Literary Theory category: 45240 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the globe, this pioneering collection of essays explores how geospatial technologies are revolutionizing the discipline of literary studies. The book offers the first intensive examination of digital literary cartography, a field whose recent...
Colson Whitehead
The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
From his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead has produced fiction that brilliantly blurs genre and cultural lines to demonstrate the universal angst and integral bonds shared by all Americans. By neglecting to mention a character’s racial heritage, Whitehead challenges the cultural...
by Javed Akhtar
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The aim of this research paper is to trace the origin and development of Art for art's sake movement from Marxist perspective. The origin of Art for art's movement can...
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Intervening Acts
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Women have always been the muses who inspire the creativity of men, but how do women become the creators of art themselves? This was the challenge faced by Latin American women who aspired to write in the 1920s and 1930s. Though women's roles were opening up during this time, women writers were not...
Studying and Teaching W.C. Falkner, William Faulkner, and Digital Literacy
Personal Democracy in Social Combination
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book explores the ways to teach the literary works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner to ESL (English as a Second Language) students in today’s digital environment. William Faulkner’s great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, wrote romantic literary works, and William Faulkner...
Socialist Cosmopolitanism
The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. As Nicolai Volland demonstrates, after 1949 China engaged with the world beyond its borders in a variety of ways and on many levels—politically,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows how understanding of underlying structures of mind can productively inform literary analysis and historical inquiry, and how formal and historical analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Service learning can help students develop a sense of civic responsibility and commitment, often while addressing pressing community needs. One goal of literary studies is to understand the ethical dimensions of the world, and thus service learning, by broadening the environments students consider,...
Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Dreadful Passions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely. The essays in this volume explore fear in various literary and medical manifestations, in the Western...
The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory
Institution, Aesthetics, Nihilism
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Using Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy's groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point, Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory. The central contention of this book is that contemporary...
Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature
New Interdisciplinary Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature. It features essays from internationally renowned and emerging philosophers and literary scholars, challenging readers to join them in taking seriously the notion of interdisciplinary study and forging forward...
Spatial Ecologies
Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the spatial turn in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst...
Across Meridians
History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American," "antebellum," "modern," "post-1945"—such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align...