Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine
Biography, Celebrity, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented interest in the subject of genius, as well as in the personalities and private lives of creative artists. This was also a period in which literary magazines were powerful arbiters of taste, helping to shape the ideological consciousness...
Hamlet's Castle
The Study of Literature as a Social Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Hamlet's Castle is both a theoretical and a practical examination of the interactions that take place in a literary classroom. The book traces the source of literature's power to the relationship between its illusional quality and its abstract meaning and relates these elements to the process by which...
Fighting Words
Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Fighting Words offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters.
Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalism’s much-touted concern with environmental and philosophical determinism, draws attention to the polemical essence...
Apples and Ashes
Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures,...
Lawyers at Play
Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558–1581
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court, and these authors shaped the development of key genres of the English Renaissance, especially lyric poetry, dramatic tragedy, satire, and masque. But how did the Inns come to be literary centres in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory’s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, biophilosophy,...
Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace
Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace, David Dowling examines an often-overlooked aspect of the history of publishing -- relationships, of both a business and a personal nature. The book focuses on several intriguing duos of the nineteenth century and explores the economics of literary partnerships...
Literary Activism
Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Literary Activism revisits and interrogates, and looks to renew, the force of the literary. It's a movement that emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where what Amit Chaudhuri calls ‘market activism’ has effected changes – on language, on the measuring...
Bring on the Books for Everybody
How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Crime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries—from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the Japanese timetable mystery—is the investigator....
Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
Is Literature Healthy?
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
Identity Poetics
Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2001
"Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she favors an inclusive approach that defies current...
Ukraine's Quest for Identity
Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary production and identity construction. In its quest...