Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Sir Charles God Damn
The Life of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1986
A new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.D. Roberts’ Orion and Other Poems. He was just twenty years old. Roberts was soon acknowledged as leader of the so-called Confederation Poets—Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. During his long...
American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870
A Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the approximately...
James Arbuckle
Selected Works
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
James Arbuckle (c.1700–1742), poet and essayist, was born in Belfast to a Presbyterian merchant family of Scottish origin and educated at Glasgow University (1717–1723). In Glasgow, his poetry, influenced by Pope and the Latin classics, won praise from leading members of Scotland’s literary...
Putting Modernism Together
Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era—which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression—there was a special belligerence to...
The Cinema of Cruelty
From Buñuel to Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
“There is no denying his importance in the development of film theory. As an introduction to Bazin’s views, The Cinema of Cruelty is excellent” (Columbia Spectator).
Perhaps the single most important voice of cinema in the twentieth century, André Bazin profoundly influenced the development...
Mexican Literature
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective. More than merely a catalog of names and titles, it examines in detail the literary...
by Matthew Bevis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage...
Exiles from a Future Time
The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt...
by Kate Zambreno
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.
I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order―pretending an objectivity where...
Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87)
An Irish writer, his world, and his times
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This, the first ever biography of John Hewitt, is based on archival material, both personal and literary. In many ways it is also a biography of his wife, Roberta (nee Black), whose manuscript journal is also in the public domain. To establish Hewitt's late arrival as a poet, the book opens with a...
by Mathew R. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic...
Narratology
Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills...
An American Triptych
Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism both inspired and restricted Dickinson, and feminism...
The Right to Write
The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Engberg shows that these women...