Literary Theory category: 45240 books
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism
Machado de Assis
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2001
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839–1908). A leading Brazilian theorist and author of the highly influential notion of “misplaced ideas,” Schwarz...
Improper Modernism
Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. Through close readings of Barnes's manuscripts, correspondence, critically acclaimed and little-known...
Evolution and 'the Sex Problem'
American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
A noteworthy investigation of the Darwinian element in American fiction from the realist through the Freudian eras In Evolution and “the Sex Problem” author Bert Bender argues that Darwin’s theories of sexual selection and of the emotions are essential elements in American fiction from the late...
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML)
Vol. 6, No. 2 (July 2016)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) Volume 6 Number 2 (July 2016)
ISSN 2231-6248
Highlights include:
"Portrayal of Man-Woman Pairs in the Fictional World of D. H. Lawrence: An Analysis" --S. Chelliah
"Feminism and Feminist Literary Theory: A Brief...
Politics and Letters
Interviews with New Left Review
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual analysis to the examination of structures and forms...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize...
The Female Complaint
The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural...
The Shape of the Signifier
1967 to the End of History
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from "Against Theory" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature...
Shakespeare Relocated
Studies in Historical Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
In Shakespeare Relocated, Hugh Macrae Richmond uses his previously published essays to illustrate the development of modern attitudes towards religion, politics, and sexuality. He traces the complex evolution from classical and medieval sources to Reformation and Renaissance ones by reviewing literary...
Reconstruction in Literary Studies
An Informalist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Pointing the way toward a revitalized future for the study of literature, Reconstruction in Literary Studies draws on philosophical pragmatism to justify the academic study of literature. In turn, Vescio connects the changing field to its social function as an institution.
On Deconstruction
Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation...
Signs of the Signs
The Literary Lights of Incandescence and Neon
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This book is a study of signs in American literature and culture. It is mainly about electric signs, but also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. The 'sign' is considered in both the architectural and semiotic senses of the word. It is argued that the drama and...
by Anna Andes, Irene Gammel, Miriam S. Gogol
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Working Women in American Literature, 1865–1950 consists of eight original essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on the subject of working women in late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century American literature. The volume examines how the American working woman has been presented,...
by Gregory Phipps
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book examines the interdisciplinary foundations of pragmatism from a literary perspective, tracing the characters and settings that populate the narratives of pragmatist thought in Henry James’s work. Cultivated during a postwar era of industrial change and economic growth, pragmatism emerged...