Theory in Literary Theory & Criticism & Fiction & Literature Audiobooks

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Cervantes o la crítica de la lectura

by Carlos Fuentes ...

Narrated by Noé Velázquez ...

Unabridged

3 hours 21 min

«Don Quijote, el loco, está loco no sólo porque ha creído lo que ha leído. También está loco porque cree, como caballero andante, que la justicia es su deber y que la justicia es posible.»Desde Zona sagrada hasta Terra Nostra, la narrativa de Carlos Fuentes oscilaba entre la sobriedad en el relato y la obra como una broma que asaltaba la realidad para trastocarla.... ... Read more

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«Don Quijote, el loco, está loco no sólo porque ha creído lo que ha leído. También está loco porque cree, como caballero andante, que la justicia es su deber y que la justicia es posible.»Desde Zona sagrada hasta Terra Nostra, la narrativa de Carlos Fuentes oscilaba entre la sobriedad en el relato y la obra como una broma que asaltaba la realidad para trastocarla....
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Against Interpretation, and Other Essays

by Susan Sontag ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, ... Read more

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Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss,
... Read more
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Beginning theory

An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

by Peter Barry ...

Narrated by Lucy Scott ...

Series series Beginnings
Unabridged

13 hours 25 min

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

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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
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Gulliver’s Travels

by Jonathan Swift ...

Narrated by Martin Shaw ...

Abridged

3 hours 9 min

Swift’s scornful satire, written “to vex the world rather than divert it”, takes a caustic look at those most contemporary concerns irrational prejudice, social inequality, ivory tower elitism and the correct way to open a boiled egg.'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the ... Read more

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Swift’s scornful satire, written “to vex the world rather than divert it”, takes a caustic look at those most contemporary concerns irrational prejudice, social inequality, ivory tower elitism and the correct way to open a boiled egg.'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the
... Read more
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

by René Girard ...

Narrated by Mike Fraser ...

Unabridged

21 hours 25 min

An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and interest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the listener compelled to ... Read more

$24.99 USD

An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and interest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the listener compelled to
... Read more
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Snack

Object Lessons

by Eurie Dahn ...

Narrated by Megan Gage ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

2 hours 46 min

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In the hierarchy of foods, snacks are deemed trivial – perhaps even childish – especially in contrast to meals, which are seen as substantial and necessary. The multiple aisles devoted to sweet and savory treats in supermarkets, and the availability of snacks even at places like home ... Read more

$22.00 USD

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In the hierarchy of foods, snacks are deemed trivial – perhaps even childish – especially in contrast to meals, which are seen as substantial and necessary. The multiple aisles devoted to sweet and savory treats in supermarkets, and the availability of snacks even at places like home
... Read more
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Wallpaper

by Dr. or Prof. Marc Olivier ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.We live with wallpaper not only indoors, but also in art, cinema, fashion, video games, and in our desktops and smart phones. A papered wall can represent a kind of unrelenting screen time, an inescapable ambience that plays on our minds. Paper, plastic, or pixels, wallpaper always exceeds the ... Read more

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.We live with wallpaper not only indoors, but also in art, cinema, fashion, video games, and in our desktops and smart phones. A papered wall can represent a kind of unrelenting screen time, an inescapable ambience that plays on our minds. Paper, plastic, or pixels, wallpaper always exceeds the
... Read more
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Biografías breves - Jorge Luis Borges

by Luis Machado, Luis Machado ...

Narrated by Varios narradores ...

Unabridged

1 hour 25 min

Jorge Luis Borges fue, tal vez, el escritor más gravitante de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Más que ningún otro, construyó su imagen a partir de su posición como lector: el mito de la biblioteca paterna, las bibliotecas infinitas de sus ficciones.La literatura borgeana juega todo el tiempo con los contornos de la identidad. No es de extrañar que el hombre detrás de ella nos presente sus propios ... Read more

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Jorge Luis Borges fue, tal vez, el escritor más gravitante de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Más que ningún otro, construyó su imagen a partir de su posición como lector: el mito de la biblioteca paterna, las bibliotecas infinitas de sus ficciones.La literatura borgeana juega todo el tiempo con los contornos de la identidad. No es de extrañar que el hombre detrás de ella nos presente sus propios
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Fist

Object Lessons

by (they/them) nelle mills ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Our ability to make a fist is what distinguishes humans from every other species, including primates. The fist has played a crucial role in the birth of language and appears in nearly every form of nonverbal communication. We use our fist to protest oppression, give pleasure, knock on doors, ... Read more

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Our ability to make a fist is what distinguishes humans from every other species, including primates. The fist has played a crucial role in the birth of language and appears in nearly every form of nonverbal communication. We use our fist to protest oppression, give pleasure, knock on doors,
... Read more
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Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin

Education, Culture, and the Role of Women

by John Ruskin ...

