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Provides a reflection on the relations between nature and culture as manifested by literary artefacts, and reframes literary study as a form of cognitive anthropology and archaeology.

Mignon's Afterlives takes the reader on a guided tour of German, French, and English literature and music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the perspective of one of the most fascinating and engimatic figures of modern literature, the character Mignon from Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Years of Apprenticeship. Mignon reappears in a wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film, f...

This edited volume is the first extensive exploration of the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory which stresses the importance of context and inference in the interpretation of communicative acts.

What is the object of knowledge in literary studies? What is the relation between the academic study of literature and the public sphere? Terence Cave addresses these and other questions about the discipline as a human activity by inserting it into a wider interdisciplinary frame that is at once flexible and respectful of its special character ¿ a cognitive approach to the study of literature. Cave spent five years exploring this approach in a...

Thinking with Literature offers a succinct introduction to a cognitive literary criticsm. Broad in scope but focusing on a particular cluster of approaches, it aims to induce a change of perspective in the reader.

This edited volume is the first extensive exploration of the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory which stresses the importance of context and inference in the interpretation of communicative acts.

Presents an account of the various editions of "Utopia", whether vernacular or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of the prefatory materials they contain. This book is suitable for specialists in early modern cultural history and history of the book, and to graduate students working in these fields.

In the sixteenth century, Latin theorists and French vernacular writers shared a common preoccupation with problems of writing, its nature and status. This is an exploration of the shifting relationship between literature and literary theory.

Recognitions is the first full-length study of a neglected term in Aristotelian poetics- anagnorisis, or recognition. Terence cave first traces the history of the term and explores the ways in which it continues to be a valuable focus for the theoretical reflection. The book demonstrates that recognition must be seen as a topic of the first importance, raising questions about literature and literary knowledge.

Thinking with Literature offers a succinct introduction to a cognitive literary criticsm, broad in scope but focusing on a particular cluster of approaches, it aims to induce a change of perspective in the reader.

Thomas More's Utopia in Early Modern Europe provides the first complete account of all the editions of Utopia, whether vernacular or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of all the prefatory materials they contain. The reception of the idea of Utopia in early modern Europe has been studied extensively before: what has been lacking is a composite picture of how Utopia moved by means of translation from culture to culture an...

Taking passages from his most famous work "Essais", this book guides you through Montaigne's investigation of the mind.

Dr Cave studies the relationship between the traditions of personal devotion in sixteenth-century France and the poetry which flourished at the end of the century.