Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories
Anglo-Italian Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and...
And the View from the Shore
Literary Traditions of Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This groundbreaking study of a little-explored branch of American literature both chronicles and reinterprets the variety of patterns found within Hawaii�s pastoral and heroic literary traditions, and is unprecedented in its scope and theme. As a literary history, it covers two centuries of Hawaii�s...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the discourse of human rights has expanded to include not just civil and political rights but economic, social, cultural, and, most recently, collective rights. Given their broad scope, human rights issues are useful touchstones...
Metamedia
American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Does literature need the book? With electronic texts and reading devices growing increasingly popular, the codex is no longer the default format of fiction. Yet as Alexander Starre shows in Metamedia, American literature has rediscovered the book as an artistic medium after the first e-book hype in...
Literary Bondage
Slavery in Cuban Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
In the nineteenth century, the Cuban economy rested on the twin pillars of sugar and slaves. Slavery was abolished in 1886, but, one hundred years later, Cuban authors were still writing antislavery narratives. William Luis explores this seeming paradox in his groundbreaking study Literary Bondage, asking...
by Alejandra M. Salinas
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book seeks to fill a double lacuna in Borges scholarship. For one, this scholarship has been largely developed through the lens of literary and cultural studies, and not by political theorists who bring a distinct disciplinary perspective into the reading of literary works. Secondly, mainstream...
The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture
Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén...
Global Matters
The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics focus increasingly on theorizing difference and complicating the geographical framework defining their approaches. At the same time, Anglophone literature...
by David Punter
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor.
In this fascinating volume, David...
Composing Cultures
Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture...
Around 1981
Academic Feminist Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Jane Gallop’s book offers a clear-eyed and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. Why, she asks, have we so quickly buried 1970s feminist criticism? What lies buried there? Why do 1990s academic feminists accuse other academic feminists of being ‘academic’?
Gallop takes...
Ghostwriting
W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the émigré writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents...
by Michael Fried
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is every-thing.” So wrote Joseph Conrad in the best-known account of literary impressionism, the late nineteenth- and...
English Heart, Hindi Heartland
The Political Life of Literature in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally...