Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Virtual Americas
Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing it—placing it in unfamiliar contexts. Paul Giles looks...
Personal Business
Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In recent years the analysis of the intersection of literature and economics has generated a vibrant conversation in literary and cultural studies of the Victorian period. But Aeron Hunt argues that an emphasis on abstraction and impersonality as the crucial features of the Victorian economic experience...
Postcolonial Audiences
Readers, Viewers and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
In Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls, Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onward....
bpNichol
What History Teaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Scobie illuminates bpNichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory and the writing of Gertrude Stein, and argues strongly for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction.
Other titles in The New Canadian Criticism Series:
ABC of Reading the TRG
Timothy...
Regenerations / Régénérations
Canadian Women's Writing / Écriture des femmes au Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and present, with 11 essays in English and 5 in French. Regenerations was born out of the inaugural conference of the Canadian Writing Research...
by Martine Beugnet, Marion Schmid
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own...
Locating Hybridity
Creole, Identities and Body Politics in the Novels of Ananda Devi
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Despite its inherent negative implications as a purveyor of essentialism, the concept of hybridity holds a great deal of critical purchase in the postcolonial world. Hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for the undermining of the binaries...
Cinepoetry
Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long history...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1995
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights...
Understanding Richard Hoggart
A Pedagogy of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media & Cultural Studies
With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation.
Re-examines the reputation...
by Fred Moten
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
In...
The Short Story in Midcentury America
Countercultural Form in the Work of Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The Short Story in Midcentury America provides in-depth case studies of four major writers of the post–World War II era—Paul Bowles, Mary McCarthy, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams—examining how they used the contained aesthetics of short fiction to map out an oppositional stance to the...
A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) Translated with a Foreword by Vincenzo Traversa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Any one wishing to investigate the literary development of the golden century of early Italian literature, the Trecento, must read Natalino Sapegno’s extensive writings on the subject, in particular his Storia Letteraria del Trecento (A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century). The original Italian...