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  • Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies

    Fences, Boundaries, and Fields

    by Patrick D. Murphy ...
    In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and then goes on to interrogate these issues in contemporary environmental literature, both American and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Essentials of the Theory of Fiction

    by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Catherine Burgass, Joseph Tabbi, Susan S. Lanser ...
    What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several decades it has opened up broader dialogues about the nature of culture and interpretation. This third edition of the bestselling Essentials of the Theory of Fiction provides a comprehensive view of the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis

    Climate Change, Subsistence, and Questionable Futures

    by Patrick D. Murphy ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis continues Patrick D. Murphy's focus on transversal ecocritical praxis by considering literature and cinema in terms of the persuasive force of aesthetic activity and whether or not artistic production and its criticism can be considered forms of activism. Murphy argues that literature and other forms of aesthetic production hold out the promise of being able ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective

    Between Sea and Sky

    by Toyosato Mayumi, Iwaoka Nakamasa, Ikezawa Natsuki, Christine Marran, Livia Monnet, Karen Thornber, Watanabe Kyoji, Patrick D. Murphy ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many critics as Japan’s most original and important literary writer. Ishimure has written over 50 volumes ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Transversal Ecocritical Praxis

    Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique

    by Patrick D. Murphy ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    In Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique, Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D, utilizes ecocriticism and ecofeminism to develop his concept of transversal practice: an interdisciplinary combination of theory and applied criticism. He begins by explaining the necessity for cutting across disciplinary boundaries of all kinds in order to address the ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Media Commons

    Globalization and Environmental Discourses

    by Patrick D Murphy ...
    Series series Geopolitics of Information
    Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's many distinct, competing, and even antagonistic environmental discourses.The media draws the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Global Media Studies

    An Ethnographic Perspective

    Edited by Marwan Kraidy, Patrick D. Murphy ...
    Global Media Studies explores the theoretical and methodological threats that are defining global media studies as a discipline.Emphasizing the connection of globalisation to local culture, this collection considers the diversity of modes of reception, reception contexts, uses of media content, and the performative and creative relationships that audiences develop with and through the media. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    by Steven J. Venturino PhD ...
    From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

    $26.59 USD

  • Theory of Literature

    by Paul H. Fry ...
    Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?Fry engages with the major themes and strands ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Feminism without Borders

    Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

    by Chandra Talpade Mohanty ...
    Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and pedagogy, Mohanty has been at the vanguard of Third World and international feminist thought and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Globalization and Culture

    by John Tomlinson ...
    Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization.The book starts with an analysis of the relationship between the globalization process and contemporary culture change and goes on to relate this to ... Read more

    $20.00 USD