Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books

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Literature and Liberty

Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism

by Allen Mendenhall
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014

The economic theories of Karl Marx and his disciples continue to be anthologized in books of literary theory and criticism and taught in humanities classrooms to the exclusion of other, competing economic paradigms. Marxism is collectivist, predictable, monolithic, impersonal, linear, reductive —...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

A Reader Friendly Look at the Schools of Thought That Shaped the Books We Love

by Steven J. Venturino PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016

The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical...
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by Mary Klages
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering...
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by Todd F. Davis, Professor Kenneth Womack
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002

This invaluable guide by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of twentieth-century literary theory. A complementary text to the Palgrave volume Postmodern Narrative Theory by Mark Currie, this new title addresses a host of theoretical...
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The Future of Trauma Theory

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism

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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

This collection analyses the future of ‘trauma theory’, a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections. Part one, History and Culture, begins...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013

In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the vast field of literary criticism between 1830 and 1914. In over thirty essays written from a broad range...
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by Keith Green, Jill LeBihan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006

Critical Teory and Practice answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader and workbook is ideal for the beginning - perhaps even bewildered - student of literary theory. The work is divided into seven chapters, each of which contains guiding...
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Beckett's Dantes

Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism

by Daniela Caselli
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative...
Cover of Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
by Maud Ellmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the influence of Jacques Lacan. It explains how classical...
Cover of Shakespeare and Literary Theory
by Jonathan Gil Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and about women. Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors emphasise some of the problems...
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Empire Burlesque

The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America

by Daniel T. O'Hara, Donald E. Pease
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003

Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O’Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing both its material and imaginative potential, reducing...
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Criticism in the Borderlands

Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology

by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Luis Leal
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1991

This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts—both old and new—draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist. The...
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