Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Paris and the Marginalized Author
Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s to the present millennium, this volume considers...
by Liu Hsieh, Vincent Yu-chung Shih
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and scholars since it was written some 1,500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the Victorian period is intrinsically associated...
Unsettled Subjects
Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
During the 1980s much of the work of feminist theory aimed to fully account for issues of class, race, and sexuality that previously had been overlooked. Susan Lurie argues that this work tended to privilege questions of race and class at the expense of gender, and frequently, if inadvertently, left...
by John Constable, I. A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Bartholomew Brinkman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print, Bartholomew Brinkman argues that an emerging mass print culture conditioned the production, reception, and institutionalization of poetic modernism from the latter part of the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century—with lasting...
Reductive Reading
A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
What is to be gained by reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch from an Excel spreadsheet, or the novels of Charles Dickens through a few hundred dialogue tags—those he said/she saids that bring his characters to life? Sarah Danielle Allison’s Reductive Reading argues that the greatest gift the computational...
Claudian's In Eutropium
Or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
From A.D. 395 to 404, Claudian was the court poet of the Western Roman Empire, ruled by Honorius. In 399 the eunuch Eutropius, the grand chamberlain and power behind the Eastern Roman throne of Honorius's brother Arcadius, became consul. The poem In Eutropium is Claudian's brilliantly nasty response....
Madame de Staël
The Dangerous Exile
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
How does exile beget writing, and writing exile? What kind of writing can both be fuelled by absence and prolong it? Exile, which was meant to imprison her, paradoxically gave Madame de Staël a freedom that enabled her to be as active a dissident as any woman in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...
by Ben Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as 'new'. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary modernity can in fact be understood not as that which is new, but as that which is 'late'. Exploring the...
The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said
Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative literary studies, and the humanities in general.
Redirections in Critical Theory
Truth, Self, Action, History
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The essays in Redirections in Critical Theory re-analyse major figures and discussions in critical theory, asking questions often neglected or overlooked by a readership ever in pursuit of new theoretical positions.
Contributors look at the work of major theorists and writers, including William Empson,...
'Take her from where she stands, straight to the Island'
Sophocles' 'Antigone' in Athol Fugard's 'The Island'
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Bonn (Institut für Anglsitik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie), course: Hauptseminar 'Literature from South Africa', language: English, abstract: Introduction The concept of...
Dante and the Sense of Transgression
'The Trespass of the Sign'
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
In Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante's poetic vision. Conversely, Dante's medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary...