Art as opposed to Reality, Beauty as opposed to Ugliness, Construction as opposed to Deconstruction, War as opposed to Peace, Men as opposed to Women, Progress as opposed to Regression, Imagination as opposed to Common Sensical jarring, Stability as opposed to Chaos, Betrayal as opposed to Loyalty.
Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict.
Virtue, as used here, connotes integrity--that living force that issues from persons, societies, or texts in consequence of their accomplishing their distinctive ends.
This succinct and lucid study examines the thought of the philosopher Charles Peirce as it applies to literary theory and shows that his concept of the sign can give us a fresh understanding of literary art and criticism.
"e;The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old.
Building on recent transformative theories of influence, John Foster explores the many ways Nietzsche's intellectual and artistic example helped shape an interconnected series of major literary projects from 1900 to the 1940s.
Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillen proposes a structural approach to literary history.
Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts.
This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox, the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts, the conflict between law and equity in Antigone and The Merchant of Venice, the eighteenth-century codification controversy in the works of Kleist, the modern debate between "e;pure"e; and "e;free"e; law in Kafka's The Trial and other fin-de-siecle works, and the effects of totalitarianism, the theory of universal guilt, and anarchism in the twentieth century.
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents.
Espiritu de la letra, de Jose Ortega y Gasset, pensador fundacional de la modernidad espanola, reune sus mejores resenas y ensayos literarios, donde demuestra que la critica literaria es, ante todo, un ejercicio de filosofia aplicada a la vida.
'Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy' SpectatorHere are nineteen glittery new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents.
Why literary studies must confront digital mediationWe live and research in a technologically mediated landscape in which old models of reading and researchingmethods that presume an autonomous, single scholar gathering resources and making claimsno longer hold.
Why literary studies must confront digital mediationWe live and research in a technologically mediated landscape in which old models of reading and researchingmethods that presume an autonomous, single scholar gathering resources and making claimsno longer hold.
A NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW SCIENCE BOOK MAY 2026'This view from the other side of the search box is both charming and insightful, tapping into a deep well of curiosity.
ONE MOTHER'S TRUE STORY OF LOVE, LOSS & THE FIGHT TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURES IN THE DIGITAL AGE - NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK'An urgent clarion call' Smartphone Free Childhood'Remarkable.
An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
HarperCollins is proud to present this surreal collection of short stories including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' by the beloved author of The Great Gatsby from our range of timeless literary classics.
OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATUREAmal is driving his wife Claud from London to her parents' country house.
HarperCollins is proud to present this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age by the beloved author of The Great Gatsby from our range of timeless literary classics.
