Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Literary Translation in Russia
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1997
In this rich historical study, Maurice Friedberg recounts the impact of translation on the Russian literary process. In tracing the explosion of literary translation in nineteenth-century Russia, Friedberg determines that it introduced new issues of cultural, aesthetic, and political values.
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by Kathy-Ann Tan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, author Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations,...
Critical Theory
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
An anthology of readings and extracts providing a comprehensive introduction to the main schools and positions of critical theory. The book is divided into five sections; structuralism and poststructuralism, psychoanalytical theory, Marxism, feminism, and post-foundational ethics and politics. It...
The Oxford English Literary History
Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions,...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Book Analysis)
Complete Summary and Book Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Unlock the more straightforward side of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, which tells...
Literary Research and Canadian Literature
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Canada's rich literary heritage, dominated by a multicultural and multilingual presence, reflects the country's unique history and experience. In addition, an emerging body of new writers is redefining both the geographic and metaphorical boundaries of Canadian literature. Coupled with the propagation...
After Sex?
On Writing since Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field’s history, accomplishments,...
Stephen Spender
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2005
One of the leading poets and cultural icons of the 20th century, Stephen Spender was a prominent writer, literary critic, and social commentator--and close friend of some of the best-know creative talents of his day. Now, in this penetrating biography, John Sutherland paints a vivid portrait of Spender...
Literary Research and the Era of American Nationalism and Romanticism
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
The early years of American nationhood, beginning at the close of colonial rule and ending with the onset of the Civil War, saw both a young country and its literature grow in confidence and develop an awareness of self-identity. Pride in the new nation was a primary characteristic of much literary...
by Heather Fielding
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Modernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology's crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism's vision of the...
Critical Theory and Critical Genres
Contemporary Perspectives from Poland
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of constant intellectual contestation...
Literary / Liberal Entanglements
Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In Literary/Liberal Entanglements, Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson bring together ten essays by scholars from a wide range of fields in English studies in order to interrogate the complex, entangled relationship between the history of literature and the history of liberalism. The volume has three...
by Nicole Silvester
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is arguably one of the most important works of scientific writing ever to be published. Science today recognizes that the principles of natural selection Darwin described are the primary driving forces behind the evolution of new...
From Alienation to Forms of Life
The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious metaphysical baggage, and made fruitful for critical theory...