Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
by Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of...
The Fairy Way of Writing
Shakespeare to Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeare’s plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase "fairy way of writing" to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis...
The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition
The Role of Arabic in Judah ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and offered a vivid picture of intellectual life among...
Style and the Single Girl
How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922–1977
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograph to use fashion theory and history to trace the literary progress of British women in later modernity,...
Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature
New Interdisciplinary Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature. It features essays from internationally renowned and emerging philosophers and literary scholars, challenging readers to join them in taking seriously the notion of interdisciplinary study and forging forward...
Henry James
A Certain Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that makes it appear to us that we have lived another life, that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience. Henry James A concept of 'illusion' was fundamental to the theory...
Intimations of Mortality
Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Heidegger’s thinking has an underlying unity, this book argues, and has cogency for seemingly diverse domains of modern culture: philosophy and religion, aesthetics and literary criticism, intellectual history and social theory. “The theme of mortality—finite human existence—pervades Heidegger’s...
The Calling of the Nations
Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Current notions of nationhood, communal identity, territorial entitlement, and collective destiny are deeply rooted in historic interpretations of the Bible. Interweaving elements of history, theology, literary criticism, and cultural theory, the essays in this volume discuss the ways in which biblical...
Far Country
Scenes from American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the public
In the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the...
by Laura Seymour
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing "the birth of the reader,"...
Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma
Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular...
The Truth about Romanticism
Pragmatism and Idealism in Keats, Shelley, Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
How have our conceptions of truth been shaped by romantic literature? This question lies at the heart of this examination of the concept of truth both in romantic writing and in modern criticism. The romantic idea of truth has long been depicted as aesthetic, imaginative and ideal. Tim Milnes challenges...
Metapoesis
The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Readers have been schooled to see nineteenth-century Russian literature as the summit of social and psychological realism. But in the work of writers from Pushkin to Chekhov, Michael C. Finke discloses a pervasive self-referentiality, a running commentary on the literary conventions these texts seem...
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Does philosophy gain or lose when it is embedded within literature or embodied by drama? Does literary criticism gain or lose when it turns to literary works as occasions for abstract reflection? Leading literary scholars and philosophers interrogate philosophical dimensions of Shakespeare's Hamlet...