Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Travel and Ethics
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour.
Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies...
by Jennifer Orr
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Literary Networks and Dissenting Irish Print Culture examines the origins of Irish labouring-class poetry produced in the liminal space of revolutionary Ulster (1790-1815), where religious dissent fostered a unique and distinctive cultural identity.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and scholars. This Companion introduces readers to the range of debates that inform studies of works by lesbian and gay writers and of literary representations...
Darwin in Atlantic Cultures
Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
This collection is an interdisciplinary edited volume that examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture. Specifically, the book explores the influence of the principle tenets of Darwinism -- such as the theory of evolution,...
Reading Sexualities
Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Reading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, Donald E. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to:
examine the...
Contemporary Arab Fiction
Innovation from Rama to Yalu
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary Arabic fiction, these authors remain largely unknown to non-Arab readers.
Fabio Caiani examines the work of the Moroccan Muhammad...
by Arthur Krystal
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
In his fourth book of essays, acclaimed cultural critic Arthur Krystal surveys the world of letters in its academic, literary, and populist incarnations--just to make sure those divisions still apply. What he finds is that the ground has shifted. With Lionel Trilling at his back, Krystal casts a cold...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not "modern†?; neither is it "postmodern†? nor simply "modernist.†? They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected...
Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide
Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide contributes to a new phase in the Victorian-modern debate of traditional periodization through the perspective lens of literature and the visual arts. Breaking away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this book utilizes an interdisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In A Global History of Literature and the Environment, an international group of scholars illustrate the immense riches of environmental writing from the earliest literary periods down to the present. It addresses ancient writings about human/animal/plant relations from India, classical Greece, Chinese...
The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015
A Legacy in Byron Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of...
White Writers, Race Matters
Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
What explains the enduring popularity of white-authored protest fiction about racism in America? How have such books spoken to the racial crises of their time, and why do they remain important in our own era? White Writers, Race Matters explores these questions and the controversies they raise by...
The New Literary Middlebrow
Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential, commercial, emotional, recreational, earnest and mediated. Case studies include Oprah's Book Club, the Man Booker Prize and the Harry Potter phenomenon.
The Last Utopians
Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The entertaining story of four utopian writers—Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman—and their continuing influence today
For readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may...