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“stephen benson”

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  • Cycles of Influence

    Fiction, Folktale, Theory

    by Stephen Benson ...
    Analyzes how the folktale has influenced the development of narrative theory and how postmodern fiction has drawn on the folktale to experiment with diverse narrative concepts.In this wide-ranging and insightful analysis, Stephen Benson proposes a poetics of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. Postmodernist fictions have evidenced a return to narrative—to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literary Music

    Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction

    by Stephen Benson ...
    Music is commonly felt to offer a valued experience, yet to put that experience into words is no easy task. Rather than view verbal representations of music as somehow secondary to the music itself, Literary Music argues that it is in such representations that our understanding of music and its meanings is constituted and explored. Focusing on recent fictional and theoretical texts, Stephen Benson ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Writing the Field Recording

    Sound, Word, Environment

    Edited by Stephen Benson ...

    $26.99 USD

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    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood ...
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    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

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  • The Journalist in British Fiction and Film

    Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present

    by Sarah Lonsdale ...
    Why did Edwardian novelists portray journalists as swashbuckling, truth-seeking super-heroes whereas post-WW2 depictions present the journalist as alienated outsider? Why are contemporary fictional journalists often deranged, murderous or intensely vulnerable? As newspaper journalism faces the double crisis of a lack of trust post-Leveson, and a lack of influence in the fragmented internet age, ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Human Rights and Literature

    Writing Rights

    by Pramod K. Nayar ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations. Examining violated bodies and subjects, the settings and environments in which these are embedded and the witnessing of atrocities, it considers how the ‘subject ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Alice Sutcliffe

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 7

    by Patrick Cullen ...
    Series Book 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Alice Sutcliffe was married in 1624 (her birth and death dates are not known, nor her exact marriage date) to John Sutcliffe who was Esquire to the Body of James I. He later became Groom of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber at the Court of Charles I and it is suggested by some of her writings that Alice also had a role at Court. Meditations of Man’s Mortalitie consists of six prose ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Radio Modernism

    Literature, Ethics, and the BBC, 1922–1938

    by Todd Avery ...
    Radio Modernism marries the fields of radio studies and modernist cultural historiography to the recent 'ethical turn' in literary and cultural studies to examine how representative British writers negotiated the moral imperative for public service broadcasting that was crafted, embraced, and implemented by the BBC's founders and early administrators. Weaving together the institutional history of ... Read more

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  • Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal

    Writing Scotland & South Africa

    Edited by Kai Easton, Derek Attridge ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings together interdisciplinary essays from the UK, USA, South Africa, and Australia, demonstrating Wicomb’s importance as a novelist, short-story writer, and ... Read more

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  • Israel... From Goshen to Sinai - Easy Reader Edition

    Synchronizing the Bible, Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees

    by Minister 2 Others, Ahava Lilburn ...
    Series Book 6 - Ancient Texts and the Bible
    The Ancient Texts and the Bible series was compiled by Ahava Lilburn and produced by Minister 2 Others. This ten volume set synchronizes the manuscripts of Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees into the Bible, making one complete storyline. The books are interwoven using the Torah as the backbone, and the extra-biblical texts as the fleshing out of that backbone.The sixth book in this series contains Exodus ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England

    by Edith Snook ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts, for evidence of ways in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century ... Read more

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  • Site Reading

    Fiction, Art, Social Form

    by Professor David J. Alworth ...
    Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites—supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums—that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional understanding of setting as a static background for narrative action and character development, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD