Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Theatre/Theory/Theatre
The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
From Aristotle's Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, collects history's most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists – poets, playwrights, directors and philosophers...
by William H. Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1988, this study explains how certain genres created by Classical poets were adapted and sometimes transformed by the poets of the modern world, beginning with the Tudor poets’ rediscovery of the Classical heritage. Most of the long-lived poetic genres are discussed, from familiar...
by Richard Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis.
This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines:
* the terminology of literary...
Such a Simple Little Tale
Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
New in paperback 2003.
Here is a compilation of the best critical essays on this enduring classic. Selections focus on the many perspectives from which Anne of Green Gables is viewed. Is it children's literature, or does it fit a different area of literary scholarship? Each of the articles breaks...
The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France
Women Writ, Women Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the introduction. The book comprises essays on the construction of women: three in texts by male and three by female writers, including Racine, Fénelon, Poulain...
The Collected Essays Volume One
Occasional Prose, The Writing on the Wall, and Ideas and the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Spirited and insightful essays from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and a “delightfully polished writer” (The Atlantic Monthly).
Whether penning criticism, memoir, or fiction, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Group invariably wrote...
Tales from Shakespeare
Creative Collisions
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In this engaging new book, writer and critic Graham Holderness shows how a classic Shakespeare play can be the source for a modern story, providing a creative 'collision' between the Shakespeare text and contemporary concerns. Using an analogy from particle physics, Holderness tests his methodology...
by Thomas Birkett
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of antiquarians at the time the majority of Old English...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
This accessible and thought-provoking Companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. A team of international contributors examine Yeats's poetry, drama and prose in their historical and national contexts. The...
The Voice of the Masters
Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies— a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature, argues Roberto González Echevarría,...
Critical Moments in Classical Literature
Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and its Uses
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Through a series of innovative critical readings Richard Hunter builds a picture of how the ancients discussed the meaning of literary works and their importance in society. He pays particular attention to the interplay of criticism and creativity by not treating criticism in isolation from the works...
Literature and Ecofeminism
Intersectional and International Voices
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Bringing together ecofeminism and ecological literary criticism (ecocriticism), this book presents diverse ways of understanding and responding to the tangled relationships between the personal, social, and environmental dimensions of human experience and expression.
Literature and Ecofeminism...
De Vere as Shakespeare
An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but the identity of the Bard is not definitely decided. During the 20th century, Edward de Vere, the most flamboyant of the courtier poets, a man of the theater and literary patron, became the leading candidate for an alternative Shakespeare....
Roman Literary Cultures
Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors...