Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
The Tao and the Logos
Literary Hermeneutics, East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1992
Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation—hermeneutics—are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic...
Naming the Rose
Essays on Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The original essays gathered in this book make a beginning at exploring the cultural significance of The Name of the Rose in terms of its backgrounds and literary contexts. Eco's novel is examined in the light of several of the traditions from which it draws: theories of detective fiction, comedy,...
A Gallery of Mirrors
Observations on Novelists and Poets
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The essays in this classic volume range from broad concerns with critical theory and aesthetic formulation to specific analysis of forms and texts. Levin discusses such matters as the symbolic interpretation of literature, the development of literary criticism during the past half-century, European...
The Dynamics of Genre
Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one. But although scholars have long known that writing for the vast periodical marketplace provided...
Literary Theory
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to the
full range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and science studies.
Introduces students to...
by Chela Sandoval
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.
What...
Playful Intelligence
Digitizing Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined...
by Tobin Anthony Siebers
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability...
The Bioregional Imagination
Literature, Ecology, and Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way...
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies
Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
From David Lean's big screen Great Expectations to AlejandroAmenábar's reinvention of The Turn of the Screw as The Others, adaptations of literary classics are a constant feature of popular culture today. The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies helps students master the history, theory...
Revolution
The Event in Postwar Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century—still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age—and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties. In Revolution, Matthew Wilkens argues that...
Alterity and Criticism
Tracing Time in Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
How does the theme of the other–-as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme—allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to argue that modern literature is strongly concerned with the role of time in the construction of...
by Christel N. Temple
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007),have been some of the most influential models of contemporary Africana Studies-based literary criticism, responds to the demand for a core disciplinary source that...
Victorian Literature and the Victorian State
Character and Governance in a Liberal Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its...