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Author : Gérard Genette
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231049849
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Figures of Literary Discourse written by Gérard Genette and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gérard Genette
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801492594
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Narrative Discourse written by Gérard Genette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by referring to other literary works. His systemic theory of narrative deals with the structure of fiction, including fictional devices that go unnoticed and whose implications fulfill the Western narrative tradition.
Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816645655
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Discourse, Figure written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antony Hudek is research fellow at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London. --
Author : Gérard Genette
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631130895
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Figures of Literary Discourse written by Gérard Genette and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1982-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727973X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Discourse and Literature written by Teun A. van Dijk and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve well-known specialists selected and introduced by Teun A. van Dijk.
Author : Richard Trim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032130354
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Mapping the Origins of Figurative Language in Comparative Literature written by Richard Trim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the origins of figurative language in literary discourse within a cognitive framework. It represents an interface between linguistics and literature and develops a 6-tier theoretical model which analyses the different factors contributing to the creation of figurative words and expressions. By examining features ranging from language structure to figurative thought, cultural history, reference, narrative and the personal experience of authors, it develops a global overview of the processes involved. Due to its particularly innovative characteristics in literature, the theme of death is explored in relation to universal concepts such as love and time. These aspects are discussed in the light of well-known authors in comparative literature such as D.H. Lawrence, Simone De Beauvoir, Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges. The origins can involve complex conceptual mappings in figures of speech such as metaphor and symbolism. They are often at the roots of an author's personal desires or represent the search for answers to human existence. This approach offers a wide variety of new ideas and research possibilities for postgraduate and research students in modern languages, linguistics and literature. It would also be of interest to academic researchers in these disciplines as well as the general public who would like to delve deeper into the relevant fields.
Author : Richard H. Okada
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381729
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Figures of Resistance written by Richard H. Okada and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist discourse of Western civilization. He goes on to suggest that this universalist discourse, which silences the feminine aspects of these texts and subsumes their writing in misapplied Western canonical literary terms, is sanctioned and maintained by the discipline of Japanese literature. Okada develops a highly original and sophisticated reading strategy that demonstrates how readers might understand texts belonging to a different time and place without being complicit in their assimilation to categories derived from Western literary traditions. The author’s reading stratgey is based on the texts’ own resistance to modes of analysis that employ such Western canonical terms as novel, lyric, and third-person narrative. Emphasis is also given to the distinctive cultural circles, as well as socio-political and genealogical circumstances that surrounded the emergence of the texts. Indispensable readings for specialists in literature, cultural studies, and Japanese literature and history, Figures of Resistance will also appeal to general readers interested in the problems and complexities of studying another culture.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452944938
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Language, Madness, and Desire written by Michel Foucault and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire. The associations between madness and language—and madness and silence—preoccupy Foucault in two 1963 radio broadcasts, presented here, in which he ranges among literary examples from Cervantes and Shakespeare to Diderot, before taking up questions about Artaud’s literary correspondence, lettres de cachet, and the materiality of language. In his lectures on the relations among language, the literary work, and literature, he discusses Joyce, Proust, Chateaubriand, Racine, and Corneille, as well as the linguist Roman Jakobson. What we know as literature, Foucault contends, begins with the Marquis de Sade, to whose writing—particularly La Nouvelle Justine and Juliette—he devotes a full two-part lecture series focusing on notions of literary self-consciousness. Following his meditations on history in the recently published Speech Begins after Death, this current volume makes clear the importance of literature to Foucault’s thought and intellectual development.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809066890
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A Lover's Discourse written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1978 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is "A Lover's Discourse," a writing out of the discourse of love. This language primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with his or her partner is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse . . . Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in "A Lover's Discourse" by making love, in its most absurd and sentimental forms, an object of interest." Jonathan Culler
Author : John Brenkman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022667326X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Mood and Trope written by John Brenkman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect because it resides there not in speaking about feelings, but in the way of speaking itself. Engaging a quartet of modern philosophers—Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Deleuze—Brenkman explores how they all approach the question of affect primarily through literature and art. He draws on the differences and dialogues among them, arguing that the vocation of criticism is incapable of systematicity and instead must be attuned to the singularity and plurality of literary and artistic creations. In addition, he confronts these four philosophers and their essential concepts with a wide array of authors and artists, including Pinter and Poe, Baudelaire, Jorie Graham and Li-Young Lee, Shakespeare, Tino Sehgal, and Francis Bacon. Filled with surprising insights, Mood and Trope provides a rich archive for rethinking the nature of affect and its aesthetic and rhetorical stakes.
