Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Here and Now
The Politics of Social Space in D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Working at the crossroads of contemporary geographical and cultural theory, the book explores how social spaces function as sites which foreground D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf's critiques of the social order and longings for change. Looking at various social spaces from homes to nations to utopian...
Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature
Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre. Based on the historical premise that the view of ageing as a burden emerges as a specific narrative in the late eighteenth century, the study highlights how the changing...
Body of Vision
Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In Body of Vision, Michael Sinding connects Northrop Frye’s groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the human imagination with cognitive poetics – the cutting-edge school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science to the interpretation of literary texts...
Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought
The Radical Unspoken
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Presenting an engaging reflection on the work of prominent modern Iranian literary artists in exchange with contemporary Continental literary criticism and philosophy, this book tracks the idea of silence – through the prism of poetics, dreaming, movement, and the body – across the textual imaginations...
Neopoetics
The Evolution of the Literate Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative tool...
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis
Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique, Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D, utilizes ecocriticism and ecofeminism to develop his concept of transversal practice: an interdisciplinary combination of theory and applied criticism. He begins by explaining...
by Sarah Cole
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2003
Sarah Cole examines the rich literary and cultural history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. Cole approaches this complex and neglected topic from many perspectives - as a reflection of the exceptional social power wielded by the institutions that housed and structured male bonds; as...
The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921
Ideology and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1994
The Gaelic Revival has long fascinated scholars of political history, nationalism, literature, and theater history, yet studies of the period have neglected a significant dimension of Ireland's evolution into nationhood: the cultural crusades mounted by those who believed in the centrality of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the European-based empire and her rapidly expanding former colony ensured that the ocean became increasingly important to popular literary culture in both nations....
The Last of an Age
The Making and Unmaking of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poet
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In The Last of an Age, Sooyong Kim explores the relationship between
social change and the development of an Ottoman literary canon in the
course of the sixteenth century by examining the work and reception of
a popular poet, Zati (1471–1546). Kim argues that a newly emergent
group...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This Companion analyzes the representation of disability in literatures in English, including American and postcolonial writing, across all major time periods and through a variety of critical approaches. Through the alternative ideas of mind and embodiment generated by physiological and psychological...
Multiculturalism in Israel
Literary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
By analyzing its position within the struggles for recognition and reception of different national and ethnic cultural groups, this book offers a bold new picture of Israeli literature. Through comparative discussion of the literatures of Palestinian citizens of Israel, of Mizrahim, of migrants from...
The Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic
An Introduction to Narrative Structures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
In this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis. Literature may be described as the structured use of language: the modern linguistic analyzes language in a search for the minimal units of sound and form, phoneme and morpheme, and determines the combinations...
by David Ciccoricco
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The marriage of narrative and the computer dates back to the 1980s, with the hypertext experiments of luminaries such as Judy Malloy and Michael Joyce. What has been variously called "hypertext fiction," "literary hypertext," and "hyperfiction" has surely surrendered...