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Barthes: A Very Short Introduction

Barthes: A Very Short Introduction  

Jonathan Culler

Print Publication Year: 
Feb 2002
Published Online: 
Sep 2013
eISBN: 
9780191775369
DOI: 
10.1093/actrade/9780192801593.001.0001
Item type: 
book
ISBN: 
9780192801593
Roland Barthes: A Very Short Introduction elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes, whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world ... More
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction

Comedy: A Very Short Introduction  

Matthew Bevis

Print Publication Year: 
Dec 2012
Published Online: 
Sep 2013
eISBN: 
9780191778131
DOI: 
10.1093/actrade/9780199601714.001.0001
Item type: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199601714
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction studies written forms of comedy such as prose fiction, poetry, caricatures, and cartoons. There are also performance forms of comedy such as ... More
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)  

Jonathan Culler

Print Publication Year: 
Jul 2011
Published Online: 
Sep 2013
eISBN: 
9780191778384
DOI: 
10.1093/actrade/9780199691340.001.0001
Item type: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199691340
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction addresses the questions: What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is ... More
Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction  

Christopher Butler

Print Publication Year: 
Jul 2010
Published Online: 
Sep 2013
eISBN: 
9780191775963
DOI: 
10.1093/actrade/9780192804419.001.0001
Item type: 
book
ISBN: 
9780192804419
Modernism: A Very Short Introduction examines how and why modernism began, what it is, how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Modernism ... More
Myth: A Very Short Introduction

Myth: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)  

Robert Segal

Print Publication Year: 
Jul 2015
Published Online: 
Jul 2015
eISBN: 
9780191792328
DOI: 
10.1093/actrade/9780198724704.001.0001
Item type: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198724704
Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? Myth: A Very Short Introduction introduces a wide array of approaches to understanding myth from disciplines as ... More
Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction

Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction  

Richard Toye

Print Publication Year: 
Mar 2013
Published Online: 
Sep 2013
eISBN: 
9780191778285
DOI: 
10.1093/actrade/9780199651368.001.0001
Item type: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199651368
Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if it is viewed in more neutral terms, as the ‘art of persuasion’, it is clear ... More
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction

Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction  

Adrian Poole

Print Publication Year: 
Aug 2005
Published Online: 
Sep 2013
eISBN: 
9780191775543
DOI: 
10.1093/actrade/9780192802354.001.0001
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book
ISBN: 
9780192802354
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction addresses questions of tragedy about belief, blame, mourning, revenge, pain, witnessing, timing, and ending and demonstrates the age-old ... More

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