Mary Louise Pratt

Imperial Eyes

Travel Writing and Transculturation

Pratt intriguingly explores European travel and exploration writing. In a study of genre and as a critique of ideology, Imperial Eyes examines how tra...

Planetary Longings

In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the tw...

Linguistics for Students of Literature

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Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse

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Amor Brujo

Images and Culture of Love in the Andes

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