Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Demands of the Dead
Executions, Storytelling, and Activism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
The first work to combine literary criticism with other forms of death penalty–abolitionist writing, Demands of the Dead demonstrates the active importance of literature and literary criticism to the struggle for greater justice in the United States. Gathering personal essays, scholarly articles,...
by Jonathan Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career (1831-1849) reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation...
William Wordsworth
The Critical Heritage, Volume I 1793-1820
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer's work and its place within a literary tradition.
The...
by Judith Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the practice of writing. Studying this phenomenon provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and...
by Michael Morony
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1991
The author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the texts which have been milestones in the history of critical thought, placing them firmly in the context of their time.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2004
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have...
American Theorists of the Novel
Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work have become part of the fabric of novel criticism today, influencing theorists, authors and readers...
Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics
The Origin and Evolution of American Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American literature,...
Alan M. Wald's American Literary Left Trilogy, Omnibus E-Book
Includes American Night, Trinity of Passion, and Exiles from a Future Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Offered here for the first time as an Omnibus E-Book, this collection brings together Alan M. Wald's ground-breaking trilogy.
American Night, the final volume of this unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research...
The Literary Theory Toolkit
A Compendium of Concepts and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context.
Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and genres
Features a chapter on...
by Dante, Steven Botterill
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1996
De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration...
Ariel Dorfman
An Aesthetics of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the author in English and the first in any language to address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This special collection, edited by Germaine Warkentin and Linda Hutcheon, celebrates the centennial of the birth of Northrop Frye. Projecting forward instead of back, the articles in this volume look to the future of Frye’s ideas in the critical climate of the twenty-first century. The publication...