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A Theory of General Semiotics
The Science of Signs, Sign-Systems, and Semiotic Reality
This book formulates the central laws of general semiotics, illustrating them with examples from various fields. These laws will prove useful for every branch of semiotics, both those already established and those that will appear in the future.
This book formulates the central laws of general semiotics, illustrating them with examples from various fields. These laws will prove useful for every branch of semiotics, both those already established and those that will appear in the future.
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Teaching as a Human Experience
An Anthology of Contemporary Poems
The poems in this collection deal with the real-life worlds of teachers. This volume covers the manifold experiences, perspectives, and epiphanies of being an educator, giving creative voice to teachers and students and empowering readers with inspiration and personal agency.
The poems in this collection deal with the real-life worlds of teachers. This volume covers the manifold experiences, perspectives, and epiphanies of being an educator, giving creative voice to teachers and students and empowering readers with inspiration and personal agency.
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Bodies of Speech
Text and Textuality in Aristotle
Aristotle was the first to conceive of poetry and oration as written texts. This book reads his Poetics and Rhetoric to reveal a systematic text theory—a profound theory able to hold a fruitful dialogue with modern thinking.
Aristotle was the first to conceive of poetry and oration as written texts. This book reads his Poetics and Rhetoric to reveal a systematic text theory—a profound theory able to hold a fruitful dialogue with modern thinking.
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True North
Literary Translation in the Nordic Countries
True North is the first book on literary translation in the Nordic countries. It explores genres from novels and children’s literature to crime fiction, analysing authors like Ibsen, Lindgren, and Laxness, and examines key translatorial challenges.
True North is the first book on literary translation in the Nordic countries. It explores genres from novels and children’s literature to crime fiction, analysing authors like Ibsen, Lindgren, and Laxness, and examines key translatorial challenges.
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Parallaxes
Virginia Woolf Meets James Joyce
Despite being major Modernists, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are seldom studied together. This volume fills that void, using the concept of parallax to provide new perspectives on the connections between their respective work and their difficult encounter.
Despite being major Modernists, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are seldom studied together. This volume fills that void, using the concept of parallax to provide new perspectives on the connections between their respective work and their difficult encounter.
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Twelve of Italy's best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.
Twelve of Italy’s best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.
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How does humour work? This book tests Attardo & Raskin’s General Theory of Verbal Humor, proposing a new ‘humorist reading’. By providing the tools to ask ‘why is this humorous?’, it offers a valuable new way to understand any literary text.
How does humour work? This book tests Attardo & Raskin’s General Theory of Verbal Humor, proposing a new ‘humorist reading’. By providing the tools to ask ‘why is this humorous?’, it offers a valuable new way to understand any literary text.
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Explore European poetry from Sappho to Isou. Each of these thirty-three verse translations is paired with the original poem and an illuminating essay revealing the translator's art and process.
Explore European poetry from Sappho to Isou. Each of these thirty-three verse translations is paired with the original poem and an illuminating essay revealing the translator’s art and process.
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Making Up
Research in Creative Writing
Research in creative writing is not only about the works it produces, but the explorations a creative writer undertakes. Through creative writing, a writer can explore ideas, concepts, and states of mind. This collection shows what this growing field does and more.
Research in creative writing is not only about the works it produces, but the explorations a creative writer undertakes. Through creative writing, a writer can explore ideas, concepts, and states of mind. This collection shows what this growing field does and more.
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The Mysterious Connection between Thomas Nashe, Thomas Dekker, and T. M.
An English Renaissance Deception?
After writer Thomas Nashe was banished and his works banned, he vanished. Then, Thomas Dekker appeared, writing in Nashe’s exact style. Coincidence or deception? This book presents linguistic evidence that Nashe outwitted authorities by assuming a new identity.
After writer Thomas Nashe was banished and his works banned, he vanished. Then, Thomas Dekker appeared, writing in Nashe’s exact style. Coincidence or deception? This book presents linguistic evidence that Nashe outwitted authorities by assuming a new identity.
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Identity Issues
Literary and Linguistic Landscapes
A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
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Love, Sorrow and Joy
A New Voice in Irish Avant-Garde Poetry
The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.
The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.
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“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana) Remaking Literary History questions the past by exploring the links between literature and history through memory, trauma, and historical reinvention.
“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana)
Remaking Literary History questions the past by exploring the links between literature and history through memory, trauma, and historical reinvention.
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Not So Innocent Abroad
The Politics of Travel and Travel Writing
Travel and travel writing are never innocent. This book offers a fresh approach, arguing that journeying always occurs within political systems. It reveals the political implications and dissimulated messages in travelogues from the 18th to 21st century.
Travel and travel writing are never innocent. This book offers a fresh approach, arguing that journeying always occurs within political systems. It reveals the political implications and dissimulated messages in travelogues from the 18th to 21st century.
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The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.
The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.
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But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body
Blake’s Revelation Unlocked
This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.
This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.
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New Literatures of Old
Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literature
Artistic creativity is fuelled by dialogues between the past and the present. This book explores how these exchanges become active agents of intervention, creating spaces of dialogue and confrontation when establishing the cultural identity of a community.
Artistic creativity is fuelled by dialogues between the past and the present. This book explores how these exchanges become active agents of intervention, creating spaces of dialogue and confrontation when establishing the cultural identity of a community.
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This book tackles the challenges of translating children’s literature, from picturebooks to classics like Beatrix Potter and Tolkien. It examines the active role of translators and publishers, linking theory with practice through diverse examples.
This book tackles the challenges of translating children’s literature, from picturebooks to classics like Beatrix Potter and Tolkien. It examines the active role of translators and publishers, linking theory with practice through diverse examples.
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This volume shows there is much more to analysing literature than traditional studies. It demonstrates, in non-technical language, how diverse perspectives from psychology to computer science can offer new insights into literary texts, their readers, and effects.
This volume shows there is much more to analysing literature than traditional studies. It demonstrates, in non-technical language, how diverse perspectives from psychology to computer science can offer new insights into literary texts, their readers, and effects.
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Re-Reading Richard Hoggart
Life, Literature, Language, Education
Richard Hoggart put the working class on the cultural map. The first critic to take popular culture seriously, he founded Cultural Studies and was a key witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. This volume explores his life and significant role in cultural shifts.
Richard Hoggart put the working class on the cultural map. The first critic to take popular culture seriously, he founded Cultural Studies and was a key witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. This volume explores his life and significant role in cultural shifts.
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