Literary Theory category: 45240 books
After Said
Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual....
The Digital Literary Sphere
Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era—widely discussed and reviewed in online readers’ forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five years, digital media platforms have undeniably...
ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction
African Literature Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions are increasingly present in literary criticism forums as African writers become bolder in exploring the challenges they face and celebrating gender diversity in the writing of short stories, novels, poetry,...
Literary Geographies
Narrative Space in Let The Great World Spin
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception.
by Cynthia Sugars
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and...
American Socialist Triptych
The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois explores the contributions of three writers to the development of American socialism over a fifty--year period and asserts the vitality of socialism in modern American literature...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.
With over forty...
by Mario Klarer
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
A Short Literary History of the United States offers an introduction to American Literature for students who want to acquaint themselves with the most important periods, authors, and works of American literary history. Comprehensive yet concise, it provides an essential overview of the different currents...
Literature and Cartography
Theories, Histories, Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the...
by Brian Rotman, Andrew Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1997
Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language, proof, truth, and reality currently emerging from poststructuralist literary theory, constructivist history...
Literary Trials
Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught the attention of readers, academics and the public at large. Indeed it is striking that more often than not, it was the texts of renowned writers that were dealt with by the courts, as for example Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and about women.
Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors emphasise some of the problems...
Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century
"By Succession of Delight"
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
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Poet, essayist, actor, hymn-writer, wit, magazine editor, transvestite stage performer: Christopher Smart, Georgian don-turned-writer, was all of these. He was, and remains, a mercurial individual, an idiosyncratic yet strangely familiar writer of spiritual heights and material...
Freedom Time
The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow–era segregation. Histories of African American literature likewise have a hard time accounting for the distinctiveness...