Author : Geoffrey Leech
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317899938
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Language in Literature written by Geoffrey Leech and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the ‘mystery’ of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential. In this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart. Leech sets the concept of ‘foregrounding’ (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the ‘flight from the text’ that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years, when the response of the reader, rather than the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself, have been given undue prominence. The book provides an enlightening analysis of well-known (as well as less well-known) texts of great writers of the past, including Keats, Shelley, Samuel Johnson, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, and Virginia Woolf.
Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226012537
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Untwisting the Serpent written by Daniel Albright and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, rather than collaboration.
Author : Jørgen Dines Johansen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802035776
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Literary Discourse written by Jørgen Dines Johansen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the semiotic theory of American philosopher Charles S. Peirce, Johansen applies psychoanalysis, psychology, literary hermeneutics, literary history, Habermasian communication, and discourse theory to literature, and, in the process, redefines it.
Author : Gérard Genette
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801495359
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Narrative Discourse Revisited written by Gérard Genette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study of narrative but also provides a vivid tableau of the development of narratology over the decade between the two works.
Author : Teun Adrianus van Dijk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780915027552
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Discourse and Literature written by Teun Adrianus van Dijk and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discourse and Literature "boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve well-known specialists selected and introduced by Teun A. van Dijk.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374522070
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Empire of Signs written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology by Roland Barthes is a reflection on his travels to Japan in the 1960s. In twenty-six short chapters he writes about his encounters with symbols of Japanese culture as diverse as pachinko, train stations, chopsticks, food, physiognomy, poetry, and gift-wrapping. He muses elegantly on, and with affection for, a system "altogether detached from our own." For Barthes, the sign here does not signify, and so offers liberation from the West's endless creation of meaning. Tokyo, like all major cities, has a center--the Imperial Palace--but in this case it is empty, "both forbidden and indifferent ... inhabited by an emperor whom no one ever sees." This emptiness of the sign is pursued throughout the book, and offers a stimulating alternative line of thought about the ways in which cultures are structured.
Author : PH D Damon Franke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814257203
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Modernist Heresies written by PH D Damon Franke and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modernist Heresies, Damon Franke presents the discourse of heresy as central to the intellectual history of the origins of British modernism. The book examines heretical discourses from literature and culture of the fin de siècle and the Edwardian period in order to establish continuities between Victorian blasphemy and modernist obscenity by tracing the dialectic of heresy and orthodoxy, and the pragmatic shifting of both heterodox and authoritative discourses. Franke documents the untold history of the Cambridge Heretics Society and places the concerns of this discussion society in dialogue with contemporaneous literature by such authors as Pater, Hardy, Shaw, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, and Orwell. Since several highly influential figures of the modernist literati were members of the Heretics or in dialogue with the group, heresy and its relation to synthesis now become crucial to an understanding of modernist aesthetics and ethics. From the 1880s through the 1920s, heresy commonly appears in literature as a discursive trope, and the literary mode of heresy shifts over the course of this time from one of syncretism to one based on the construction of modernist artificial or "synthetic" wholes. In Franke's work, the discourse of heresy comes forth as a forgotten dimension of the origins of modernism, one deeply entrenched in Victorian blasphemy and the crisis in faith, and one pointing to the censorship of modernist literature and some of the first doctrines of literary criticism.
