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 …

Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues
by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering conventional aesthetic …

In an autobiography one cannot avoid writing" often" where truth would require that" once"
be written. Fbr one always re mains conscious that the word" once" explodes that darkness …

This core textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to the field of
pragmatics: the study of the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Assuming …

Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken
assumptions that shaped them—their genres. Modern scholars describe these works as …

Pragmática del lenguaje y filosofía analítica Page 1 PRAGMÁTICA DEL LENGUAJE Y
FILOSOFÍA ANALÍTICA Page 2 HISTORIA/CIENCIA/SOCIEDAD 1. Jean Rostand …

WHAT DISTINGUISHES fiction from nonfiction? Seeking an answer, literary theorists have
analysed the stylistic features characteristic of fiction and the genres into which works of …

SVERY TEXTUAL MODEL involves certain heuristic decisions; the model cannot be
equated with the literary text itself, but simply opens up a means of access to it. Whenever …

The most distinctive and highly valued poems of the modern era offer an image of a
dramatized" I" acting in a concrete setting. The variety and importance of the poems which …

oral verbal art usually proceeds by collecting a number of examples of a recognized, named
genre (a particular kind of poem, song, dirge, chant, tale) and then examining them for the" …