Literary theory

India as colourful and vibrant, a land as diverse as its people.

What was a hero in Classical Antiquity?

Asia, the cradle of civilization and culture have had a unique yet important position in the human history on the earth.

Muslim rule in India coincides with what is known as the Middle Ages in Europe.

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The Title 'Encyclopaedia of Manipur, Vol.

The Title Encyclopaedia of Manipur, Vol.

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond is an exploration of psychoanalysis' often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness, as well as its multifaceted heritage.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings.

The authors present a new perspective on a wide range of issues in the study of literature and culture.

The idea that reading literature changes the reader seems as old as literature itself.

In the twentieth century, literature was under threat.

Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it.

The Psychology and Sociology of Literature is a collection of 25 chapters on literature by some of the leading psychologists, sociologists, and literary scholars in the field of the empirical study of literature.

Narrative Intelligence (NI) - the confluence of narrative, Artificial Intelligence, and media studies - studies, models, and supports the human use of narrative to understand the world.

This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.

Narrative - State of the Art which was originally published as a Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 chapters (with a brief introduction by the editor) that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives.

Evaluation is central to literary studies and has led to an impressive list of publications on the status and history of the canon.

Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume.

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association.

Types and stereotypes is the fourth and last volume of a path-breaking multinational literary history that incorporates innovative features relevant to the writing of literary history in general.

Most of the essays collected in this volume deal with theoretical issues that dominate the international debate on Postmodernism, issues such as the shifting nature of the concept, the problem of periodization and the problem of historicity.

Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a ‘rather mystical notion’.

The essays in this two-volume anthology provide the reader with an overview of current Czech, Polish and Hungarian research in language, literature and meaning as well as some new perspectives on the major theoretical contributions of Roman Ingarden, Georg Lukacs and Jan Mukařovsky.

The essays in this two-volume anthology provide the reader with an overview of current Czech, Polish and Hungarian research in language, literature and meaning as well as some new perspectives on the major theoretical contributions of Roman Ingarden, Georg Lukács and Jan Mukařovský.

According to the traditional view, meaning presents itself under the form of some kind of identity.

Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel's form to its socio-cultural context.

In these lectures, delivered at Harvard University in March 1983, the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism are discussed in semiotic terms, based on a contrastive analysis of semantic and syntactical (compositional) features.

The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women's texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in specific forms of identity on the other.

Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse.

Pragmatics and Fiction explores the basic pragmatic differences between fictional and nonfictional discourse.

This is a book about play practice rather than play theory.

A collection of innovative essays representing the most recent developments in poetry as discourse, the discourse of power, and discourse of psychiatry and psychosis.

This volume challenges and extends the definition of right and right-wing discourse as traditionally conceived in male scholarship.

The great diversity of contexts in which the term Postmodernism is currently encountered reflects the remarkable success of a coinage that has been in circulation for only about forty years.

The essays in this volume represent the most recent thinking collected on the problematics of feminism and critical theory, engaging the question of the relationship between these terms and the differences within each in terms of the other.

This work is a critical evaluation of the concepts of convention and innovation as applied in the study of changing literary values, hierarchies and canons.

The papers in this book respond to the public debate over literary canons, in the United States, and elsewhere, by placing the political-ideological aspects of the conflict inside perspectives derived from comparative literature.

This volume is a collection of original contributions in the field of feminist critical theory which reflect upon past practices and suggest new strategies and directions for future work.

Given the fact that there are widely different types of text, it is unlikely that every text is processed in the same way.

Following Peirce in his non-reductive understanding of the theory of signs as a branch of aesthetics, this book reconceptualizes the processes of literary creation, appreciation and reading in semiotic terms.

Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader.

Here is a much needed introductory textbook on empirical research methods for the Humanities.

Deze bundel presenteert interdisciplinair onderzoek rond het thema innovatie.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use.

Literary Studies is currently going through a deep transformation, preparing itself for the launch into the twenty-first century.

Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age.

Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D.