*Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize* A fascinating exploration of the linkages between ancestral inheritance, diasporic belonging, and our climate future.
A profoundly original, ambitious and globally minded writer Rebecca Tam s, Guardian'A writer of serious intellectual depth' Jay BernardFor over half a century, Jay Wright s poetry has been celebrated for its alertness to the multiplicity of human experience and identity.
A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer's House of Fame, Sheila Delany's elegant and innovative study of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women explores what it meant to be a reader and a writer, and to be English and a courtier, in the late fourteenth century.
From the Foreword These pieces are selections from work done in the Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of assembling them under the title, "e;While Everything Flows.
From the Foreword These pieces are selections from work done in the Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of assembling them under the title, "e;While Everything Flows.
A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer's House of Fame, Sheila Delany's elegant and innovative study of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women explores what it meant to be a reader and a writer, and to be English and a courtier, in the late fourteenth century.
The role of nineteenth-century French literature in a distinctively modern political movement When Parisian workers took to the streets in February 1848, they adopted the rallying cry of droit au travail (the right to work).
The role of nineteenth-century French literature in a distinctively modern political movement When Parisian workers took to the streets in February 1848, they adopted the rallying cry of droit au travail (the right to work).
Once Upon a Time is a collection of essays in the philosophy of literature with two central themes: the significance of story -telling for us and the question of whether the novel, perhaps the art form most closely associated with story-telling, is a legitimate source of human knowledge.
From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources.
The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendantsIn 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica.
Once Upon a Time is a collection of essays in the philosophy of literature with two central themes: the significance of story -telling for us and the question of whether the novel, perhaps the art form most closely associated with story-telling, is a legitimate source of human knowledge.
From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources.
El auge de la produccion y consumo de series de television ha incitado a que las conversaciones cotidianas sobre el ocio de asistir a estos formatos vaya mas alla y alcance los escenarios academicos para el entendimiento de como estas ficciones dialogan con las realidades sociales.
El Doctorado Interinstitucional en Educacion (DIE), sede Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, presenta en esta ocasion un conjunto de capitulos en los que sus autores reflexionan sobre el lenguaje como fenomeno cultural y su papel fundamental en la educacion de la sociedad contemporanea.
Si hasta hace no mucho el lugar común oponía las formas visuales y las formas verbales, la actualidad mediática ha suspendido la 'oposición' entre páginas y pantallas, y ha provocado que la voz sea 'vista'.
Por medio de un estudio que va de la nominacion adanica a las tecnologias de la edicion que surgen en Venecia en el siglo xv y se consolidan como el modo de produccion hegemonico de libros desde el siglo xviii en Inglaterra, el presente ensayo analiza la relacion entre editor y autor en Occidente para construir una idea de la literatura en el marco de las sociedades modernas.
Tristram Shandy's World: Sterne's Philosophical Rhetoric by John Traugott offers a major reappraisal of Laurence Sterne's most provocative work, arguing that Tristram Shandy is less a "e;novel"e; than a sustained rhetorical performance.
Tristram Shandy's World: Sterne's Philosophical Rhetoric by John Traugott offers a major reappraisal of Laurence Sterne's most provocative work, arguing that Tristram Shandy is less a "e;novel"e; than a sustained rhetorical performance.
This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received Max Weber and Thomas Mann continues his rich exploration of the political and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of these two authors.
A pesar de los avances de la neurociencia y de las ciencias cognitivas en los últimos cincuenta años, el estudio de la percepción abarca un campo en el que todavía no se dispone de una teoría unificada desde la cual se pueda dar cuenta de todos los fenómenos y procesos involucrados.
Se puede decir que la pregunta central de cualquier propuesta semiótica (del estructuralismo europeo a la semeiótica peirceana, del culturalismo lotmaniano al cognitivismo de la Escuela de Árhus) es en qué consiste la significación.
Desde muy antiguo la lengua humana se presentó como un sistema de sonidos y signos comunicativos, que varían mucho según las circunstancias históricas de épocas y lugares.
En 2002, un grupo de profesores de semiótica del departamento de Humanidades de la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano empezó a conformar un grupo de estudio dedicado a analizar diferentes facetas de la denominada ciencia de los signos .
