Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Letting Stories Breathe
A Socio-Narratology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us—they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can imagine being. Stories connect people, but they can also disconnect, creating boundaries between people...
Emancipation and Illusion
Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1997
In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea...
Literature of an Independent England
Revisions of England, Englishness and English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the British union, the place of English Literature within the union, and the need for England to become a self-determining literary nation.
The Politics of Ecology
Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
If medieval literary studies is, like so many fields, currently conditioned by an ecological turn that dislodges the human from its central place in materialist analysis, then why now focus on the law? Is not the law the most human, if not indeed the human, institution? In proposing that all life...
Terms of Response
Language and the Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1991
This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the origins of key parts of most known medieval Spanish epics to an ancient myth. He shows how the myth of the initiation of the young warrior, shown by Georges...
Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic
Reading through the Iron Curtain
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this is a multi-faceted, collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic. An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Since 1945, British literature has served to mirror profound social, geopolitical and environmental change. Written by a host of leading scholars, this volume explores the myriad...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Literature cultivates 'deep selves' for whom books matter because they take over from religion fundamental questions about the meaning of existence. This volume embraces and questions this perspective, whilst also developing a 'new humanist' critical vocabulary which specifies, and therefore opens to debate, the human significance of literature.
The Critical Pulse
Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
This unprecedented anthology asks thirty-six leading literary and cultural critics to elaborate on the nature of their profession. With the humanities feeling the pinch of financial and political pressures, and its disciplines resting on increasingly uncertain conceptual ground, there couldn't be...
How to Be an Intellectual
Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together noted and new essays and exemplifies Williams’s...
by Alan Sinfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics – Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies.
An illuminating introduction to the second edition revisits the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Considering that he worked a stint as a screen writer, it will come as little surprise that Faulkner has often been called the most cinematic of novelists. Faulkner's novels were produced in the same high period as the films of classical Hollywood, a reason itself for considering his work alongside...
Father–Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature
The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties,...
Signing the Body Poetic
Essays on American Sign Language Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars...