Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Mongrel Nation
Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom’s African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley Dawson argues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals...
by Charles Mills, Lewis R. Gordon, Anthony Reed
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Literary scholars and historians have long considered W. E. B. Du Bois (1868--1963) an extremely influential writer and a powerful cultural critic. The author of more than one hundred books, hundreds of published articles, and founding editor of the NAACP journal The Crisis, Du Bois has been widely...
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation
The Negotiation of Values in Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation examines the fruitfulness of the concept of ethos for the theory and analysis of literary narrative. The notion of ethos refers to the broadly persuasive effects of the image one may have of a speaker’s psychology, world view, and emotional or ethical stance. How...
The Self and Its Pleasures
Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of ‘man’ as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the...
Gadamer and Hermeneutics
Science, Culture, Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This title, first published in 1991, opens with an account by Gadamer of his own life and work and their relation to the achievements of hermeneutics. Building upon the key theme of dialogue, Gadamer and Hermeneutics provides a series of essays, either linked Gadamer to other major contemporary philosophers...
The Storm at Sea
Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in which...
Light without Heat
The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work centred on the quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. In Alternative Shakespeares, John Drakakis brought together key essays by founding figures in this movement to remake Shakespeare...
by Matt Brim
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim’s James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination draws on the contributions of queer theory and black queer studies to critically engage with and complicate...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Critical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, and is centrally important for philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theory of art, the study of modern European literatures and music, the history of ideas, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies....
Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals)
Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that...
by Adrian Wisnicki
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Drawing on critical and theoretical work by Miller, Boone, Foucault, Jameson, and others, as well as cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the author defines and explores what he calls the Victorian "conspiracy narrative tradition"--a tradition which embraces...
by Garrett Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis - both appreciative and interpretive in its 'evaluations' - across dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison. The Value of Style in Fiction is designed not just for students and scholars...
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain
The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment.