Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts
A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Ecocriticism has steadily gained footing within the larger arena of early modern scholarship, and with the publication of well over a dozen monographs, essay collections, and special journal issues, literary studies looks increasingly ’green’; yet the field lacks a straightforward, easy-to-use...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and… brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman reads the "sound of O" in Othello;...
Word Toys
Poetry and Technics
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic, novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects.
With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving that include multimedia,...
by P. Fifield
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.
EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of Modernism
St. Petersburg to Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of modernism critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites, concentrating Russian and Luso-Brazilian cultural...
The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye
Rethinking psychoanalysis and literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The Analyst‘s Ear and the Critic‘s Eye is the first volume of literary criticism to be co-authored by a practicing psychoanalyst and a literary critic. The result of this unique collaboration is a lively conversation that not only demonstrates what is most fundamental to each discipline, but creates a joint perspective on reading literature that ne
The Exeter Book Riddles
History, transmission, typical features and the Exeter Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft), course: Riddles, Proverbs, Nursery Rhymes, language: English, abstract: The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary...
Beyond Borders
Queer Eros and Ethos (Ethics) in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Beyond Borders compiles essays from various authors who explore the queerness of young adult literature that contains lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning characters, some written by LGBTQ identified authors, while presenting lessons for secondary English classrooms. As queer theorists,...
Postmodernism in Pieces
Materializing the Social in U.S. Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies. In the wake of a critical consensus proclaiming its death, Matthew Mullins breaks postmodernism down into its most fundamental orthodoxies and reassembles it piece by piece in light of...
Narrative Theory Unbound
Queer and Feminist Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Under the bold banner of Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions, editors Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser gather a diverse spectrum of queer and feminist challenges to the theory and interpretation of narrative. The first edited collection to bring feminist, queer, and narrative...
by Renée Hulan
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic explores the impact of climate change on Canadian literary culture. Analysis of the changing rhetoric surrounding the discovery of the lost ships of the Franklin expedition serves to highlight the political and economic interests that have historically...
by Theresia Knuth
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2007
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A2 (highly excellent), University of Edinburgh (Department of English Literature), course: Modernism, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The rise of feminist theory during...
Nature's State
Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Individually, these articles approach narrative from various angles, focusing both on matters that have been debated since even before the advent of narratology and on questions that have been dealt with in only a limited way in the past; together, they show that narratology, far from being a method...