Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Caribbean Literary Discourseis a study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers.
Caribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades. The result has been that explorations of how texts address, elicit, shape, and dramatize affect have become central to contemporary work in...
Artefacts of Writing
Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and...
Cultural Contexts and Literary Forms
Essays on Genre
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Genres mutate, disappear, travel through translation and sometimes re-emerge. Traditionally viewed as a classificatory device, the idea of genre has been challenged by anti-genre theoreticians who question the possibility of reading texts merely through a typological framework. The essays in this...
Exorcising Translation
Towards an Intercivilizational Turn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Exorcising Translation, a new volume in Bloomsbury's Literatures, Cultures, Translation series, makes critical contributions to translation as well as to comparative and postcolonial literary studies.
The hot-button issue of Eurocentrism in translation studies has roiled the discipline in the...
Rome and the Spirit of Caesar
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Rome and the Spirit of Caesar, providing a fresh interpretation of Julius Caesar, is a thorough examination of Shakespeare’s presentation of the final throes of republican Rome’s political decay and demise and the rise of Caesarism.
As in his previous studies of Shakespeare’s plays, Blits,...
Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature
Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature is an in-depth analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe: narrative literature devoted to the subject of adultery and cuckoldry. The text begins with a set of general questions that serve as a conceptual...
King Lear and the Naked Truth
Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Taking King Lear as her central text, Judy Kronenfeld seriously questions the critical assumptions of much of today’s most fashionable Shakespeare scholarship. Charting a new course beyond both New Historicist and deconstructionist critics, she suggests a theory of language and interpretation that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
A Handbook to Middle English Studies presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore the relationship between critical theory and late medieval literature.
Includes 26 new essays by leading scholars of late medieval literature
Sets the new standard for an introduction...
The Fabulous Dark Cloister
Romance in England after the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Romances were among the most popular books in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries among both Protestant and Catholic readers. Modeled after Catholic narratives, particularly the lives of saints, these works emphasized the supernatural and the marvelous, themes commonly associated with Catholicism....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot...
by J. C. C. Mays
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This is the first book-length study to read the "Ancient Mariner" as "poetry," in Coleridge's own particular sense of the word. Coleridge's complicated relationship with the "Mariner" as an experimental poem lies in its origin as a joint project with Wordsworth. J. C....
Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food
Postnational Appetites
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as they shift from the nation to the postnation.
"Arms, and the Man I sing . . ."
A Preface to Dryden's Æneid
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
This study-referred to as a "preface" is given this designation because its aim is not to offer an up-to-date overall assessment Dryden's translation of Virgil's Æneid, but rather to provide a valid basis for such an assessment. In this it seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of relevant areas...