Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
by Rolena Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished...
by Fernando Sorrentino, Clark M. Zlotchew
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.
Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity,...
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
An Essay in the Old Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The first book of criticism from the acclaimed author of After Babel—a “provocative and probing” look at Russian literature’s most influential writers (The New York Times).
“Literary criticism,” writes Steiner, “should arise out of a debt of love.” Abiding by his own rule, Tolstoy...
by George Ian Duthie
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
First published in 1951.
'The book has the sterling qualities of shrewd sense and acumen that mark the 'rational' classical school of Shakespeare criticism.' Notes and Queries
'Professor Duthie's approach is direct and extremely objective. With no axe to grind, he pays impartial court...
Globalectics
Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry...
Culture Writing
Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that this period in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. As the British and French empires collapsed and...
Literary Awakenings
Personal Essays from the Hudson Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications....
Elie Wiesel
Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
“Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel’s interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more.” —Publishers Weekly
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the...
American Poetry in Performance
From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
"Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains...
The Grey Album
On the Blackness of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
*Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism*
*A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 2012*
The Grey Album, the first work of prose by the brilliant poet Kevin Young, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize
Taking...
by Albert Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in South to a Very Old Place. Intermingling remembrances of youth with engaging conversation, African-American folklore, and astute cultural criticism, it is at...
The Desiring Modes of Being Black
Literature and Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish....
Mimesis
The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how...
Politics, Theory, and Film
Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart -- and sometimes feed...