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  • Literary Theory For Beginners

    de Mary Klages ...
    Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren't really sure what they mean? Have you taken a whole course on literary criticism but are still feeling lost? Here's the book you need to sort it all out—and enjoy doing so!In Literary Theory For Beginners Mary Klages takes you into her classroom cuts through the jargon and explains the ABCs (and the DEFs as well) ... Leer más

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  • Literary Theory: The Complete Guide

    de Mary Klages ...
    Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering world of literary theory for the first time.Literary Theory: The Complete Guide includes:· ... Leer más

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  • Key Terms in Literary Theory

    de Mary Klages ...
    Series series Key Terms
    Students of literature, film and cultural studies need to understand key theoretical terms and concepts but often find it hard to get to grips with exactly what they mean. This book provides precise definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements and figures in literary and cultural theory and an extensive bibliography. It is designed for the ... Leer más

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  • Against World Literature

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    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Leer más

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  • Ted Hughes and Trauma

    Burning the Foxes

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work. As an undergraduate, Hughes was visited in his sleep by a burnt fox/man who left a bloody handprint on his essay, warning him of the dangers of literary criticism. Hereafter, criticism became ... Leer más

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  • Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures

    Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, or linguistic - has become such ... Leer más

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  • The End of the World

    Contemporary Philosophy and Art

    Series series Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
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    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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  • Kipling's Children's Literature

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  • Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell

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