This collection of personal narratives takes the pulse of the city of Indianapolis through the everyday experiences of its people.
2002-09-13 - Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
"It's the first book which revisits Greek and Latin theories of signs from the point of view of a profound classical scholarship and a paramount knowledge of contemporary semiotics debates."Â -- Umberto Eco Available in English for the ...
1993-03-22 - Giovanni Manetti
This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature.
2007-01 - Joel Kuortti
Written as a tonic to what he calls the debilitating cultural relativism of contemporary literary studies, Fiction Sets You Free advances the innovative argument that literature and capitalism, rather than representing merely ...
2007-09-01 - Russell A. Berman
As a hero of the modernist literary revolution, Ford Madox Ford is a fascinating figure of the early 20th century. Haslam explores continuity and crisis in artistic life during the early 20th century through a study of Ford's work and life.
2002 - Sara Haslam
Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the "life of signs in society" by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce.
1994-06-22 - Richard J. Parmentier
In this text Bruns investigates the recent phenomenon of philosophers taking an interest in literature and literary theory.
1999-07-21 - Gerald L. Bruns
This new collection updates, integrates, and contextualizes Richard Sheppard's essays on the historical avant-garde. Sheppard examines responses of modernist writers, artists, and philosophers to a changed sense of reality and human nature.
2000 - Richard Sheppard
The book explores the scriptlessness of Neanderthals in William Golding, of barbarians in Angela Carter, David Malouf, and J.M. Coetzee, of African natives in Joseph Conrad and Chinua Achebe, of Maoris in Patricia Grace and Chippewas in ...
2007-01 - Helga Ramsey-Kurz
This volume departs from a more static concept of identity politics to engage the varied and entangled processes of ethnic/racial, national, and gender identifications in a range of contemporary US ethnic texts (from the mid-1960s to the ...
2007-01 - Jelena Šesnić
The book includes topics such as pet cloning, fox hunting, animatronic characters, and how we displace our fear of aging onto our dogs.
2002-11-28 - Nigel Rothfels
Taken together the essays provide a tour of the complexities and richness of contemporary modes of critique.
2001 - Steve Martinot
As the first book devoted to a serious critical study of Smith's poetry, Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, poetry and the culture of gender will appeal to professional scholars and students alike."--Jacket.
2003 - Jacqueline M. Labbe
Moreover, because it represents previously unpublished primary sources, the collection will initiate new discussions on race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender with an eye to writing at the turn of the twentieth century.
2006-06-15 - Jennifer Cognard-Black
From reviews for the bestselling Danish edition: "... dashing and idiomatic language that is a pleasure to read.
1997-02-22 - Jesper Hoffmeyer
The book concludes by addressing the underlying thesis that contemporary life writing might provide just the 'postmodern maps' that could help not only literary scholars, but also geographers, better understand the world today.
2007-01 - Elizabeth Houston Jones
The goal of this book is to overcome some of the widespread misunderstandings about the meaning of a Darwinian approach to the human mind generally, and literature specifically.
2005-12-26 - Jonathan Gottschall
"This is essential reading for anyone who wants to find common ground between the best of American semiotics and better-known European theories.
2001-03-22 - Gerard Deledalle
In a modest way this book might contribute to what Ted Hughes, speaking of the imagination of each new child, described as “nature's chance to correct culture's error”.
2007-01 - Fiona Becket
Embodied Texts: Symbolist Playwright-Dancer Collaborationsexplores the dynamic relationship between Symbolist theatre and early modern dance across Europe from the 1890s through the 1930s.
2007-01 - Mary Fleischer