Literary Theory category: 45240 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Bringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory.
by Nancy Worman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient conceptions of metaphor as itself spatial and mobile....
The Critical Twilight (Routledge Revivals)
Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory. It interrogates, comprehensively and in detail, the assumptions and categorical development within critical ideas from I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot,...
The Future of Trauma Theory
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This collection analyses the future of ‘trauma theory’, a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections.
Part one, History and Culture, begins...
Cybertext Poetics
The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Equally interested in what is and what could be, Cybertext Poetics combines ludology and cybertext theory to solve persistent problems and introduce paradigm changes in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. The book first integrates theories of print and digital...
The Way We Argue Now
A Study in the Cultures of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? Are concepts of character and ethos pertinent to our understanding of academic debate? In this book, Amanda Anderson analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which...
An Introduction to Criticism
Literature - Film - Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism.
Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism such...
Revolution and the Word
The Rise of the Novel in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. The book remains the foundational study of reading, writing, and publishing in the new republic and provides a unique glimpse of the culture of early America. By looking at...
The Ethics of Theory
Philosophy, History, Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In The Ethics of Theory, Robert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp dichotomy typically drawn between the theoretical and the ethical, the analytical and the prescriptive.
In...
Henry James' 'The Art of Fiction' and the application of his theory in 'What Maisie knew'
'A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life'
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: The Art of Fiction in 1890s Britain , 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction Henry James is known...
by Lubomir Dolezel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
In this study of the study of the linguistic approach to narrative structures, the author examines the question of point of view in fiction, drawing examples from Czech literature. He applies the methods of structural linguistics and literary studies as developed by the Prague Linguistic School, and...
Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle
Libidinal Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the transition...
by William J. Handy
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
An author’s true meaning has always been largely a matter of opinion among literary critics, even when only objective language was analyzed. However, a writer’s inner meaning, which perhaps not even he or she consciously realizes, interests the “new critics,” who base their theory of criticism...
Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama
Commerce, Poesy, and the Profitable Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with creating something out of nothing simply by acting...