Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Ecocriticism and Italy
Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016
Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016
Written by one of Europe's leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity .
The Modernist Papers is a tour...
The Mind-Body Stage
Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Descartes's notion of subjectivity changed the way characters would be written, performed by actors, and received by audiences. His coordinate system reshaped how theatrical space would be conceived and built. His theory of the passions revolutionized our understanding of the emotional exchange between...
El juramento ante Dios, y lealtad contra el amor
A Modern and Critical Edition- Edited by Jaime Cruz-Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Lusitanian playwrights who wrote comedias during and after the Dual Monarchy (1580–1640), when the Portuguese and Spanish thrones were united under Habsburg rule, continue to be largely unexplored. This edition highlights the contributions of one of this group’s most successful and celebrated...
Adaptations of Laurence Sterne's Fiction
Sterneana, 1760–1840
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, M-C. Newbould focuses on the role played by Laurence Sterne’s fiction and its adaptations. Literary adaptation flourished throughout the eighteenth century, encouraging an interactive relationship between...
My Mark Twain
From 'Literary Friends and Acquaintances'
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
Literary Geographies
Narrative Space in Let The Great World Spin
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception.
Inter-American Literary History
Six Critical Periods
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.
As a contribution to this field, this book brings together...
by David Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Appalled and paralyzed. Abandoned and betrayed. Cowed and bowed. Thus did Frederick Douglass describe the North in the wake of the compromise measures of 1850 that seemed to enshrine concessions to slavery permanently into the American political system. This study discovers in a feature of political...
Enchanted Objects
Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2010
Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While...
Borrowed Light
Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the "anticolonial century." The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from all over the world in interwar Europe....
by David Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
First published in 1988, this book is a study of all Blake’s work in illuminated printing. It traces in particular, the development of his ideas on politics, religion, sexuality, and the imagination. There are substantial sections on some of Blake’s best-known works, including the Marriage of...
Women Who Did
Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
"A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes of the new woman, as she encountered...
Adventures in the French Trade
Fragments Toward a Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache—his injured and occasionally injurious love—for France...