Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Theory at Yale
The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This book examines the affinity between “theory” and “deconstruction” that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the “Yale Critics”: Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, sometimes joined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
With...
The Rise of the African Novel
Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental...
by John Keats
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains of John Keats” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Keats (1795–1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual...
by Étienne Balibar, Dominique Chancé, Pheng Cheah
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Introducing this collection of essays, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back—investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines—offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe...
by David Huddart
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and Postcolonial...
by Denton & Hockx
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era of 1911-1949. Wedged between the fall of the Empire and the founding of the Communist state, the Republican...
Forgotten Readers
Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations,...
Roman Jakobson's Translation Handbook
What a translation manual would look like if written by Jakobson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Roman Jakobson has had a strange fate. Everybody knows his name and are willing to recognise him as an important character of the global cultural scene. Few, however, have read what he wrote beyond those four or five famous quotes. Quotes that, taken out of context, might not be understood completely...
by Millicent Weber
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations, representations, and celebrations of literary...
by Heide Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The long and distinguished tradition of the literary vampire began in Germany during the Age of Enlightenment. German literature was the first to adapt the vampire figure from central European folklore and superstition and give it literary form. Despite these German origins, scholarly attention devoted...
The Mark of Theory
Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
What imaginaries, tropes, and media have shaped how we theorize? The Mark of Theory argues that inscription constitutes one of the master metaphors of contemporary theory.
As a trope that draws on a wide array of practices of marking, from tattooing to circumcision, from photographic imprints...
by Albert Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Sweet describes the pragmatic foundations of standard logic and applies these foundations to the task of developing a theory of intended models as an extension of standard model theory in which the relevant "intending" is represented pragmatically. Methods of formal logic are used to investigate...
Life Sentences
Literary Judgments and Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his...
The Poetry of Jack Kerouac
Scattered Poems, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, and Old Angel Midnight
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
From the iconic New York Times–bestselling author of On the Road: Three revolutionary collections of poetry in one volume.
Rebelling against the dry rules and literary pretentiousness he perceived in early twentieth-century poetry, Jack Kerouac pioneered a poetic style informed by oral tradition...