Fiction Function Figuration
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Fiction Function Figuration
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Fiction Function Figuration written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Pottery categories.
How To Do Things With Fictions
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Author : Joshua Landy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-06
How To Do Things With Fictions written by Joshua Landy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why are Beckett's novels so inscrutable? And why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits anymore? In a series of captivating chapters on Mark, Plato, Beckett, Mallarmé, and Chaucer, Joshua Landy not only answers these questions but explains why they are worth asking in the first place. Witty and approachable, How to Do Things with Fictions challenges the widespread assumption that literary texts must be informative or morally improving in order to be of any real benefit. It reveals that authors are sometimes best thought of not as entertainers or as educators but as personal trainers of the brain, putting their willing readers through exercises designed to fortify specific mental capacities, from form-giving to equanimity, from reason to faith. Delivering plenty of surprises along the way--that moral readings of literature can be positively dangerous; that the parables were deliberately designed to be misunderstood; that Plato knowingly sets his main character up for a fall; that metaphor is powerfully connected to religious faith; that we can sustain our beliefs even when we suspect them to be illusions--How to Do Things with Fictions convincingly shows that our best allies in the struggle for more rigorous thinking, deeper faith, richer experience, and greater peace of mind may well be the imaginative writings sitting on our shelves.
Culture And Rhetoric
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Author : Ivo Strecker
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Culture And Rhetoric written by Ivo Strecker and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Social Science categories.
While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are – rhetorical constructs. These senior, international scholars explore the complex relationships between culture and rhetoric arguing that just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric. This intersection constitutes the central theme of the first part of the book, while the second is dedicated to the study of figuration as a common ground of rhetoric and anthropology. The book offers a compelling range of theoretical reflections, historical vistas, and empirical investigations, which aim to show how people talk themselves and others into particular modalities of thought and action, and how rhetoric and culture, in this way, are co-emergent. It thus turns a new page in the history of academic discourse by bringing two disciplines – anthropology and rhetoric – together in a way that has never been done before.
A Companion To Sensation Fiction
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Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-06-20
A Companion To Sensation Fiction written by Pamela K. Gilbert and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy. Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship
Figurations Of Exile In Hitchcock And Nabokov
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Author : Barbara Straumann
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2008-12-16
Figurations Of Exile In Hitchcock And Nabokov written by Barbara Straumann and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-16 with Performing Arts categories.
This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Barbara Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak, Memory, Lolita, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Suspicion, North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt and explores the connections between language, imagination and exile. Invoking psychoanalysis as the principal discourse of dislocation, the book not only uses concepts such as 'screen memory', 'family romance', 'fantasy' and 'the uncanny' as hermeneutic foils, it also argues that, in their own ways, the arch-parodists Hitchcock and Nabokov are remarkably in tune with the images and tropes developed by Freud.
The 29th Ceramic National
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The 29th Ceramic National written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Art categories.
Ten Lectures On Figurative Meaning Making The Role Of Body And Context
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Author : Zóltan Kövecses
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-09-16
Ten Lectures On Figurative Meaning Making The Role Of Body And Context written by Zóltan Kövecses and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The topics presented in this book deal with the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective.
Speculative Fictions
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Author : Herb Wyile
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2002
Speculative Fictions written by Herb Wyile and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
An exploration of the proliferation of historical novels in English-Canadian literature over the last thirty years.
Models Of Figurative Language
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Author : Rachel Giora
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001-09-01
Models Of Figurative Language written by Rachel Giora and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First published in 2001. Volume 16, Numbers 3&4. This special issue is an attempt to record the state of the art of psycholinguistics research into figurative language. There are quite a number of models addressing distinct issues and aiming to solve different problems—the mark of a maturing field. Indeed, not one theory is tailored to solve all the problems. Rather, each model, while aiming at generality, also recognizes its limitation. Despite specializing in different topics, most of the theories presented here have some things in common. For one, most of them dispense with the literal/ nonliteral divide, proposing, instead, models that are capable of handling literal as well as figurative language. Some models focus on the role primary meanings play in comprehension, others shed light on context effects, and some models seem to encompass both in terms of the accumulating effects of constraints (whether linguistic or contextual).
From Modernist Entombment To Postmodernist Exhumation
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Author : Dr Lisa K Perdigao
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-04-28
From Modernist Entombment To Postmodernist Exhumation written by Dr Lisa K Perdigao and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao's study of American writers. Arguing that the crisis of bodily representation can be traced in the move from modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation, Perdigao considers how works by writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, and Richard Wright to Jody Shields, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Jeffrey Eugenides reflect changing attitudes about dying, death, and mourning. For example, while modernist writers direct their plots toward a transformation of the dead body by way of metaphor, postmodernist writers exhume the transformed body, reasserting its materiality. Rather than viewing these tropes in oppositional terms, Perdigao examines the implications for narrative of the authors' apparently contradictory attempts to recover meaning at the site of loss. She argues that entombment and exhumation are complementary drives that speak to the tension between the desire to bury the dead and the need to remember, indicating shifts in critical discussions about the body and about the function of aesthetics in relation to materialized violence and loss.