Literary category: 117525 books
by D. N. Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Philosophy, history, journalism and legal and scientific writings traditionally ranked as literature. The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composes in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert...
by D.M.R. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
As one of the formative periods in Canadian history, the late nineteenth century witnessed the birth of a nation, a people, and a literature. In this study of Canada's first 'school' of poets, D.M.R. Bentley combines archival work, including extensive research in periodicals and newspapers, with close...
Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature
New Interdisciplinary Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature. It features essays from internationally renowned and emerging philosophers and literary scholars, challenging readers to join them in taking seriously the notion of interdisciplinary study and forging forward...
Religion, My Own
Literary Works of Najib Mahfuz
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Egyptian writer Najib Mahfuz has been acclaimed by many Arab critics as the greatest living Arabic literary writer and one of the pioneers of social criticism in literature in Egypt. This work, the only major book-length study of Mahfuz's work, traces his literary development as a writer and analyzes...
Literary Rivals
Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making. When they fall out with each other, they are able to kindle feuds and antagonisms as passionate and public as workers in any trade. Richard...
Playing the Races
Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures? As a self-described "tool of the democratic spirit," designed to "prick...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
This comprehensive Handbook presents the major perspectives within philosophy and literary studies on the relations, overlaps and tensions between philosophy and literature. Drawing on recent work in philosophy and literature, literary theory, philosophical aesthetics, literature as philosophy and...
by Alice Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability plays a central role in much of the most celebrated...
Across Meridians
History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of...
The Work of Fiction
Cognition, Culture, and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies. Written by eight leading critics whose work has done much to establish the new field, they display the significant...
'That monster, Fortune!'
The concept of the goddess and her function in medieval literature with an emphasis on the Alliterative Morte Arthure
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (Englisches Seminar), course: Oberseminar: King Arthur's Death, language: English, abstract: The concept of Fortuna and her wheel, or to be more general of fate...
Beyond Literary Studies
A Counter-Theoretical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This response to the current crisis in the field of literary studies describes the fundamental flaws of poststructuralist literary criticism, which has become a self-serving enterprise at the expense of scholarship at large and students in particular. Outlining an improved approach that meets the...
Enumerations
Data and Literary Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data—or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments in computer science and natural language processing,...
by Corinna Hasofferett
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
Written in the course of thirty years: A Minyan of Lovers unveils in interlinked stories the richly complex and, colorful facets of life. An extraordinary Israeli woman confronting a complex Israeli reality.
A Minyan of Lovers concludes with Revelation', the much lauded extraordinary...