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American Theorists of the Novel
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 24.95The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work have become part of the fabric of novel criticism today, influencing theorists, authors and readers alike. Emphasizing the crucial relationship between... more...
The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 36.00The representation of the Jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into uniquely sharp focus. more...
Temporality in Life as Seen Through Literature
Springer 2007; US$ 159.99Temporality pervades the existence, and the human being as such. As human beings unfold through ontopoiesis, each move of which punctuates the temporality of life, they, whose life experience, deliberation, planning, and dreaming are permeated by temporal motivations and concerns, feel that they are engaged in the spinning of a common thread. more...
Exotic Parodies
University of Minnesota Press 1995; US$ 75.00This groundbreaking text begins with the premise that postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and Marxism continue to present certain problems with the self/other distinction. It goes on to offer the first extended critique of the work of Gayatri Spivak; challenge the critical reception of Adorno in the American academy; examine Said's... more...
Genealogy and Literature
University of Minnesota Press 1995; US$ 60.00Traditionalists insist that literature transcends culture. Others counter that it is subversive by nature. By challenging both claims, Genealogy and Literature reveals the importance of literature for understanding dominant and often violent power/knowledge relations within a given society. more...
The Poetics of Description
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation. more...
Queer Constellations
University of Minnesota Press 2004; US$ 60.00Queer Constellations investigates the dreams and catastrophes of recent urban history viewed through new queer narratives of inner-city life. Dianne Chisholm introduces readers to new practices of walking, seeing, citing, and remembering the city in works by Neil Bartlett, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Glück, Alan Hollinghurst, Gary Indiana, Eileen Myles,... more...
Narratology beyond Literary Criticism
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 168.00This anthology presents the results of the Second International Colloquium of the Narratology Research Group (Hamburg University). It engages in the exploration of approaches that broaden Narratology's realm. The contributions illustrate the transcendence of traditional models common to Narratology. They also reflect on the relevance of such a 'going... more...
The Implied Author
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 147.00This book addresses itself to the concept of the implied author, which has been the cause of controversy in cultural studies for some fifty years. The opening chapters examine the introduction of the concept in Wayne C. Booth?s ?Rhetoric of Fiction? and the discussion of the concept in narratology and in the theory and practice of interpretation.The... more...
Authorship in Context
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary market-place, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture. more...









