Books written by Douwe Wessel Fokkema

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  Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West

  "Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions.

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  Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century: Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception, Semiotics

  This book takes stock of the major theoretical schools which hold sway over literary studies in the present age.

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  Knowledge and Commitment: A Problem-oriented Approach to Literary Studies

  By referring to the work of authors as widely apart as Hayden White, Edward Said, Fredric Jameson, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Reinhart Koselleck, Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, Siegfried Schmidt, Norbert Groeben, and many others, ...

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  走向后现代主义

  Ben shu jiang " hou xian dai zhu yi " zuo wei yi zhong wen hua gai nian, quan mian kao cha le ta de li shi yan ge, shi...

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  Literary History, Modernism, and Postmodernism

  In these lectures, delivered at Harvard University in March 1983, the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism are discussed in semiotic terms, based on a contrastive analysis of semantic and syntactical (compositional) features.

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  Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century: Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception, Semiotics

  Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century: Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception, Semiotics