Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise: namely, that...
by Derek Attridge
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
First published in 1988, Peculiar Language is now established as one of the most important discussions of the language of literature. This thought-provoking book challenges traditional notions of literary criticism, arguing that all attempts by writers, critics and literary theorists to define the...
by Oana Sabo
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France explains the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literature and the French literary establishment. A marginal genre in 1980s France, since the turn of the century “migrant literature” has become central to...
Stephen Spender
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2005
One of the leading poets and cultural icons of the 20th century, Stephen Spender was a prominent writer, literary critic, and social commentator--and close friend of some of the best-know creative talents of his day. Now, in this penetrating biography, John Sutherland paints a vivid portrait of Spender...
by Heather Fielding
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Modernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology's crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism's vision of the...
Revolution of the Ordinary
Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell—to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi demonstrates this philosophy’s unique ability...
Three Radical Women Writers
Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Combining biography, history, and literary theory, this work looks at three of the most significant women writers to emerge from American radicalism of the 1930s. Le Sueur, Olsen, and Herbst were influenced by the Communist movement of the time, but each also forged an independent vision of feminist...
by Lucia Ruprecht
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Lucia Ruprecht's study is the first monograph in English to analyse the relationship between nineteenth-century German literature and theatrical dance. Combining cultural history with close readings of major texts by Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine, the author brings to light...
by Ben Etherington
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
This book fundamentally rethinks a pervasive and controversial concept in literary criticism and the history of ideas. Primitivism has long been accepted as a transhistorical tendency of the "civilized" to idealize that primitive condition against which they define themselves. In the modern...
Narratology
Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative text, the fourth edition of Narratology...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book breaks new ground in the study of Dalit literature, including in its corpus a range of genres such as novels, autobiographies, pamphlets, poetry, short stories and graphic novels. With contributions from major scholars in the field, alongside budding ones, the book critically examines Dalit...
Melville's Mirrors
Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. Until now, however, there has been no standard volume on the history of Melville criticism. That a volume on this subject is timely and important is...
Literary Research and British Postmodernism
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Literary Research and British Postmodernism is a guide for scholars that aims to connect the complex relationships between print and multimedia, technological advancements, and the influence of critical theory that converge in postwar British literature. This era is unique in that strict boundaries...
Romantic Sobriety
Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.
Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes of sensation and sobriety, along with...