In this book, the first in English devoted exclusively to Maurice Blanchot, John Gregg examines the problematic interaction between the two forms of discourse, critical and fictional, that c ...more on ebook "Maurice Blanchot and the Literature..."

Do the arts mean? Do all the arts mean? Do they all mean in the same way? Does an art work mean in the same way in which a street sign means? More importantly, do all art works mean in a sem ...more on ebook "Art, Culture, and the Semiotics of ..."

A concise survey which will be invaluable to introductory students of literary theory, philosophy, linguistics, feminist studies and post-colonial studies. From the author of Ways of Reading ...more on ebook "Discourse..."

It sounds daunting: all those '-isms', long technical words, weird French thinkers and incomprehensible Germans. You can't read a book nowadays, it seems, without being required to refer to ...more on ebook "Literary Theory - The Pocket Essent..."

The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales ...more on ebook "The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy..."

This book follows all the major turns in intertextuality's history, and explains how intertextuality is employed. It will prove invaluable for any student studying literature and culture. ...more on ebook "Intertextuality..."

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi revisits the argumen ...more on ebook "Consequences of Enlightenment..."

Ihab Hassan pioneered studies of postmodernism as a concept of literary theory and a cultural phenomenon. The essays in this collection present his seminal and provocative reflections on bot ...more on ebook "The Postmodern Turn..."

Maintaining that women's storytelling is a telling activity, Karen McPherson "reads for guilt" in novels by five twentieth-century writers--Simone de Beauvoir (L'Invitée), Marguerite Duras ...more on ebook "Incriminations..."

At a time when even much of the political left seems to believe that transnational capitalism is here to stay, Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies refuses to accept the inevitability ...more on ebook "Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial..."