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61. The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    By Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin

    Series: New Accents

    The experience of colonization and the challenges of the post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of colonial writing in cultures as diverse as India, Australia, the West Indies, Africa...

    Published September 20th 1989 by Routledge
62. Telling Stories

    A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction

    By Steven Cohan, Linda M. Shires

    Series: New Accents

    Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity do not exist in isolation, but are...

    Published October 19th 1988 by Routledge
63. Making a Difference

    Feminist Literary Criticism

    Edited by Gayle Green, Coppélia Kahn

    Series: New Accents

    Feminist scholarship employs gender as a fundamental organizing category of human experience, holding two related premises: men and women have different perceptions or experiences in the same contexts, the male perspective having been dominant in fields of knowledge; and that gender is not a...

    Published December 18th 1985 by Routledge
64. Alternative Shakespeares

    Edited by With a new afterword by Robert Weimann

    Series: New Accents

    This book is a unique collection of essays by founding figures in this movement to remake Shakespeare studies. Each essay challenges the Shakespeare myth and the assumptions underlying traditional modes of criticism....

    Published July 17th 1985 by Routledge
65. Metafiction

    The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction

    By Patricia Waugh

    Series: New Accents

    Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to...

    Published October 17th 1984 by Routledge
66. Narrative Fiction

    Contemporary Poetics

    By Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan

    Series: New Accents

    A synthesis of approaches to narrative fiction, considering Anglo-American New Criticism, Russian Formalism and French Structuralism that formulates the ways readers can, should, and do read narrative fiction....

    Published May 4th 1983 by Routledge
67. Fantasy

    The Literature of Subversion

    By Dr Rosemary Jackson

    Series: New Accents

    This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1973). Dr Jackson...

    Published April 15th 1981 by Routledge
68. The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

    By Keir Elam

    Series: New Accents

    This study, the first of its kind in English, traces the history of semiotic approaches to performance, from the Prague Structuralists' analyses of the theatrical sign in the 1930s to current theories of the code, text and discourse....

    Published October 1st 1980 by Routledge
69. Subculture

    The Meaning of Style

    By Dick Hebdige

    Series: New Accents

    'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to...

    Published August 15th 1979 by Routledge
70. Formalism and Marxism

    By Tony Bennett

    Series: New Accents

    Formalism and Marxism examines the relationship between the work of the Russian Formalists and that of such contemporary Marxist critics as Macherey, Eagleton and René Balibar....

    Published May 16th 1979 by Routledge