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Procedimientos miméticos y antimiméticos en obras del "post-boom"
Georg Olms Verlag 2011; US$ 32.34Hauptbeschreibung Broschur: ISBN 978-3-487-14629-4 (Hildesheim 2011). ? 58,- Inhaltsverzeichnis Daniel Blaustein se ha doctorado en la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, en donde enseña e investiga como miembro del Departamento de Estudios Románicos y Latinoamericanos. Es docente de Literatura, además, en la Universidad de Tel Aviv. Ha publicado... more...
Text to Reader
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 149.00Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel?s form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser?s reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman?s frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain conventional expectations with regard to a novel, and then goes on to examine... more...
Der europäische Roman
De Gruyter 1991; US$ 126.00Der Europ Ische Roman: Geschichte Seiner Poetik. more...
Ends of Enlightenment
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 25.95Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European Enlightenment was a state of being, a personal stance, and an orientation to the world. Ways of probing experience... more...
Realism/Anti-Realism in 20th-Century Literature
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 63.45Modernist literature and art have been dominated by a disinterest in mere empirical and social reality and a discontent with habitualized perception and the world-view of convention, reason, and pragmatism. This anti-realistic attitude originated in the e more...
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary , Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White . The book continues with a consideration of the novel... more...
Five Fictions in Search of Truth
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 31.95Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth , Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes Proust's famous search for lost memory as the exemplary... more...
Narratives of the European Border
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00Richard Robinson examines the representation of shifting European borders in twentieth-century narrative, drawing together an unusual grouping of texts from different national canons and comparing the various ways that fictional settings transmute European placelessness into narrative. more...
Twentieth-Century Fiction
Routledge 1995; US$ 52.95By applying recent trends in literary and linguistic theory to a range of 20th Century fiction, the contributors make new theoretical insights accessible to student readers. An essential introduction to the subject. more...
A Poetics of Postmodernism
Taylor and Francis 1988; US$ 41.95Neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues Hutcheon's previous projects in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension. more...