Unabridged

4 hours 21 min

This influential essay collection examines reading, education, and moral development. John Ruskin reflects on culture and the intellectual growth of women, making this audiobook significant in social thought and literary criticism. ... Read more

$0.99 USD

This influential essay collection examines reading, education, and moral development. John Ruskin reflects on culture and the intellectual growth of women, making this audiobook significant in social thought and literary criticism.
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Over vandet går jeg

Skitse til en poetik

by Pia Tafdrup ...

Narrated by Pia Tafdrup ...

Unabridged

4 hours 4 min

Som den første kvinde i Norden udsendte Pia Tafdrup i 1991 en poetik. Over vandet går jeg er specifikt knyttet til hendes eget lyriske projekt. Formen er skitsens, der spørges, mere end der svares. Men med sin insisteren og manglende angst for det patetiske markerede værket sig som et personligt og kompromisløst udsagn. ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Som den første kvinde i Norden udsendte Pia Tafdrup i 1991 en poetik. Over vandet går jeg er specifikt knyttet til hendes eget lyriske projekt. Formen er skitsens, der spørges, mere end der svares. Men med sin insisteren og manglende angst for det patetiske markerede værket sig som et personligt og kompromisløst udsagn.
... Read more
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Le complexe d'Hermès

Regards philosophiques sur la traduction

by Charles Le Blanc ...

Narrated by Charles Le Blanc ...

Unabridged

5 hours

Lauréat du Prix Victor-Barbeau et finaliste des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général. Sans théorie générale, la traduction est limitée à réfléchir sur son activité de communication et à n'être jamais qu'une fraction d'une discipline nommée herméneutique. Cette limitation de la traduction à son rôle de communication, rôle qui marque un certain enfermement dans le langage, forme ce que l'on nomme ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Lauréat du Prix Victor-Barbeau et finaliste des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général. Sans théorie générale, la traduction est limitée à réfléchir sur son activité de communication et à n'être jamais qu'une fraction d'une discipline nommée herméneutique. Cette limitation de la traduction à son rôle de communication, rôle qui marque un certain enfermement dans le langage, forme ce que l'on nomme
... Read more
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Drone

Object Lessons

by Adam Rothstein ...

Narrated by Greg Lockett ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toys to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are, the word “drone” fills many of us with a ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toys to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are, the word “drone” fills many of us with a
... Read more
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La estructura ausente

Introducción a la semiótica

by Umberto Eco ...

Narrated by Javier Portugués ...

Unabridged

15 hours 26 min

Una introducción a la semiótica de la mano de su mayor experto: Umberto EcoDespués de Obra abierta, en la que estudiaba los lenguajes experimentales del arte contemporáneo, y de Apocalípticos e integrados, donde abordaba las técnicas y los temas de la comunicación de masas, Umberto Eco analiza aquí las fronteras de la semiótica. Comprender los sistemas de signos obliga a ver los códigos como ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Una introducción a la semiótica de la mano de su mayor experto: Umberto EcoDespués de Obra abierta, en la que estudiaba los lenguajes experimentales del arte contemporáneo, y de Apocalípticos e integrados, donde abordaba las técnicas y los temas de la comunicación de masas, Umberto Eco analiza aquí las fronteras de la semiótica. Comprender los sistemas de signos obliga a ver los códigos como
... Read more
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Modern Genre Theory

An Introduction for Biblical Studies

by Andrew Judd ...

Narrated by Les Horovitz ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

How a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text.The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware approach to genre. Different conceptions of narrative, poetry, gospel, epistle, wisdom, and apocalyptic texts lead to vastly different readings, and our disagreements about what the Bible means often boil ... Read more

$29.99 USD

How a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text.The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware approach to genre. Different conceptions of narrative, poetry, gospel, epistle, wisdom, and apocalyptic texts lead to vastly different readings, and our disagreements about what the Bible means often boil
... Read more
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Vilters leksikon over børnebandeord

by Lars Henriksen, Anders Larson ...

Narrated by Mathias Elmose ...

Unabridged

2 hours 17 min

Børn bander, og det er helt okay. Faktisk er det sundt at sætte trumf på følelserne indimellem, men det lyder forfærdeligt. Især i ørerne på de voksne, så hvad kan man gøre? Vilters Leksikon over børnebandeord viser en ny og sjov måde at bande på, hvor ingen bliver sure.I denne bog finder man 50 børnebandeord, der føles lige så gode at sige som voksenbandeord, men som lyder meget pænere. Man ... Read more

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Børn bander, og det er helt okay. Faktisk er det sundt at sætte trumf på følelserne indimellem, men det lyder forfærdeligt. Især i ørerne på de voksne, så hvad kan man gøre? Vilters Leksikon over børnebandeord viser en ny og sjov måde at bande på, hvor ingen bliver sure.I denne bog finder man 50 børnebandeord, der føles lige så gode at sige som voksenbandeord, men som lyder meget pænere. Man
... Read more
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GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History

by Amit Varma ...

