Literary Theory category: 45240 books
by Linda Ethell
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Narrative Identity and Personal Responsibility is about why and how identifying ourselves by means of narrative makes it possible for us to be responsible, morally and otherwise. The book begins as an investigation into how it is that we can hold people responsible for who they are, despite the fact...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation in the literary uses of dialect, with dialect becoming a key feature in the development of the realist novel, dialect songs being printed by the hundreds in urban centres and dialect poetry becoming a respected form. In this collection, scholars from...
Distant Horizons
Digital Evidence and Literary Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Just as a traveler crossing a continent won’t sense the curvature of the earth, one lifetime of reading can’t grasp the largest patterns organizing literary history. This is the guiding premise behind Distant Horizons, which uses the scope of data newly available to us through digital libraries...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary...
Traces of the Old, Uses of the New
The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics, classics, theater, performance studies, film, media studies, computer science, and information science. In Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The...
Writing the Earth, Darkly
Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Why do we find so many references to nature and the environment in the many Caribbean literary texts that try to come to terms with the contemporary age of globalization? Even when these novels and poems do not seem to be concerned with environmental issues at all, they abound with fragrant, creepy...
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume II
The New Kingdom
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...
Mindful Aesthetics
Literature and the Science of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen and clarify our understanding of literary representations of mind. This cognitive turn has been equally generative and contentious. While cognitive literary studies has reinforced how central...
Writing to the World
Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In Writing to the World, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the long eighteenth century. She introduces the concept of the "bridge genre," which enables such change by transferring existing textual conventions to emerging modes of composition...
by Josephine Guy, Ian Small
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which changed permanently the relationships...
Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects
Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
What does it mean to live with life-threatening illness? How does one respond to loss? Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects attempts to answer these questions and, as such, illuminates the vulnerabilities of the human body and how human beings suffer harm. In particular, it examines how cancer disrupts...
by Dr David West
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
I. A. Richards is an influential figure in literary criticism but has rarely been thought of as someone who laid the foundations for cognitive stylistics. This book proposes that Richards was a "protocognitivist".
West argues that Richards anticipated many of the discipline's core...
In Bed with the Word
Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
In Bed with the Word addresses questions such as: When people want to pray, to worship, to marry or bury, why do they reach for a book? What is it about reading that feels like a spiritual posture? What kinds of reading go beyond being private entertainment to produce personal and social change? A...
Reckoning with the Imagination
Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because...