Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Knowing Subjects
Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In Knowing Subjects, Barbara Simerka uses an emergent field of literary study-cognitive cultural studies-to delineate new ways of looking at early modern Spanish literature and to analyze cognition and social identity in Spain at the time. Simerka analyzes works by Cervantes and Gracían, as well...
by Patricia Ingham
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are regarded as a sources of diversity in themselves, full of conflictual material which different schools...
Subjecting Verses
Latin Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses...
Disabling Characters
Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Disabling Characters provides detailed analyses of selected young adult (YA) novels and short stories. It looks at the relative agency of the disabled character, the behavior of the other characters, the environment in which the character must live, the assumptions that seem to be underlying certain...
by David Alderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Terry Eagleton is the foremost Marxist cultural theorist of our time. In the first book-length study of this highly influential figure, David Alderson provides detailed discussions of Eagleton's Marxism and his engagements with postmodernism, as well as an evaluation of his interventions in Irish...
Surprise
The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Today, in the era of the spoiler alert, "surprise" in fiction is primarily associated with an unexpected plot twist, but in earlier usage, the word had darker and more complex meanings. Originally denoting a military ambush or physical assault, surprise went through a major semantic shift in the eighteenth...
Imaginary Existences
A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Imaginary Existences: A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and creative manner, convincingly demonstrating...
Catholic Literature and Film
Incarnational Love and Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Catholic Literature and Film: Incarnational Love and Suffering is meant to be considered as a work of literary criticism, not film adaptation studies. In it, the author explores six literary works dealing with Catholic themes and the film versions of these works. The discussion of the films is at...
by Mark Robson
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of 'new historicism', a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a multitude of other, more marginal works and voices. Questioning not just literary but social, political and cultural...
After Foucault
Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The work of Michel Foucault is much read, widely cited, and occasionally misunderstood. In response to this state of affairs, this collection aims to clarify, to contextualize, and to contribute to Foucauldian scholarship in a very specific way. Rather than offering either a conceptual introduction...
Dying Modern
A Meditation on Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so by identifying three distinct but largely unrecognized voices within the well-studied genre of the elegy: the dying voice, the reviving voice, and the surviving voice....
Paris and the Marginalized Author
Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s to the present millennium, this volume considers...
by Liu Hsieh, Vincent Yu-chung Shih
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and scholars since it was written some 1,500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at...
The Present Word. Culture, Society and the Site of Literature
Essays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"This book addresses three key areas of intellectual enquiry: literary criticism, cultural critique, and philosophical theology. Once closely related, especially in the Catholic tradition, they often appear to be separate and unconnected domains in the modern university. The work of Nicholas...