Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
The Art of English Poesy
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable historical document, offering generous insight into...
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML)
Vol. 6, No. 2 (July 2016)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) Volume 6 Number 2 (July 2016)
ISSN 2231-6248
Highlights include:
"Portrayal of Man-Woman Pairs in the Fictional World of D. H. Lawrence: An Analysis" --S. Chelliah
"Feminism and Feminist Literary Theory: A Brief...
Politics and Letters
Interviews with New Left Review
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual analysis to the examination of structures and forms...
Thinking Through Blake
Essays in Literary Contrariety
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
A seminal figure in Romantic poetry and visual arts, William Blake continues to influence modern literary criticism. In this book, Blake scholar Hazard Adams presents a selection of essays that span his long career exploring the work and thought of the groundbreaking artist. Topics range from the...
The Female Complaint
The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural...
Theory's Empire
An Anthology of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting...
Signs of the Signs
The Literary Lights of Incandescence and Neon
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This book is a study of signs in American literature and culture. It is mainly about electric signs, but also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. The 'sign' is considered in both the architectural and semiotic senses of the word. It is argued that the drama and...
by Annette Federico
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
What should we do with a literary work? Is it best to become immersed in a novel or poem, or is our job to objectively dissect it? Should we consult literature as a source of knowledge or wisdom, or keenly interrogate its designs upon us? Do we excavate the text as an historical artifact, or surrender...
Playing the Martyr
Theater and Theology in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater and religion in early modern France. Challenging the standard narrative of modernity as a process of increased secularization Christopher Semk demonstrates the centrality of religious thought and practices to the development of neoclassical...
by S. J. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary...
No More Separate Spheres!
A Next Wave American Studies Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of “male public” and “female private” spheres from the founders to the present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge critics with diverse viewpoints,...
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability
Talking Normal
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is wide-ranging both in terms of national literatures...
Professing Literature
An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our...
by David Rudrum
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Stanley Cavell is widely recognized as one of America's most important contemporary philosophers, and his legacy and writings continue to attract considerable attention among literary critics and theorists. Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature comprehensively addresses the importance of literature...