Literary Theory category: 45240 books
by Miroslawa Buchholtz
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Henry James (1843–1916) has been widely acclaimed for the elegance of his prose, the incisiveness of his social comment, and the subtlety of his psychological analyses. Whereas James’s tales and novels have been carefully studied over the past decades, his non-fiction, including literary criticism,...
The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume One
Authors, Publishers and the Shaping of Taste
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work.
Freud in Oz
At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose proponents...
Choreographies of the Living
Bioaesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly trans-species, and in doing so she revises our...
Flirtations
Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction?
In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a major preoccupation for twentieth-century thought and critical theory. Both the discourse and...
Möbian Nights
Reading Literature and Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
"I died at Auschwitz,†? French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts, "and nobody knows it.†? Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness develops a new understanding of literary reading: that in the wake of disasters like the Holocaust, death remains a premise of our experience rather...
Race and Sex across the French Atlantic
The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical and Theater Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Jean Genet's masterpiece Les N_gres was first published in 1958, in the midst of the Algerian war, and first performed at the ThZ%tre de Lut_ce in Paris in October 1959. Yet even though the play is more than 50 years old, it remains a fundamental contribution to critical race theory, as Genet unequivocally...
Black Writers Abroad
A Study of Black American Writers in Europe and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Originally published in 1999 Black Writers Abroad puts forward the theory that African American literature was born, partially within the context of a people and its writers who lived, for the most part, in slavery and bondage prior to the Civil War. It is an in-depth study of black American writers...
Benjamin's Library
Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Benjamin's Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin's notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin's day. Taking into account the literary and...
After Augustine
The Meditative Reader and the Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical...
by Aamir R. Mufti
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
World literature advocates have promised to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of national literary traditions. Aamir Mufti scrutinizes these claims and critiques the continuing dominance of English as both a literary language and the undisputed cultural system of global capitalism.
Literature in Translation
Teaching Issues and Reading Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
New pedagogy for studying literature in translation
In the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college courses in an increasingly wide variety of disciplines. This is a cause for rejoicing. Through...
Marxism and Form
20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter...