Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Freud in Oz
At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose proponents...
Marxism and Form
20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter...
Ecocriticism on the Edge
The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged.
Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive...
Interruptions
The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A history of fragmentary—or interrupted—writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic.
In Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, Gerald L. Bruns explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Bruns...
by Sebastian Langner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Constance, course: Kulturkontakte: Theorien in den Geschichts- und Literaturwissenschaften, language: English, abstract: By the 1990s, New Historicism and its main progenitor Stephen Greenblatt...
The Social Imperative
Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship between...
Emancipation and Illusion
Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1997
In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea...
by Jenny Roch
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: B3 (15/20), University of Glasgow (Department of Scottish Literature), course: Theory and Scottish Literature, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Liberal humanism....
by Celine Briot
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Bonn (Anglistik), course: Science-Fiction, language: English, abstract: In recent decades the literary genre of Science Fiction has experienced a rising interest which might...
Signing the Body Poetic
Essays on American Sign Language Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars...
by Michael Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes is about reading, a process that we take for granted. But Sherlock Holmes, the cultural icon to whose exploits Michael Atkinson gives new readings, became famous by taking nothing for granted. Holmes's adventures can be read in new ways, including ways that he...
by Sirinya Pakditawan
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Hamburg, language: English, abstract: Numerous contemporary British novels display an almost obsessive concern with the notion of Englishness. Hence, they focus on the myths,...
Semantics and the Body
Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 1997
In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, by contrast, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity. Strictly language-based theories, and theories which conflate formal and natural languages, run into...