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  • Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction

    The Language of Acknowledgment

    by Greg Chase ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
    The early decades of the twentieth century were a period of major economic and cultural upheaval across Europe and America. Scholars have typically held that novelists responded to these shifts by questioning language’s capacity to picture the world accurately. But, even as modernist novels move away from a view of language as a means of gaining knowledge, they also underscore its capacity to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Read This Before Medical School: How to Study Smarter and Live Better While Excelling in Class and on Your USMLE or COMLEX Board Exams

    by Chase DiMarco, Greg Rodden, Theodore O'Connell ...
    Will medical school make or break you? Whether you've just gotten your acceptance or are already in the cadaver lab, you can get through (relatively) unscathed by learning from those who've already survived and thrived. Herein, we provide you with the hard-won tips, tools, and insights that helped us to excel during those four grueling years. Beyond providing study tips, we draw on inspiration ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50

    Edited by Greg Chase, Juliet Floyd, Sandra Laugier ...
    Series series Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries
    In 1969 Stanley Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? revolutionized philosophy of ordinary language, aesthetics, ethics, tragedy, literature, music, art criticism, and modernism. This volume of new essays offers a multi-faceted exploration of Cavell's first and most important book, fifty years after its publication. The key subjects which animate Cavell's book are explored in detail: ordinary ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old

    New Directions from Old

    Edited by David Rampton ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study of literature and illuminates its fruitful intersection with a variety of other fields, including film, cultural studies, linguistics, and feminism. Many of the contributors draw upon the early ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

    by Richard Eldridge ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, architecture, movies, conceptual art and performance art. This second edition incorporates significant new research on topics including pictorial depiction, musical expression, conceptual art, Hegel, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Revolution of the Ordinary

    Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell

    by Toril Moi ...
    An argument for ordinary language philosophy's ability to transform the prevailing understanding of language, theory and reading in literary studies today.This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell—to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril ... Read more

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  • Deconstruction

    Theory and Practice

    by Christopher Norris ...
    Series series New Accents
    Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The volume focuses on the works of Jacques Derrida which caused this seismic shift in critical thought, as well as the work of North American critics ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Varieties of Authorial Intention

    Literary Theory Beyond the Intentional Fallacy

    by John Farrell ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the intentions of authors without apology. The taboo was enforced by a seminal article, “The Intentional Fallacy,” and it deepened during the era of poststructuralist theory. Even now, when the vocabulary of “critique” that has dominated the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Interpretive Conventions

    The Reader in the Study of American Fiction

    by Steven Mailloux ...
    In Interpretive Conventions**, Steven Mailloux provides a general introduction to reader-response criticism while developing his own specific reader-oriented approach to literature.** He examines five influential theories of the reading process—those of Stanley Fish, Jonathan Culler, Wolfgang Iser, Norman Holland, and David Bleich. He goes on to argue the need for a more comprehensive reader ... Read more

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  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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  • How to Calm Your Mind

    Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times

    by Chris Bailey ...
    A toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies that reveal that the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, runs directly through calm.When Chris Bailey, productivity expert, discovered that he had become stressed and burnt out because he was pushing himself too hard, he realized that he had no right to be giving advice on productivity without learning when and how to rein ... Read more

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  • Narratology

    Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

    by Mieke Bal ...
    Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills years of study of the ways in which we understand both literary and non-literary works. In this ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD