Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories
Thought on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This book participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged “death of theory” and the current post-theoretical condition, arguing that the “finitude” of theoretical projects does not mean “end”, but rather contingency and transformation of thinking, beyond irreconcilable doctrines....
Structural Models and African Poetics
Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In this pioneering work, first published in 1981, Sunday O. Anozie examines the relevance of structuralism and semiology to literary criticism in general and to African poetics in particular. Behind the growing body of African literature lies an immense reservoir of oral tradition for which the proper...
Beyond the Ancient Quarrel
Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient quarrel there has emerged a long tradition that...
The Invention of Private Life
Literature and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography....
The Repeating Body
Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Haunted by representations of black women that resist the reality of the body's vulnerability, Kimberly Juanita Brown traces slavery's afterlife in black women's literary and visual cultural productions. Brown draws on black feminist theory, visual culture studies, literary criticism, and critical...
Beckett's Dantes
Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and...
Within the Circle
An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1994
Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black...
Binding Violence
Literary Visions of Political Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Binding Violence exposes the relation between literary imagination, autonomous politics, and violence through the close analysis of literary texts—in particular Sophocles' Antigone, D. A. F. de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, and Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat—that speak to a blind spot in democratic...
The Irresistible Fairy Tale
The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what...
The Fleeting Promise of Art
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
A discussion of Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory is bound to look significantly different today than it would have looked when the book was first published in 1970, or when it first appeared in English translation in the 1980s. In The Fleeting Promise of Art, Peter Uwe Hohendahl reexamines Aesthetic...
by Terry Eagleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing...
by Ullrich Haase, William Large
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze: all are key theorists crucially influenced by Blanchot's work.
This accessible guide:
* works 'idea by idea' through Blanchot's...
Modernism and Theory
A Critical Debate
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Modernism and Theory boldly asks what – if any – role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. Separated into three sections, each with a clear introduction, this collection of new essays from leading critics outlines ongoing debates on the nature of modernist culture.
This collection
examines...