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Author | : Jacques Derrida |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1135965242 |
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First published in 1992. "Acts of Literature", compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts on the question of literature. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare and Kafka. Comprising pieces spanning Derrida's career, the collection includes a substantial new interview with him on questions of literature, deconstruction, politics, feminism and history. Derek Attridge provides an introductory essay on deconstruction and the question of literature, and offers suggestions for further reading. These essays examine the place and function of literature in Western culture. They highlight Derrida's interest in literature as a significant cultural institution and as a peculiarly challenging form of writing, with inescapable consequences for our thinking about philosophy, politics and ethics. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics in the field of literary theory and criticism and continental philosophy.
Author | : David R. Bauer |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493429027 |
Download The Book of Acts as Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A senior New Testament scholar and teacher helps students understand the historical, literary, and theological issues of the book of Acts and introduces key concepts in the field of narrative criticism. This volume captures the message of the book of Acts by taking seriously the book's essential character as a powerful story through which Luke communicates profound theological truth. While giving attention to historical background, its purpose is to lead readers through a close reading that yields fresh insights into passages throughout Acts.
Author | : Ben Witherington (III) |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1996-05-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0521495202 |
Download History, Literature, and Society in the Book of Acts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
These seminal essays introduce the reader to the interdisciplinary approach of New Testament scholarship which is affecting the way the Book of Acts is studied and interpreted. Insights from the social sciences, narratological studies, Greek and Roman rhetoric and history, and classics, set the Acts of the Apostles in its original historical, literary and social context; these methods of interpretation have not always been applied to biblical study in a systematic way. The discussions from a shared general perspective range over genre and method, historical and theological problems, and issues of literary criticism. History, Literature and Society in the Book of Acts is an interesting and valuable overview of some of the chief preoccupations of biblical studies with contributions from leading scholars in the Old and New Testaments and the history of antiquity.
Author | : Joseph Hillis Miller |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804742162 |
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This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels literature from the domain of felicitous speech acts, literature is an indispensable presence within Austin's book. It contains many literary references but also uses as essential tools literary devices of its own: imaginary stories that serve as examples and imaginary dialogues that forestall potential objections. How to Do Things with Words is not the triumphant establishment of a fully elaborated theory of speech acts, but the story of a failure to do that, the story of what Austin calls a "bogging down." After an introductory chapter that explores Austin's book in detail, the two following chapters show how Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man in different ways challenge Austin's speech act theory generally and his expulsion of literature specifically. Derrida shows that literature cannot be expelled from speech actsrather that what he calls "iterability" means that any speech act may be literature. De Man asserts that speech act theory involves a radical dissociation between the cognitive and positing dimensions of language, what Austin calls language's "constative" and "performative" aspects. Both Derrida and de Man elaborate new speech act theories that form the basis of new notions of responsible and effective politico-ethical decision and action. The fourth chapter explores the role of strong emotion in effective speech acts through a discussion of passages in Derrida, Wittgenstein, and Austin. The final chapter demonstrates, through close readings of three passages in Proust, the way speech act theory can be employed in an illuminating way in the accurate reading of literary works.
Author | : Sandy Petrey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-08-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134983735 |
Download Speech Acts and Literary Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with a survey of critical essays that have adapted Austin's thought for literary analysis. Speech-act theory emphasizes the social reality created when speakers agree that their language is performative - Austin's term for utterances like: "we hereby declare" or "I promise" that produce rather than describe what they name. In contrast to formal linguistics, speech-act theory insists on language's active prominence in the organization of collective life. The first section of the text concentrates on Austin's determination to situate language in society by demonstrating the social conventions manifest in language. The second and third parts of the book discuss literary critics' responses to speech-act theory's socialisation of language, which have both opened new understandings of textuality in general and stimulated new interpretations of individual works. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics and literary theory.
Author | : Gustavo Martín-Asensio |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2000-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1841271640 |
Download Transitivity-Based Foregrounding in the Acts of the Apostles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study of the language of Acts is based on M. A. K. Halliday's functional grammar, which offers a theory based on linguistic choices and the effects they have on readers or hearers. Interacting with selected interpretations from, among others, C.K. Barrett, Ben C. Witherington, Jerome Neyrey, Jacob Jervell and John Lentz, Martn-Asensio argues that transitivity ('who does what to whom') emerges as a key factor in the foregrounding scheme of Acts, and this analysis offers a linguistically based perspective on Luke's overall concern to underline the supremacy of the divine will on the stage of human affairs.
Author | : Betsy Bird |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0763667714 |
Download Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises — these essays by leading kids’ lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children’s books. Told in lively and affectionate prose, this treasure trove of information for a student, librarian, parent, or anyone wondering about the post–Harry Potter children’s book biz brings contemporary illumination to the warm-and-fuzzy bunny world we think we know.
Author | : Watson E. Mills |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004266887 |
Download A bibliography of the periodical literature on the Acts of the Apostles, 1962-1984 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Preliminary Material -- The Bibliography -- Journal Index.
Author | : Cynthia Lewis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2001-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1135655081 |
Download Literary Practices As Social Acts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines how the social and cultural contexts of classroom and community shape four classroom practices involving literature - read aloud, peer-led literature discussions, teacher-led literature discussions, & independent reading.
Author | : Martin Dibelius |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451414172 |
Download The Book of Acts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
- Provides a fresh perspective on the Book of Acts - Editor's foreword highlights the importance of Dibelius's work - Includes updated notes and bibliographies - Indexes of ancient sources and authors