Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Reductive Reading
A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
What is to be gained by reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch from an Excel spreadsheet, or the novels of Charles Dickens through a few hundred dialogue tags—those he said/she saids that bring his characters to life? Sarah Danielle Allison’s Reductive Reading argues that the greatest gift the computational...
The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said
Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative literary studies, and the humanities in general.
Mongrel Nation
Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom’s African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley Dawson argues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals...
Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals)
Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that...
Psyche and Ethos
Moral Life After Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
We live in a psychological age. Contemporary culture is saturated with psychological concepts and ideas, from anxiety to narcissism to trauma. While it might seem that concern over psychological conditions and challenges is intrinsically oriented toward moral questions about what promotes individual...
by David Punter
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Writing the Passions is a book of literary criticism, of philosophy and of the politics of modernity. It explores the arguments on the location of feeling in literature; on the fragmentation of the self under the pressure of the passions; of the place of the passions in psychoanalytic practice and...
Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing
Theories, Histories and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing: Theories, Histories and Policies examines and assesses the interdependence between sustainability and wellbeing by drawing attention to humans as producers and consumers in a post-human age. Why wellbeing ought to be regarded as essential to sustainable...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne is a literary giant of American literature, whose works have gone on to inspire many other great writers. This eBook offers readers the unique opportunity of exploring the prolific writer’s work, as well as an assortment of bonus texts. (Current version: 2)
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by Howells,William Dean
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A splendid work of criticism that introduces us to Howell, the well-versed literary critic. He discusses the writings of various authors through the ages - for instance Cervantes, Shakespeare, Pope, Tolstoy - in great detail. His criticism is based on his in-depth study which makes the book highly informative. Truly enlightening!
A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics
Neoclassicism and the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This study provides an introduction to the neoclassical debates around how literature is shaped in concert with the thinking and feeling human mind. Three key rules of neoclassicism, namely, poetic justice (the rewards and punishments of characters in the plot), the unities (the coherence of the fictional...
by Dr David Alderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
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 Studies....
Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England
'Little Legacies' and the Materials of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women's wealth, its peculiar laws of transmission and accumulation, and how a world of goods and favors, mothers and daughters was transformed by market culture. Drawing on the long and troubled...
Satire in Narrative
Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, & Pynchon
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in...
by Sibylle Baumbach
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan.