by Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, explores radio drama from a narratological angle. The contributions cover key questions surrounding audiophonic meaning-making, storyworld creation, mediation, focalization, suspense, unreliability, and ambiguity as well as the relationship between script and performance, seriality, antinarrative tendencies, and radio drama''s political implications now and in its early days. The book thus explores the interplay between sound, voices, music, language, silence, electroacoustic manipulation, and narrative structures. Providing examples from American, Australian, British, Dutch, and German radio drama-such as&nb
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Ohio State University Press Shadows of the Enlightenment
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Ohio State University Press Fictionality and Literature
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Ohio State University Press Narrative in the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisIn Narrative in the Anthropocene, Erin James poses two complementary questions: What can narrative teach us about our current geological epoch, defined and marked by the irrevocable activity of humans on the Earth''s geology and ecosystems? and What can our current geological epoch teach us about narrative? Drawing from a wide range of sources-including Jane Austen''s Mansfield Park, Maria Popova''s collective biography Figuring, Richard McGuire''s graphic novel Here, Indigenous and Afrofuturist speculative fiction, and more-James argues that a richer understanding of the forms and functions of narrative in the Anthropocene provides us with invaluable insight into how stories shape our world. At the same time, she contends that the Anthropocene alters the very nature of narrative. Throughout her exploration of these themes, James lays the groundwork for an Anthropocene narrative theory, introducing new modes of reading narrative in the Anthropocene; new cate
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Ohio State University Press A New Anatomy of Storyworlds
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Ohio State University Press Other Lovings
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Ohio State University Press The Story of Fictional Truth
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Ohio State University Press Never on Time Always in Time
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Ohio State University Press Why We Read Fiction Theory of the Mind and the
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Ohio State University Press Experiencing Fiction
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