Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Empire Burlesque
The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O’Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing both its material and imaginative potential, reducing...
Doing What Comes Naturally
Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1989
In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes Naturally,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever. This book shows how concepts of ‘language’...
Latin American Literature
Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Critical theory meets Latin American fiction in this bold and challenging analysis of literature and literary criticism through post-structuralist analysis. Focusing on Latin American literary and critical production from the 1890s to the 1990s, Bernard McGuirk highlights the confrontation between...
by Ranjan Ghosh, J. Hillis Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Thinking Literature across Continents finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters. Ghosh and Miller do not attempt to formulate a joint theory of...
Three Radical Women Writers
Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Combining biography, history, and literary theory, this work looks at three of the most significant women writers to emerge from American radicalism of the 1930s. Le Sueur, Olsen, and Herbst were influenced by the Communist movement of the time, but each also forged an independent vision of feminist...
Narratology
Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative text, the fourth edition of Narratology...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book breaks new ground in the study of Dalit literature, including in its corpus a range of genres such as novels, autobiographies, pamphlets, poetry, short stories and graphic novels. With contributions from major scholars in the field, alongside budding ones, the book critically examines Dalit...
Literary Research and British Postmodernism
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Literary Research and British Postmodernism is a guide for scholars that aims to connect the complex relationships between print and multimedia, technological advancements, and the influence of critical theory that converge in postwar British literature. This era is unique in that strict boundaries...
Romantic Sobriety
Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.
Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes of sensation and sobriety, along with...
Minor Characters Have Their Day
Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers...
Questions of Poetics
Language Writing and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Questions of Poetics is Barrett Watten’s major reassessment of the political history, social formation, and literary genealogy of Language writing. A key participant in the emergent bicoastal poetic avant-garde as poet, editor, and publisher, Watten has developed, over three decades of writing in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Frank Lentricchia was born to working-class parents in Utica, New York, on May 23rd in 1940. He earned his M.A. from Duke University in 1963, and his Ph.D. in 1966. His first two books were about modern poetry, and he then began to write more about literary theory, publishing his ground-breaking books...
Negotiating Capability and Diaspora
A Philosophical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics scrutinizes Indian economist cum philosopher Amartya Sen’s theory of capability, which rose as a critique of the modern American philosopher John Rawls’s theory of primary goods. Ashmita Khasnabish develops Sen’s theory of capability...