Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
by Christopher Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work...
The Theory Toolbox
Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.
Nealon and Searls Giroux...
Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds
From Giant Turtles to Small Gods
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, and literary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett's work on fantasy writing and genre conventions.With chapters on...
Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me
Discover the Magic of Friendship, Family, Courage, and Love in Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
An approachable and inspiring series of short essays that examines the greatest YA series ever with a combination of adult literary criticism and childhood curiosity
The books will always be a part of you. Now, revisit old Hogwarts haunts. Reconnect with favorite characters. And learn far more...
by Maureen N. McLane
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell
"Oh! there are spirits of the air," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind....
Studying Literature in English
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Studying Literature in English provides the ideal point of entry for students of English Literature. This book is an accessible guide for Literature students around the world. This book:
Grounds literature and the study of literature throughout by referencing a selection of well-known novels,...
Wider Boundaries of Daring
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay,...
Stories in a New Skin
Approaches to Inuit Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
In an age where southern power-holders look north and see only vacant polar landscapes, isolated communities, and exploitable resources, it is important to note that the Inuit homeland encompasses extensive philosophical, political, and literary traditions. Stories in a New Skin is a seminal text...
by Miles Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger,...
by David Glover, Cora Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to...
Double Vision
Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher and literary critic Tzachi Zamir argues that there are more things in Hamlet than are dreamt of--or at least conceded--by most philosophers. Making an original and...
The Unimagined in the English Renaissance
Poetry and the Limits of Mimesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
When we read poetry, we tend to believe that we are getting a glimpse of the interior of the poet’s mind—pictures from the poet’s imagination relayed through the representative power of language. But poets themselves sometimes express doubt (usually indirectly) that poetic language has the capability...
Decolonising Gender
Literature and a Poetics of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare – Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing:
a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory
an anti-essentialist approach...
Before Einstein
The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
‘Before Einstein’ brings together previous scholarship in the field of nineteenth-century literature and science and greatly expands upon it, offering the first book-length study of not only the scientific and cultural context of the spatial fourth dimension, but also the literary value of four-dimensional...