Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
by Nadia Valman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Against a background of enormous cultural change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writing by British Jewish women grappled with shifting meanings of Jewish identity, the pressure of social norms, and questions of assimilation. Until recently, however, the distinctive experiences and perspectives...
by Jesse Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy integrates studies of six members and associates of the Bloomsbury group into a rich narrative of early twentieth century culture, encompassing changes in the demographics of private and public life, and Freudian and sexological assaults on middle-class...
Postmodern Counternarratives
Irony and Audience in the Novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, and Tim O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists. Despite wildly contrasting ambitions and agendas, all four grow progressively more sympathetic to the expectations of a mainstream...
The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood
Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category...
Surveyors of Customs
American Literature as Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, fired from Salem's Custom House and returning to writing, reconceived his old job title, Surveyor of Customs, as his new one. Taking seriously this naming of the American author's project, Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be...
Is Shakespeare any Good?
And Other Questions on How to Evaluate Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Is Shakespeare any Good? reveals why certain literary works and authors are treated as superior to others, and questions the literary establishment’s criteria for creating an imperium of “great” writers.
Enables readers to articulate and formulate their own arguments about the quality of...
Discourses of Empire
Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and novelistic...
Dickens' Novels as Poetry
Allegory and Literature of the City
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens’ novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens’ novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens’ writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
First published in 1969, Professor Hough’s work examines stylistics – the bridge between linguistics and literary criticism. The book gives a short survey of stylistics from a literary point of view, and tries to answer the question of how much stylistics contributes to the understanding of literature....
by Amit Chaudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
'Strategic thinking for a writer articulates itself as dislike and as allegiance.' In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. Chaudhuri's...
Bring on the Books for Everybody
How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on...
The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals)
Rediscovering the Essay
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in relation to the rise of the novel and the emergence...
by Gavin Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to...
by John Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Pushing Back pushes back against GBTs (Great Big Theories) that confine literary discourse, especially poems, to zones where realworld truth-testing and value-judgments are told, "Keep Out; This Means You." Fraser steers between the Scylla of transcendent insights obtained courtesy of Metaphor,...