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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...