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  • About Time

    Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

    by Mark Currie ...
    Series series The Frontiers of Theory

    $27.99 USD

  • Postmodern Narrative Theory

    by Mark Currie ...
    Series series Transitions
    How have developments in literary and cultural theory transformed our understanding of narrative? What has happened to narrative in the wake of poststructuralism? What is the role and function of narrative in the contemporary world?In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores these central questions and guides students through the complex theories ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The role of terrorism in twenty-first-century warfare

    by Susanne Martin, Leonard Weinberg, Max Taylor, Mark Currie, John Hogan ...
    Series series New Directions in Terrorism Studies
    This book presents a critical reflection on the major armed conflicts that occurred during the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. Conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria all involved the use of terrorism by one or more groups. Looking to the future, the book asks what this means for violent conflicts yet to come? Using a variety of case studies, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Unexpected

    Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

    by Mark Currie ...
    Series series The Frontiers of Theory

    $31.99 USD

  • Metafiction

    by Mark Currie ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. It comprises two elements: firstly cause, the increasing interpenetration of professional literary criticism and the practice of writing; and secondly effect: an emphasis on the playing with styles and forms, resulting from an enhanced ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Difference

    by Mark Currie ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Difference is one of the most influential critical concepts of recent decades. Mark Currie offers a comprehensive account of the history of the term and its place in some of the most influential schools of theory of the past four decades, including post-structuralism, deconstruction, new historicism, psychoanalysis, French feminism and postcolonialism. Employing literary case studies throughout, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • Wittgenstein

    A Very Short Introduction

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Introducing Semiotics

    A Graphic Guide

    by Paul Cobley ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    "Introducing Semiotics" outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley's incisive text and Litza Jansz's brilliant illustrations, it identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms. For anybody who wishes to know why signs are crucial to human existence and how we ... Read more

    $4.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pragmatics

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... Read more

    $78.79 USD

  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language

    by Michael Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Heidegger and Being and Time

    by Stephen Mulhall ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. A difficult and powerful philosopher, his work requires careful reading. Being and Time was his first major book and remains his most influential work.Heidegger and Being and Time introduces and assesses: Heidegger's life and the background of Being and Time; the ideas and text of Being and Time; Heidegger's importance ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Arif Ahmed ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Published in 1953, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had a deeply unsettling effect upon our most basic philosophical ideas concerning thought, sensation and language. Its claim that philosophical questions of meaning necessitate a close analysis of the way we use language continues to influence Anglo-American philosophy today. However, its compressed and dialogic prose is not always ... Read more

    $31.99 USD