Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Landscapes of Liminality
Between Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of “liminality” as a space of “in-between-ness” that avoids either essentialism or stasis. It capitalises on the extensive research that has already...
Listening to Trauma
Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This new collection from Cathy Caruth features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Crossing the boundaries of discipline and profession, Caruth’s subjects include literary theorists...
The Rise of New Media 1750–1850
Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres developed produced the need...
Middlebrow Literary Cultures
The Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The 'Global South' has largely supplanted the 'Third World' in discussions of development studies, postcolonial studies, world literature and comparative literature respectively. The concept registers a new set of relationships between nations of the once colonized world as their connections to nations...
by Sneja Gunew
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ argues the need to move beyond the monolingual paradigm within Anglophone literary studies. Using Lyotard’s concept of post as the future anterior (back to the future), this book sets up a concept of post-multiculturalism salvaging the...
An Ecology of World Literature
From Antiquity to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic...
Fortune's Faces
The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of...
by James Garrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 1992
For centuries the most revered poem in the Western literary canon, Vergil's Aeneid celebrates the Roman virtue of pietas. In the preface to his English translation of the poem, John Dryden attempts to explain all that this virtue includes: "Piety alone," he writes, "comprehends the...
Baudelaire in China
A Study in Literary Reception
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Baudelaire's work entered China in the twentieth century amidst political and social upheavals accompanied by a "literary revolution" that called for classical models and modes of expression to be replaced by vernacular language and contemporary content. Chinese writers welcomed their meeting with...
by Maximilian Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Würzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut), course: Shakespeare's Tragedies, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper is trying to display some designated motifs of gender...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
According to Orwell, the North was 'a strange country.' In an industrial landscape, its inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world caught in the gaze of 1930s realism. Such stereotypes have been tenacious. This book challenges these stereotypes, establishing the strategic and mobile nature of 'the North' and the effects of literary realism.
Reading World Literature
Theory, History, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As teachers and readers expand the canon of world literature to include writers whose voices traditionally have been silenced by the dominant culture, fundamental questions arise. What do we mean by "world"? What constitutes "literature"? Who should decide?Reading World Literature is a cumulative study...
Language, Culture and Power
English–Tamil in Modern India, 1900 to Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English-speaking missionaries and East India...