Literary Theory category: 45240 books
by Francesca Orsini
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Based on a workshop on 'Intermediary Genres in Hindi and Urdu', Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture is an attempt to rethink aspects of the literary histories of these two languages.Today, Hindi and Urdu are considered two separate languages, each with its own script, history, literary...
Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective
Between Sea and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many...
by Jane Stabler
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Often seen as the exception to generalisations about Romanticism, Byron's poetry - and its intricate relationship with a brilliant, scandalous life - has remained a source of controversy throughout the twentieth century. This book brings together recent work on Byron by leading British and American...
Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature
Across Every Border
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Over the last twenty years, Native American literary studies has taken a sharp political turn. In this book, Matthew Herman provides the historical framework for this shift and examines the key moments in the movement away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated perspectives....
Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques
A Stylistic and Pragmatic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Combining linguistic theory with analytical concepts and literary interpretation and appreciation, Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques traces the creation and development of Austen's narrative techniques. Massimiliano Morini employs the tools developed by post-war linguistics and above all pragmatics,...
Historical Romance Fiction
Heterosexuality and Performativity
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The first book-length study of romance novels to focus on issues of sexuality rather than gender, Historical Romance Fiction moves the ongoing debate about the value and appeal of heterosexual romance onto new ground, testing the claims of cutting-edge critical theorists on everything from popular...
Detaining Time
Temporal Resistance in Literature from Shakespeare to McEwan
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Detaining Time is the first book to investigate the representation of time in literature in terms of the project to reconceptualize time, so that its movement no longer threatens security. Focusing on the nature, consequences, and resolution of resistance to temporal passage, Eric P. Levy offers detailed...
Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature
Australian Psychoses
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze colonialism, this radical re-assessment of novels by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville provides a sustained account...
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The poetry we call 'alliterative' is recorded in English from the seventh century until the sixteenth, and includes Caedmon's 'Hymn', Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. These are some of the most admired works of medieval English literature, and also among the most enigmatic....
by Kathleen Forni
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife examines a wide range of Anglo-American retellings and...
Translationality
Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book defines "translationality" by weaving a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through the medical humanities: medicine in literature, the translational history of medical literature, a medical (neuroscience) approach to literary translation and translational hermeneutics,...
The Conspiracy of the Text
The Place of Narrative in the Development of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In The Conspiracy of the Text, first published in 1986, Jeff Adams looks at an early stage in childhood to examine the ways in which children create social organisation and moral order. Adams shows how certain narratives, such as fairy tales, serve as a foundation for this system, and does this through...
Journeys and Journals
Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements. Diaspora travel has been forced and selected...
by Luise A. Finke
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Leipzig (Institute for Anglistics), course: Postcolonial Literatures, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: J. M. Coetzee's 1986 novel Foe leaves...