Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
This book captures a cross-section of the most significant recent developments in criticism on one of the most challenging authors of our time. It brings together essays by a new generation of Pynchon critics alongside some more established names in the field, building on and moving beyond existing...
Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Poet on the Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics. Gareth Farmer...
Narrative Policy Analysis
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1994
Narrative Policy Analysis presents a powerful and original application of contemporary literary theory and policy analysis to many of today’s most urgent public policy issues. Emery Roe demonstrates across a wide array of case studies that structuralist and poststructuralist theories of narrative...
Women, Reading, Kroetsch
Telling the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are Exiles to Completed Field Notes....
Reading Project
A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Electronic literature is a rapidly growing area of creative production and scholarly interest. It is inherently multimedial and multimodal, and thus demands multiple critical methods of interpretation. Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless...
by Adriana Varga
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
“A truly comprehensive, multi-perspective, and up-to-date survey of the undeniable role of music in Woolf ’s life and writings” (Music and Letters).
Through Virginia Woolf's diaries, letters, fiction, and the testimony of her contemporaries, this fascinating volume explores the inspiration...
by Marjorie Garber
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
“Witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays on interdisciplinary topics . . . from Shakespeare to psychoanalysis, and the practice of higher education today.” —Publishers Weekly
As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses do on their lunch hour today? This collection of essays...
Seductive Reasoning
Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies. Drawing on the insights of Marxist and feminist critical theory and on the works of Althusser, Derrida,...
Reframing Yeats
Genre, Allusion and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Reframing Yeats, the first critical study of its kind, traces the historical development of W. B. Yeats's writings across the genres, examining his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama with the same critical analysis.
While existing studies of Yeats's work choose between...
The Poverty of Structuralism
Literature and Structuralist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Poverty of Structuralism is the first in a sequence of volumes which examine in turn the basic ideas of Saussure, Marx and Freud, and analyse the way in which they have been developed and applied to art, culture and modern textual theory. The text offers a critical introduction to the structuralist...
by Karl Simms
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Hans-Georg Gadamer’s theory of hermeneutics is one of the most important modern theories of interpretation and understanding, and at its heart is the experience of reading literature. In this clear and comprehensive guide to Gadamer’s thought, Karl Simms:
presents an overview of Gadamer’s...
L.E.L.
The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short stories, and criticism, like Byron though in a woman's voice, explored the dark side of sexuality--by the acclaimed author of The Brontë...
by George Gissing, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
George Gissing was one of the leading novelists at the end of the nineteenth century, lauded by critics and admired by his literary friends. For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics is proud to present Gissing’s complete works in this comprehensive eBook, with all 23 novels, the...
by Gustave Flaubert, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Gustave Flaubert, the great realist writer, is now available in Delphi’s bestselling range of titles. This erudite eBook offers readers the most complete collection ever compiled of Flaubert’s FICTIONAL works in English translation, with all the usual Delphi bonus texts. (Current version: 1)
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