Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
The Work of Fiction
Cognition, Culture, and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies. Written by eight leading critics whose work has done much to establish the new field, they display the significant...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the European-based empire and her rapidly expanding former colony ensured that the ocean became increasingly important to popular literary culture in both nations....
by Mr. Adam Kirsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America’s preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual life of the country. In this eloquent book, Adam Kirsch...
The Nostalgic Imagination
History in English Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page' was in practice bound up with...
by David Ciccoricco
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The marriage of narrative and the computer dates back to the 1980s, with the hypertext experiments of luminaries such as Judy Malloy and Michael Joyce. What has been variously called "hypertext fiction," "literary hypertext," and "hyperfiction" has surely surrendered...
by David Hawkes, Dr Evelyn Gajowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Over the last 20 years, the concept of 'economic' activity has come to seem inseparable from psychological, semiotic and ideological experiences. In fact, the notion of the 'economy' as a discrete area of life seems increasingly implausible. This returns us to the situation of Shakespeare's England,...
New England Beyond Criticism
In Defense of America's First Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America.
An exploration and defense of...
Persian Language, Literature and Culture
New Leaves, Fresh Looks
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Critical approaches to the study of topics related to Persian literature and Iranian culture have evolved in recent decades. The essays included in this volume collectively demonstrate the most recent creative approaches to the study of the Persian language, literature, and culture, and the way these...
Paul Claudel's 'Le Soulier de satin'
A Stylistic, Structuralist, and Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Claudel's most important work, Le Soulier de satin, has confused and puzzled readers since it first appeared. Joan S. Freilich's intensive examination of Claudel's imagery combined stylistic , structuralist, and psychoanalytic analyses. These are new methods that have been developed over the past...
Northrop Frye and Others
Volume III: Interpenetrating Visions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Robert D. Denham pursues his quest to uncover the links between Northrop Frye and writers and others who directly influenced his thinking but about whom he did not write an extensive commentary.
The first chapter is about Frye’s reading of Patanjali, the founder of the philosophy of Hindu...
Literary Theories
A Case Study in Critical Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1996
Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text. Literary Theories challenges the out-dated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation and, believing that the best way to learn is through practical...
A Theory of the Aphorism
From Confucius to Twitter
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures
Aphorisms—or philosophical short sayings—appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least...
The Ancient Critic at Work
Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
The large but underrated corpus of Greek scholia, the marginal and interlinear notes found in manuscripts, is a very important source for ancient literary criticism. The evidence of the scholia significantly adds to and enhances the picture that can be gained from studying the relevant treatises (such...
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft
English Manuscripts 1375–1510
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate,...