Literary list 64

Class

by Gary Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2001

This book traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, uniquely examining its relevance to literary and cultural analysis. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary writings, Gary Day: * gives an account of class at different historical moments * shows the role...

Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas

Empires, Texts, Identities

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as "creoles" who moved from the Old World to the New World, this collection of eighteen original essays investigates the creolization of literary...

Mere Reading

The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels

by Professor Lee Clark Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political),...

Artistic Ambassadors

Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era

by Brian Russell Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked as U.S. representatives abroad. Through the literary and diplomatic dossiers of figures such as Frederick...

Socialist Literature

Theory and Practice

by Abdulla M. Al-Dabbagh
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012

Socialist Literature studies the relationship between the development of socialist literary theory and the process of cultural transformation in modern society by tracing the outline of the theory in the works of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, and examining its reflection in actual works of literature. This...

The Semblance of Identity

Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature

by Christopher Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012

The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance...

Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism

by Jodie Medd
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-century British and Anglo-American culture. Reconsidering notions of the 'invisible' or 'apparitional' lesbian, Jodie Medd argues that lesbianism's representational...

Re-evaluating the Literary Coterie, 1580–1830

From Sidney to Blackwood's

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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016

This book is about the literary and friendship networks that were active in Britain for a 250 year period. Patterns in the nature of literary social circles emerge: they may centre upon a location, like Christ Church, or a person, like Aaron Hill; they may suffer stress when private relationships...

Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic

The Creation of Literary Space

by Danielle Hipkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017

"Contemporary fantastic fiction, particularly that written by women, often challenges traditional literary practice. At the same time the predominantly male-authored canon of fantastic literature offers a problematic range of gender stereotypes for female authors to 're-write'. Fantastic tropes,...

Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution

by Seymour Menton
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

Recipient of the Hubert Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for the best unpublished manuscript of 1973, Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution is an in-depth study of works by Cubans, Cuban exiles, and other Latin American writers. Combining historical and...

The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture

by Stephanie Merrim
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012

The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture—cities, festivals, and wonder—from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New, and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. It treats...

Theory Matters

The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today

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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016

This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of particularity and contingency – including its own. What is the place of literary and cultural theory after the Age of Theory has ended? Grouping...

The Wireless Past

Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968

by Emily C. Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016

The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second World War. With a focus on the 1930s through the 1960s, the series concentrates on fiction, poetry, film,...

The initial reception of the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' through the victorian public. An analysis of the standards of the literary critic

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