Literary Theory category: 45240 books

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Revolution of the Ordinary

Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell

by Toril Moi
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell—to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi demonstrates this philosophy’s unique ability...
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Politics by Other Means

Selected Criticism from Review 31

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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014

Launched in October 2011, the online literary journal Review 31 - www.review31.co.uk - enjoys a growing reputation as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful literary resources on the web. Publishing accessible and informed reviews of the most interesting new titles, Review 31 covers non-fiction books...
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by Lucia Ruprecht
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Lucia Ruprecht's study is the first monograph in English to analyse the relationship between nineteenth-century German literature and theatrical dance. Combining cultural history with close readings of major texts by Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine, the author brings to light...
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by Peter Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

First published in 1971, this book provides a historical account of the fortunes of Rhetoric. Beginning with a study of classical rhetorical theory and practice, it goes on to explore the impact of rhetoric on English literature and the renunciation of rhetoric from the late 17th century. The book...
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Universes without Us

Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature

by Matthew A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view—scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary—they suggested that such energies would eventually...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013

Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has...
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Between the Psyche and the Social

Psychoanalytic Social Theory

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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001

Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, film theory, literary criticism, and philosophy...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse. It also provides an overview of the developments...
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(Un)like Subjects

Women, Theory, Fiction

by Gerardine Meaney
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

What is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature? This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017

Winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) 2017 Edited Collection Prize This book is a challenging and engaging collection of original essays on the novels of Alan Hollinghurst, Britain’s foremost gay writer and the English novel’s master stylist. The essays...
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The Literary Channel

The Inter-National Invention of the Novel

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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2009

The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary "zone" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. The period also saw British and French writers,...
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Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse

The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity

by Anne DeLong
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012

Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa as an icon of the gendered gaze. An analysis of...
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Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia (1870s-1917)

Rituals of Academic Institutionalism

by Andy Dr. Byford
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017

"The turn of the twentieth century was a decisive moment in the institutionalisation of Russia's literary scholarship. This is the first book in the English language to provide an in-depth analysis of the emergence of Russia's literary academia in the pre-Revolutionary era. In particular, Byford...
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Jungian Literary Criticism

The Essential Guide

by Susan Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018

In Jungian Literary Criticism: the essential guide, Susan Rowland demonstrates how ideas such as archetypes, the anima and animus, the unconscious and synchronicity can be applied to the analysis of literature. Jung’s emphasis on creativity was central to his own work, and here Rowland illustrates...
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