Literary category: 117525 books
Urdu Literary Culture
Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.
The Gothic Wanderer
From Transgression to Redemption; Gothic Literature from 1794 - present
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Gothic Wanderer Rises Eternal in Popular Literature
From the horrors of sixteenth century Italian castles to twenty-first century plagues, from the French Revolution to the liberation of Libya, Tyler R. Tichelaar takes readers on far more than a journey through literary history. The Gothic Wanderer...
by Professor Peter Kalliney
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Exploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the 'global turn' in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
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by Jennifer Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a settler-colonial context. Jennifer Lawn proposes that...
by Rita Felski
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic’s task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of interpretation in literary studies, and situates...
Chinese Modern
The Heroic and the Quotidian
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of...
by Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters range from the familiar, such as ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’,...
Literature in the Digital Age
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Literature in a Digital Age: An Introduction guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, and electronic literature. While Digital Humanities (DH) has been hailed as...
Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture
Theological politics and devotional practice in fifteenth-century England
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has...
by Michelle Beissel Heath
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children’s and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play aims to reveal what might be thought of...
by Norman Lock
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Topical, astonishing and provocative . . . a masterful collection.” -Shelf Awareness for Readers (starred review)
[Lock’s stories] are gems, rich in imagination and language . . . For all their convolutions of space and time, these stories are remarkably easy to follow and savor.”...
Experimental Nations
Or, the Invention of the Maghreb
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia? In Experimental...
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language
literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman
shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary
French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim
that these...
The Literary Theory Toolkit
A Compendium of Concepts and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context.
Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and genres
Features a chapter on...