Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Universes without Us
Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view—scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary—they suggested that such energies would eventually...
by Barbara A. Suess
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This new essay collection brings together some of the top Brontë scholars working today, as well as new critical voices, to examine the many layers of Anne Brontë's fiction and other writings and to restore Brontë to her rightful place in literary history. Until very recently, Brontë's...
Criticism after Critique
Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.
by June Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre. Naturalism, she states, is a way of imagining the world and the relation of the self to the world, a way of making sense -- and making narrative...
Negotiating Capability and Diaspora
A Philosophical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics scrutinizes Indian economist cum philosopher Amartya Sen’s theory of capability, which rose as a critique of the modern American philosopher John Rawls’s theory of primary goods. Ashmita Khasnabish develops Sen’s theory of capability...
Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories
Thought on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This book participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged “death of theory” and the current post-theoretical condition, arguing that the “finitude” of theoretical projects does not mean “end”, but rather contingency and transformation of thinking, beyond irreconcilable doctrines....
The Text, the Play, and the Globe
Essays on Literary Influence in Shakespeare's World and His Work in Honor of Charles R. Forker
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R. Forker with a series of essays that address the problem of literary influence in original ways and from a variety of perspectives. The emphasis throughout is on the sort of careful, exhaustive, evidence-based scholarship to which...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) 2017 Edited Collection Prize
This book is a challenging and engaging collection of original essays on the novels of Alan Hollinghurst, Britain’s foremost gay writer and the English novel’s master stylist. The essays...
Borges's Poe
The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Edgar Allan Poe’s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Río de la Plata region of South America—Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. In Borges’s Poe, Emron Esplin...
The Literary Channel
The Inter-National Invention of the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2009
The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary "zone" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. The period also saw British and French writers,...
Fragments and Assemblages
Forming Compilations of Medieval London
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
In Fragments and Assemblages, Arthur Bahr expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. Specifically, Bahr argues that manuscript compilations from fourteenth-century London reward interpretation as...
by Owen Hulatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's theory...
Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse
The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa as an icon of the gendered gaze. An analysis of...
Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia (1870s-1917)
Rituals of Academic Institutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The turn of the twentieth century was a decisive moment in the institutionalisation of Russia's literary scholarship. This is the first book in the English language to provide an in-depth analysis of the emergence of Russia's literary academia in the pre-Revolutionary era. In particular, Byford...