Literary Theory category: 45240 books
The Imprint of Another Life
Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibilityaddresses a series of questions about common beliefs about adoption. Underlying these beliefs is the assumption that human qualities are innate and intrinsic, an assumption often held by adoptees and their families, sometimes at...
by Derek Attridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of moral living. Some go further and argue that Emile Zola and Harriet Beecher Stowe played a part in ameliorating the lives of those existing in harsh circumstances....
Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power
Empire’s Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This bookbrings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important understandings...
Psychoanalysis and Gender
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? In Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader Rosalind Minsky answers these questions and more, offering students a clear, straightforward...
Satirizing Modernism
Aesthetic Autonomy, Romanticism, and the Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Satirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism. These novels-such as Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, William Gaddis's The Recognitions, and Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative...
What Is Fiction For?
Literary Humanism Restored
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any insight into the workings of "human reality" or "the human condition"? Can mere words illuminate something that we call "reality"? Bernard Harrison answers these questions in this...
Necromanticism
Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices.
Postcolonial Parabola
Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma interrogates the relationship between the literary representation of postcolonial trauma and the embodied experience of reading. As the conditions from which postcolonial literatures have emerged require a break from...
A Shrinking Island
Modernism and National Culture in England
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account...
Gendered Narrative Subjectivity
Some Hungarian and American Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This book wants to make Hungarian women writers accessible to an English-speaking public and presents interpretations of Hungarian and American literary texts by writers such as Margit Kaffka, Anna Lesznai, Jolán Földes, Zsuzsa Rakovszky, Agáta Gordon, Virág Erdős, Zsuzsa Forgács, Alaine Polcz,...
In and Out of Sight
Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
In a post-digital media landscape tracked endlessly by streams and feeds of images, it is clearer than ever that photography is an art poised between arresting singularity and ambiguous plurality. Drawing on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images,...
Apocalyptic Futures
Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception. He is thus concerned with the way in which apocalyptic...
Romanticism and Philosophy
Thinking with Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entanglement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, just as Romanticism is increasingly viewed as European and Transatlantic, yet few...
by J. Archer, R. Marggraf Turley, H. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are represented in poetry, theatre and the novel. The book relates its findings to contemporary concerns about food security.