Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
by James Decker
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This concise introduction to the concept of ideology provides an overview of the term and considers its impact on literary theory. James M. Decker analyzes the history of Western ideology from its pre-Enlightenment roots to its current incarnations, providing readers with both an essential overview...
Poe's Pym
Critical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1992
"The interpreter's dream-text," as one critic called Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym has prompted critical approaches almost as varied as the experiences it chronicles. This is the first book to deal exclusively with Pym, Poe's longest fictional work and in many ways...
Becoming John Updike
Critical Reception, 1958-2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant stylist who had nothing to say. What changed?...
Genius Envy
Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as “feminine literature.”...
Keeping up Her Geography
Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and...
The Craft of Poetry
Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers....
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Experiments in Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fresh assessments of the imaginative and aesthetic complexity of women’s poetry. The monograph seeks...
by Karl Simms
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Paul Ricoeur is one of the most wide-ranging thinkers to emerge in the twentieth century. He has developed a unique 'theory of reading' or hermeneutics, which extends far beyond the reading of literary works to build into a theory for the reading of 'life'. For this reason, his work has impacted not...
The Culture of the Body
Genealogies of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical...
The Passion of Meter
A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth's attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of "common...
by Britta Martens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes...
Colonizing Language
Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant body of literature written in Japanese by colonial writers by the 1930s. After its unconditional surrender...
by Onno Oerlemans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Given current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno Oerlemans extends these current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period. He...
by Cóilín Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which...