Literary Theory category: 45240 books
The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship
Intermedia, Voice, Technology, Cross-Cultural Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories to the area of musico-literary studies, drawing...
Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton
Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of England's early modern crisis, regarding faith in the will of God, to current debates by legal academics on the theory of property and its succession. The increasing power of the dead under...
Haunted historiographies
The rhetoric of ideology in postcolonial Irish fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The spectres of history haunt Irish fiction. In this compelling study, Matthew Schultz maps these rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolises and analyses an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish...
Divergent Trajectories
Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
*Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers *by Flore Chevaillier examines the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction through a series of interviews with some of today’s most cutting-edge fiction writers. New relationships between...
British Working-Class Fiction
Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle Against Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of the financial crisis of 2008/9. Roberto del Valle Alcalá argues that throughout this period, working-class writing developed new strategies of resistance against the...
Reading the Written Image
Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1991
Reading the Written Image is a study of the imagination as it is prompted by the verbal cues of literature. Since every literary image is also a mental image, a representation of an absent entity, Collins contends that imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader....
Psyche and Ethos
Moral Life After Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
We live in a psychological age. Contemporary culture is saturated with psychological concepts and ideas, from anxiety to narcissism to trauma. While it might seem that concern over psychological conditions and challenges is intrinsically oriented toward moral questions about what promotes individual...
by David Punter
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Writing the Passions is a book of literary criticism, of philosophy and of the politics of modernity. It explores the arguments on the location of feeling in literature; on the fragmentation of the self under the pressure of the passions; of the place of the passions in psychoanalytic practice and...
Journeys of Remembrance
Representations of Travel and Memory in Post-war French and German Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The Second World War was a common experience of cultural and historical rupture for many European countries, but studies of this period and its after-images often remain locked in national frameworks. Jones' comparative study of national memory cultures argues for a more nuanced view of responses...
by Lesley Jeffries, Daniel McIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Stylistics is the linguistic study of style in language. It aims to account for how texts project meaning, how readers construct meaning and why readers respond to texts in the way that they do. This book is an introduction to stylistics that locates it firmly within the traditions of linguistics....
Sexual Identities
A Cognitive Literary Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Cognitive cultural theorists have rarely taken up sex, sexuality, or gender identity. When they have done so, they have often stressed the evolutionary sources of gender differences. In Sexual Identities, Patrick Colm Hogan extends his pioneering work on identity to examine the complexities of sex,...
Translating Slavery, Volume 2
Ourika and Its Progeny
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
The second volume of this revised and expanded edition of Translating Slavery
Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery writing by or about French women in the French revolutionary period. Now in two...
The Woman and the Dynamo
Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Novelist, columnist, cultural critic, political theorist-- Isabel Paterson was one of the most extraordinary personalities of the 1930s, renowned for her incisive wit and her unique interpretation of the American experience. The Woman and the Dynamo is the first biography of a woman who has long been...
Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing
Theories, Histories and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing: Theories, Histories and Policies examines and assesses the interdependence between sustainability and wellbeing by drawing attention to humans as producers and consumers in a post-human age. Why wellbeing ought to be regarded as essential to sustainable...