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Book cover for Wallace L. Chafe: Discourse, Consciousness, and Time

Discourse, Consciousness, and Time : The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing

Wallace L. Chafe
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Wallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on close analyses of conversational speech as well as written fiction and nonfiction, h ...

Book cover for Gilbert D. Chaitin: Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan

Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan

Gilbert D. Chaitin
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This is the first book to explore Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject and historicity. Gilbert Chaitin's lucid and accessible study of this famously complex thinker shows how Lacan moves beyond the tradit ...

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Literary Theory : The Basics

Daniel Chandler
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Part of the successful i Basics /i series, this accessible guide provides the ideal first step in understanding literary theory. Hans Bertens: br * leads students through the major approaches to literature which are signalled by the term 'literary th ...

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Story and Discourse : Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

Seymour Chatman
Paperback - $44.95

Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. 'For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story-whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at ...

Book cover for Joseph Childers: The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism

The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism

Joseph Childers
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More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media s ...

Book cover for Laura Chrisman: Postcolonial Theory and Criticism

Postcolonial Theory and Criticism

Laura Chrisman
Hardcover - $119.95

Contemporary postcolonial studies represent a controversial area of debate. This collection seeks a more pragmatic approach to the subject, taking into account its historical, social and political realities, rather than ignoring a consideration of ma ...

Book cover for Timothy Clark: Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot

Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot

Timothy Clark
Hardcover - $210.95

Jacques Derrida is undoubtedly one of the foremost figures in the development of twentieth-century literary theory. The school of 'deconstruction' that has grown out of his work has been either absorbed into the corpus of modern literary theory or, m ...

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Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot : Sources of Derrida's Notion and Practice of Literature

Timothy Clark
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This book considers Derrida's reading of literature as a form of philosophical thinking.

Book cover for Jay Clayton: The Pleasures of Babel

The Pleasures of Babel : Contemporary American Literature and Theory

Jay Clayton
Paperback - $113.95

This book acquaints the layperson and the expert alike with the creative and intellectual achievements of America's multicultural society.

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Christianity in Bakhtin

Ruth Coates
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This book examines the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of the great Russian theorist Mikhael Bakhtin, paying particular attention to the motifs of God the Creator, the Fall, the Incarnation and Christian love. This is the first full ...

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