Search results for “[Subject: criticism-theory]”

• Author(s): Julian Wolfreys • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAbout the Book Jacques Derrida has argued about the difference between literature and theory that desp...

• Author(s): Eamonn Dunne • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryJ. Hillis Miller is undoubtedly one of the most important literary critics of the past century. For well over five decades his work has...

• Author(s): Robert Rowland Smith • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAll too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over ...

• Author(s): Peter Stirk • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the launch of the Journal of Social Research in 1932 to the recent work of Jurgen Habermas on law and democracy, the Frankfurt School ...

• Author(s): Darrow Schecter • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismThere are many ways of presenting the history of the left. In this concise and cogent survey, Darrow Schecter avoids triv...

• Author(s): Mark Hewson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryBlanchot's writings on literature have imposed themselves in the canon of modern literary theory and yet have remained a mysterious pres...

• Author(s): Michael Mack • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThe capacity of the arts and the humanities, and of literature in particular, to have a meaningful societal impact has been increasingl...

• Author(s): Peter Murphy • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernDialectic of Romanticism presents a radical new assessment of the aesthetic and philosophical history and future of modernity. ...

• Author(s): Markku Eskelinen • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralEqually interested in what is and what could be, Cybertext Poetics combines ludology and cybertext theory to solve persistent problems and introdu...

• Author(s): Mary Klages • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryStudents of literature, film and cultural studies need to understand key theoretical terms and concepts but often find it hard to get to...

• Author(s): Fiona Hughes • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: AestheticsKant's Critique of Judgment is one of the most important works in the history of philosophy. It is a classic text, in which Kant elucidates his aes...

• Author(s): Emmanuel Mufti • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: CurriculaThe authors encourage critical engagement with the practice and research behind the growing number of teaching and learning models and provide an ...

• Author(s): Neema Parvini • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn the thirty years since thepublication of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioningoverthrew traditional modes of Shakespeare...

• Author(s): Bethan Marshall • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Study & TeachingAbout the Book This work considers why summative assessment in English is difficult and explores viewing...

• Author(s): Monica McLean • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherThe question of what form of pedagogy should be used at university is a complex and important one. So too is the question of how th...

• Author(s): Rex Butler • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralSlavoj Zizek is undoubtedly one of the world's leading cultural critics. His witty, psychoanalytically-inspired analyses of contemporary soc...

• Author(s): Ian Blyth • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: FeministHélène Cixous: live theory provides a clear and informative introduction to one of the most important and influential European writers working today. ...

• Author(s): Frank Furedi • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsIn this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture ...