PublishedBaltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
In Applied Grammatology, Gregory Ulmer provides an extraordinary introduction to the third, "applied" phase of grammatology, the "science of writing,"...
This text involves students in understanding and using the tools of critical social and literary theory the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction...
This volume develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding...
In the tradition of E.M. Forster's 'Aspects of the Novel' and Milan Kundera's 'The Art of the Novel', 'How Fiction Works' is a scintillating and searching...
PublishedDurham, [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 1991
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism". Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmodern...
2nd edition. This new edition of Andrew Stott's Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance of comic '...
The new geological epoch we call the Anthropocene is not just a scientific classification. It marks a radical transformation in the background conditions...
The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures,...
Examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. This title shows how early Soviet-era authors exploited traditional...
In This Is Not a Copy, Kaja Marczewska identifies a characteristic `copy-paste' tendency in contemporary culture-a shift in attitude that allows reproduction...