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Author: Robert Scholes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780300018509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nature and leading exponents of the structuralist movement are considered as well as the structural poetics of fiction and drama
Author: Leonard Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1317898257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Poverty of Structuralism is the first in a sequence of volumes which examine in turn the basic ideas of Saussure, Marx and Freud, and analyse the way in which they have been developed and applied to art, culture and modern textual theory. The text offers a critical introduction to the structuralist foundations of modern literary theory. It gives an account of the way such foundations have been developed, twisted and distorted to become part of the language that contemporary literary and cultural theoreticians use. It also addresses some of the fundamental issues about language and society that are presupposed by the often difficult language of modern literary and cultural theory.
Author: Terence Hawkes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1977-01-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780520034228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This guide discusses the nature and development of structuralism and semiotics, calling for a new critical awareness of the ways in which we communicate and drawing attention to their implications for our society. Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field, thus enacting its own small revolution. Since then a generation of readers has used the book as an entry not only into structuralism and semiotics, but into the wide range of cultural and critical theories underpinned by these approaches." "Structuralism and Semiotics remains the clearest introduction to some of the most important topics in modern critical theory. An afterword and fresh suggestions for further reading ensure that this new edition will become, like its predecessor, the essential starting point for anyone new to the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Edward James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-26
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1107493730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author: John Sturrock
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0470776749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Sturrock’s classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associated with the thought of such key figures as Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan and Althusser theory. A classic work in literary and cultural theory. Reissued to coincide with calls for a return to structuralism. Includes a new introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté, which explores developments in the reception of structuralist theory in the past five to ten years.
Author: David Lodge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780710006585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jean Piaget
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1970-12-03
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780465082384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Culler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-01-06
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1000532348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and remarkably complex theory of poetics and narrative, and while never a populariser he nonetheless makes it crystal clear within these pages.
Author: Jonathan Culler
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2002-02-21
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0191577545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world intelligible. He has a multi-faceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing a theory of literature which gives the reader a creative role. This book describes the many projects, which Barthes explored and which helped to change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena - from literature, fashion, wrestling, and advertising to notions of the self, of history, and of nature. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author: Jurij Striedter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780674536531
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