Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
by Andrew D. McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European superstitions and English stage literature. Contributors analyze the cultural mechanisms...
by Freya Sierhuis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2000
Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, epistle and lyric; in prose, literary criticism and English grammar. He became...
The Disappearance of Literature
Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
In this book Aaron Hillyer considers the implications of Maurice Blanchot's strange formulation: "Literature is heading to its essence, which is its disappearance." This quest leads Hillyer to stage a dialogue between the works of Blanchot and Giorgio Agamben. Despite being primary points...
Was Huck Black?
Mark Twain and African-American Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1994
Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices,...
Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography
The Acclaimed Biography of One of the Foremost Irish Poets of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Antoinette Quinn's acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of W.B. Yeats and the rise of Seamus Heaney, tells the triumphant story of his journey from homespun balladry through early journal and poetry publications to his eventual coronation as one...
Modern Paradigms
Authors, Texts, Harlequins
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The book addresses students and professors interested in comparative literature and the complex problematic of modernity/postmodernity, hermeneutics, literary, and cultural theory within the past few decades of the 20th century. The author explores the works of Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, M. Proust,...
Notes from Underground
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Notes from Underground , also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed...
by Clive Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Offering an original reconceptualization of literary translation, Clive Scott argues against traditional approaches to the theory and practice of translation. Instead he suggests that translation should attend more to the phenomenology of reading, triggering creative textual thinking in the responsive...
Conceived in Modernism
The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control offers a new perspective on these debates by demonstrating that the political...
Poetic Sisters
Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford; Sarah Dixon; and Mary Jones. Richly illustrated and elegantly written,...
by Michael Moriarty
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theorists. The book covers all aspects of Barthes's writings including his work on literary theory, mass communications, the theatre and politics. Moriarty argues...
Dryden and Enthusiasm
Literature, Religion, and Politics in Restoration England
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
In Dryden's writing, enthusiasm is a source of literary authority. It signals divinely inspired literary creativity. It is central to Dryden's theoretical defences of the relationship between literature and the passions. It is also crucial to his poetic practice in a variety of genres, from odes to...
Such a Rare Thing
The Art of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
An important contribution to the field of American literary studies
“Groundbreaking work in Anderson scholarship in particular and, on the wider scene, in American literary studies.”
—Robert Dunne, author of A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson’s...