Literary Theory category: 45240 books
The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse
Prefiguring Frankenstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives.
After Reception Theory
Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain, 1869-1935
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"More often than not, monographs on the reception of an author are either detailed, chronologically organised accounts of the reputation of that author, or studies in literary influence. This study adopts neither of those approaches and deals with the reception of Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain...
Narrative Faith
Dostoevsky, Camus, and Singer
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Narrative Faith engages with the dynamics of doubt and faith to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions. The study describes a literary petite histoire that problematizes faith in two ways—both in the themes presented in the story, and the strategies used...
Language, Madness, and Desire
On Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually...
Textual Exposures
Photography in Twentieth Century Latin American Narrative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional...
by Professor Walter L. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Literature and literary criticism throughout the twentieth century are famous for their proclamations of the death of the author, the eclipse of character and the "nothingness of personality," as Borges put it. Walter Reed investigates the ideas of personhood developed by one of the most...
Haunting Modernisms
Ghostly Aesthetics, Mourning, and Spectral Resistance Fantasies in Literary Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
This book is about haunting in modernist literature. Offering an extended and textually-sensitive reading of modernist spectrality that has yet to be undertaken by scholars of either haunting or modernism, it provides a fresh reconceptualization of modernist haunting by synthesizing recent critical...
by Professor Mark M. Freed
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities is widely recognized as a monument of modernist literature alongside Remembrance of Things Past and Ulysses. But while Musil is a major scholarly industry in the German-speaking world, critical attention from English-speaking scholars remains disproportionately...
The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals)
Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published in 1983, Christopher Norris’ book was the first to explore such questions in the context of modern...
Morality and the Literary Imagination
Volume 36, Religion and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals. The letter was designed to console him after hearing a prediction that he was soon to die and that he ought to renounce poetry. The prophecy came from an elder...
Hart Crane
After His Lights
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet.
With his suicide in 1932, Hart Crane left behind a small body of work—White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Yet, Crane’s poetry was championed and debated publicly by many of the most eminent literary...
by Tiffany Beechy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, Tiffany Beechy's timely and engaging study provides a critical reassessment of Old English texts that challenges the distinction between Anglo-Saxon prose and verse, ultimately recognizing an inherent poetic nature present in all Old English...
by Cathy Caruth
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Cathy Caruth juxtaposes the writings of psychoanalysts, literary and political theorists, and literary authors who write in a century faced by a new kind of history, one that is made up of events that seem to undo, rather than produce, their own remembrance. At the heart of each chapter is the enigma...
Remembering Africa
The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit the German literary scene. This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany's colonial...