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The Dialogic Imagination : Four Essays
M. M. Bakhtin
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These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, i ...
The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship : A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics
M. M. Bakhtin
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Narratology 2/E
Mieke Bal
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Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's "Narratology" has become a classic introduction to the major elements comprising a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition Professor Bal broadens the spectrum of her ...
Beginning Theory : An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Peter Barry
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In this second edition of "Beginning Theory," the variety of approaches, theorists, and technical language is lucidly and expertly unraveled and explained, and allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles have been grasped. Expande ...
Criticism and Truth
Roland Barthes
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When the Sorbonne philologist Raymond Picard launched an attack on Roland Barthes's Sur Racine, a book that drew upon psychoanalysis and structural anthropology, Barthes responded with Critique et Verite. Published in France in 1966, Barthes's reply ...
Empire of Signs
Roland Barthes
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With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.
Image-Music-Text
Roland Barthes
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These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative ...
Mythologies
Roland Barthes
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"["Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, ...
