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New Accents


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The New Accents series was launched over 25 years ago, and changed the face of literary studies. It brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate teaching on essential new topics and approaches. The New Accents volumes are now firmly established as classic texts and are still widely used by students and teachers. To celebrate this groundbreaking series we are relaunching some of the best selling titles. Each book includes a new chapter and an updated bibliography and Terence Hawkes has written a new Series Editor's preface.

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Making a Difference Feminist Literary Criticism

Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism

1st Edition

Edited By Gayle Green, Coppélia Kahn
November 21, 1985

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 ...

Metafiction The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction

Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction

1st Edition

By Patricia Waugh
November 16, 1984

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 ...

Telling Stories A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction

Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction

1st Edition

By Steven Cohan, Linda M. Shires
November 18, 1988

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 ...

Fantasy The Literature of Subversion

Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion

1st Edition

By Dr Rosemary Jackson
March 10, 1981

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...

Sexual Fiction

Sexual Fiction

1st Edition

By Maurice Charney
February 13, 2014

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more ...

Translation Studies

Translation Studies

4th Edition

By Susan Bassnett
December 03, 2013

At a time when millions travel around the planet – some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile – translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation ...

Poetry as Discourse

Poetry as Discourse

1st Edition

By Antony Easthope
August 22, 2003

First published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. New Accents is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to ...

Adult Comics

Adult Comics

1st Edition

By Roger Sabin
November 01, 2010

In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention. Adult comics are part of the cultural landscape in a way that would ...

Dialogue and Difference

Dialogue and Difference

1st Edition

By Peter Brooker, Peter Humm
August 22, 2003

First Published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than ...

Language and Style

Language and Style

1st Edition

By E. L. Epstein
August 21, 2013

We are living in a time of rapid radical social change. In New Accents each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. This book offers a new focus on ...

Linguistics and Novel

Linguistics and Novel

1st Edition

By Roger Fowler
March 28, 2013

We are living in a time of rapid radical social change. In New Accents each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. This volume explores new ...

Literature and Propaganda

Literature and Propaganda

1st Edition

By A. P. Foulkes
October 17, 2002

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more ...

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