Literary Theory category: 45240 books
by Paul Salzman
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practices of editors who worked on Shakespeare, but also on complete editions of a remarkable range of early modern writers, from the early nineteenth century...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Since its beginning, Comparative Literature has been characterized as a discipline in crisis. But its shifting boundaries are its strength, allowing for collaboration and growth and illuminating a path forward. In Comparative Literature for the New Century a diverse group of scholars argue for a distinct...
Language, Thought and Comprehension
A Study of the Writings of I. A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book, first published in 1965, provides an interdisciplinary approach to the work of I. A. Richards. This study is particularly concerned with ideas about education, literary theory, language, philosophy and psychology, and focuses on many of Richard’s most important works, including The Meaning of Meaning and The Philosophy of Rhetoric.
Jim Crace
Into the Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
This is a unique essay collection on Jim Crace, locating his writing within contemporary philosophical, cultural and political debates. This timely first critical collection of essays on Crace’s work provides a retrospective on his work to date, locating his work within a number of contemporary...
Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England
'Little Legacies' and the Materials of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women's wealth, its peculiar laws of transmission and accumulation, and how a world of goods and favors, mothers and daughters was transformed by market culture. Drawing on the long and troubled...
by Derek Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human, responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation. Taking its cue from Stanley Cavell’s influential...
by C. H. Van Schooneveld
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1990
Edna Andrews clarifies and extends the work of Roman Jakobson to develop a theory of invariants in language by distinguishing between general and contextual meaning in morphology and semantics. Markedness theory, as Jakobson conceived it, is a qualitative theory of oppositional binary relations. Andrews...
The Winnowing Fan
Verse-Essays in Creative Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively the manifold resources of poetic language and form. Through a series of verse-essays, reflective monologues, and inventive variations on topics in literary...
Modernism and the Marketplace
Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between literary practice and dominant economic institutions and ideas.
Victorian Hauntings
Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2001
Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions:What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted ? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which return...
Satire in Narrative
Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, & Pynchon
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in...
by Sibylle Baumbach
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan.
Seeing Through the Veil
Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not only on medieval science but also on theories of knowledge, and this changing relationship of vision...
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America
Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies
The Exquisite Corpse of
Asian America
addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social
construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,
authors,...