Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Journey Westward
Joyce, Dubliners and the Literary Revival
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
This book suggests that James Joyce, like Yeats and his fellow Revivalists, was attracted to the west of Ireland as a place of authenticity and freedom. It shows how his acute historical sensibility is reflected in Dubliners, posing new questions about one of the most enduring collections of short...
Elusive Brain
Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, The Elusive Brain is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature’s engagement with neuroscience. This fascinating book explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the...
by H. Munro Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
In literary theory, the Heroic Age was the time of great deeds recorded in epic poems like The Iliad. In this 1912 study, drawing from anthropology and philology, the author develops the idea of the Heroic Age by comparing Greek and Teutonic literary traditions, finding echoes in medieval England and Serbia.
Chromographia
American Literature and the Modernization of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930
Chromographia tells the story of how color became modern and how literature, by engaging with modern color, became modernist. From the vivid pictures in children’s books to the bold hues of abstract painting, from...
Literary Brooklyn
The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
For the first time, here is Brooklyn's story through the eyes of its greatest storytellers.
Like Paris in the twenties or postwar Greenwich Village, Brooklyn today is experiencing an extraordinary cultural boom. In recent years, writers of all stripes—from Jhumpa Lahiri, Jennifer Egan, and...
by Hilary Iris Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
A century after Samuel Clemens’s death, Mark Twain thrives—his recently released autobiography topped bestseller lists. One way fans still celebrate the first true American writer and his work is by visiting any number of Mark Twain destinations. They believe they can learn something unique by...
Fairy-Tale Science
Monstrous Generation in the Takes of Straparola and Basile
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as 'fairy tales,' these stories had many guises and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay "Literary History and Literary...
Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715
Seditious Frivolity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution...
by Michelle Dean
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The first book from one of America’s most promising emerging voices in literary journalism, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing (previous winners include Ron Charles, Kathryn Schulz, Parul Sehgal, and Daniel Mendelsohn) is sure to garner...
Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617
The Anti-Poetics of Theater and Print
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617 is the first book to consider railing plays and pamphlets as participating in a coherent literary movement that dominated much of the English literary landscape during the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period. Author Prendergast...
Dislocating Race and Nation
Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment...
Literary Taste
How to Form It
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Literary Taste: How to Form It".’
Literary Taste, which has a sub-title "how to form it, with detailed instructions for collecting a complete library of English Literarure", came into that category,...
by Betty A. Schellenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture offers the first study of manuscript-producing coteries as an integral element of eighteenth-century Britain's literary culture. As a corrective to literary histories assuming that the dominance of print meant the demise of a vital scribal culture,...