Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Arms and the Woman
War, Gender, and Literary Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This bilingual collection of essays (in English and French) looks at entomology and representations of insects from a scientific, historical, philosophical, literary and artistic viewpoint.
The contributions illustrate the various responses to the insect world that have developed over centuries, concentrating...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Irish Cosmopolitanism
Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Donald J. Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book "Pearson is convincing in arguing that Irish writers often straddle the space between national identity and a sense of belonging to a larger, more cosmopolitan environment."--Choice "Demonstrat[es]. . .just what it is that makes...
Specters of the Atlantic
Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2005
In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship’s owners to file an insurance claim for their lost “cargo.” Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian...
Fanon
The Postcolonial Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period. A veritable “intellect on fire,” Fanon was a radical thinker with original theories on race, revolution, violence, identity...
Literature and Moral Economy in the Early Modern Atlantic
Elegant Sufficiencies
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Grounded in the literary history of early modern England, this study explores the intersection of cultural attitudes and material practices that shape the acquisition, circulation, and consumption of resources at the turn of the seventeenth century. Considering a formally diverse and ideologically...
Decreation and the Ethical Bind
Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In Simone Weil’s philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the other’s self-affirmation and one’s own dislocation; what one has and what one has to give; a demand that asks for too much and the extraordinary demand implied by asking nothing....
Rhetoric’s Pragmatism
Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
For over thirty years, Steven Mailloux has championed and advanced the field of rhetorical hermeneutics, a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation. This volume collects fourteen of his most recent influential essays on the methodology, plus an interview.
Following...
Alchemical Mercury
A Theory of Ambivalence
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
How can we account, in a rigorous way, for alchemy's ubiquity? We think of alchemy as the transformation of a base material (usually lead) into gold, but "alchemy" is a word in wide circulation in everyday life, often called upon to fulfill a metaphoric duty as the magical transformation...
Modernist Physics
Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Modernist Physics takes as its focus the ideas associated with three scientific papers published by Albert Einstein in 1905, considering the dissemination of those ideas both within and beyond the scientific field, and exploring the manifestation of similar ideas in the literary works of Virginia...
Disturbing Conventions
Decentering Thai Literary Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field of comparative and world literature. Predominantly penned by Thai academics, the collection decentres Thai literary studies in order to move beyond...
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I
The Old and Middle Kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
First published in 1973 – and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 – this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.
Volume I outlines the early...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines. In urban studies, disproportionate attention has been given to a small set of privileged ‘first’ cities. This volume problematizes the dominance of such alpha cities,...