Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Where I'm Reading From
The Changing World of Books
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades...
The Victorian Poet (Routledge Revivals)
Poetics and Persona
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This anthology attempts to draw out some of the main focuses of interest in the Victorian poet. No Victorian poet produced an overall theory of poetry, yet all accepted...
Voice in Motion
Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analysing irresolvable...
by Rosario Castellanos
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to language...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, first published in 2004, offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies. The volume aims to introduce readers to key concepts, methods, theories, thematic concerns,...
Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China
A Dialogic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and to analyze...
Just Looking (Routledge Revivals)
Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George...
Facing It
AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
For a generation or more, literary theorists have used the metaphor of "the death of the author" in considering the observation that to write is to abdicate control over the meanings one's text is capable of generating. But in the case of AIDS diaries, the metaphor can be literal. Facing...
Four British Fantasists
Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential fantasy writers of the generation who rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively. Drawing on...
Edward Said
A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable...
by Andrew Elfenbein
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but...
On Native Grounds
An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
“With On Native Grounds [Kazin] takes his place in the first rank of American practitioners of the higher literary criticism” (The New York Times).
An important historian of American literature, Alfred Kazin delivers an exhaustive—yet accessible—analysis of modernist fiction from the tail...
Literature and the Human
Criticism, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Why does literature matter? What is its human value? Historical approaches to literature have for several decades prevailed over the idea that literary works can deepen our understanding of fundamental questions of existence. This book re-affirms literature's existential value by developing a new...