 | Survivor Rhetoric: Negotiations and Narrativity in Abused Women's Language
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0802089739 | ISBN-13: 978-0802089731| Edition: 1 Survivor Rhetoric is a collection of essays about the language of abused women and girls written by feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, psychology, law, and criminal justice. Editors Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelmann have compiled a wholly original volume where diversity issues are critical, and which includes narratives from U.S. Appalachian evangelicals, lesbian women represented in Canadian feminist educational tracks, an American conver...
 |  | Russian Postmodernist Metafiction
Publication Date: April 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 3034306091 | ISBN-13: 978-3034306096One of the most outstanding properties of Russian postmodernist fiction is its reliance on metafictional devices which foreground aspects of the writing, reading or structure, and draw attention to the constructed nature of fiction writing. Some common metafictional strategies include overt commentary on the process of writing, the presence of an obtrusive narrator, dehumanization of character, total breakdown of temporal and spatial organization and the undermining of specific literary conventions. This book ...
|  | A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
Publication Date: December 30, 1991| ISBN-10: 0313273642 | ISBN-13: 978-0313273643Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their views on their own work and contemporary drama, and offer projections about theater for the 21st century. Proceeding from the premise that recent drama in various ways is a reaction to the modernism of Theater of the Absurd, the interviewer, John DiGaetani, terms the diverse responses "postmodernism." This concept, while not universally accepted by the playwrights interviewed, becomes a point of departu...
|  | Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times (Routledge Studies in Folklore and Fairy Tales)
Publication Date: April 28, 2009| ISBN-10: 0415994683 | ISBN-13: 978-0415994682| Edition: 1 This project provides an in-depth study of narratives about Bluebeard and his wives, or narratives with identifiable Bluebeard motifs, and the intertextual and extratextual personal, political, literary, and sociocultural factors that have made the tale a particularly fertile ground for an author’s adaptation of the story. Whereas Charles Dickens, for example, expresses a sympathetic identification with Bluebeard, and a discernable strain of misogyny emerges in his recreation of the tale an...
|  | Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States
Publication Date: October 12, 1999| ISBN-10: 0803959117 | ISBN-13: 978-0803959118| Edition: 1 In Speaking Culturally Fern Johnson probes the rich cultural legacies and deep cultural dimensions underlying discourse in the United States. This culturally rich examination of discourse places the changing demographics of the United States in linguistic perspective and draws upon the author’s "language-centered perspective on culture" to illuminate the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. Language is placed in the context...
|  | Second Language Conversations (Advances in Applied Linguistics)
Publication Date: June 2004| ISBN-10: 0826469086 | ISBN-13: 978-0826469083| Edition: Pbk. Ed Conversations involving speakers whose first language is not the language in which they are talking have become widespread in the globalized world. Migration and increased travel for business or pleasure - as well as communication through new technologies such as the internet - make Second Language Conversations an increasingly common everyday event. Here, Conversation Analysis is used to explore natural, casual talk between speakers in a second language. The contributors shift emphasis away from...
|  | Romancing the Postmodern
Publication Date: July 21, 1992| ISBN-10: 041507987X | ISBN-13: 978-0415079877| Edition: 1 "Romancing the Postmodern" exposes the theory of romance to the romance of theory, outlining the implications for feminism of literature's least easily definable genre. By re-aligning the two powerful genres of postmodernism and romance, Diane Elam highlights what is unique to postmodernism about the definition of history, and reintroduces the previously hidden figure of woman in the light of new gender definitions. Elam offers a new theoretical stance, reaching back to literature's greatest romant...
|  | Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction
Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521464994 | ISBN-13: 978-0521464994This study proposes a new theory of speech acts, Dynamic Speech Act Theory. It is predicated on the assumption that speech act theory, if it is to be of genuine empirical and theoretical significance, must be embedded within a general theory of conversational competence capable of accounting for how we do things with words in naturally occurring conversation, and it synthesizes traditional speech act theory, conversation analysis, and artificial intelligence research in natural language processing. ...
