Literary Theory category: 45240 books
by Hilary Fraser, Daniel Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Hilary Fraser provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of English prose in the nineteenth century which draws from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticisim, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage. Through these works the cultural, social, literary...
Writing Wrongs
The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book examines the ‘cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries.
Moving across multiple media and genres for...
Magical Realism
Theory, History, Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1995
Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-ranging...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws conclusions whose relevance extends beyond the Romanian, Romance, and East European cultural systems. This “intersectional”...
Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance
Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book investigates the origins, impact, and outcome of the Elizabethan obsession with fraudulent conveyancing, the part of debtor-creditor law that determines when a court can void a transfer of assets. Focusing on the years between the passage of a key statute in 1571 and the court case that...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The International Journal of Media, Culture and Literature, published
biannually by the School of Foeign Languages at Istanbul Aydın University,
Istanbul, Turkey, is an international scholarly journal in English devoted
in its entirety to media, culture and literature.
The...
Between Quran and Kafka
West-Eastern Affinities
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht's drama? Which of Goethe's poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi's theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz Kafka?
'One who knows himself...
Joyce and Lacan
Reading, Writing and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
What happens when the intellectual giant of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce, is made an object of consideration and cause of desire by the intellectual giant of modern psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan?* *
This is what *Joyce and Lacan *explores, in the three closely...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The International Journal of Media, Culture and Literature, published
biannually by the School of Foeign Languages at Istanbul Aydın University,
Istanbul, Turkey, is an international scholarly journal in English devoted
in its entirety to media, culture and literature.
The...
A Poetics of Trauma after 9/11
Representing Trauma in a Digitized Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The 9/11 attacks brought large-scale violence into the 21st century with force and have come to epitomize the entanglement of intimate vulnerability and virtual spectacle that is typical of the globalized present. This book works at the intersection of trauma studies, affect theory, and literary studies...
Contemporary Native Fiction
Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. Each chapter is read through the lens of a narrative theory – structuralist narratology, feminist...
Against the Closet
Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman interrogates and challenges cultural theorists' interpretations of sexual transgression in African American literature. She argues that, from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of erotic transgression to contest...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This study focuses on the return of the narrative as applied by literary historians. Through the 1980s, criticism on the hermetic nature of many postmodern texts grew louder and louder: novelists expressed the wish to restore the bonds between the reader and the texts as well as between the texts...
Eliot's Objective Correlative
Tradition or Individual Talent? Contributions to the History of a Topos
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Eliot’s dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted but rarely analysed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input...