Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics
Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Different as they were as poets, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and Williams Carlos Williams grappled with the highly charged literary politics of the 1930s in comparable ways. As other writers moved sharply to the Left, and as leftist critics promulgated a proletarian aesthetics,...
The Life of George Eliot
A Critical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work.
A fresh look...
The Pictorial Third
An Essay Into Intermedial Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual at large, and studies the singular relationship established between language and image, observesing the modalities and workings of what is termed ‘intermedial transposition‘....
Literary Taste
How to Form It
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Literary Taste: How to Form It".’
Literary Taste, which has a sub-title "how to form it, with detailed instructions for collecting a complete library of English Literarure", came into that category,...
The Frontier Within
Essays by Abe Kobo
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Abe Kobo (1924–1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. However, he also wrote theoretical criticism for which he is lesser known, merging literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives into keen reflections...
Screening Woolf
Virginia Woolf on/and/in Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
As the subtitle indicates, this book has three majors concerns. The first and most important concern is an examination of the film adaptations of Woolf’s novels—To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Mrs. Dalloway—in the order the films were released. This is the heart of the matter, a fairly conventional...
The Stubborn Structure
Essays on Criticism and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more specific...
Modern Italian Poets
Essays and Versions
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
The Terror of Natural Right
Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right...
by Ben Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first...
Windows and Doors
A Poet Reads Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Sajé’s nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of...
Narrative Fiction
Contemporary Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Piers Plowman has long been considered one of the greatest poems of medieval England. Current scholarship on this alliterative masterpiece looks very different from that available even a decade ago. New information about the manuscripts of the poem, new historical discoveries, and new investigations...
by Sianne NGAI
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature--with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race--but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural...