Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Writing and Society
Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production.
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Narrative
A Critical Linguistic Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This classic text has been substantially rewritten. Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows what systematic attention to language can reveal about the narratives themselves, their tellers, and those to whom they are addressed.
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Writing in the Air
Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace...
Aesthetics of Negativity
Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Maurice Blanchot and Theodor W. Adorno are among the most difficult but also the most profound thinkers in twentieth-century aesthetics. While their methods and perspectives differ widely, they share a concern with the negativity of the artwork conceived in terms of either its experience and possibility...
Blues and Bliss
The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott...
by Joel Weinsheimer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In this book, first published in 1984, Joel Weinsheimer advocates revitalizing the practice of imitating literature as a mode appropriate for literary critics as well as artists. The book is not only about imitation; it is itself an imitation, specifically of Samuel Johnson. As both the focus and...
by John Beverley
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
In Latinamericanism after 9/11, John Beverley explores Latinamericanist cultural theory in relation to new modes of political mobilization in Latin America. He contends that after 9/11, the hegemony of the United States and the neoliberal assumptions of the so-called Washington Consensus began to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would shape American fiction, poetry, and oratory...
Clandestine Marriage
Botany and Romantic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Romanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement characterized by discovery, revolution, and the poetic as well as by the philosophical relationship between people and nature. Botany sits at the intersection where romantic scientific and literary discourses meet. Clandestine Marriage explores...
The Vital Science (Routledge Revivals)
Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation. The period between 1860 and 1900 was a time of great...
by Allan Reid
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This title, first published in 1990, argues for the existence of a significant connection between the theories of literature and culture of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) and Iurii Mikhailovich Lotman (1922-1993). There is general agreement in the academic or scholarly community that there...
Rewriting the American Soul
Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States, and their subversive appropriation in pre- and post-9/11 fiction. Anna Thiemann connects...
Geocritical Explorations
Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and this book presents an array of concrete examples or readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices.
Geocriticism
Real and Fictional Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Geocriticism provides a theoretical foundation and a critical exploration of geocriticism, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding literature in relation to space and place. Drawing on diverse thinkers, Westphal argues that a geocritical approach enables novel ways of seeing literary texts and of conducting literary studies.