Literature and Transformation: A Narrative Study of Life-Changing Reading Experiences 1785272942, 9781785272943

Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature 9789048527380

The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and mor

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The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading 0253345219, 0253204534

[Sternberg] has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance fr

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Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845 0813562678, 9780813562674

Shining new light on early American prison literature--from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows liter

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Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts (Literature and Education)

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Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700–1845 9780813562681

Shining new light on early American prison literature—from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows litera

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The Narrative Jesus: A Semiotic Reading of Mark's Gospel 8772884231

Davidsen's semiotic reading is focused on a very specific narrative dimension of the gospel: the actantial dimensio

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Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study 9780520930971

As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian W

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Fictions of Discourse: Reading Narrative Theory 9781442674868

O?Neill investigates the extent to which narrative discourse subverts the story it tells in foregrounding its own perfor

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Writing Mothers: Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Transformation 9781772582239

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The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation 9781442669055

The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the centur

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