Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Mapping Berlin
Representations of Space in the Weimar Feuilleton
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This book was the winner of the 2013 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies.
The Weimar period (1919–1933) generated an immense wealth of writings that recorded impressions of daily life in the German capital of Berlin. Literary journalism, in particular, experienced a surge...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing...
Cults and Conspiracies
A Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Human beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there have been groups of at least three people in which one was convinced that the other two were plotting against him or her. In that sense one might look back as far as Eve and the serpent to find the world’s first conspiracy. Whereas...
Experimental Nations
Or, the Invention of the Maghreb
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia? In Experimental...
Literature into Film
Theory and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: “The movie wasn’t as good as the book.” This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while...
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Literary criticism from the Nobel Prize winner on subjects from Dante to Dickens.
Some one said*: “The dead writers are remote from us because we* know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know.
Celebrated poet and playwright T. S. Eliot was one of the twentieth...
The Emergence of Pre-Cinema
Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to the visual and stylistic experimentations of...
The English Novel
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day.
Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence...
Error and the Academic Self
The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book illuminates...
The Space In-Between
Essays on Latin American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. The notions of “hybridity” and “the space in-between” have been so completely absorbed into current theory that few scholars...
by Andrew Elfenbein
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
What happens to books as they live in our long-term memory? Why do we find some books entertaining and others not? And how does literary influence work on writers in different ways? Grounded in the findings of empirical psychology, this book amends classic reader-response theory and attends to neglected...
Novel Gazing
Queer Readings in Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the "hermeneutic of suspicion" widespread in current critical theory. In a stunning introductory...
The Intermediality of Narrative Literature
Medialities Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This book argues that narrative literature very often, if not always, include significant amounts of what appears to be extra-literary material – in form and in content – and that we too often ignore this dimension of literature.
It offers an up to date overview and discussion of intermedial...
Invalid Women
Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
*"A fine example of politically engaged literary criticism.--Belles Lettres
"Price Herndl's compelling individual readings of works by major writers (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hawthorne, Wharton, James, Fitzgerald) and minor ones complement her examination of germ theory, psychic and...