Criticism category: 58377 books
The Once and Future Queen
Guinevere in Arthurian Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Author's Circle Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Sarton Women's Book Prize Winner
Guinevere’s journey from literary sinner to feminist icon took over one thousand years…and it’s not over yet.
Literature tells us painfully little about Guinevere, mostly focusing on her sin and betrayal...
Literature and Ecofeminism
Intersectional and International Voices
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Bringing together ecofeminism and ecological literary criticism (ecocriticism), this book presents diverse ways of understanding and responding to the tangled relationships between the personal, social, and environmental dimensions of human experience and expression.
Literature and Ecofeminism...
by R. G. Hegde
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The book 'Studies in Indian English Political Fiction' a comprehensive study of the genre of political fiction, which undoubtedly is the most overwhelming genre of fiction in Indian English Literature. The book is conceived in six parts. The Chapter-I is an analysis of the genre of Political fiction...
by Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy—called deconstruction—changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that...
by Paul Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This short, illustrated book is a ground breaking study which provides the best explanation so far for William Shakespeare’s knowledge of Italian and Latin literature, of the court, and of his other creative achievements, including insights into romantic love and passion.
Shakespeare drew...
Routledge Revivals: Neglected Powers (1971)
Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
First published in 1971, Professor Knight’s book draws analytic attention to poets including Tennyson, Masefield, and Brooke, who are shown to hold a dimension of meaning previously ignored or misunderstood. Homage is paid to John Cowper Powys as one of the foremost seers of the modern age. A comprehensive...
by C. Day Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
This book - a most important and original contribution to the literature of interpretative criticism -contains the Clark Lectures delivered at Cambridge University in 1946. Its theme is poetic imagery, not only in its stricter sense of simile, metaphor and image, but in the wider application of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Žižek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Žižek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Žižek's practice of reading theory and literature...
Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays
Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China, he has assembled a body of dramatic work that has best been understood neither as expressly Chinese...
Performing Noncitizenship
Asylum Seekers in Australian Theatre, Film and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This exacting study examines the theatre, film and activism engaged with the representation or participation of asylum seekers and refugees in the twenty-first century. Cox shows how this work has been informed by and indeed contributed to the consolidation of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone...
Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones
Illuminating Gender and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps...
Cognition in the Globe
Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: how did they do it? Drawing upon work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, it proposes that the cognitive work of theatre is distributed across body, brain, and world.
The Owl and the Nightingale
The Poems and Its Critics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
The Owl and the Nightingale is clearly one of the few major Middle English poems. Despite the clarity and simplicity of its text, however, the poem has occasioned bitter and still unresolved interpretative controversy. Is the key to its meaning to be found in bird lore? the debate form? Is the poem...
Reception and the Classics
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This collection brings together leading experts in a number of fields of the humanities to offer a new perspective on the classical tradition. Drawing on reception studies, philology and early modern studies, the essays explore the interaction between literary criticism and the multiple cultural contexts...