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1) The Poetics
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Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato's Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. His writings were not constrained to simply one field of inquiry but covered such various subjects as physics, biology, metaphysics,...
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George Steiner's essential tome on linguistics, hailed by the New York Times as a "dazzling inquiry into the possibility of translation" In his classic work, literary critic and scholar George Steiner tackles what he considers the Babel "problem": Why, over the course of history, have humans developed thousands of different languages when the social, material, and economic advantages of a single tongue are obvious? Steiner argues that different cultures'...
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For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative literature," in which the discipline is given new life...
4) Others
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This volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature. J. Hillis Miller investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, E. M. Forster, Marcel Proust, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. From the exquisite close readings for which he is celebrated, Miller reaps a capacious understanding...
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Anyone who has ever said one thing and meant another has spoken in the mode of allegory. The allegorical expression of ideas pervades literature, art, music, religion, politics, business, and advertising. But how does allegory really work and how should we understand it? For more than forty years, Angus Fletcher's classic book has provided an answer that is still unsurpassed for its comprehensiveness, brilliance, and eloquence. With a preface by Harold...
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Esta obra es una de las investigaciones de punta en el campo de las ciencias del lenguaje. Comprende tres partes: la primera, dedicada a la gramática tensiva; la segunda, consagrada al análisis de un texto literario; la tercera presenta un glosario, útil para profesionales y estudiantes de las comunicaciones, las ciencias sociales, la literatura, las ciencias humanas y las artes plásticas.
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Mordaz y panorámica, Los orígenes de la posmodernidad traza la génesis, consolidación y resultados de la idea "posmoderna". Un apasionante recorrido intelectual que arranca en el ámbito hispánico de los años treinta, continúa con los cambios de significado y de uso del concepto en la década de 1970, cuando Jean-François Lyotard y Jürgen Habermas reacuñan y popularizan la idea de posmodernismo. Capítulo especial merece el análisis de...
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In this outstanding book, Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, William Gaddis, John Barth, Margaret Atwood, and Donald Barthelme. According to Strehle, the actualists balance attention to questions of art with an engaged meditation on the external,...
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Se amplía el campo de la argumentación con una precisa, autorizada e informada descripción de las diversas posiciones o estilos en el tratamiento del tema, de enorme trascendencia por mostrar la posibilidad del uso de estas herramientas intelectuales y emotivas en la vida cotidiana de un pueblo.
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Examines the increasingly prevalent assumption that postmodernism is over and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ethics and politics.
The Passing of Postmodernism addresses the increasingly prevalent assumption that a period marked by poststructuralism and metafiction has passed and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ethics and politics. In discussions of various twentieth-...
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In late-capitalist Western society, cross-ethnic cultural transactions are an inevitable daily routine. Yet, according to acclaimed cultural critic Rey Chow, the notion of ethnicity as it is currently used is theoretically ambivalent, confusing, indeed self-contradictory, straddling as it does an uneasy boundary between a universalist rhetoric of inclusion on the one hand, and actual, lived experiences of violence and intolerance on the other. To...
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Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled is refracted within the structures of literature and literary discourse itself, a crisis he terms "aesthetic nervousness." The disabled reminds the able-bodied...
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Theory of Mind is what enables us to "put ourselves in another's shoes." It is mindreading, empathy, creative imagination of another's perspective: in short, it is simultaneously a highly sophisticated ability and a very basic necessity for human communication. Theory of Mind is central to such commercial endeavors as market research and product development, but it is also just as important in maintaining human relations over a cup of coffee. Not...
14) Cuerpo y sentido
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El cuerpo no es, para la semiótica, un dominio de análisis como cualquier otro. La encarnación de los procesos significantes le proporciona un substrato que se impone a todas las elaboraciones cognitivas y emotivas. En primer lugar, el cuerpo es la sede donde se encuentra el que va a ser el plano de la expresión con el que será el plano del contenido: se convierte así en operador de la semiosis. Por lo demás, los cuerpos que interactúan con...
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As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking modern artists and intellectuals to construct conflicting responses: some embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern...
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El autor de esta obra descubre qué valores están detrás (o delante, como meta, como horizonte) de las "formas de vida". Todos los trabajos incluidos son claros y didácticos, que nos permiten valorar y apropiarnos de los fines, así como de los medios de estudio concretos para aplicarlos a otros corpus. Los análisis de Zilberberg son siempre penetrantes, y sus métodos fácilmente extrapolables.
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In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another,...
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A landmark work of literary criticism
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye seeks to describe a common basis for understanding the full range of literary forms by examining archetypes, genres, poetic language, and the relations among the text, the reader, and society. Using...
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Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to current anthologies of literary theory, which have embraced...
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Se puede decir que la pregunta central de cualquier propuesta semiótica (del estructuralismo europeo a la semeiótica peirceana, del culturalismo lotmaniano al cognitivismo de la Escuela de Árhus) es en qué consiste la significación. Y cada una de ellas, con variaciones de muy diverso grado, ofrece una respuesta a dicha pregunta. En este libro queremos proponer un enfoque alternativo, que hemos denominado "agentivo": aquí la significación se...
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