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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


Dialogism Bakhtin and His World

Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World

2nd Edition

By Michael Holquist
August 02, 2002

Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. Widely acknowledged as an exceptional guide to Bakhtin and dialogics, this book now includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography. He argues ...

Narrative Fiction Contemporary Poetics

Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics

2nd Edition

By Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
August 02, 2002

What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions. In...

Sexual/Textual Politics Feminist Literary Theory

Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory

2nd Edition

By Toril Moi
August 02, 2002

What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two...

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

2nd Edition

By Keir Elam
August 02, 2002

The late twentieth century saw an explosion of interest in semiotics, the science of the signs and processes by which we communicate. In this study, the first of its kind in English, Keir Elam shows how this new 'science' can provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance, ...

A. Reconsidering Shakespeare

A. Reconsidering Shakespeare

1st Edition

Edited By Terrence Hawkes
July 05, 2002

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 ...

Alternative Shakespeares

Alternative Shakespeares

2nd Edition

Edited By John Drakakis
July 05, 2002

When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work centred on the quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. In Alternative Shakespeares, John Drakakis brought together key essays by founding figures in this movement to remake ...

Deconstruction Theory and Practice

Deconstruction: Theory and Practice

3rd Edition

By Christopher Norris
July 05, 2002

Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The volume focuses on the works of Jacques Derrida ...

Critical Practice

Critical Practice

2nd Edition

By Catherine Belsey, Catherine Belsey
June 28, 2002

What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of ...

The Politics of Postmodernism

The Politics of Postmodernism

2nd Edition

By Linda Hutcheon
June 28, 2002

This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism. Perhaps more importantly, it is a compelling discussion of why postmodernism matters. Working through the issue of representation in art forms from fiction to photography, Linda Hutcheon sets out ...

Post-Colonial Shakespeares

Post-Colonial Shakespeares

1st Edition

Edited By Ania Loomba, Martin Orkin
October 01, 1998

Postcolonial Shakespeares is an exciting step forward in the dialogue between postcolonial studies and Shakespearean criticism. This unique volume features original work by some of the leading critics within the growing field of Shakespeare studies and is the most authoritative collection on this ...

Alternative Shakespeares Volume 2

Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2

1st Edition

Edited By Terence Hawkes
October 23, 1996

Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 investigates Shakespearean criticism over a decade later, introducing new debates and new ...

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 ...

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