Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, human identity, and the power of language. Fully updated for 2011 and including a new chapter on 'Ethics and aesthetics',...

A classic survey of structuralist literary criticism combined with a discussion about how English and American criticism might benefit from its lessons. von Culler, Jonathan

What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Examining ancient and modern poems from Sappho to Ashbery, Jonathan Culler reveals the limitations of these...

In "The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction", führt Jonathan Culler die Leser in die Welt der Semiotik und Literaturwissenschaft ein. Das Buch ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die sich auf verschiedene Aspekte der...