Literary Theory category: 45240 books
by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
In a literary point of view this book claims nothing:
This is the manufacturer's assertion.
In a literary point of view this book amounts to nothing.
This will be the reader's conclusion.
And if any skeptical person insists upon investigating the matter for himself, he will eventually be compelled...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Hemingway has been labeled a ‘communist sympathizer,’ ‘elitist’, and a ‘rugged individualist.’ This volume embraces the complexity of political advocacy in Hemingway’s novels and short stories. Hemingway’s characters physically, intellectually and spiritually become part of resisting...
by Alex Nava
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
In Wonder and Exile in the New World, Alex Nava explores the border regions between wonder and exile, particularly in relation to the New World. It traces the preoccupation with the concept of wonder in the history of the Americas, beginning with the first European encounters, goes on to investigate...
by Jeffrey C. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society.
Alexander...
Hieroglyphics (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Note Upon Ecstasy in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
In Hieroglyphics, published in 1902 and written in the guise of “an obscure literary hermit,” Machen states his creed as a writer. He discourses on the nature of art, concluding that true literature must convey a sense of ecstasy. This is a pioneering and influential work of literary theory.
Lyric Generations
Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed...
Bills of Mortality
Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease generates in literary texts ranging from Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year to Tony Kushner’s...
Textual Conspiracies
Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
“This is a sophisticated and fascinating argument written in a very enjoyably entertaining style. It is hard for me to see how readers initially interested in these texts will not be ‘swept off their feet’ by the core assertions of this author, and the devastatingly comprehensive way in which...
Sharing Common Ground
A Space for Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase...
The Oxford English Literary History
Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions,...
The Oxford English Literary History
Volume V: 1645-1714: Companion Volume
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions,...
Locating the Destitute
Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism’s impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radović asks both how ordinary people as "users" of space have been excluded from active and autonomous participation in shaping their daily spatial reality...
The Terror of Natural Right
Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right...
Dystopia
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines the central...