Author: Jonathan Culler File Type: pdf What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These questions and more are addressed in Literary Theory A Very Short Introduction, a book which steers a clear path through a subject which is often perceived to be complex and impenetrable.Jonathan Culler, an extremely lucid commentator and much admired in the field of literary theory, offers discerning insights into such theories as the nature of language and meaning, and whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience. Concise yet thorough, Literary Theory also outlines the ideas behind a number of different schools deconstruction, semiotics, postcolonial theory, and structuralism, among others.From topics such as literature and social identity to poetry, poetics, and rhetoric, Literary Theory A Very Short Introduction is a welcome guide for anyone interested in the importance of literature and the debates surrounding it.About the Series Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of lifes most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.Review`It is impossible to imagine a clearer treatment of the subject, or one that is, within the given limits of length, more comprehensive. Culler has always been remarkable for his expository skills, and here he has found exactly the right method and tone for his purposes. Sir Frank Kermode About the AuthorJonathan Culler is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and a leading figure in the world of literary theory. Praised by Frank Kermode for his remarkable expository skills, his publications include seminal works on deconstruction and semiology as well as studies of individual authors. What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this new edition of his highly popular Very Short Introduction. Culler, an extremely lucid commentator and much admired in the field of literary theory, uses easy-to-grasp examples as he outlines the ideas behind schools of criticism that can otherwise be quite daunting, such as deconstruction, semiotics, and postcolonial theory. He explains theory not by describing warring schools but by sketching key moves that theory has encouraged, and by speaking directly about the implications of theory for thinking about literature, human identity, and the power of language. In this Second Edition, Culler includes much new material, including a discussion of the death of theory, a look at topics such as trauma theory, ecocriticism, and the link between the theory of narrative and cognitive science, plus a new chapter on Ethics and Aesthetics. The book also includes updated bibliographies. Shedding light on everything from literature and social identity, to poetry, poetics, and rhetoric, Literary Theory is a welcome guide for all lovers of literature.About the Series Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of lifes most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.ReviewReview from previous edition It is impossible to imagine a clearer treatment of the subject, or one that is, within the given limits of length, more comprehensive. Culler has always been remarkable for his expository skills, and here he has found exactly the right method and tone for his purposes. --Sir Frank KermodeA must read for all literature students. --Bookwise 24032006 About the AuthorJonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is past president of the American Comparative Literature Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These questions and more are addressed in Literary Theory A Very Short Introduction, a book which steers a clear path through a subject which is often perceived to be complex and impenetrable.Jonathan Culler, an extremely lucid commentator and much admired in the field of literary theory, offers discerning insights into such theories as the nature of language and meaning, and whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience. Concise yet thorough, Literary Theory also outlines the ideas behind a number of different schools deconstruction, semiotics, postcolonial theory, and structuralism, among others.From topics such as literature and social identity to poetry, poetics, and rhetoric, Literary Theory A Very Short Introduction is a welcome guide for anyone interested in the importance of literature and the debates surrounding it.About the Series Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of lifes most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.Review`It is impossible to imagine a clearer treatment of the subject, or one that is, within the given limits of length, more comprehensive. Culler has always been remarkable for his expository skills, and here he has found exactly the right method and tone for his purposes. Sir Frank Kermode About the AuthorJonathan Culler is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and a leading figure in the world of literary theory. Praised by Frank Kermode for his remarkable expository skills, his publications include seminal works on deconstruction and semiology as well as studies of individual authors.

Author: Bernhard Klein File Type: pdf Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, and idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space. Combining cartographic history with crucial cultural studies and literary analysis, this book examines the construction of social and political space in maps, in cosmography and geography, in historical and political writing, and in he literary works of Marlowe. Shakespeare, Spenser, and Drayton.Review...fascinating reading...--Steve Hindle, Albion...this book offers a fine account of the current state of English cartographic and chorographic studies as well as useful close readings of maps... Renaissance QuarterlyAbout the AuthorBernhard Klein is Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Dortmund.

Author: Joan Naviyuk Kane File Type: pdf Milk Black Carbon works against the narratives of dispossession and survival that mark the contemporary experience of many indigenous people, and Inuit in particular. In this collection, autobiographical details motherhood, marriage, extended family and its geographical context in the rapidly changing arctic negotiate arbitrary landscapes of our perplexing frontiers through fragmentation and interpretation of conventional lyric expectations. **Review Milk Black Carbon is at once a brilliant work of lyric art and a decoding of knowledges written in the dark cursive of a wolf circling on sea ice. Kanes is a vertiginous sensibility, chiseled into language in a precarious time, as the rising seas rephrase us. She writes in English and Inupiaq Eskimo, toward a horizon of radical futurity, against nostalgia, with awareness that there is no turning back. This is a twenty-first-century poetry, urgent, necessary, and of its time. Carolyn Forche The black ink of a strong, strong hand. A rare and real word-world, mind-muscled into serious relief, stopped into dream and meaning. Olena Kalytiak Davis About the Author Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author ofThe Cormorant Hunters Wife, Hyperboreal, andThe Straits. Her awards include the Whiting Writers Award, the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry,the American Book Award, the Alaska Literary Award, and fellowships from the Rasmuson Foundation, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and the School for Advanced Research. Kane is a faculty mentor in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is Inupiaq, with family from King Island and Marys Igloo, and lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

Author: Paul Young File Type: pdf This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition.ReviewYoungs thought-provoking study succeeds in capturing the frictions, discontinuities and negotiations between one of the exhibitions abstract grand narratives and the plurality of competing narratives which the heterogeneous material culture of the display inspired. - ZAA About the AuthorPAUL YOUNG is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition. **