Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe
The Revival of Momus, the Agnostic God
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
In this book, George McClure examines the intellectual tradition of challenges to religious and literary authority in the early modern era. He explores the hidden history of unbelief through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery. Surveying his revival in Italy, France, Spain, Germany,...
by Lorraine York
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey bookclub. Literary Celebrity in Canada is the first extended study of the dynamics of celebrity in the field...
Art as the Absolute
Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem...
Occidentalism
A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1995
Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China from 1978-1988. Chen examines the cultural and political interrelations between the East and West from a vantage point more complex...
Foreign Accents
Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Foreign Accents examines the various transpacific signifying strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.S. have sought to represent cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic subjectivity, in Chinese as well as in English. In assessing both the dynamics and the politics of poetic...
by Joseph Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. This fully updated second edition includes:
a historical account of sexuality from the...
The Yellow Wallpaper
Feministische Analyse
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1.0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: The short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was published in 1892 and is considered to be a very important work...
Refiguring the Map of Sorrow
Nature Writing and Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature. In Refiguring the Map of Sorrow, Mark Allister brings these two genres together by examining a distinct form of grief narrative, in which the writers deal with mourning by standing explicitly...
Drawing the Line
The Father Reimagined in Faulkner, Wright, O'Connor, and Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers—William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison—to examine the father's function as a "border figure." Although the father has most...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Originally published in 1981 God, Literature and Process Thought looks at the use of God in writing, as a part of the creative advance, immersed in the processes of reality and affected by events in the world. This edited collection outlines and promotes the novel view that there is much to be gained...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Twelve Anglicists (from France, America, Poland, and Romania) who met in Bucharest to debate Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts at the ACED Conference in June 2015 join their voices in demonstrating the vitally spiritual power of Christianity in the recently modern world (in twentieth...
by Tony Jappy
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal documents that make up this visual culture, using Peircean semiotics. It develops the enormous theoretical potential of Peirce's theory of signs of signs (semiotics)...
by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism (1957) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of literary theory. The product of years of reading and reflection, the book's value extends far beyond its impact on criticism as a whole; ultimately, it must be viewed as a synoptic defense of liberal learning by one...
The Genocidal Gaze
From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The...