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Academic Feminist Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Jane Gallop’s book offers a clear-eyed and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. Why, she asks, have we so quickly buried 1970s feminist criticism? What lies buried there? Why do 1990s academic feminists accuse other academic feminists of being ‘academic’?
Gallop takes...
by James Plath, Gail Sinclair, Kirk Curnutt
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
From Captain Ahab to Yuri Zhivago, discover the most remarkable characters in fiction.
Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne . . . these are just a handful of remarkable characters found in literature, but of course the list is virtually endless! But why ponder which...
Awakenings
The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
One of the most often repeated anecdotes about the direction of literary studies over the past three decades concerns a graduate student who complained of reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening in three classes and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick in none. But Chopin has not always been featured in the literary...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
An important question concerning literary studies is the circulation of literary works beyond their place of origin. Many other aspects must also be taken into consideration, such as the asymmetric positioning of authors and their work in international circulation, which is conditioned by the relative...
Ghostwriting
W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the émigré writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents...
Forth and Back
Translation, Dirty Realism, and the Spanish Novel (1975–1995)
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Forth and Back broadens the scope of Hispanic trans-Atlantic studies by shifting its focus to Spain’s trans-literary exchange with the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Santana analyzes the translation “boom” of U.S. literature that marked literary production in Spain after...
Theory into Practice: A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism
A Reader In Modern Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 1992
Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem to the general reader. This book brings together essays by major critics which apply theory to practice...
by Michael Fried
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is every-thing.” So wrote Joseph Conrad in the best-known account of literary impressionism, the late nineteenth- and...
Literary History of Canada
Canadian Literature in English (Second Edition) Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature...
Literary History of Canada
Canadian Literature in English, Volume III (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature...
English Heart, Hindi Heartland
The Political Life of Literature in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally...
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This meticulously edited collection contains complete nonfiction works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning...
The Barbara Johnson Reader
The Surprise of Otherness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary...
by David E. E. Sloane
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Originally published in 1979, Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian looks at how Mark Twain addressed social issues through humour. The Southwest provided the subject for much of Twain’s writing, but the roots of his style lay principally in north-eastern humour. In the mid-1800s the northern United...