Literary Theory category: 45240 books
The Texture of Culture
An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semiotician Yuri Lotman, offers a new look at Lotman's profound legacy by conceptualizing his ideas in modern context and presenting them as a useful tool of cultural analysis.
Out of Context
The Uses of Modernist Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
How do novels travel through time? How might they endure in a changing world and reach the readers of an unknowable future? Modernist writers were eager to think of their books as reaching audiences they could not yet imagine. In recent years however, scholars of modernism have focused on pinning...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that challenges accepted critical models of modernist and twentieth-century...
Ecocriticism on the Edge
The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged.
Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive...
An Emotional State
The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an “inability to mourn,” arguing that in fact this period experienced a surge of affect. Anna Parkinson examines the emotions explicitly manifested or addressed...
Crimes of the Future
Theory and its Global Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The decade since the publication of Jean-Michel Rabaté's controversial manifesto The Future of Theory saw important changes in the field. The demise of most of the visible French or German philosophers, who had produced texts that would trigger new debates, then to be processed by Theory, has led...
Literature as Cultural Ecology
Sustainable Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination...
Interruptions
The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A history of fragmentary—or interrupted—writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic.
In Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, Gerald L. Bruns explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Bruns...
Literariness
Models, gradations, experiments
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The deepest crises cannot destroy the universal model of literariness. It maintains its appeal for participants in literary communication as a «contradictory» model. This thought recurs in many epochs. Literariness involves suspending the formal or logical norms of contradiction (lex contraditionis)....
Revolting Families
Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private sphere. Carrie Smith-Prei focuses on debut works by German authors considered to be part of the “new”...
by Karolin Dunschen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne (English Department), course: ES II The Wonderful World of Literary Theory, 49 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: I don't want to 'improvise...
by Paul Downes
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature pursues the question of democratic sovereignty as it was anticipated, theorized and resisted in the American colonies and in the early United States. It proposes that orthodox American liberal accounts of political community need to be supplemented...
The Wedding Complex
Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings—as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation—are sites for imagining and enacting...
Hemingway’s Geographies
Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and cultural geography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction of physical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approaches to Hemingway’s literary landscapes and provides insight about his fictional characters and his readers alike.