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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set (2nd Ed.) - Keith Brown Elsevier Science | ISBN 0080442994 | 2 edition (December 27, 2005) | 12.000 pages | PDF | 165 Mb The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high...

A Glossary of Literary Terms (7th Ed) - M.H. Abrams Cornell University | 1999 | ISBN: 015505452X | PDF | 384 pages | 7.28 MB First published in 1957, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS contains succinct essays on the terms used in discussing literature, literary history, and literary criticism. This text is an indispensable reference for student...

A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin - Karen Hohne, Helen Wussow (Ed.) University Of Minnesota | 232 Pages | 1994 | ISBN 0816622965 | PDF | 13 MB A Dialogue of Voices was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original...

Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (2nd Ed.) - Zoltan Kovecses Oxford University Press | 2010 | 400 pages | ISBN 0195374940| PDF | 1,3 mb Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor....

Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast - Rene Dirven, Ralf Porings Llh | 605 Pages |  2004-07 | ISBN: 3110173743 | PDF | 31 MB The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many iant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration...

Discourse and Identity - Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin, Michael Bamberg Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521834023 | 2006-07-24 | File type: PDF | 476 pages | 1.19 mb The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models...

Intertextuality (New Critical Idiom Series) - Graham Allen Routledge | 256 Pages | 2000-05-26 | ISBN-10: 0415174759 | PDF | 1 Mb No text has its meaning alone; all texts have their meaning in relation to other texts. Since Julia Kristeva coined the term in the 1960s, intertextuality has been a dominant idea within literary and cultural studies leaving none of the traditional...

Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative [2nd ed.] - Mieke Bal University of Toronto Press | 256 Pages | 1997-12-31 | ISBN 0802078060 | PDF OCR | 47 MB Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become a classic introduction to the major elements of a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition, Professor...

An Introduction To Semiotics - Thomas Sebeok University of Toronto Press | 154 Pages | 1994-06-09 | ISBN 0802077803 | PDF OCR | 84 MB The interpretive science of semiotics offers powerful analytical tools for the application of many disciplines to the study of perception. Semiotics is the study of signs, and as such, is of relevance to a wide spectrum of scholars and...

Language and Identity: An Introduction - John Edwards Cambridge University Press |  328 Pages |  2009-10-30  |  ISBN: 0521873819  | PDF | 1,6 MB The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are - of our identity. This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups - ethnic, national, religious...

Language Contact -  Yaron Matras Cambridge University Press | 384 Pages | 2009 | ISBN: 0521825350 | PDF | 2,6 MB Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism,...

Structural Linguistics - Zellig S. Harris University of Chicago / University of Toronto | 384 Pages | 1986 | ISBN 0226317722 | DJVU 7 MB The purpose of this book is to organize the whole field of descriptive linguistics into a single body of theory and practice, presenting a unitary approach to linguistic analysi...

Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (Second Edition) -  Thomas A. Sebeok  University of Toronto | 216 Pages | 2001-12-22 |  ISBN 0802084729 | PDF | 2,8 MB This updated second edition of Signs combines some of Sebeok's most important essays with a new general introduction, introductory passages at the outset of each chapter, a glossary, and brief biographies...

A Rhetoric of Motives - Kenneth Burke University of California | 356 Pages | 1969-10-01 | ISBN 0520015460 | PDF | 15 MB As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began to discriminate a "rhetorical" or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of...

Register, Genre, and Style ( Textbooks in Linguistics) - Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521860601 | 2009-11-23 | PDF | 354 pages | 1.12 Mb This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing...

Persona (1966) - Director Ingmar Bergman | 1433 MB | Runtime 1:22:54 | b/w | Language : Swedish / 2nd audio track is English commentary Optional subtitles : English / French / Spanish Audio : mp3 , 48000 Hz , 70 Kb/s , 1-ch Video : XviD , 2200 Kb/s , 23.97 frm/s , 720x544 (4:3) Casting: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Bjoernstrand The film has...

Specters of Marx - Jacques Derrida Routledge | 2006 | ISBN 0415389577 | 258 Pages | PDF OCR | 13.5MB Written in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall and within the context of a critique of a "new world order" that proclaims the death of Marx and Marxism, Jacques Derrida undertakes a reading of Marx's "spectropoetics" -- his obsession with ghosts, specters and...

The Other Heading - Jacques Derrida IU Press | 1992 | ISBN 0253316936 | 196 Pages | PDF OCR | 6 MB Prompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling essay on contemporary world politics with the issue of European identity. What, he asks, is Europe? How has Europe traditionally...

The Gift of Death - Jacques Derrida University of Chicago Press | 1996 | ISBN 0226143066 | 124 Pages | PDF OCR | 6.6 MB "The Gift of Death" is Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date. While continuing to explore questions introduced in "Given Time" such as the possibility, or impossibility, of giving and the economic and anthropological nature...

Of Grammatology - Jacques Derrida (Translate by Gayatri C. Spivak) Johns Hopkins University Press | 1998 | ISBN 0801858305 | 456 Pages | PDF OCR | 7 MB Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in...

On touching, Jean-Luc Nancy - Jacques Derrida Stanford UP | 2005 | ISBN 0804742448 | 377 Pages | PDF OCR | 4.1 MB Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ground-breaking book Corpus he discusses in detail....

Husserl's Origin of Geometry - Jacques Derrida University of Nebraska Press | 1989 | ISBN 0803265808 | 205 Pages | PDF OCR | 3.4 MB Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry": An Introduction (1962) is Jacques Derrida's earliest published work. In this commentary-interpretation of the famous appendix to Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology,...

Acts of Religion - Jacques Derrida, Routledge | 2001 | ISBN 0415924014 | 461 Pages | PDF OCR | 6.6 MB Acts of Religion brings together for the first time Derrida's key writings on religion, along with two new essays translated by Gil Anidjar that appear here for the first time in any language. These eight texts are organized around the secret holding of links between...

The Animal That Therefore I Am - Jacques Derrida Fordham University Press | 2008 | ISBN 082322791X | 176 Pages | PDF OCR | 5.93 MB The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida’s ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled “The Autobiographical Animal,” the third of four such colloquia on his work....

Points... - Jacques Derrida Stanford UP | 1995 | ISBN 0804724881 | 516 Pages | PDF | 24.8 MB This volume collects 23 interviews given over the course of the last two decades by the author. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of the Derrida's concerns, touching upon such subjects as AIDS, philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, politics,...

Writing and Difference - Jacques Derrida University Of Chicago Press | ISBN 0226143295 | 1980-02-15 | PDF (OCR) | 362 pages | 20.4 Mb First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction...

Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs - Jacques Derrida Northwestern University Press | 1979 | ISBN 0810103974 / 081010590X | 166 Pages | PDF OCR | 18 MB In Speech and Phenomena, Jacques Derriba situates the philosophy of language in relation to logic and rhetoric, which have often been seen as irreconcilable criteria for the use and interpretation...

Paper Machine - Jacques Derrida Stanford UP | 2005 | ISBN 0804746206 | 225 Pages | PDF OCR | 14 MB This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes of the archive...

Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin - Jacques Derrida Stanford University Press | 1998 | ISBN 0804732892 | 122 Pages | PDF OCR  | 2.2 MB Product Description: I have but one language—yet that language is not mine.” This book intertwines theoretical reflection with historical and cultural particularity to enunciate, then analyze this conundrum...

Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins - Jacques Derrida Univerity of Chicago Press | 1993 | ISBN 0226143074 | PDF | 152 Pages | 15.8 Derrida explores issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, while offering detailed readings of an extraordinary collection of images he selected from the prints and drawings department...

Limited Inc - Jacques Derrida Northwestern University Press | 1988 | ISBN 0810107880 | 160 Pages | PDF OCR | 2.25 MB Limited Inc. is a major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, 'Limited Inc.' and 'Signature Event Context, ' constitute key statements of the Derridean theory of deconstruction. They...

Celtic Geographies: Landscapes, Culture and Identity - David Harvey Routledge | 2001 | ISBN 0415223962 | PDF | 289 pages | 10.4 MB This lively study illuminates the dynamic nature of Celticity and Celtic geography by exploring the many ways in which an old culture is being re-interpreted to serve the needs of particular groups of people in modern times. This work critically...

David Harvey: A Critical Reader - Noel Castree, Derek Gregory Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN 0631235108 | 2006-03-17 | PDF | 336 pages | 2.28 mb This book critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world’s most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxist...

A Brief History of Neo-liberalism Oxford University Press | 256 pages | September 2005 | ISBN 0199283265 | PDF | 3 MB Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience,...

Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom - David Harvey Columbia University Press | 352 Pages | 2009-06-05 | ISBN 0231148461 | PDF OCR | 5,7 MB Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on...

Mahler's Sixth Symphony: A Study in Musical Semiotics - Robert Samuels Cambridge University Press | 191 Pages | 1996-01-26 | ISBN 052148166X | PDF | 8,18 MB This study uses a semiotic theory of signification in order to investigate different types of musical communication. Musical meaning is defined on several levels from structure, through questions of tradition and...

Art & Copy (2009) - Doug Pray 88 min | avi | 139Kbps | 640x352 | 23fps | 696MB | Color | English Director Doug Pray reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising minds of our time. From the "creative revolution" of the 1960s, artists and writers have brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in an industry know for pandering...

We Live in Public (2009) - Ondi Timoner 89 min | avi | 124Kbps | 576x432 | 23fps | 698MB | Color | English On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society as seen through the eyes of "the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of", visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner...

The Birds (1963) - Alfred Hitchcock The Birds (1963) is a suspense/horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the 1952 novella The Birds by Daphne du Maurier. It depicts Bodega Bay, California which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a series of widespread and violent bird attacks over the course of a few days. The screenplay was written...

The Dark Glow of the Mountains - Werner Herzog 45 min | avi | 128Kbps | 672x512 | 25fps | 400MB | Color | English The Dark Glow of the Mountains is a TV documentary made in 1984 by German filmmaker Werner Herzog. It is about an expedition made by the genuinely legendary freestyle mountain climber Reinhold Messner and his partner Hans Kammerlander to climb Gasherbrum...

Political Film: The Dialectics of Third Cinema - Mike Wayne Pluto Press | 2001 | ISBN 0745316697 | PDF | 170 pages | 10.4 MB Third cinema--cinema committed to social and cultural emancipation--is absolutely central to key debates concerning contemporary film practices and cultures. In this volume, Mike Wayne develops Third Cinema theory by exploring its dialectical...

History in Literature: A Reader's Guide to 20th Century History and the Literature It Inspired - Edward Quinn Facts on File | 2004-01 | ISBN: 081604693X | 368 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB For general readers and students of literature, History in Literature is a concise guide to 20th century historical events, periods, movements, and figures and the ways they have been depicted...