Literary category: 117525 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate.
Celtic Literary Archetypes in The Mabinogion
A Study of the Ancient Tale of Pwyll, Lord of Dyved
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
HISTORIA: A Gateway to Ancient and Medieval History and Archaeology!
This book introduces the reader to some of the literary traditions of the ancient Celts through the study of the first branch of The Mabinogion: Pwyll, Lord of Dyved. This ancient text is both a record of British mythology...
"The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances"
The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Prize winner’s later poetry from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. While a great deal of attention has been devoted to Heaney’s early...
Naming the Rose
Essays on Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The original essays gathered in this book make a beginning at exploring the cultural significance of The Name of the Rose in terms of its backgrounds and literary contexts. Eco's novel is examined in the light of several of the traditions from which it draws: theories of detective fiction, comedy,...
The Dynamics of Genre
Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one. But although scholars have long known that writing for the vast periodical marketplace provided...
The Critical Twilight (Routledge Revivals)
Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory. It interrogates, comprehensively and in detail, the assumptions and categorical development within critical ideas from I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot,...
by Suzanne Keen
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Drawing on psychology, narrative theory,...
Literary Obscenities
U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary modernism and naturalism in the early twentieth century. Putting obscenity case law’s crisis of legitimation and modernism’s crisis of representation into...
Personal Business
Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In recent years the analysis of the intersection of literature and economics has generated a vibrant conversation in literary and cultural studies of the Victorian period. But Aeron Hunt argues that an emphasis on abstraction and impersonality as the crucial features of the Victorian economic experience...
by John Cyril Barton, Kristin N. Huston, a Preface by David S. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. Transatlantic Sensations begins with the 'prehistories' of the genre, looking at the dialogue and debate generated...
John Pendleton Kennedy
Early American Novelist, Whig Statesman, and Ardent Nationalist
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
John Pendleton Kennedy (1795--1870) achieved a multidimensional career as a successful novelist, historian, and politician. He published widely and represented his district in the Maryland legislature before being elected to Congress several times and serving as secretary of the navy during the Fillmore...
Playful Intelligence
Digitizing Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined...
by Mary Klages
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren’t really sure what they mean? Have you taken a whole course on literary criticism but are still feeling lost? Here’s the book you need to sort it all out—and enjoy doing so!
In Literary Theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the critical reception...