Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Changing Subjects
The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
These twenty autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, articulating the connections between the personal and political in their lives and work. They describe the experiences that radicalised women within academia...
by Andrew Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
In The Theorist's Mother one of our subtlest literary theorists turns his attention to traces of the maternal in the lives and works of canonical male critical theorists. Noting how the mother is made to disappear both as the object of theory and as its subject, Andrew Parker focuses primarily on...
Matisse’s Poets
Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Throughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's position in the literary cross-currents of 20th-century France and explores ways in which reading influenced...
The Practices of Hope
Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Offers a positive approach to literary criticism
At a moment when the “hermeneutics of suspicion” is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the discourse of human rights has expanded to include not just civil and political rights but economic, social, cultural, and, most recently, collective rights. Given their broad scope, human rights issues are useful touchstones...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Neoliberalism has been a buzzword in literary studies for well over a decade, but its meaning remains ambiguous and its salience contentious. In Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith offer a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary literature through...
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...
Gustav Mahler and the Symphony of the 19th Century
Translated by Neil K. Moran
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear that not only Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner were crucial...
Postcolonial Conrad
Paradoxes of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.
The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’,...
Metamedia
American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Does literature need the book? With electronic texts and reading devices growing increasingly popular, the codex is no longer the default format of fiction. Yet as Alexander Starre shows in Metamedia, American literature has rediscovered the book as an artistic medium after the first e-book hype in...
The Editing of American Literature, 1890-1930
Essays and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Since the 1960s, Donald Pizer has been writing about late-19th-century American literature, with an emphasis on the major fiction of Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane. Most academics whose interests lie primarily in the preparation of scholarly editions are attracted to the paradoxical mix of adherence...
The Way Things Go
An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Buffed up to a metallic shine; loose fitting, lopsided, or kludgy; getting in the way or getting lost; collapsing in an explosion of dust caught on the warehouse CCTV. Modern things are going their own ways, and this book attempts to follow them. A course of thought about their comings and goings and...
Tropologies
Ethics and Invention in England, c.1350-1600
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The “tropological imperative”...
by Anthony J. Cascardi
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained,...