Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies
Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women’s Collaborative Book Prize 2017
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies is a volume of essays by leading scholars in the field of early modern studies on the history, present state, and future possibilities of feminist criticism...
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The World Market and Indian Literary Production
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book offers a material critique on various aspects of Indian literary production and its reception by its audiences. Taking a historical and contemporary lineage into account, the author variously discusses the social, political, and economic factors that impact upon and determine choices in...
Queer Dickens
Erotics, Families, Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works. It demonstrates that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, he presents a distinctly queer corpus, everywhere fascinated by the diversity of gender roles, the expandability...
Rebel Barons
Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture: sovereigns might provide justice, but were always potential tyrants, who usurped power and 'stole' through taxation. Rebel Barons writes the history of this ambivalence, which was especially acute in England,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
A History of Early Modern Women's Writing is essential reading for students and scholars working in the field of early modern British literature and history. This collaborative book of twenty-two chapters offers an expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production...
Mastering Slavery
Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In this English translation and revision of her acclaimed German-language book, Elke Sturm-Trigonakis expands on Goethe's notion of Weltliteratur (1827) to propose that, owing to globalization, literature is undergoing a profound change in process, content, and linguistic practice. Rather than producing...
The Languages of Literature
Some Linguistic Contributions to Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In The Language of Literature, first published in 1971, Roger Fowler argues that the vitality and centrality of the verbal dimension of literature, and, read as a whole, the papers in this collection imply a consistent point of view on language in literature. The author focuses on the continuity of...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the Macedonian city of Stagirus, in 384 BCE. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute...
Metaphors of Mind
An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
An encyclopedic dictionary along the lines of Voltaire’s classic Dictionnaire Philosophique, Metaphors of Mind provides an in-depth look at the myriad ways in which Enlightenment writers used figures of speech to characterize the mind. Drawn from Brad Pasanek’s massive online archive, http://metaphorized.net,...
Harold Bloom (Routledge Revivals)
Towards Historical Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Since the 1960s, the literary critic Harold Bloom has been producing some of the most powerful criticism in the United States. This large body of work has, since the publication of The Anxiety of Influence in 1973, increasingly distanced itself from all critical vogues, be they psychoanalytic, post-structuralist...
In the Shade of the Golden Palace
Alaol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. The book maps the genres, structures, and themes of Alaol's works, paying special attention...
Postcolonial Studies
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies.
Brings fresh insight and renewed political energy to established domains such as nation, history, literature,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Ernest Hemingway’s place in American letters seems guaranteed: a winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Hemingway has long been a fixture in high school and college curricula. Just as influential as his famed economy of style and unflappable heroes, however, is his public persona. Heming- way helped...