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.
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 ...
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
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 ...
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...
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
1st Edition
By Dick Hebdige
March 10, 1981
'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to ...