Literary Theory category: 45240 books

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Of Literature and Knowledge

Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution and Game Theory

by Peter Swirski
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007

"Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting." – Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University. Framed by the theory of evolution, this colourful...
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by Maud Ellmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the influence of Jacques Lacan. It explains how classical...
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by Adam Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

Literature in a Digital Age: An Introduction guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, and electronic literature. While Digital Humanities (DH) has been hailed as...
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by Pamela Thurschwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009

The work of Sigmund Freud has penetrated almost every area of literary theory and cultural studies, as well as contemporary culture. Pamela Thurschwell explains and contextualises psychoanalytic theory and its meaning for modern thinking. This updated second edition explores developments and responses...
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by Nigel Wood, David Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays included. This expansion has two principal purposes. Firstly, in keeping with the collection’s aim to reflect contemporary preoccupations, the reader...
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The Poetics of Appropriation

The Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian

by David Palumbo-Liu
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993

The poets of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1126) were writing after what was then and still is acknowledged to be the Golden Age of Chinese poetry, the Tang dynasty (618-907). This study examines how these Song poets responded to their uncomfortable proximity to such impressive predecessors and reveals...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Located at the intersection of new historicism and the 'new formalism', historical formalism is one of the most rapidly growing and important movements in early modern studies: taking seriously the theoretical issues raised by both history and form, it challenges the anti-formalist orthodoxies of...
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by Louise M. Rosenblatt, Wayne Booth
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Louise Rosenblatt's Literature as Exploration has influenced literary theorists and teachers of literature at all levels. This attractive trade paperback edition features a new foreword by Wayne Booth, a new preface and retrospective chapter by the author, and an updated list of suggested readings. In...
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Stanley Cavell

Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary

by Stephen Mulhall
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1999

Stephen Mulhall presents the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian literary criticism, and the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary theory. It is not properly appreciated...
Cover of Making and Seeing Modern Texts
by Jonathan Locke Hart
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018

Making and Seeing Modern Texts explores the poetics of texts through a close reading and analysis across the genres of poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction travel literature and theory. This volume demonstrates that prose, as much as poetry, share the making and seeing of language, literary practice,...
Cover of Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture
by Leah Price
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Secretaries are the hidden technicians of much literary (and non-literary) writing; they also figure startlingly often as characters in modern literature, film, and even literary criticism. Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture brings together secretaries' role in the production (and, more surprisingly,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015

This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise: namely, that...
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Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness

A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov

by David Kleinberg-Levin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012

This book boldly ventures to cross some traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument regarding the nature of language by reading and interpreting the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. So it is a work both in literary criticism...
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Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space

Borders, Networks, Escape Lines

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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017

This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts....
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