Foregrounded Description in Prose Fiction

José Lopes

• Paperback | Engels | Theory / Culture
• In this wide-ranging study, José Manuel Lopes proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the role of description in prose fiction. He offers readi... Lees meer

Body Language in Literature

Barbara Korte

• Hardcover | Theory / Culture
• An important interdisciplinary study, that establishes a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narra... Lees meer

A Ricoeur Reader

Paul Ricoeur

• Paperback | Engels | Theory / Culture
• Paul Ricoeur is one of the most important modern literary theorists and a philosopher of world renown. This collection brings together his published a... Lees meer

Earthquakes and Explorations

Stephen Scobie

• Paperback | Engels | Theory / Culture
• Like the earthquakes and explorations depicted on the covers of Gertrude Stein's notebooks, this study responds to artistic and linguistic fault lines... Lees meer

Essays on Life Writing

• Paperback | Engels | Theory / Culture
• Life writing is the most flexible and open term available for autobiographical fragments and other kinds of autobiographical-seeming texts. It include... Lees meer

Body Language in Literature

Barbara Korte

• Paperback | Engels | Theory / Culture
• The tilt of a head, the quirk of an eyebrow, or a shift in position can eloquently portray a wide range of emotions without a single word being spoken... Lees meer

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory

• Paperback | Engels | Theory / Culture
• The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools... Lees meer