Книги издательства The Johns Hopkins University Press

"A new book by Wolfgang Iser is an important event in the critical world. This one, with its wide-ranging and ambitious argument, will require the attention of everyone who thinks seriously and at all philosophically about literary culture and what it has to tell us about being human." -...

Although the Roman empire was one of the longest lasting in history, it was never ideologically conceived by its rulers or inhabitants as a territory within fixed limits. Yet Roman armies clearly reached certain points -- which today we call frontiers -- where they simply stopped advancing and...

Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances arising from their own environment of social and historical norms and stimulates them to assess and criticize their surroundings. By analyzing major works of English fiction ranging from Bunyan, Fielding, Scott, and...

"Lohafer explores a unique idea, one "revolv[ing] around an experiment in which one or more readers identify sentences within a story when the text could end." Lohafer presents student response to this experiment and goes on to analyze a number of short stories... This approach...

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"Dorrit Cohn provides us with a comprehensive survey of the controversy about the relation between factual and fictional narration, and shows how it might be resolved. As a reference-point (and perhaps a lightning-rod) for future discussion, the book will be required reading for...

New Ed edition

A fascinating book, well written and forcefully argued...Luttwak"s formulations are as refreshing as they are convincing... He has done for Roman historians what they have not done for themselves.

"Eminently suitable as a self-study or supervised text in partially ordered sets and combinatorics." -- SIAM Review

"It almost goes without saying that a new book by Michael Riffaterre is an important book... and Fictional Truth does not disappoint... Essential reading for everyone interested in the way narrative works."--Modern Fiction Studies."There is no doubt that this book is indispensable...