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Applied grammatology: post(e)-pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys
eBook. English.
Published
Baltimore, 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,"...
The theory toolbox: critical concepts for the humanities, arts, and social sciences
eBook. English.
Published
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2012]
Second edition
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...
Towards a poetics of literary biography
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
This volume develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding...
How fiction works
eBook. English.
Published
London: Vintage, 2009
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...
Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism
eBook. English.
Published
Durham, [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...
Comedy
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2014
Second edition
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 '...
Deep time, dark times
eBook. English.
Published
New York: Fordham University Press, 2018
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: comedic performance from the 1950s to the present
eBook. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures,...
This is not a copy: writing at the iterative turn
eBook. English.
Published
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
In This Is Not a Copy, Kaja Marczewska identifies a characteristic `copy-paste' tendency in contemporary culture-a shift in attitude that allows reproduction...
Stalin's ghosts: Gothic themes in early Soviet literature
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Peter Lang, [2012]
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...
