Literary Theory category: 45240 books
The One Mind
C. G. Jung and the future of literary criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The One Mind: C. G. Jung and the Future of Literary Criticism explores the implications of C. G. Jung's unus mundus by applying his writings on the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the quantum to literature. As Jung knew, everything is connected because of its participation in universal consciousness,...
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: Samuel Beckett was the most eminent dramatist of the absurdist movement of the twentieth century. Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, at Fox rock...
The Nature of Literary Response
Five Readers Reading
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In a rare fusion of literary sensibility with psychological research, Norman N. Holland brings to light important data showing how personality—in the fullest sense of character development and identity—affects the way in which we read and interpret literature. This book will show that readers...
How Literature Works
50 Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. It offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland--widely admired for his...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work.
The volume is divided into six sections that consider:
the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of America's leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron has articulated throughout her career, most notably...
Questions of Travel
Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 1996
Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel—displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces...
Unclaimed Experience
Trauma, Narrative, and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century—both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it—we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and...
The Complete Essays, Lectures & Letters of S. T. Coleridge (Illustrated)
Literary Critiques, Studies and Memoirs, including Biographia Literaria, Anima Poetae, Aids to Reflection, Bibilographia Epistolaris and A Course of Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic...
Building a National Literature
The Case of Germany, 1830–1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine...
by Laurie A. Finke
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical...
by Charles Shepherdson
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of Lacan’s purported “ahistoricism,” and how does the temporality of the subject in Lacan intersect...
Anthropocene Reading
Literary History in Geologic Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category...