Ideology of Genre

Thomas O. Beebee
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""This is a learned and lively book. It is a scholarly essay that makes for absorbing as well as highly enjoyable reading; it functions as an initiation to modern genre theory while making an important move within that field; it deals with culture hi ...

Modernism and Colonialism : British and Irish Literature, 1899-1939

Richard Begam
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""Modernism and Colonialism" is a terrific book--timely, intelligent, capacious, and a pleasure to read."--Douglas Mao, coeditor of "Bad Modernisms"

"The subject of this collection--the relation between modernism, understood especially in terms of ...

Critical Practice

Catherine Belsey
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With a new chapter, updated guidance on further reading and revisions throughout, this second edition of Critical Practice remains the ideal guide to literary studies.

Critical Practice

Catherine Belsey
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With a new chapter, updated guidance on further reading and revisions throughout, this second edition of Critical Practice remains the ideal guide to literary studies.

Illuminations : Essays and Reflections

Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. "Illuminations "includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Br ...

Reflections : Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

Walter Benjamin
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A companion volume to "Illuminations," the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, "Reflections "presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater ...

Accounts Excuses Apologi : A Theory of Image Restoration Discourse

William L. Benoit
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'This book deals with a form of public discourse that also occurs in everyday interaction: image restoration. When one encounters certain messages (criticism, complaints, accusations, blame, censure, condemnation, rebukes, reproaches, objections) or ...

50 Ways to Understand Communication : A Guided Tour of Key Ideas and Theorists in Communication, Media, and Culture

Arthur Asa Berger
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In 50 Ways to Understand Communication, Arthur Asa Berger familiarizes readers with important concepts written by leading communication and cultural theorists, such as Saussure, LZvi-Strauss, de Certeau, McLuhan, Postman, and many others. Organized i ...

Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis

Emanuel Berman
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Collection of essays featuring contributions from Sigmund Freud, Steven Marcus, Patrick J. Mahony, Donald P. Spence, Otto Rank, Ernest Jones, Ernst Kris, Phyllis Greenacre, Florence Bonime and Marianne H. Eckardt, David Werman, Ellen Handler Spitz, J ...

Mikhail Bakhtin : Between Phenomenology and Marxism

Michael F. Bernard-Donals
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The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric--'dialogism, ' 'Marxism, ' 'prosaics, ' 'authorship'--because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theo ...