Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Figures of Memory
From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Zsolt Komáromy’s Figures of Memory: From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics effects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century British aesthetics. It argues that the assessment of memory in the history of aesthetics and criticism has been determined by the ideological...
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry
The Cognitive Poetics of Desire, Dreams and Nightmares
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry applies advances in cognitive poetics and text world theory to four poems by the nineteenth century poet John Keats. It takes the existing text world theory as a starting point and draws on stylistics, literary theory, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology...
Topophrenia
Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides...
Narrative Policy Analysis
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1994
Narrative Policy Analysis presents a powerful and original application of contemporary literary theory and policy analysis to many of today’s most urgent public policy issues. Emery Roe demonstrates across a wide array of case studies that structuralist and poststructuralist theories of narrative...
Using Critical Theory
How to Read and Write About Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting area in a friendly and approachable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on major theories that students are expected...
Seductive Reasoning
Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies. Drawing on the insights of Marxist and feminist critical theory and on the works of Althusser, Derrida,...
The Poverty of Structuralism
Literature and Structuralist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Poverty of Structuralism is the first in a sequence of volumes which examine in turn the basic ideas of Saussure, Marx and Freud, and analyse the way in which they have been developed and applied to art, culture and modern textual theory. The text offers a critical introduction to the structuralist...
The Tenth Muse
Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of early...
A Scholar's Tale
Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity. Later, his writings were crucial to the explosive developments in literary theory in the late seventies,...
Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day
An indispensable and intellectually stimulating introduction to the history of literary criticism...
Discourses of Empire
Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and novelistic...
Psychoanalytic Criticism
A Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging introduction to psychoanalytic criticism from Freud...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, first published in 2004, offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies. The volume aims to introduce readers to key concepts, methods, theories, thematic concerns,...
Helene Cixous
Authorship, Autobiography and Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This book is a clear and accessible introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had a major impact on feminist theory and practice.
Susan Sellers, a major scholar on Cixous, provides a lucid account of Cixous's theoretical position, and in particular...