Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
The Deed of Reading
Literature * Writing * Language * Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Garrett Stewart begins The Deed of Reading with a memory of his first hesitant confrontation, as a teenager, with poetic density. In that early verbal challenge he finds one driving force of literature: to make language young again in its surprise, coming alive in each new event of reading. But what...
Laying Out the Bones
Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel from James Joyce to Anne Enright
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse. She argues that the treatment of death in Irish novels offers a way of making sense of mortality and provides...
Transatlantic Renaissances
Literature of Ireland and the American South
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The impulses that fired the Southern Literary Renaissance echoed the impetus behind the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of the twentieth century, when Ireland sought to demonstrate its cultural equality with any European nation and disentangle itself from English-imposed stereotypes. Seeking to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This Handbook offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of contemporary issues in Literary Translation research through in-depth investigations of actual case studies of particular works, authors or translators. Leading researchers from across the globe discuss best practice, problems, and possibilities...
No Country
Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Can there be a novel of the international working class despite the conditions and constraints of economic globalization? What does it mean to invoke working-class writing as an ethical intervention in an age of comparative advantage and outsourcing?
No Country argues for a rethinking of the...
Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France
The Politics of Disengagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially appear. As writings by Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This edited volume is the first to reflect on the theory and practice of editing women’s writing of the 18th century. The list of contributors includes experts on the fiction, drama, poetry, life-writing, diaries and correspondence of familiar and lesser known women, including Jane Austen, Delarivier...
Heterogeneity of Being
On Octavio Paz’s Poetics of Similitude
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
One hundred years after his birth, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is considered one of the most important thinkers of Mexican identity, one of the most influential Mexican poets, and one of the main representatives of a national cosmopolitanism. Most readings of his work, whether critical or laudatory,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Service learning can help students develop a sense of civic responsibility and commitment, often while addressing pressing community needs. One goal of literary studies is to understand the ethical dimensions of the world, and thus service learning, by broadening the environments students consider,...
Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Dreadful Passions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely. The essays in this volume explore fear in various literary and medical manifestations, in the Western...
by B. Spurr
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
This engaging introduction to poetry covers the entire tradition of poetry in English, providing close readings of interesting and varied texts. In this updated second edition, coverage has been expanded to cover medieval poetry and to give more weight to literary theory and women poets, while a new chapter focuses on key contemporary poets.
Keats and Philosophy
The Life of Sensations
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. This study is a fresh contribution to Keats criticism and Romantic scholarship, positioning Keats as a figure of philosophical interest who warrants renewed...
Studying English
A Guide for Literature Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Clearly focussed on the needs of students, Robert Eaglestone and Jonathan Beecher Field have revised the best-selling Doing English specifically for English literature courses in America.
Studying English presents the ideas and debates that shape literary studies in America today. This overview...
Literary Cynics
Borges, Beckett, Coetzee
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider what happens when authors write themselves into their art, against the rhetoric of authority.
Rose takes as his starting point three moments...