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New Accents

About the Book Series

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.

40 Series Titles


I. Poetics and Politics

I. Poetics and Politics

1st Edition

Edited By Terrence Hawkes
February 14, 2005

These two volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of literary studies. Its clear and concise volumes brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate teaching...

M. Feminist Criticism

M. Feminist Criticism

1st Edition

Edited By Terrence Hawkes
February 14, 2005

These two volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of literary studies. Its clear and concise volumes brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate teaching...

Culture and the Real Theorizing Cultural Criticism

Culture and the Real: Theorizing Cultural Criticism

1st Edition

By Catherine Belsey
December 30, 2004

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, ...

Reading Television

Reading Television

2nd Edition

By John Fiske, John Hartley
December 19, 2003

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 ...

Structuralism and Semiotics

Structuralism and Semiotics

2nd Edition

By Terence Hawkes
November 14, 2003

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, ...

Formalism and Marxism

Formalism and Marxism

2nd Edition

By Tony Bennett
October 20, 2003

Russian Formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on twentieth-century literary theory and the shockwaves are still felt today. First published in 1979, Tony Bennett's Formalism and Marxism created its own reverberations by offering a ground-breaking new interpretation of the Formalists'...

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 ...

B. Reassessing English

B. Reassessing English

1st Edition

Edited By Terrence Hawkes
May 16, 2003

These three volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of literary studies. Its clear and concise volumes brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate ...

F. Literature and Society

F. Literature and Society

1st Edition

Edited By Terrence Hawkes
May 16, 2003

These three volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of literary studies. Its clear and concise volumes brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate ...

L. Thinking about Reading

L. Thinking about Reading

1st Edition

Edited By Terrence Hawkes
April 11, 2003

These four volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of literary studies. Its clear and concise volumes brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate ...

J. Popular Culture

J. Popular Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Terrence Hawkes
April 04, 2003

These four volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of literary studies. Its clear and concise volumes brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate ...

The Empire Writes Back Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

2nd Edition

By Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin
October 25, 2002

The experience of colonization and the challenges of a 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 post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and ...

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