Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Reflections
Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
“This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century’s fragments of shattered traditions.” — Time
A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his...
Literary Trials
Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught the attention of readers, academics and the public at large. Indeed it is striking that more often than not, it was the texts of renowned writers that were dealt with by the courts, as for example Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and...
Nations of Nothing But Poetry
Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity? Are vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic? How did modernist poets use vernacular language...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category...
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language
literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman
shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary
French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim
that these...
Disturbing the Universe
Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books....
Auto/biography in Canada
Critical Directions
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with...
by Barbara Fuchs
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval courtly love to Mills and Boon, and claims that its...
by Pramod K. Nayar
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leading anticolonial thinker, through key texts such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. He has influenced the work of thinkers from Edward Said and Homi Bhabha to Paul Gilroy, but his complex work is often misinterpreted as an apology...
by Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This popular text provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of thinkers both historical and contemporary.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature and culture.
An indispensable guide for anyone...
Shakespeare on Page and Stage
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking...
Autonomy
The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations,...
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2019
Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in full Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky, Dostoyevsky also...