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  • How We Die, Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland | Summay & Study Guide

    by BookRags ...
    The How We Die, Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of How We Die, Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion. ... Read more

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  • Bread and Circuses

    Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay

    by Patrick Brantlinger ...
    Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to ... Read more

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  • Travels in Hyperreality

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Translated by William Weaver ...
    A "scintillating collection" of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault's Pendulum (Los Angeles Times).Collected here are some of Umberto Eco's finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual mind. As the author puts it in the preface to the second edition: "In these pages, I try to ... Read more

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  • Against Interpretation

    And Other Essays

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the ... Read more

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  • Engagement in Medical Research Discourse

    A Multisemiotic Approach to Dialogic Positioning

    by Daniel Lees Fryer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    This book integrates insights from dialogic theory and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to extend our understandings of engagement in medical research articles, going beyond notions of the role of verbal dialogue to encompass mathematical and visual semiotics and consider text not just as language but as multisemiosis.The volume begins by outlining the engagement framework and offering a ... Read more

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  • A Theory of Semiotics

    by Umberto Eco ...
    " . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." —Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism" . . . draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship . . . raises many fascinating questions." —Language in Society" . . . a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies." ... Read more

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  • The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge

    Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on an Empirical Philosophy of Science

    by Loet Leydesdorff ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book addresses three themes which have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric operationalization of these concept; and (3) the elaboration in terms of a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. In this study, I discuss the relations among these themes. Using Luhmann's social-systems ... Read more

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  • Literary Analysis: The Basics

    by Celena Kusch ...
    Series series The Basics
    Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts that affect the analysis of any text. It addresses such questions as:What counts as literature?Is ... Read more

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  • The Seven Basic Plots

    Why We Tell Stories

    by Mr Christopher Booker ...
    This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout ... Read more

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  • Gothic

    by Fred Botting ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies. This long awaited new edition contains a new chapter on ‘Contemporary Gothic’, an expanded section on American Gothic and more discussion of the gothic in women’s film and writing throughout the book. It is also updated in relation to media and technology with further discussion of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing

    by David Morley ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    This pioneering book introduces students to the practice and art of creative writing and creative reading. It offers a fresh, distinctive and beautifully written synthesis of the discipline. David Morley discusses where creative writing comes from, the various forms and camouflages it has taken, and why we teach and learn the arts of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. He looks at creative ... Read more

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  • Telling the Truth

    The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction

    by Barbara C. Foley ...
    Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts depart significantly from those of most current Marxist critics. Foley maintains that Marxist theory ... Read more

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  • The Dialogics of Critique

    M.M. Bakhtin and the Theory of Ideology

    by Michael Gardiner ...
    As interest in the work of Bakhtin grows there is an increasing demand for a well organized, readable text which explains his main ideas and relates them to current social and cultural theory. This book is designed to supply this demand. Elegantly written with the needs of the student coming to Bakhtin for the first time in mind, it provides the essential guide to this important and neglected ... Read more

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  • Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2

    Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media

    Edited by Lars Elleström ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström’s influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding ... Read more

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  • On Stories

    by Richard Kearney ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Stories offer us some of the richest and most enduring insights into the human condition and have preoccupied philosophy since Aristotle. On Stories presents in clear and compelling style just why narrative has this power over us and argues that the unnarrated life is not worth living. Drawing on the work of James Joyce, Sigmund Freud's patient 'Dora' and the case of Oscar Schindler, Richard ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by David Rudd ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of children’s literature in all its manifestations. It features a series of essays written by expert contributors who provide an illuminating examination of why children’s literature is the way it is. Topics covered include:the history and development of children's literaturevarious theoretical approaches ... Read more

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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Positioning Theory

    Edited by Mary B. McVee, Luk Van Langenhove, Cynthia H. Brock, Bo Allesøe Christensen ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook is the first of its kind to explore Positioning Theory. Taking inspiration from the groundwork set by Rom Harré and collaborators such as Bronwyn Davies, Fathali Moghaddam, Luk Van Langenhove, and others the book explores the emergence, historical context, and disciplinary applications of Positioning Theory and its basic precepts as a social psychological theory.This volume ... Read more

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  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Culler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter?These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study of culture and society in the past two decades, literary theory is accused of undermining ... Read more

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  • Theory of Literature

    by Paul H. Fry ...
    Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?Fry engages with the major themes and strands ... Read more

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  • Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction

    by Sara Upstone ...
    Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By making use of these, they create new interpretations of the text that would not otherwise be possible. In your own reading and ... Read more

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  • Selected Essays of John Berger

    by John Berger ...
    Series series Vintage International
    The writing career of Booker Prize winner John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.Berger’s insights make it impossible to look at a painting, watch a film, or even ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy

    How to Create Uncontested Market Space

    by Andreas Mebert, Stephanie Lowe ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    In Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne tackle the central problem facing all businesses: how to perform better than your competitors? Their solution involves taking a creative approach to the normal view of competition.In the normal framework, competition is a zero-sum game: if there are two companies competing for the same market, as one does better, the other has to do worse. ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

    Edited by Alison James, Akihiro Kubo, Françoise Lavocat ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics. This volume draws on global, cutting edge research and theory to investigate the historically variable understandings of fictionality, ... Read more

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  • Transmission and the Individual Remix

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Sub-titled "How Literature Works" this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern theory that re-evaluates literature and literary meaning from Aeschylus to Kraftwerk. A VINTAGE EBOOK ORIGINAL.Tom McCarthy is one of the most vital young voices in contemporary literature, and in this essay he identifies the signals that have been repeating, pulsing, modulating ... Read more

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