Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Dylan Thomas
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an account of the poet's life, along with a critical reading of his work, that is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Dylan Thomas's popular and critical reputations.
Vodou in Haitian Memory
The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life...
by Christopher Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of...
Metafiction
The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to retain...
The Limits of Ferocity
Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Daniel Fuchs provides close readings of their literary and intellectual texts, which convey a loathing of middle-class culture or,...
Blood Work
Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890--1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth- and...
Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin
Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This volume brings together articles written by experts in the literary history of Central and Eastern European literatures. The overarching topic is the export of Socialist Realism into Europe after WWII, but the authors are interested not so much in highlighting the generalised, top-down mechanism...
The Manipulation of Literature (Routledge Revivals)
Studies in Literary Translation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study of literary translation. The book is a reflection of the theoretical thinking and practical research carried out by an international group of scholars...
by Faye Hammill
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private...
The Frontier Within
Essays by Abe Kobo
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Abe Kobo (1924–1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. However, he also wrote theoretical criticism for which he is lesser known, merging literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives into keen reflections...
by Diane Long Hoeveler, Deborah Denenholz Morse
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family.
Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the family’s continuing influence
Features...
Pieces of My Mind
Essays and Criticism 1958-2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2004
Sir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than a half-century. Pieces of My Mind includes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study of "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" and ending with a marvelous consideration of...
History Is a Contemporary Literature
Manifesto for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world....
Literary Seductions
Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
We have all surrendered ourselves to the world that writing creates. Eudora Welty once observed that her mother read the works of Charles Dickens in the same spirit with which she would have eloped with him. Some of us remember our first novel with more pleasurable vividness than our first kiss. Many...