Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Hidden Designs (Routledge Revivals)
The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the ‘new historicism’ and post-structuralism, Hidden Designs makes a plea for criticism to be practiced in its own name rather than in the name of...
Playing the Martyr
Theater and Theology in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater and religion in early modern France. Challenging the standard narrative of modernity as a process of increased secularization Christopher Semk demonstrates the centrality of religious thought and practices to the development of neoclassical...
by S. J. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary...
No More Separate Spheres!
A Next Wave American Studies Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of “male public” and “female private” spheres from the founders to the present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge critics with diverse viewpoints,...
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability
Talking Normal
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is wide-ranging both in terms of national literatures...
The Dispossessed State
Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property rights, Sara...
Experimental Life
Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifically, with regard to Romanticism no study...
by Seiji Lippit
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
What happens when a critique of modernity—a "revolt against the traditions of the Western world"—is situated within a non-European context, where the concept of the modern has been inevitably tied to the image of the West?
Seiji M. Lippit offers the first comprehensive study in...
Professing Literature
An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our...
Mutual Misunderstanding
Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1992
Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand, rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we understand...
Class Fictions
Shame and Resistance in the British Working Class Novel, 1890–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1994
Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In this groundbreaking work, Pamela Fox offers a far more complex theory of working-class identity, particularly as reflected in British novels of the late...
by David Rudrum
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Stanley Cavell is widely recognized as one of America's most important contemporary philosophers, and his legacy and writings continue to attract considerable attention among literary critics and theorists. Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature comprehensively addresses the importance of literature...
Genre Theory and Historical Change
Theoretical Essays of Ralph Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This collection of essays is a distillation of the scholarship of renowned literary genre theorist Ralph Cohen.
Migrant Text
Making and Marketing a Global French Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The expression "littérature migrante," coined by Québécois critics in the mid-1980s, reflected the emerging body of literary works written by recent immigrants to the province. Redefining the concept of migrancy, Subha Xavier’s The Migrant Text argues that global movements of people have fundamentally...