Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory
Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880...
by Kadir I. Natho
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book is a translation of the History of Adyghe Literature, which was published in three volumes (1999, 2002, and 2006, respectively) by the Institute of Humanitarian Studies of the Republic of Adygea by the decision of its scientific council. It covers the history of Adyghe literature from folklore...
Crossing Borders
The Interrelation of Fact and Fiction in Historical Works, Travel Tales, Autobiography and Reportage
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In the twentieth century, the boundaries between different literary genres started to be questioned, raising a discussion about the various narrative modes of factual and fictional discourses.
Moving on from the limited traditional studies of genre definitions, this book argues that the borders between...
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair
Movement, Memory and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
In his travel narrative Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879), Robert Louis Stevenson declares, "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." Taking up the concepts of time, place, and memory, the contributors to this collection...
Descartes's Fictions
Reading Philosophy with Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Descartes's Fictions traces common movements in early modern philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the significance of Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing...
by Jesse Matz
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Do our fictions transform time? Do they cultivate the temporal environment? Such was the hope—or the fantasy—at work in many modernist novels for which time was not only the major subject but also an object of reparative aspiration. Aimed at a kind of stewardship of time, these fictions constitute...
Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature
Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature.
This book is a sustained interdisciplinary...
by Michael Germana
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist examines Ralph Ellison's body of work as an extended and ever-evolving expression of the author's philosophy of temporality-a philosophy synthesized from the writings of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche that anticipates the work of Gilles Deleuze. Author Michael...
by Richard C. Sha
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Richard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range...
by Sir Frank Kermode
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of literary theory that flourished in the years immediately following the Revolution, and at the work of Roman Jakobson, one of its most distinguished exponents....
by Heide Ziegler
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
John Barth represents most completely what has been termed postmodernism, not because his work comprises more postmodernist features than other contemporary writers but because, for Barth, "life" and "art" are two sides of the same coin.
In this brief study, first published...
by Andrew Cole
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory—Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel’s dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly...
A Literary Guide to Washington, DC
Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation’s most acclaimed writers. From the city’s founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminaries including Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry Adams, Langston Hughes,...