Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics
The Origin and Evolution of American Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American literature,...
How Literature Plays with the Brain
The Neuroscience of Reading and Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
"Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain...
Africans and Globalization
Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Africans and Globalization: Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents considers the substance and dissatisfactions of globalization on Africa and its Diaspora. Although variously framed across disciplines, globalization has generally entailed non-milieu bound interactions, which...
State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues
Uncanny Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship foregrounds the literary, sociological, and political structures of urban literature in France. It uses postcolonial theory, sociology, and political philosophy to investigate the modalities surrounding...
by David Huddart
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned figures in contemporary post-colonial studies. This volume explores his writings and their influence on postcolonial theory, introducing in clear and accessible language the key concepts of his work, such as 'ambivalence', 'mimicry', 'hybridity' and...
Reading Postcolonial Theory
Key texts in context
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the ‘moments of their making’ and delineates the different threads that bind postcolonial studies. Each chapter presents a comprehensive discussion of a major text and contextualises...
Paper Empire
William Gaddis and the World System
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists.
In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker,...
by Eric Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of Dr Griffiths' original, fully-argued, and richly...
by Dante, Steven Botterill
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1996
De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration...
by Philip Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful overview of the grotesque and its use in a number of literary genres including novels, drama and poetry. After providing a historical summary of the term, the book discusses the various defining aspects of the grotesque and its relationship to...
Literary translation and terminological precision: Chekhov and his short stories
Postface to my Italian version of Chekhov's short stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Vladimir Nabokov was a major translator and translation theorist. His idea of translation, which resembles his general view of reality, is extremely helpful when it comes to carry out a critical analysis of Chekhov’s short stories and an evaluation of the possible translation strategies to adopt....
Quiet Testimony
A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. Quiet Testimony finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers—Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and...
The Art of English Poesy
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable historical document, offering generous insight into...
Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology
Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the...