Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Time, Literature, and Cartography After the Spatial Turn
The Chronometric Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn argues that the spatial turn in literary studies has the unexplored potential to reinvigorate the ways in which we understand time in literature. Drawing on new readings of time in a range of literary narratives, including Vladimir Nabokov’s...
A Time for the Humanities
Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the human,...
Culture, Language and Identity
English–Tamil In Colonial India, 1750 To 1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 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...
by David Duff
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
This wide-ranging and original book reappraises the role of genre, and genre theory, in British Romanticism. Analyzing numerous examples from 1760 to 1830, David Duff examines the generic innovations and experiments which propel the Romantic 'revolution in literature', but also the fascination with...
Present Tense
A Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting. From the first novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense has, over the course of its century-long...
Homer in the Twentieth Century
Between World Literature and the Western Canon
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It argues that Homer was viewed both as the founding father of the Western literary canon and as sharing important features with poems, performances, and traditions which were...
by S. Vásquez
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent.
Literature and Authenticity, 1780–1900
Essays in Honour of Vincent Newey
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Individually and collectively, these essays establish a new direction for scholarship that examines the crucial activities of reading and writing about literature and how they relate to 'authenticity'. Though authenticity is a term deep in literary resonance and rich in philosophical complexity, its...
Portable Prose
The Novel and the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday examines the novel as a privileged site for representing the everyday, as well as a physical object that occupies public and private space. This collection interrogates the relationships between these differing aspects of the novel’s existence, negotiating...
Self as Nation
Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers...
The Fall Out of Redemption
Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their considerations. Acquisto claims that Baudelaire inaugurates a new kind of amodern modernity...
Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality
Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument and as it informs...
The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells
Science, Evolution, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science,' beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian...
by James Perrin Warren
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Combining intellectual history with literary analysis, this study of Whitman's language experiment from 1855 to 1892 offers a refreshing new look at his theory of language especially the English language in America—as an expression of a "national spirit" and relates that theory to the...