Narrated by Amit Varma ...

Series Audiobook 11 - The Book Club with Amit Varma
Unabridged

7 min

The GDP is today more a political tool than a statistical one. In episode 11 of The Book Club, Amit Varma recommends 'GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History" by Diane Coyle, a perfect primer on the origin and drawbacks of this controversial measure. ... Read more

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The GDP is today more a political tool than a statistical one. In episode 11 of The Book Club, Amit Varma recommends 'GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History" by Diane Coyle, a perfect primer on the origin and drawbacks of this controversial measure.
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Au Revoir, Tristesse

Lessons in Happiness from French Literature

by Viv Groskop ...

Narrated by Gabrielle Baker ...

Unabridged

9 hours 41 min

"Groskop skillfully juggles memoir, biography, philosophy, and literary criticism to create a delightful tour through some of French literature's greats." —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling authorLike many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age eleven, and spent ... Read more

$19.99 USD

"Groskop skillfully juggles memoir, biography, philosophy, and literary criticism to create a delightful tour through some of French literature's greats." —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling authorLike many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age eleven, and spent
... Read more
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Mythologies

The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

by Roland Barthes ...

Narrated by John Lee ...

Unabridged

9 hours 13 min

What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? Anepic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconicimages of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they arefabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these"mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass culture.When Roland Barthes's groundbreaking Mythologies ... Read more

$17.99 USD

What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? Anepic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconicimages of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they arefabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these"mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass culture.When Roland Barthes's groundbreaking Mythologies
... Read more
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On the Inconvenience of Other People

by Lauren Berlant ...

Narrated by April Doty ...

Unabridged

9 hours 19 min

In On the Inconvenience of Other People, Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, ... Read more

$20.99 USD

In On the Inconvenience of Other People, Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine,
... Read more
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Waste

Object Lessons

by Dr. Brian Thill ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it’s also waste—or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it’s also waste—or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled
... Read more
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Taco

Object Lessons

by Prof. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado ...

Narrated by Michel Issa Rubio ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours 23 min

Bloomsbury presents Taco by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, read by Michel Issa RubioObject Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, Sánchez Prado discusses the definition of the taco, the question of ... Read more

$22.00 USD

Bloomsbury presents Taco by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, read by Michel Issa RubioObject Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, Sánchez Prado discusses the definition of the taco, the question of
... Read more
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Romanzi. Leggerli, scriverli

by Cesare De Marchi, Cesare De Marchi ...

Narrated by Enrico Ballardini ...

Unabridged

6 hours 7 min

Questo saggio, che si rivolge a tutti i lettori di romanzi, specialisti e non, si interroga sul fatto sorprendente che questi oggetti di carta stampata e di "sostanza immateriale" abbiano il potere di isolare per ore intere dalla vita reale persone d'ogni età e cultura con la sola forza – di che cosa? Delle parole: perché, osserva l'autore, un romanzo non è altro che un movimento di parole. In ... Read more

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Questo saggio, che si rivolge a tutti i lettori di romanzi, specialisti e non, si interroga sul fatto sorprendente che questi oggetti di carta stampata e di "sostanza immateriale" abbiano il potere di isolare per ore intere dalla vita reale persone d'ogni età e cultura con la sola forza – di che cosa? Delle parole: perché, osserva l'autore, un romanzo non è altro che un movimento di parole. In
... Read more
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L'arte di raccontare

by Cesare De Marchi, Cesare De Marchi ...

Narrated by Enrico Ballardini ...

Unabridged

1 hour 52 min

Dopo la pubblicazione del saggio Romanzi. Leggerli, scriverli (2007), l'autore torna a riflettere sul genere letterario romanzo e raccoglie una serie di considerazioni condotte sul duplice versante della lettura e della scrittura. I romanzi, questi oggetti di «sostanza immaginaria», non sono che «un movimento di parole»: ogni testo è un movimento verbale, e il movimento specifico del testo ... Read more

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Dopo la pubblicazione del saggio Romanzi. Leggerli, scriverli (2007), l'autore torna a riflettere sul genere letterario romanzo e raccoglie una serie di considerazioni condotte sul duplice versante della lettura e della scrittura. I romanzi, questi oggetti di «sostanza immaginaria», non sono che «un movimento di parole»: ogni testo è un movimento verbale, e il movimento specifico del testo
... Read more

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