Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Changing Subjects
The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
These twenty autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, articulating the connections between the personal and political in their lives and work. They describe the experiences that radicalised women within academia...
Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory. Focusing on the social and imaginary space of the hotel in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and travel accounts, the essays...
by Sarah Jonckheere
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The book brings to light Neal Stephenson’s answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. The author of this book analyses the ethnocultural, technological, and ideological skeins that make up the biopolitical production of the self. The coming-of-age novel «The Diamond Age» reflects...
Rumors of War and Infernal Machines
Technomilitary Agenda-setting in American and British Speculative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian Britain, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines offers a fascinating exploration of how fictional speculations...
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory
Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The "spatial turn" in literary studies is transforming the way we think of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space maps the key areas of spatiality within literary studies, offering a comprehensive overview but also pointing towards new and exciting directions of study....
French 'Ecocritique'
Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus’s ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent...
Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing
Engaging Urban Space in London and New York, 18511986
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key theme for scholars of literary fiction, travellers’ modes of writing the city have been somewhat neglected by travel studies. However, travel writing with...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
The contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière has become over the last two decades one of the most influential voices in philosophy, political theory, and literary, art historical, and film criticism. His work reexamines the divisions that have defined our understanding of modernity, such as art...
Writing After Postcolonialism
Francophone North African Literature in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
'Focusing on francophone writing from North Africa as it has developed since the 1980s, Writing After Postcolonialism explores the extent to which the notion of 'postcolonialism' is still resonant for literary writers a generation or more after independence, and examines the troubled status of literature...
The Object of Copyright
A Conceptual History of Originals and Copies in Literature, Art and Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Recent years have seen a number of pressing developments in copyright law: there has been an enormous increase in the range and type of work accorded protection; the concept of the ‘original work’ has entered into national copyright acts; and intangible entities are now entitled to protection...
The Narcissistic Text
A Reading of Camus' Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Critics, theologians, philosophers, and psychoanalysts have written several thousand books, theses, and articles about Camus' fiction. His first published novel, L'Etranger, had a unique impact on a whole generation of readers, and is other fiction, although not as well known, has also been influential....
Anarcho-Modernism
Toward a New Critical Theory in Honour of Jerry Zaslove
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This volume is a collection of 38 pieces essays, poems, extracts unified by a combination of the playful, primitive aesthetic of literary modernism with the anti-authoritarian, anarchist praxis of radical democratic politics. This bi-polar sensibility permeates the work of Jerry Zaslove, to whom the book is dedicated.
TransLatin Joyce
Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, deconstruction, and post-Euclidean physics.