 | 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...
 |  | Technologics: Ghosts, the Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)
Publication Date: January 2005| Series: S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture Adding to the growing field of posthuman or cyborg studies, TechnoLogics explores how our position in the technologized world reorders, in the most radical ways imaginable, our basic experience of the lines governing literary, philosophical, and cultural production. The ancient dream of immortality is now becoming realized through cloning, genetic research, and artificial intelligence, bringing with it the need for new forms of both reading and living in the everyday world. In this emerging cyborg culture, what is t...
|  | Terry Eagleton (Transitions)
Publication Date: June 12, 2004| ISBN-10: 0333801288 | ISBN-13: 978-0333801284This is the first book-length account of the foremost marxist cultural theorist of our time. Alderson provides detailed discussions of Eagleton's marxism and his engagements with postmodernism, as well as an evaluation of his interventions in Irish Studies.The complex relations between nature, culture and ideology, body, subjectivity and authority are shown to be at the heart of Eagleton's ethical and political concerns, and to inform his critical examinations of such literary works as Wuthering Heights and The...
|  | 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. ...
|  | The Texture of Casual Conversation: A Multidimensional Interpretation (FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS)
Publication Date: December 31, 2012| ISBN-10: 1845531191 | ISBN-13: 978-1845531195Over the last three decades there has been an ever-increasing interest in the analysis of spoken interaction. Work on casual conversation, which for a time was found to present virtually insuperable problems to the analyst, has now come to occupy as prominent a place as institutional interactions. Many approaches to casual conversation have been partial, and the author's own seminal publication with Suzanne Eggins, Analysing Casual Conversation (1997) was a milestone in demonstrating the value of locating t...
|  | Thinking Difference: Critics in Conversation (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Publication Date: May 18, 2004| ISBN-10: 0823223086 | ISBN-13: 978-0823223084| Edition: 2 Differencehas been a term of choice in the humanities for the last few decades, animating an extraordinary variety of work in philosophy, literary studies, religion, law, the social sciences-indeed, in virtually every area of the academy.In projects ranging from deconstructive readings of canonical texts to a radical rethinking of the sacred, differencehas been the node around which theorists have explored questions of conflict, power, identity, meaning, and knowledge itself in postmodern culture. A...
|  | 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...
|  | The Translated World: A Postmodern Tour of Libraries in Literature
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|  | The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence
Publication Date: November 4, 1994Much of the critical writing on the fiction of Alice Munro has explored and emphasized Munro's 'realism'. But her stories frequently turn on what has been left out; they are rife with unsent (unfinished) letters, with things people mean to, but do not, say or tell. Ajay Heble's study focuses on Munro's involvement with a 'discourse of absence' and suggests that our understanding of these texts often depends not only on what happens in the fiction, but also on what might have happened.Munro's stories confer their meaning not simply by referring to an outer re...
|  | 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...
|  | True Relations: Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
Publication Date: January 21, 1998| ISBN-10: 0313305099 | ISBN-13: 978-0313305092The essays in this collection explore new directions in autobiography studies. Examining a wide range of texts, from narratives of suicide survivors, cross-dressers, and people with HIV/AIDS to self-representations in the visual arts, the collection demonstrates how writers have used the postmodern experience fragmentation to forge new kinds of identities.Postmodern selves, the essayists argue, are relational selves, constructed from the acute need to find identity through collaboration with others. Postmode...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater (The A to Z Guide Series)
Publication Date: July 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 0810868555 | ISBN-13: 978-0810868557Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in opposition to or in parallel with an external reality; fabulations that develop both of these strategies; texts that ironize their relationship to reality; works that use the aspects already noted to more fully engage with political or cultural realities; texts that ...
|  | 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...
|  | Telling the American Story: A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Storytelling (Language and Being)
Publication Date: January 1, 1985| ISBN-10: 0893910414 | ISBN-13: 978-0893910419This book explores the complexity of story text. Its thesis is that one can elicit the world view of a people from a close structural analysis of their narrative discourse. It is the first methodological explanation of how stories can be used as a source of cultural data and an illustration of how to do a rhetorically close analysis of a story text. A theory of narrative structure is presented which leads to a conversationally based definition of what can properly be called a story. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Time and Commodity Culture: Essays on Cultural Theory and Postmodernity
Publication Date: January 8, 1998| ISBN-10: 0198159471 | ISBN-13: 978-0198159476Time and Commodity Culture is a detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of the cultural systems of postmodernity. Through a series of four linked essays on postmodern theory, tourism, gift exchange and commodity exchange, and the social organization of memory, it explores some of the implications of the commodification of culture for the contemporary and postmodern world. ...
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