Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
by Dr Carolyn Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Although psychoanalytic criticism of Shakespeare is a prominent and prolific field of scholarship, the analytic methods and tools, theories, and critics who apply the theories have not been adequately assessed. This book fills that gap. It surveys the psychoanalytic theorists who have had the most...
Scare Tactics
Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors...
by Larzer Ziff
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Mark Twain towered above the American literary landscape. With a worldwide fame greater than that of statesmen, scientists, or entertainers, Twain was in his own words "the most conspicuous man on the planet." Now, in this wonderful recounting of his career, Larzer Ziff offers an incisive,...
The Irresistible Fairy Tale
The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what...
Literary Boston As I Knew It
From 'Literary Friends and Acquaintances'
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
The Vast and Terrible Drama
American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters
The Vast and Terrible Drama is a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser,...
The Fleeting Promise of Art
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
A discussion of Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory is bound to look significantly different today than it would have looked when the book was first published in 1970, or when it first appeared in English translation in the 1980s. In The Fleeting Promise of Art, Peter Uwe Hohendahl reexamines Aesthetic...
by Terry Eagleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing...
by Ullrich Haase, William Large
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze: all are key theorists crucially influenced by Blanchot's work.
This accessible guide:
* works 'idea by idea' through Blanchot's...
by Ian Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary...
Modernism and Theory
A Critical Debate
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Modernism and Theory boldly asks what – if any – role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. Separated into three sections, each with a clear introduction, this collection of new essays from leading critics outlines ongoing debates on the nature of modernist culture.
This collection
examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Chapter 1 Literary and Editorial Theory and Editing Marian Engel
Christl Verduyn
A hybrid editorial practice that combines literary, feminist, and life writing theories with editorial theory drawn from both Anglo-American and continental European traditions best suits the practical and...
The Nature of Narrative
Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling...
Of Literature and Knowledge
Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution and Game Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
"Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting." – Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University.
Framed by the theory of evolution, this colourful...