Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Towards a New Material Aesthetics
Bakhtin, Genre and the Fates of Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Set in the context of the various materialist approaches to literary aesthetics that emerged in the twentieth century, Renfrew's study presents a new synthesis of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) and his circle, Russian Formalism, and elements of the 'official' ideology of the early Soviet...
Mocking Bird Technologies
The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen.
Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended...
by Massimiliano Morini
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Filling a gap in the study of early modern literature, Massimiliano Morini here exhaustively examines the aims, strategies, practice and theoretical ideas of the sixteenth-century translator. Morini analyzes early modern English translations of works by French and Italian essayists and poets, including...
Contest of Faculties (Routledge Revivals)
Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. On the one hand, deconstruction brings a vigilant awareness of the figural and narrative tropes that make up the discourse of philosophic reason....
Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature
The Inescapable Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
This is the first book-length study to appear in English on the literary, cultural and political roots of modern Tibetan literature. While existing scholarship on modern Tibetan writing takes the 1980s as its point of “birth” and presents this period as marking a “rupture” with traditional...
Strung Together
The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
In Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary, Sean Miller examines the cultural currency of string theory, both as part of scientific discourse and beyond it. He demonstrates that the imaginative component of string theory is both integral and indispensable...
by Andrew Milner
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to...
by Senior Lecturer Emma L. E. Rees
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
From South Park to Kathy Acker, and from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. Rees traces the fascinating evolution of this demonization, considering how calling the 'c-word' obscene both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. Rees...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1996
In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the current state of literary history. Representing a range of disciplinary specialties and approaches, these essays illustrate and debate the issues that confront scholars working on...
by Dr Gabriel Egan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Combining the latest scientific and philosophical understanding of humankind's place in the world with interpretative methods derived from other politically inflected literary criticism, ecocriticism is providing new insights into literary works both ancient and modern. With case-study analyses of...
Monstrous Kinships
Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century and the psychoanalytic approach of...
The Cinematic Eighteenth Century
History, Culture, and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the subjects...
by Rukun Advani
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This title, first published in 1984, is a study of E. M. Forster as a liberal-humanist thinker and socio-literary critic. Advani discusses Forster’s ideas on man, society, politics, religion, art, aesthetics, fiction and literary criticism. The author examines why Forster was impelled from fiction...