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Textual Strategies

Author : Josue V. Harari
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501743422
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Textual Strategies written by Josue V. Harari and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stellar cast of fifteen contributors seeks to show the direction in which continental and continentally oriented American literary criticism has evolved in recent years. Nine of the essays are published here for the first time; five of the remaining six were translated, by the editor, from the French; only one has previously appeared in English. The essays make available some of the most important and most representative work that has been done in the wake of structuralism. Among the topics treated are the relationships between semiology and literature, anthropology and literature, and psychoanalysis and literature; modern American poetics; algebraic models as epistemological operators; the modes of production of a poem; Flaubert's view of history; and poetic language. Professor Harari has arranged the essays to move from the general to the particular and from the abstract to the concrete. In an informative and ambitious introduction, he discusses each essay in relation to the whole and explains the interrelationships among the various theories and strategies that are represented in the anthology. A book meant for the specialist as well as the novice, for the teacher of literature and criticism as well as the student, Textual Strategies is a brilliant introduction to post-structuralist critical theories and practices.

Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004383344
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative fourteen specialists study, from literary, linguistic and historical angles the textual strategies that the Greek historian Herodotus and the Roman historian Livy employ in their accounts of two famous battles in ancient history

Victims, Textual Strategies in Recent American Fiction

Author : Paul Bruss
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838750063
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Victims, Textual Strategies in Recent American Fiction by : Paul Bruss

Download or read book Victims, Textual Strategies in Recent American Fiction written by Paul Bruss and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the general cultural impact of scientific discovery on literature and painting at the turn of the century, Bruss discusses the works of Nabokov, Barthelme and Kosinski, with special attention paid to the ways in which these authors respond to the increasing lack of literature's textual authority.

The Meaning of Video Games

Author : Steven E. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135902178
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Video Games written by Steven E. Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meaning of Video Games takes a textual studies approach to an increasingly important form of expression in today’s culture. It begins by assuming that video games are meaningful–not just as sociological or economic or cultural evidence, but in their own right, as cultural expressions worthy of scholarly attention. In this way, this book makes a contribution to the study of video games, but it also aims to enrich textual studies. Early video game studies scholars were quick to point out that a game should never be reduced to merely its "story" or narrative content and they rightly insist on the importance of studying games as games. But here Steven E. Jones demonstrates that textual studies–which grows historically out of ancient questions of textual recension, multiple versions, production, reproduction, and reception–can fruitfully be applied to the study of video games. Citing specific examples such as Myst and Lost, Katamari Damacy, Halo, Façade, Nintendo’s Wii, and Will Wright’s Spore, the book explores the ways in which textual studies concepts–authorial intention, textual variability and performance, the paratext, publishing history and the social text–can shed light on video games as more than formal systems. It treats video games as cultural forms of expression that are received as they are played, out in the world, where their meanings get made.

Textual Intervention

Author : Rob Pope
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135083355
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Textual Intervention written by Rob Pope and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance

Author : María del Mar Gallego Durán
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825858421
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance written by María del Mar Gallego Durán and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem Renaissance. Author Mar Gallego effectively uncovers the presence of a subversive component in five of these novels (by James Weldon Johnson, George Schuyler, Nella Larsen, and Jessie Fauset), turning them into useful tools to explore the passing phenomenon in all its richness and complexity. Her compelling study intends to contribute to the ongoing revision of the parameters conventionally employed to analyze passing novels by drawing attention to a great variety of textual strategies such as double consciousness, parody, and multiple generic covers. Examining the hybrid nature of these texts, Gallego skillfully highlights their radical critique of the status quo and their celebration of a distinct African American identity. Well researched and stimulating to read, Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance is an impressive work of scholarship and interpretat

Reading Popular Physics

Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351906526
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Reading Popular Physics written by Elizabeth Leane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Popular Physics is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the nature and implications of physics popularizations. A literary critic trained in science, Elizabeth Leane treats popular science writing as a distinct and significant genre, focusing particularly on five bestselling books: Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, Steven Weinberg's The First Three Minutes, James Gleick's Chaos, M. Mitchell Waldrop's Complexity, and Gary Zukav's The Dancing Wu Li Masters. Leane situates her examination of the texts within the heated interdisciplinary exchanges known as the 'Science Wars', focusing specifically on the disputed issue of the role of language in science. Her use of literary analysis reveals how popular science books function as sites for 'disciplinary skirmishes' as she uncovers the ways in which popularizers of science influence the public. In addition to their explicit discussion of scientific concepts, Leane argues, these authors employ subtle textual strategies that encode claims about the nature and status of scientific knowledge - claims that are all the more powerful because they are unacknowledged. Her book will change the way these texts are read, offering readers a fresh perspective on this highly visible and influential genre.

Textual Conspiracies

Author : James Martel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472028197
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Textual Conspiracies written by James Martel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a sophisticated and fascinating argument written in a very enjoyably entertaining style. It is hard for me to see how readers initially interested in these texts will not be ‘swept off their feet’ by the core assertions of this author, and the devastatingly comprehensive way in which he demonstrates those arguments.” —Brent Steele, University of Kansas In Textual Conspiracies, James R. Martel applies the literary, theological, and philosophical insights of Walter Benjamin to the question of politics and the predicament of the contemporary left. Through the lens of Benjamin’s theories, as influenced by Kafka, of the fetishization of political symbols and signs, Martel looks at the ways in which various political and literary texts “speak” to each other across the gulf of time and space, thereby creating a “textual conspiracy” that destabilizes grand narratives of power and authority and makes the narratives of alternative political communities more apparent. However, in keeping with Benjamin’s insistence that even he is complicit with the fetishism that he battles, Martel decentralizes Benjamin’s position as the key theorist for this conspiracy and contextualizes Benjamin in what he calls a “constellation” of pairs of thinkers and writers throughout history, including Alexis de Tocqueville and Edgar Allen Poe, Hannah Arendt and Federico García Lorca, and Frantz Fanon and Assia Djebar.

Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799

Author : Mónica Díaz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315401010
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799 written by Mónica Díaz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fidelity discourse and the pacification of tyrants and Indians: Doña Mariana Osorio de Narváez

Texts of Power, the Power of the Text

Author : Cezary Galewicz
Publisher : Wydawnictwo Homini
ISBN 13 : 8389598868
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (895 download)

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Book Synopsis Texts of Power, the Power of the Text by : Cezary Galewicz

Download or read book Texts of Power, the Power of the Text written by Cezary Galewicz and published by Wydawnictwo Homini. This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal"

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Author : Marcy J. Dinius
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081229839X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" written by Marcy J. Dinius and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and literary historians alike recognize David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829-1830) as one of the most politically radical and consequential antislavery texts ever published, yet the pamphlet's significant impact on North American nineteenth-century print-based activism has gone under-examined. In The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Marcy J. Dinius offers the first in-depth analysis of Walker's argumentatively and typographically radical pamphlet and its direct influence on five Black and Indigenous activist authors, Maria W. Stewart, William Apess, William Paul Quinn, Henry Highland Garnet, and Paola Brown, and the pamphlets that they wrote and published in the United States and Canada between 1831 and 1851. She also examines how Walker's Appeal exerted a powerful and lasting influence on William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator and other publications by White antislavery activists. Dinius contends that scholars have neglected the positive, transnational, and transformative effects of Walker's Appeal on print-based political activism and literary and book history—that is, its primarily textual effects—due to an enduringly narrow focus on the violence that the pamphlet may have occasioned. She offers as an alternative a broadened view of activism and resistance that centers the works of Walker, Stewart, Apess, Quinn, Garnet, and Brown within an exploration of radical forms of authorship, publication, civic participation, and resistance. In doing so, she has written a major contribution to African American literary studies and the history of the book in antebellum America.

World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity

Author : Omid Azadibougar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981151691X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity written by Omid Azadibougar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the canonical figure Sadegh Hedayat (1903–1951) and draws a comprehensive image of a major intellectual force in the context of both modern Persian Literature and World Literature. A prolific writer known for his magnum opus, The Blind Owl (1936), Hedayat established the use of common language for literary purposes, opened new horizons on imaginative literature and explored a variety of genres in his creative career. This book looks beyond the reductive critical tendencies that read a rich and diverse literary profile in light of Hedayat’s suicide, arguing instead that his literary imagination was not solely the result of genius but rather enriched by a vast network of the world’s literary traditions. This study reflects on Hedayat’s attempts at various genres of artistic creation, including painting, fiction writing, satire and scholarly research, as well as his persistent struggles for artistic authenticity, which transcended solidly established literary and artistic norms. Providing a critical reading of Hedayat’s work to untangle aspects of his writing – including reflections on science, religion, nationalism and coloniality – alongside his pioneering work on folk culture, and how humor informs his writings, this text offers a critical review of the status of Persian literature in the contemporary landscape of the world’s literary studies.

Textual Practice

Author : Terence Hawkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134893175
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Textual Practice written by Terence Hawkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textual Practice has established itself as Britain's leading journal of radical literary theory.

Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France

Author : Rosalind Brown-Grant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351895451
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France written by Rosalind Brown-Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manuscripts and early printed books. Analysing texts ranging from romances, political allegories, chivalric biographies, and catalogues of famous men and women, through saints’ lives, mystery plays and Books of Hours, to works of Roman, canon and customary law, these studies offer new insights into the diverse ways in which the language and imagery of politics and justice permeated French culture, particularly in the later Middle Ages. Organized around three closely related themes - the prince as a just ruler, the figure of the judge, and the role of the queen in relation to matters of justice - the issues addressed in these studies, such as what constitutes a just war, what treatment should be meted out to prisoners, what personal qualities are needed for the role of lawgiver, and what limits are placed on women’s participation in judicial processes, are ones that are still the subject of debate today. What the contributors show above all is the degree of political engagement on the part of writers and artists responsible for cultural production in this period. With their textual strategies of exemplification, allegorization, and satirical deprecation, and their visual strategies of hierarchical ordering, spatial organization and symbolic allusion, these figures aimed to show that the pen and paintbrush could aspire to being as mighty as the sword wielded by Lady Justice herself.

Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions

Author : Krista Ratcliffe
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809319343
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions written by Krista Ratcliffe and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996-01-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ratcliffe (English, Marquette U.) posits strategies for conceptualizing feminist theories of rhetoric from the writings of Woolf, Daly, and Rich. She situates their rhetorical theories within current discussion about feminist pedagogy, and reconsiders Roland Barthes' The Old Rhetoric in light of issues that emerge in daily life, such as who can talk, where one can talk, and how one can talk. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

Author : James F. Poag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods by : James F. Poag

Download or read book The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods written by James F. Poag and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

Textual Histories

Author : Thomas A. Bredehoft
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802048509
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Textual Histories written by Thomas A. Bredehoft and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What modern scholars have been too willing to dismiss as a scattershot collection of unrelated annals, is, Bredehoft argues, a tool created to forge, through linking literature and history, a patriotic Anglo Saxon national identity.