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An authoritative bestseller for over fifty years, PERRINE'S LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE continues to be an essential and highly effective ... More

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Richard Harland provides a lucid account of all the major movements in literary theory up to the late 1960s. In a lucid and accessible style, he ... More

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Where does the current explosion in literary theory come from? What earlier theoretical movements does it grow out of, bounce off, react against? ... More

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The traditional western view of writing, from Aristotle down to the present day, has treated the written word as a visual substitute. Eminient Swiss ... More

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Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, ... More

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The perfect alternative to lengthy literature anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of fiction, poetry, and drama provides a concise but ... More

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What is the process by which literature might provide us with access to knowledge, and what sort of knowledge might this be? The question is not ... More

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This study proposes and tests theories involving first the origin and development of the novel, and second what the author has defined as a ... More

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Through a series of short essays, "Readings" traces the consideration given to the act of close reading in literary criticism and theory over the ... More

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How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most ... More

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The linking of psychosomatic to literary and literary to a larger political horizon raises the question of conservative premises to linguistic, ... More

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At the heart of this important new book is the tension between literacy and the open acknowledgement of discrepancies within social and linguistic ... More

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An initial proposition is made that literary theory is divided into two broad, antithetical camps - one where the focus is purely textual, the other ... More

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