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1. Orality and Literacy

   2nd Edition

   By Walter J. Ong

   Series: New Accents

   This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology. In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Orality and Literacy

   The Technologizing of the Word, 3rd Edition

   By Walter J. Ong

   Series: New Accents

   Walter J. Ong’s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought. This thirtieth anniversary edition – coinciding with Ong’s centenary year –...

   Published September 27th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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 November 28th 2011 by Routledge
4. Alternative Shakespeares

   Volume 3

   Edited by Diana E. Henderson

   Series: New Accents

   This volume takes up the challenge embodied in its predecessors, Alternative Shakespeares and Alternative Shakespeares 2, to identify and explore the new, the changing and the radically ‘other’ possibilities for Shakespeare Studies at our particular historical moment. Alternative Shakespeares 3...

   Published October 2nd 2007 by Routledge
5. Culture and the Real

   Theorizing Cultural Criticism

   By Catherine Belsey

   Series: New Accents

   What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity. Catherine Belsey calls for a more nuanced,...

   Published December 8th 2004 by Routledge
6. Reading Television

   2nd Edition

   By John Fiske, John Hartley

   Series: New Accents

   Reading Television was the first book to push the boundaries of television studies beyond the insights offered by cultural studies and textual analysis, creating a vibrant new field of study. Using the tools and techniques in this book, it is possible for everyone with a television set to analyze...

   Published September 17th 2003 by Routledge
7. Formalism and Marxism

   3rd Edition

   By Tony Bennett

   Series: New Accents

   Russian Formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on twentieth-century literary theory. First published in 1979, Tony Bennett's Formalism and Marxism offered a ground-breaking new interpretation of the Formalists' achievements and demanded a new way forward in Marxist criticism.Placing...

   Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge
8. Studying British Cultures

   An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Susan Bassnett

   Series: New Accents

   'British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine the most significant aspects of this quickly developing area of study, analyzing the ways of teaching and...

   Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge
9. Structuralism and Semiotics

   2nd Edition

   By Terence Hawkes

   Series: New Accents

   Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field. Since then a generation of readers have used the book as an entry not only into structuralism and semiotics,...

   Published July 16th 2003 by Routledge
10. Structuralism and Semiotics

    2nd Edition

    By Terence Hawkes (Series Ed), Terence Hawkes

    Series: New Accents

    Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field. Since then a generation of readers has used the book as an entry not only into structuralism and semiotics,...

    Published July 16th 2003 by Routledge