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Theory and Practice of Sociocriticism was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Edmond Cros is a leading French Hispanicist whose work is unique in Continental theory becau

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From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a substantial new introduction that explains his intention in writing these pieces and offers an analysis o

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This, the first modern critical study of a lyricist, humorist and social protest poet who was a household name throughout the Victorian period, explores the relationship between Thomas Hood's playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary materiality and urban consumption. -- .

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Exploring images of swerving, loss of control, digressing and deviating, Veering provides new critical perspectives on all major literary genres: the novel, poetry, drama, the short story and the essay, as well as 'creative writing'.

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Asks important questions about the very nature of stories and examines why we read stories rather than just learning the endings.

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A brilliantly witty and learned exploration of how we read books (or, rather, don't read books) and the place they hold in our culture.

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Contends that in the age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands the book's place in our culture. This book examines the many kinds of 'non-reading' (forgotten books, unknown books, books discussed by others, books we've skimmed briefly).

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A guide to key terms in literary theory. It is designed for the student who needs to know what a particular term means, how it is used, and where it comes from, and enables them to apply the terms and concepts to their own investigations.

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A guide to key terms in literary theory - designed to make difficult terms, concepts and theorists accessible and understandable. It provides definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements and figures in literary and cultural theory and a bibliography.

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The best pocket book to the subject!

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Provides an introduction to literary theory from basic information and orientation for the uninformed leading on to sophisticated readings. This book offers a guide to the major theories and theorists, including: humanism; structuralism; poststructuralism; psychoanalytic approaches; feminist approaches; ideology and discourse; and more.

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The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. But the history of the novel is the history of style.

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Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical to account for their capacity to seize ones life. With the Occupy Movement as its guide, the work strives to challenge hegemonic power by keeping memory in question and receptive to alternative futures to come.

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Explores the history, application and tenets of literary theory in ten lessons.

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A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times - part of Radical Thinkers set 14.

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