Literary Theory category: 45240 books
The Prague School
Selected Writings, 1929-1946
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The Prague Linguistic Circle came into being on the afternoon of October 6, 1926, when five Czech and Russian linguists gathered to hear a lecture by a German colleague. From this international beginning, the interests of the group grew to first encompass language in all its functional heterogeneity...
Literature, Journalism, and the Vocabularies of Liberalism
Politics and Letters, 1886-1916
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political and literary vocabularies offer new readings of liberalism's relation to an emerging modernist culture.
The Repeating Island
The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1997
In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely...
The Vanishing Frame
Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism has been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today. Rather than taking a purely chronological approach to the content, the chapters survey the state of the field through a number of pressing issues and themes, examining...
Between the Psyche and the Polis
Refiguring History in Literature and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This title was first published in 2000. Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory, this timely collection illuminates how history is being refigured in contemporary literary, cultural and theoretical studies. The contributors to this volume invite...
by Yun Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book investigates sisterhood as a converging thread that wove female subjectivities and intersubjectivities into a larger narrative of Chinese modernity embedded in a newly conceived global context. It focuses on the period between the late Qing reform era around the turn of the twentieth century...
Poetics
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Aristotle's 'Poetics' is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
by Monika Fludernik
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative.
This book is both an historical survey and theoretical study, with the author drawing on an enormous range of examples from the earliest...
Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity
Between Recognition and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies.
Monkey Trouble
The Scandal of Posthumanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying.
The human has become a conspicuous blind spot for many theorists seeking to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient...
Rewriting the Self
History, Memory, Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Originally published in 1993. This book explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the lives of such notable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth as well as on the combined insights of psychology, philosophy and...
Dead Theory
Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
What is the legacy of Theory after the deaths of so many of its leading lights, from Jacques Derrida to Roland Barthes? Bringing together reflections by leading contemporary scholars, Dead Theory explores the afterlives of the work of the great theorists and the current state of Theory today. Considering...
Reading the Abrahamic Faiths
Rethinking Religion and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Rethinking religion and literature in a series of chapters by leading international scholars, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths opens up a dialogue between Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Post-Secular literary cultures.
Literary studies has absorbed religion as another interdisciplinary mode of inquiry...