Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
The Renaissance and the Postmodern
A Study in Comparative Critical Values
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary hierarchy of theory over literature, the book takes the novel approach of consulting major Renaissance...
by Mariam Konaté Deme
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
There exists a strong tendency within Western literary criticism to either deny the existence of epics in Africa or to see African literatures as exotic copies of European originals. In both cases, Western criticism has largely failed to acknowledge the distinctiveness of African literary aesthetics....
Egil, the Viking Poet
New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder,...
The Prague School
Selected Writings, 1929-1946
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The Prague Linguistic Circle came into being on the afternoon of October 6, 1926, when five Czech and Russian linguists gathered to hear a lecture by a German colleague. From this international beginning, the interests of the group grew to first encompass language in all its functional heterogeneity...
The Vanishing Frame
Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism has been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader...
Poetics
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Aristotle's 'Poetics' is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
by I. A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
I have set three aims before me in constructing this book. First, to introduce a new kind of documentation to those who are interested in the contemporary state of culture whether as critics, as philosophers, as teachers, as psychologists, or merely as curious persons. Secondly, to provide a new technique...
by Sarah Jonckheere
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The book brings to light Neal Stephenson’s answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. The author of this book analyses the ethnocultural, technological, and ideological skeins that make up the biopolitical production of the self. The coming-of-age novel «The Diamond Age» reflects...
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory
Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging...
Helene Cixous
Authorship, Autobiography and Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This book is a clear and accessible introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had a major impact on feminist theory and practice.
Susan Sellers, a major scholar on Cixous, provides a lucid account of Cixous's theoretical position, and in particular...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
The contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière has become over the last two decades one of the most influential voices in philosophy, political theory, and literary, art historical, and film criticism. His work reexamines the divisions that have defined our understanding of modernity, such as art...
The Selected Writings of Andrew Lang
Volume III: Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the ‘colour’ Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910. This three volume set presents a selection of his work in these areas....
by Miroslawa Buchholtz
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Henry James (1843–1916) has been widely acclaimed for the elegance of his prose, the incisiveness of his social comment, and the subtlety of his psychological analyses. Whereas James’s tales and novels have been carefully studied over the past decades, his non-fiction, including literary criticism,...
Edging Women Out
Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist...