Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Politics of Cross-Cultural Reading
Tagore, Ben Jelloun and Fo in English
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The last two decades have witnessed an upsurge in scholarship on world literature. In most of this work world literature is understood as a concept in intellectual history, as a cultural system or as a curriculum to be taught. Grounded in three empirical case studies, this book complements such approaches...
Expectation
Philosophy, Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy’s writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English.
More substantial than literary criticism, these essays collectively negotiate literature’s relation to philosophy. Nancy pursues...
Animal Fables after Darwin
Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides...
by Lawrence C.H Yim
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This book is the first English language study of Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) - a poet and literary critic during the Ming-Qing dynastic transition. Although Qian’s works constitute some of the greatest achievements in pre-modern Chinese lyric poetry, they have been largely understudied and are poorly...
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
After Wells published “An Outline of History”, which was among the first comprehensive histories based on a scientific viewpoint, the Roman Catholic writer Hilaire Belloc fought back with a series of essays condemning the book, especially for omitting God and for his acceptance of evolution theory....
Cross-Gendered Literary Voices
Appropriating, Resisting, Embracing
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts.
by Ashley Chantler, Rob Hawkes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
For students and readers new to the work of Ford Madox Ford, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most complex, important and fascinating authors. Bringing together leading Ford scholars, the volume places Ford's work in the context of significant literary, artistic and...
Postcolonial Translation
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This outstanding collection brings together eminent contributors (from Britain, the US, Brazil, India and Canada) to examine crucial interconnections between postcolonial theory and translation studies. Examining the relationships between language and power across cultural boundaries, this collection...
Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature
Between Romanticism and Formalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and...
The Wandering Signifier
Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the questions of how and to what end they are represented have received remarkably little critical attention. Helping to correct this imbalance, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late-nineteenth-...
Genre Fusion
A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Although the boom in historical fiction and historiography about Spain's recent past has found an eager readership, these texts are rarely studied as two halves of the same story. With Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain, Sara J. Brenneis argues that...
by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book approaches, for the first time, Bishop’s work in multiple genres (her prose-like verse, her literary prose, her prose poems, and her letter prose) as a stylistic whole. Tapping into recent work on literature as a form of cognition, it also reinvigorates the long-neglected study of prose...
Theorizing Glissant
Sites and Citations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Édouard Glissant’s work has begun to make a significant impact on francophone studies and some corners of postcolonial theory*.* His literary works and criticism are increasingly central to the study of Caribbean literature and cultural studies.This collection focuses on the particularly philosophical...
Raymond Chandler
The Detections of Totality
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint...