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Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals)

Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Israel Scheffler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136961631

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Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles to be avoided in the construction of scientific systems. First published in 1979, Beyond the Letter offers a consecutive study of these features from a philosphical point of view, providing analyses of each and treating their relations to one another. Addressed to the fundamental task of logical and semantic explanation, the book employs an inscriptional methodology in the attempt to avoid prevalent forms of question-begging, and, further, in the conviction that sparseness of assumption often reveals points of theoretical interest irrespective of methodolgical preference. The author distinguishes and analyses several varieties of ambiguity, developing new semantic notions in the process; recasts the philosophical treatment of vagueness in the light of recent criticisms of analyticity; discusses the bearing of vagueness on logic; and provides a systematic critique of major recent interpretations of metaphor, developing a revised version of contextualism.


Routledge Revivals: Arguing With The Past (1989)

Routledge Revivals: Arguing With The Past (1989)
Author: Gillian Beer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1351267825

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First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot. Three chapters on Virginia Woolf demonstrate how Woolf’s reading of past literature, philosophy, and science gave her an intellectual and emotional purchase on problems of feminism and modernism. Beer examines how writers create dialogues with past writing, how readers of the present day engage with the difference of past literature, and how we make contact with the desires and debates of past readers.


The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals)

The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Christopher Norris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2010
Genre: Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN: 1136998942

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Annotation What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published in 1983, Christopher Norris book was the first to explore such questions in the context of modern analytic and linguistic philosophy, opening up a new and challenging dimension of inter-disciplinary study and creating a fresh and productive dialogue between philosophy and literary theory.


Routledge Revivals: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume I (1994)

Routledge Revivals: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume I (1994)
Author: Edgar F. Harden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 942
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315445425

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First published in 1994, these two volumes are intended as a supplement to the four-volume edition edited by Gordon N. Ray in 1945-46. In writing to his broad range of correspondents, Thackeray produced a varied body of letters that will help readers to better understand his nineteenth-century society as well as his professional and private life — especially his relationships with women. These volumes contain 1713 letters: 1464 to and from Thackeray that were not included in the earlier volumes, and 249 with texts that have been edited from newly available manuscripts, and that thereby replace texts that were printed in Ray from incomplete sources.


The Regal Phantasm (Routledge Revivals)

The Regal Phantasm (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Christopher Pye
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317611861

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First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship between theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare’s Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal portraiture and representations of treason and punishment. Renaissance theater was far more than a vehicle for the expression of a political content: it played a constitutive role in forming the distinctive theory of sovereignty and the distinctive political subjectivity of the era. By reading Shakespeare’s plays in conjunction with other, ideologically charged forms of representation, the book continues new-historicist efforts to uncover the complex relations between literary texts and cultural contexts. Providing an interesting and detailed analysis, this reissue will be of value to students of Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, and those concerned with exploring the intersection between cultural analysis, post-structuralism, and psychoanalytic interpretation.


Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003)

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003)
Author: E Michael Gerli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 951
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351665782

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First published in 2003, Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, is the first comprehensive reference to the vital world of medieval Spain. This unique volume focuses on the Iberian kingdoms from the fall of the Roman Empire to the aftermath of the Reconquista and encompass topics of key relevance to medieval Iberia, including people, events, works, and institutions, as well as interdisciplinary coverage of literature, language, history, arts, folklore, religion, and science. It also provides in-depth discussions of the rich contributions of Muslim and Jewish cultures, and offers useful insights into their interactions with Catholic Spain. With nearly 1,000 signed A-Z entries and written by renowned specialists in the field, this comprehensive work is an invaluable tool for students, scholars, and general readers alike.


Routledge Revivals: Neglected Powers (1971)

Routledge Revivals: Neglected Powers (1971)
Author: G. Wilson Knight
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 135139066X

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First published in 1971, Professor Knight’s book draws analytic attention to poets including Tennyson, Masefield, and Brooke, who are shown to hold a dimension of meaning previously ignored or misunderstood. Homage is paid to John Cowper Powys as one of the foremost seers of the modern age. A comprehensive review of the work of Francis Berry claims to establish him as our foremost living poet. Professor Knight urges, and goes far to prove, that modern literary criticism up until the 1970s failed to touch upon the richer meanings of contemporary literature – he stresses the relation between such acclaimed poets as Yeats and Eliot and the spiritualistic movements of contemporary times. Knight regards youth-revolts as a sign of a healthy dissatisfaction with an irreligious and directionless culture, and believes that hope lies in the neglected powers pressing for acceptance.


Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals)

Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Coral Ann Howells
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317637992

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First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Coral Ann Howells argues that Canadian women’s fiction throughout the period of study represents how the Canadian cultural identity exceeds its geographical limits, and those traditional structures of patriarchal authority need revision if women’s alternative views are to be taken into account. Including short biographical sketches and a complete list of the books published by the authors under discussion, writers examined include Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence.


Latin Literature of the Fourth Century (Routledge Revivals)

Latin Literature of the Fourth Century (Routledge Revivals)
Author: J. W. Binns
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317808576

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This volume, offering an insight into the literary world of Rome in the fourth century AD, reflects an increased interest in the writers of the 150 years before the collapse of the Western Empire, who have long been over-shadowed by the pre-eminence accorded since the eighteenth century to the Golden and Silver ages. Among the writers examined are Ausonius, the poet, Imperial official and tutor to Gratian; Claudian, the last major ‘classical’ poet; Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola, two of the founders of Christian Latin poetry; Symmachus, the letter writer and supporter of die-hard paganism; and St. Augustine, whose influence on Christian thought and the Middle Ages is incalculable. These essays consider how such writers responded to a world where vitality was ebbing from the old forms of political life, religion and literature, giving way to new institutions, modes of life and horizons of reflection.


The History of the Study of Landforms Volume 2 (Routledge Revivals)

The History of the Study of Landforms Volume 2 (Routledge Revivals)
Author: R. P. Beckinsale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 902
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1135836515

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This volume is entirely devoted to the life and work of the world's most famous geomorphologist, William Morris Davis (1850-1934). It contains a treatment in depth of Davis' many contributions to the study of landforms including: the cycle of erosion denudation chronology arid and karst geomorphology the coral reef problem.