Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century. A brilliantly evocative writer and conceptual creator, his influence is clearly discernible today across nearly every discipline-philosophy and history, certainly, as well as literary and critical...
Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary
Reading Conrad, Weiss, Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European émigré writers of the twentieth century — Conrad, Weiss and Sebald...
by Taffy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Myth and misconception have obstructed a clear understanding of the poetry and person of Marianne Moore. In this groundbreaking study, Taffy Martin delves beneath the layers of myth and recaptures the excitement that Moore's contemporaries, particularly William Carlos Williams, felt when they encountered...
The Victorian Diary
Authorship and Emotional Labour
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot,...
by Dr Meera Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The first decades of the twenty-first century have been beset by troubling social realities: coalition warfare, global terrorism and financial crisis, climate change, epidemics of family violence, violence toward women, addiction, neo-colonialism, continuing racial and religious conflict. While traumas...
Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes
Studies in Musical Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the «dimension of their distance», as argued later? Both wrote autonomously conceived music, both held on to traditional...
by Elizabeth Renker
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The terms 'poetry' and 'realism' have a complex and often oppositional relationship in American literary histories of the postbellum period. The core narrative holds that 'realism', the major literary 'movement' of the era, developed apace in prose fiction, while poetry, stuck in a hopelessly idealist...
Three Traveling Women Writers
Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S from the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women’s travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which often limit women’s space in print culture. For the first time, through a comparative lens, a Latin American woman’s travel narrative is analyzed...
Forms of Empire
The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In Forms of Empire, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form. The Victorian era is often imagined as an "age of equipoise," but the period between 1837 and 1901 included more than two hundred separate...
Rowing in Eden
Rereading Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Emily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery of her work, general readers and literary scholars...
by Jennifer Julia Sorensen
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The years from 1890 through 1935 witnessed an explosion of print, both in terms of the variety of venues for publication and in the vast circulation figures and the quantity of print forums. Arguing that the formal strategies of modernist texts can only be fully understood in the context of the material...
A Croce Reader
Aesthetics, Philosophy, History, and Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Benedetto Crocewas a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century.
A Croce Reader brings together the author’s most important works across the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, history, literary criticism, and the Baroque and presents...
by Thomas Edward Crawley
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Modern critics and contemporary readers familiar with the field of Whitman criticism may find surprising an analysis of the structure of Leaves of Grass that concerns itself with Whitman as the poet-prophet and the identification of Whitman (or of his persona in the poem) with Christ. Early twentieth-century...
Queer Experimental Literature
The Affective Politics of Bad Reading
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This volume argues that postwar writers queer the affective relations of reading through experiments with literary form. Tyler Bradway conceptualizes “bad reading” as an affective politics that stimulates queer relations of erotic and political belonging in the event of reading. These incipiently...