Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Reading for Realism
The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850–1910
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 1997
Reading for Realism presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener’s focus is the realist novel, the most influential literary form of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—a form...
Genealogical Fictions
Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Taking its cue from recent theories of literary geography and fiction, Genealogical Fictions argues that narratives of familial decline shape the history of the modern novel, as well as the novel’s relationship to history. Stories of families in crisis, Jobst Welge argues, reflect the experience...
Spatial Ecologies
Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the spatial turn in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst...
Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World
Filiations Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and philosophy. Specialists re-evaluate the historical, political, and artistic legacies...
Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory
Feminism and Retelling the Tale
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such as Anne Sexton, Olga Broumass, and Angela Carter were...
Orientalism, Terrorism, Indigenism
South Asian Readings in Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
This book’s contribution lies in its careful synthesis of concepts and concrete examples on issues of contemporary concern: terrorism, Orientalism, and Dalit Bahujan movements, and their reception in the popular media as well as in academic literature.
Drawing from the latest developments...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
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The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author...
Pigmalion’S Reverie: a Korean’S Misreading of Major American and British Poetry
Sharing Reading English Poetry with the Global Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Reading is not an unusual or unfamiliar thing. It must be the first condition of life. Though illiterate or literate, humans should read things, letters, incidents, and situations according to each level of recognition so that they can survive surroundings under the brutal principle of natural selection....
The Late-Career Novelist
Career Construction Theory, Authors and Autofiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The first scholarly study of the phenomenon of the 'late-career novel', this book explores the ways in which bestselling contemporary novelists look back and respond to their earlier successes in their subsequent writings. Exploring the work of major novelists such as Angela Carter, V.S. Naipaul,...
Re-Visioning Lear's Daughters
Testing Feminist Criticism and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
King Lear is believed by many feminists to be irretrievably sexist. Through detailed line readings supported by a wealth of critical commentary, Re-Visioning Lear s Daughters reconceives Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia as full characters, not stereotypes of good and evil. These new feminist interpretations...
by Maksim Gorky, Maxim Gorky, Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky (Russian: Макси́м Го́рький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
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Creatures That Once Were Men (1918)
The...
The Shahnameh
The Persian Epic as World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers...
by Adelaide Books Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Adelaide Literary Magazine is an independent international quarterly publication, based in New York and Lisbon. Founded by Stevan V. Nikolic and Adelaide Franco Nikolic in 2015, the magazine’s aim is to publish quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and photography, as well as interviews,...
Truth from a Lie
Documentary, Detection, and Reflexivity in Abe Kobo's Realist Project
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Critics typically regard Abe Kobo (1924-93) as writing against realism, due to his avant-garde aesthetics that challenged the Naturalist realism dominating the literary mainstream and the Socialist realism of the orthodox Left in postwar Japan. He considered his work thoroughly realist, however, and...