Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1996
In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the current state of literary history. Representing a range of disciplinary specialties and approaches, these essays illustrate and debate the issues that confront scholars working on...
Stuff Theory
Everyday Objects, Radical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the...
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming
A Collection of Literary Essays Written by Chinese Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features. The first one is a Chinese perspective on Western literary works, which is normally not found in the scholarship in the West. The...
Monstrous Kinships
Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century and the psychoanalytic approach of...
The Great Tower of Elfland
The Mythopoeic Worldview of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Beginning in the mid-1950s, scholars proposed that the Inklings were a unified group centered on fantasy, imagination, and Christianity.
Scholars and a few Inklings themselves supported the premise until 1978, when Humphrey Carpenter wrote the first major biography of the group, disputing a...
by Jyotsna G. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory is an up-to-date guide to contemporary debates in postcolonial studies and how these shape our understanding of Shakespeare's politics and poetics. Taking a historical perspective, it covers early modern discourses of colonialism, 'race', gender and globalization,...
Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities
Literary Theory, History, Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements. They fostered circulation of ideas within and between disciplines, thus altering the shape of intellectual inquiry. This volume offers a new perspective on theoretical schools in the humanities, both as generators...
by Tom McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Sub-titled "How Literature Works" this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern theory that re-evaluates literature and literary meaning from Aeschylus to Kraftwerk. A VINTAGE EBOOK ORIGINAL.
Tom McCarthy is one of the most vital young voices...
by Alexander Pushkin, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Russia's Father of Literature deserves a place in all digital libraries. This comprehensive eBook presents the major works of Alexander Pushkin, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material.
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Pushkin's...
by Miguel de Cervantes, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For the first in digital publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete novels of the Spanish master Miguel de Cervantes, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating...
Time Travel
The Popular Philosophy of Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative “laboratory,” a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are represented in the form of literal devices...
by Paula Leverage
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Theory of Mind is what enables us to "put ourselves in another's shoes." It is mindreading, empathy, creative imagination of another's perspective: in short, it is simultaneously a highly sophisticated ability and a very basic necessity for human communication. Theory of Mind is central...
Site Reading
Fiction, Art, Social Form
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites—supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums—that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional...
by Gail Pool
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
For more than two hundred years, book reviewers have influenced American readers, setting our literary agenda by helping us determine not only what we read but also what we think about what we read. And for nearly as long, critics of these critics have lambasted book reviews for their overpraise,...