Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory
Feminism and Retelling the Tale
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such as Anne Sexton, Olga Broumass, and Angela Carter were...
Orientalism, Terrorism, Indigenism
South Asian Readings in Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
This book’s contribution lies in its careful synthesis of concepts and concrete examples on issues of contemporary concern: terrorism, Orientalism, and Dalit Bahujan movements, and their reception in the popular media as well as in academic literature.
Drawing from the latest developments...
Practical Criticism
A Study of Literary Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Linguist, critic, poet, psychologist, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was one of the great polymaths of the twentieth century. He is best known, however, as one of the founders of modern literary critical theory. Richards revolutionized criticism by turning away from biographical and historical readings...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
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The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author...
The Late-Career Novelist
Career Construction Theory, Authors and Autofiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The first scholarly study of the phenomenon of the 'late-career novel', this book explores the ways in which bestselling contemporary novelists look back and respond to their earlier successes in their subsequent writings. Exploring the work of major novelists such as Angela Carter, V.S. Naipaul,...
by Lee Andrew Elioseff
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The whole history of literary criticism is illuminated by this analysis of one English critic’s work. It is, in effect, a literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature? Initially,...
The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature
Over the Fence
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children’s Literature: Over the Fence analyzes the ways in which myths about farmed animals’ lives are perpetuated in children’s materials. Specifically, this book investigates the use of five recurring thematic devices in about eighty books for young children...
Truth from a Lie
Documentary, Detection, and Reflexivity in Abe Kobo's Realist Project
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Critics typically regard Abe Kobo (1924-93) as writing against realism, due to his avant-garde aesthetics that challenged the Naturalist realism dominating the literary mainstream and the Socialist realism of the orthodox Left in postwar Japan. He considered his work thoroughly realist, however, and...
Early Postmodernism
Foundational Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture, particularly in the literary and narrative imagination, the...
The Taming of the Text
Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
The contributors of this text, first published in 1988, provide a dynamic view of the social functioning of texts, taking account of linguistic, literary and cultural elements. They bring together innovative perspectives on literary analysis and theory, on pragmatics and discourse analysis, as well...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short stories...
by James Decker
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
This concise introduction to the concept of ideology provides an overview of the term and considers its impact on literary theory. James M. Decker analyzes the history of Western ideology from its pre-Enlightenment roots to its current incarnations, providing readers with both an essential overview...
The Complete Prose Works: Literary Essays, Lectures and Letters (Unabridged Illustrated Edition)
The Complete Literary Critiques, Studies and Memoirs, including Biographia Literaria, Anima Poetae, Aids to Reflection, Bibilographia Epistolaris and A Course of Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Prose Works: Literary Essays, Lectures and Letters (Unabridged Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, literary critic and...
Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction
Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book presents a critique of neoliberalism within UK Higher Education, taking its cue from approaches more usually associated with literary studies. It offers a sustained and detailed close reading of three works that might be understood to fall outside the established body of educational theory....