Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
The Australian Face
Essays from the Sydney Review of Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The Sydney Review of Books is Australia’s leading space for longform literary criticism. Now celebrating five years online, the SRB has published more than five hundred essays by almost two hundred writers. To mark this occasion, The Australian Face collects some of the best essays published in...
by Howard Rambsy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement’s poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the...
The Taming of the Text
Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
The contributors of this text, first published in 1988, provide a dynamic view of the social functioning of texts, taking account of linguistic, literary and cultural elements. They bring together innovative perspectives on literary analysis and theory, on pragmatics and discourse analysis, as well...
Playing in the Dark
Whiteness in the American Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is a seminal piece of literary criticism, and a masterclass in the critical thinking skill of interpretation.
Interpretation plays a vital role in critical thinking: it focuses on interrogating accepted meanings and...
Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature
Double Threads
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
We know that way we dress says a lot about us. It’s drilled into us by our parents as children, as adults throughout our working lives, and eternally from the culture surrounding us. Our dress tells the outside world of the culture and era we come from to our social status within that culture. Our...
Poets and the Peacock Dinner
The Literary History of a Meal
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and anti-imperialist married to Byron's...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short stories...
by James Decker
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
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...
by Michelle Nephew
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
ABSTRACT: Authorship has undergone drastic revision in the twentieth century. A fundamental transformation in literature, wherein the author has become a multiplicity of voices, is evinced by the development of roleplaying games as both literary and cultural texts.
The literary roots of roleplaying...
The Complete Prose Works: Literary Essays, Lectures and Letters (Unabridged Illustrated Edition)
The Complete Literary Critiques, Studies and Memoirs, including Biographia Literaria, Anima Poetae, Aids to Reflection, Bibilographia Epistolaris and A Course of Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Prose Works: Literary Essays, Lectures and Letters (Unabridged Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, literary critic and...
Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction
Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book presents a critique of neoliberalism within UK Higher Education, taking its cue from approaches more usually associated with literary studies. It offers a sustained and detailed close reading of three works that might be understood to fall outside the established body of educational theory....
After Said
Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual....
The Digital Literary Sphere
Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era—widely discussed and reviewed in online readers’ forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five years, digital media platforms have undeniably...
The Muse
Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Psychoanalysts have long been fascinated with creative artists, but have paid far less attention to the men and women who motivate, stimulate, and captivate them. The Muse counters this trend with nine original contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts, art historians, and literary scholars—one...