Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and… brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman reads the "sound of O" in Othello;...
Structural Models and African Poetics
Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In this pioneering work, first published in 1981, Sunday O. Anozie examines the relevance of structuralism and semiology to literary criticism in general and to African poetics in particular. Behind the growing body of African literature lies an immense reservoir of oral tradition for which the proper...
The Signifying Power of Pearl
Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning...
Blake's Agitation
Criticism and the Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Blake’s Agitation is a thorough and engaging reflection on the dynamic, forward-moving, and active nature of critical thought. Steven Goldsmith investigates the modern notion that there’s a fiery feeling in critical thought, a form of emotion that gives authentic criticism the potential to go...
Textual Exposures
Photography in Twentieth Century Latin American Narrative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional...
Mocking Bird Technologies
The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen.
Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended...
by J. R. de J. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In this original and significant contribution to literary controversy, first published in 1989, Professor Jackson argues on semantic grounds that historical criticism, which he defines as the attempt to read works of literature and criticism as they were read when they were new, is a necessary preliminary...
On Modern Poetry
From Theory to Total Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
All
too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a
tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line,
'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists.
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Drawing
on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory,...
Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature
The Inescapable Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
This is the first book-length study to appear in English on the literary, cultural and political roots of modern Tibetan literature. While existing scholarship on modern Tibetan writing takes the 1980s as its point of “birth” and presents this period as marking a “rupture” with traditional...
Risk Criticism
Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953....
The Repeating Body
Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Haunted by representations of black women that resist the reality of the body's vulnerability, Kimberly Juanita Brown traces slavery's afterlife in black women's literary and visual cultural productions. Brown draws on black feminist theory, visual culture studies, literary criticism, and critical...
by Dr Gabriel Egan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Combining the latest scientific and philosophical understanding of humankind's place in the world with interpretative methods derived from other politically inflected literary criticism, ecocriticism is providing new insights into literary works both ancient and modern. With case-study analyses of...
by Hans Walter Gabler
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and...
The Cinematic Eighteenth Century
History, Culture, and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the subjects...