|  | Signs of Change: Premodern - Modern - Postmodern (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and Literature, 4)
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|  | Social Work Practices: Contemporary Perspectives on Change
Publication Date: January 28, 2000| ISBN-10: 0761962727 | ISBN-13: 978-0761962724| Edition: 1 Karen Healy profoundly challenges, in the context of the postmodernity of late capitalism, many of the assumptions upon which the critical tradition in social work has been founded. This is a book which interrogates not only the emancipatory metanarratives of left perspectives from her position within the left, but also questions many of the received ideas about her professional power and identity, and about the kinds of social work practices necessary in order to continue to pursue welfare as a...
|  | The Subject and the Text: Essays on Literary Theory and Philosophy (Literature, Culture, Theory)
Publication Date: January 28, 1998| ISBN-10: 0521561213 | ISBN-13: 978-0521561211The dominance in literary theory of perspectives derived from French poststructuralism is shown by the priority accorded to language. In this collection of essays, the German philosopher Manfred Frank challenges many of the fundamental assumptions of contemporary theory. The emphasis on language, he claims, ignores key arguments inherited from Romantic hermeneutics, those which demonstrate that interpretation is an individual activity never finally governed by rules. Andrew Bowie's introduction situates Fran...
|  | Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism/No. 2 (Bucknell Review, V. 25, No. 2)
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|  | Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity
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|  | Speakers, Listeners and Communication: Explorations in Discourse Analysis
Publication Date: September 29, 1995| ISBN-10: 0521481570 | ISBN-13: 978-0521481571Gillian Brown draws on a wide range of examples of discourse analysis to explore the ways in which speakers and listeners use language collaboratively to talk about what they can see in front of them and about a series of events. The focus of her attention is on the listener's role, as the listener tries to make sense of what the speaker says in a highly constrained context; and her cognitive/pragmatic approach to discourse analysis both complements and challenges current sociological/anthropological persp...
|  | Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
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|  | Self As Narrative: Subjectivity and Community in Contemporary Fiction (Oxford English Monographs)
Publication Date: August 29, 1996| ISBN-10: 019818364X | ISBN-13: 978-0198183648Remembrance and self-reflection are narrative acts in which we create, rather than simply retrieve, our personal pasts and hence our conceptions of who we are. Self as Narrative considers the human capacity to evaluate, modify, and move between a plurality of communal and communicative contexts in the creation of meaningful narratives of selfhood. ...
|  | The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity
Publication Date: June 1, 1998The Subject and Other Subjects theorizes the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. When a person is called beautiful, why does it strike us as an objectification? Is a person whom we consider to be an exemplary person still a person, and not an example? Can one person conceive what it means to have the perspective of a community? This study treats these thorny issues in the context of recent debates in cultural studies, feminism, literary criticism, narrative theory, and moral philosophy concerning the nature and directions...
|  | Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing
Publication Date: June 1, 1998In a wide-ranging study, Josh Cohen argues that the American fixation with "image" - literally celebrating the surface, the visual, the spectacular spaces of the cinema and the city - has produced a crisis of literary perception, with crucial cultural and political consequences. Using the work of Walter Benjamin to underscore his analysis, Cohen explores the implications of this postmodern obsession in a series of fascinating readings of contemporary American fiction - Norman Mailer, James Ellory, Robert Coover and Joan Didion amongst others - and draws on new t...
|  | Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics in Postmodern Realisms
Publication Date: April 19, 2010Postmodernism's critics often accuse the movement of being dangerously amoral due to its apparent wariness of concepts such as truth, ethics and justice. "Stories of the Middle Space" explores the possibility of 'postmodernism-with-a-conscience' and examines a variety of British and Canadian postmodern fiction to show how twentieth-century critical theory can be brought into fruitful dialogue with a faith-based perspective. Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes...
| | Semiotics and Legal Theory (Legal Semiotics Monographs)
Publication Date: June 1, 1997| Series: Legal Semiotics Monographs Semiotics and Legal Theory is an exercise in exposition, comparison, criticism, and construction. Jackson takes two very different intellectual traditions - structuralist semiotics as represented by A.J. Greimas and modern (mainly positivist) legal theory as represented by Hart, MacCormick, Dworkin, and Kelsen¡Xand by juxtaposing them seeks to clarify and assess their respective semiotic presuppositions, in order to lay some foundations for a semiotically sensitive theory of law.This book is designed for both jurists and...
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