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Tact
Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact...
by Theresa L. Geller
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Premiering in 1993 on FOX Network, The X-Files followed the investigations of two FBI special agents, Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully as they pursued the supernatural, the bizarre, and the alien, as well as the government conspiracies at work to conceal the truth of their existence. For nine seasons,...
by Tom Penfold
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa’s literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and has been consistently difficult to pin down as one, united entity. Much existing criticism on South...
The Art Instinct
Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived. Aesthetic taste, argues Denis Dutton, is an evolutionary trait, and is shaped by natural selection. It's...
Breaking the Silence
Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Can black males offer useful insights on black women and patriarchy? Many black feminists are doubtful. Their skepticism derives in part from a history of explosive encounters with black men who blamed feminism for stigmatizing black men and undermining racial solidarity and in part from a perception...
by Imre Salusinszky
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Values of Literary Studies
Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
What is valuable about literary studies? What is its point and purpose? In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars in the field illuminate both the purpose and priorities of literary criticism. At a time when the humanities are increasingly called...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working out -- or reworking -- the problematics of the borders, the boundaries and the frameworks that structure our various and multiple notions of identity -- textual, personal, collective, generic, and disciplinary. The contributors to this volume...
by Adam Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A trailblazing exploration of the poetic power of popular songs, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles to Beyoncé and beyond. Encompassing a century of recorded music, this pathbreaking book reveals the poetic artistry of popular songs. Pop songs are music first. They also comprise the most widely disseminated...
The Political Poetess
Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of "separate spheres"—one exempt from emerging...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Victorian literature’s fascination with the past, its examination of social injustice, and its struggle to deal with the dichotomy between scientific discoveries and religious faith continue to fascinate scholars and contemporary readers. During the past hundred years, traditional formalist and...
Transcendentalist Hermeneutics
Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1990
American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson’s resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opposed...
Laura
Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and Marvell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors—Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell—the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman, Laura, whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held that, in objectifying Laura, these male-authored...
You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence
Craft Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is...