Literary Theory category: 45240 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
The most basic unit of the physical book is the page. It has determined the historical evolution of the book, the types of information communicated, and how the audience accesses that information.
Unique and rewarding in both its scope and approach, The Future of the Page is a collection of...
Shakespeare and His Authors
Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The Shakespeare Authorship question - the question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays and who the man we know as Shakespeare was - is a subject which fascinates millions of people the world over and can be seen as a major cultural phenomenon. However, much discussion of the question exists on the very...
In Stereotype
South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death,...
The Rhetoric of Certitude
C.S. Lewis's Nonfiction Prose
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
While numerous studies on C. S. Lewis’s literary achievements have been published in the past several years, The Rhetoric of Certitude brings much-needed attention to Lewis’s nonfiction prose, identifying his unique style and explaining why his writing has remained popular while that of so many...
Gender Articulated
Language and the Socially Constructed Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Gender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender, the essays presented here examine a range of cultures, languages and settings. They...
Arabic Literature
An Overview
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, Arabic Literature - An Overview gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity. 'High' literature is examined alongside popular folk literature, and the classical and modern periods, usually treated separately, are presented together. Cachia's...
Harmony Garden
The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry of Yuan Mei (1716-1798)
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan's revolutionary reinterpretation of Chinese literary theory, and an analysis of his many contributions to the more original genres of...
by Donald E. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall:
* examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,...
Reading and Writing Experimental Texts
Critical Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This collection of essays offers twelve innovative approaches to contemporary literary criticism. The contributors, women scholars who range from undergraduate students to contingent faculty to endowed chairs, stage a critical dialogue that raises vital questions about the aims and forms of criticism—...
Brown on Brown
Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Common conceptions permeating U.S. ethnic queer theory tend to confuse aesthetics with real-world acts and politics. Often Chicano/a representations of gay and lesbian experiences in literature and film are analyzed simply as propaganda. The cognitive, emotional, and narrational ingredients (that...
The Story of Stone
Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1991
In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition—all concerning stones endowed with magical properties—Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang’s thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates...
Just Looking (Routledge Revivals)
Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George...
Facing It
AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
For a generation or more, literary theorists have used the metaphor of "the death of the author" in considering the observation that to write is to abdicate control over the meanings one's text is capable of generating. But in the case of AIDS diaries, the metaphor can be literal. Facing...
Four British Fantasists
Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential fantasy writers of the generation who rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively. Drawing on...