Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Mere Reading
The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political),...
by Richard Wilson, Richard Dutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.
Writing in Real Time
Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
From Walt Whitman to the contemporary period, the long poem has been one of the more dynamic, intricate, and yet challenging literary practices of modernity. Addressing those challenges, Writing in Real Time combines systems theory, literary history, and recent debates in poetics to interpret a broad...
by Rachid Merzouki
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Literature Review from the year 2013 in the subject Literature - Basics, grade: BA, Mohamed I University, course: english studies, language: English, abstract: Despite all its shortcomings, literary criticism still supplies both the writer and the reader with the tools for self-evaluation and self-improvement....
Classical Rhetoric and the German Poet
1620 to the Present - Study of Opitz, Burger and Eichendorff
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"This study relates theory to the details of poetic practice. it presents Opitz, Burger and Aichendorff as representatives of their times and demonstrates how they adapt the classical arts to their particular talents and beliefs. All three poets are shown at work within a tradition flexible enough...
by Halszka Lelen
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866–1946). It exposes trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints Wells’s staple methods of artistic composition – the mounting of various literary tensions built upon the body of traditional, dexterously combined genre elements and innovative topoi.
Routledge Revivals: Literary Fat Ladies (1987)
Rhetoric, Gender, Property
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1987, the essays in this volume focus on questions of gender, property and power in the use of rhetoric and the practice of literary genres, and provide a historicised cultural critique. They analyse the links between rhetoric and property, but also representations of women as unruly,...
The Work of Difference
Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new...
by C. Patell
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved.
"My Own Portrait in Writing"
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In Grant’s earlier book, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh. A Critical Study (AU Press, 2014), he followed a practical-critical analysis of the letters that dealt with key patterns of metaphors and concepts. This volume is a complement to the first book and provides an effective, theory-based reading...
Homes and Haunts
Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries " associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from...
The Signifying Power of Pearl
Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning...
Creating States
Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Although the concept of the performative has influenced literary theory in numerous ways, this book represents one of the first full-length studies of performative language in literary texts. Creating States examines the visionary poetry of John Milton and William Blake, using a critical approach...
by Sina Lockley
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3, Technical University of Chemnitz, language: English, abstract: The power that makes us handle ourselves and others around us is something we do not even notice, but that is central to...