The power of words : literature and society in late modernity

307 p.

• Capitoli dello stesso volume (disponibili singolarmente)

  • Introduction
  • Books, Texts and Hypertexts
  • The Word's Millennial Power
  • The Powers of Words: Literature, Cognition and Practical Life
  • Hypertextuality and Cognitive Experiences in the Labyrinths of Words and Images
  • The Return of Orpheus, or the Persistence of Literature and Myth
  • Literature, History, and Philosophy: Some reflections on Gramsci's Quaderni dal carcere
  • Language, the Market and the University: Bakhtin, Benjamin and the Intellectual in Late Capitalism
  • Marxism, Literature and the Curriculum
  • Narrative, Human Nature and Post-Modernism
  • Desiring to Belong? The Politics of Texts and Their Politics of Nation
  • Smaller Languages, Greater Identities: The Power of Words in Québec
  • Power without Responsibility: The Function of Words in Augusto Roa Bastos's "Yo el Supremo"
  • From the Depth of Commitment to the Shallows of Despair: The Career and Identities of rené Depestre
  • Enigmas of the World, Proverbs of the Human Condition: Revisiting Some Postcolonial African Novels
  • Literature and Dystopia: Narrative and the State in China
  • Index of names
• Informazioni

  ISBN: 8880634542

  Permalink: http://digital.casalini.it/8880634542

  COLLANA

  Il portico ; 135
  

  MATERIE

  • Letteratura. Storia, descrizione e critica
  • Linguistica
  • Cultura e istituzioni
  • Il libro
  • Literature (General)

  SOGGETTI

  • Literature and society
  • Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc