Literary Theory category: 45240 books
The Victorian Poet (Routledge Revivals)
Poetics and Persona
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This anthology attempts to draw out some of the main focuses of interest in the Victorian poet. No Victorian poet produced an overall theory of poetry, yet all accepted...
Voice in Motion
Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas...
Literary Landscapes
Charting the Worlds of Classic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The anticipated follow-up to the book lovers' favorite, Literary Wonderlands, LITERARY LANDSCAPES delves deep into the geography, location, and terrain of our best-loved literary works and looks at how setting and environmental attributes influence storytelling, character, and our emotional response...
by Rosario Castellanos
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to language...
by Nelly G. Kupper
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
This book examines the concept of the gaze in the context of narrative fiction. It argues that the gaze in fiction is a tractable factor, identifying the function of characters by way of the gender. The gaze variance and its connection to memory is not new to literary scholarship, but what has been...
by Tim Dayton
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser was published as part of her 1938 volume U.S. 1. The poem, which is probably the most ambitious and least understood work of Depression-era American verse, commemorates the worst industrial accident in U.S. history, the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In this terrible...
Hesiodic Voices
Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic literature'. A central chapter considers the development of ancient ideas about didactic poetry, relying not...
Entranced by Story
Brain, Tale and Teller, from Infancy to Old Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences. This book focuses on the experiences that good stories generate: feelings of purposeful involvement, elevation, temporary loss...
History of a Shiver
The Sublime Impudence of Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
An abrupt break in the prevailing modes of artistic expression, for many, marks the advent of modernism in the early twentieth century, but revisionary attempts to pin down a precise moment of its emergence remain disputed. History of a Shiver proffers a different approach, tracing the first inkling...
Distraction
Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Early novel reading typically conjures images of rapt readers in quiet rooms, but commentators at the time described reading as a fraught activity, one occurring amidst a distracting cacophony that included sloshing chamber pots and wailing street vendors. Auditory distractions were compounded by...
Affective Disorder and the Writing Life
The Melancholic Muse
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind – and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.
The Political Woman in Print
German Womens Writing 18451919
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This book analyses the depiction and function of politically active women in novels by six female authors from the margins of the democratic revolution of 1848 and the first German women’s movement: Louise Aston, Malwida von Meysenbug, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Fanny Lewald, Louise Otto-Peters,...
by Matthew Carl Strecher
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami’s characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Russian Literature since 1991 is the first comprehensive, single-volume compendium of modern scholarship on post-Soviet Russian literature. The volume encompasses broad, complex and diverse sources of literary material - from ideological and historical novels to experimental prose and poetry, from...