Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Literary Modernism and Beyond
The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took various forms, including a Jamesian sense of moral ambiguity, Proustian time spots, and B ergsonian intuition,...
by Sebastian Langner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Constance, course: Kulturkontakte: Theorien in den Geschichts- und Literaturwissenschaften, language: English, abstract: By the 1990s, New Historicism and its main progenitor Stephen Greenblatt...
by Jenny Roch
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: B3 (15/20), University of Glasgow (Department of Scottish Literature), course: Theory and Scottish Literature, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Liberal humanism....
Knowing Subjects
Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In Knowing Subjects, Barbara Simerka uses an emergent field of literary study-cognitive cultural studies-to delineate new ways of looking at early modern Spanish literature and to analyze cognition and social identity in Spain at the time. Simerka analyzes works by Cervantes and Gracían, as well...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade has called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and interpreting texts. Shakespeare has been not just the focus of a variety of divergent critical movements within recent years, but also increasingly...
by Wolfgang Ruttkowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2002
Scientific Essay from the year 2001 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: none, Kyoto Sangyo University (X. International German Congress, Wien), 69 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: By carefully comparing observations made by specialists in Chinese,...
Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Between Literature and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Through a series of radical and innovative chapters, Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition of applied psychoanalysis that has long dominated psychoanalytic literary criticism. Benjamin H. Ogden, a literary scholar, proposes that a new form of...
Liberty of the Imagination
Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In Liberty of the Imagination, Edward Cahill uncovers the surprisingly powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination—philosophical ideas about aesthetic pleasure, taste, genius, the beautiful, and the sublime—on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth...
by Ian Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Chapter 1 Literary and Editorial Theory and Editing Marian Engel
Christl Verduyn
A hybrid editorial practice that combines literary, feminist, and life writing theories with editorial theory drawn from both Anglo-American and continental European traditions best suits the practical and...
The Nature of Narrative
Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling...
Postmodern Counternarratives
Irony and Audience in the Novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, and Tim O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists. Despite wildly contrasting ambitions and agendas, all four grow progressively more sympathetic to the expectations of a mainstream...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Žižek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Žižek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Žižek's practice of reading theory and literature...
The Freudian Robot
Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? Lydia H. Liu offers here the first rigorous study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious.
Liu’s...