Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature
A Globalization and Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach to Donne and Milton
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature examines how English writers responded to the cultural shock caused by the first substantial encounter between China and Western Europe. Author Mingjun Lu explores how Donne and Milton came to be aware of England’s participation in ’the race...
by Rachel A. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
One of the most celebrated Italian writers of the early Romantic period, Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827) was known primarily as a novelist, a poet, and a nationalist. Following the Napoleonic Wars, he lived in self-exile in England during the last decade of his life. There he wrote numerous critical essays...
The Dematerialisation of Karl Marx
Literature and Marxist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This volume constitutes both an attack on modern left wing literary theory - the main product of the last Marxist renaissance in the past thirty years - and a defence of the one element of Marxism which, in the general collapse, modern theorists have been happiest to lose, its economic materialism....
The Language of Fiction
Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of literary criticism, not least because it succeeded
The Metanarrative of Blindness
A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative of Blindness counters this trend by bringing to readings of twentieth-century works in English a perspective appreciative...
The Poetics of Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Italy
Degeneration and Regeneration in Literature and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In the 1880s and 1890s, materialism in art was counterbalanced by attention to the subjective individual experience, expressed in the new modes inaugurated by Symbolism, Decadence and Aestheticism. In particular, Decadent artists and writers inspired the lasting name of an age fascinated by the contemplation...
Work in Progress
Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but also...
by Angela Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
What is the Gothic? Few literary genres have attracted so much praise and critical disdain simultaneously. This Guide returns to the Gothic novel's first wave of popularity, between 1764 and 1820, to explore and analyse the full range of contradictory responses that the Gothic evoked. Angela Wright...
by Pramod K. Nayar
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory.
Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that includes the texts in which many of these terms...
Queer Shakespeare
Desire and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory,...
On Literature, Culture, and Religion
Irving Babbitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Irving Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the 1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after his death his intellectual staying power remains undiminished. On Literature, Culture, and Religion is...
Poetics of Change
The New Spanish-American Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Too often literary criticism is academic exercise rather than creative act. For the multifaceted Julio Ortega—respected poet, dramatist, and novelist in his own right—the act of criticism becomes profoundly creative, his incisive readings of the text far transcending the pedantry that may falsely...
Censorship and the Limits of the Literary
A Global View
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coeval and mutually constitutive.
On the one hand, literary censorship has been posited as not only...
Jacques Lacan
Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2001
The French theorist Lacan has always been called a 'literary' theoretician. Here is, for the first time, a complete study of his literary analyses and examples, with an account of the importance of literature in the building of his highly original system of thought. Rabate offers a systematic genealogy...