Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Borderwork
Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of...
by I. A Richards
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by R. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking.
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing
Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society. The book explores from diverse perspectives how epic and heroic poetry served...
Tact
Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact...
Laura
Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and Marvell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors—Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell—the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman, Laura, whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held that, in objectifying Laura, these male-authored...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Soon after Nero's accession in 54 CE, his tutor, the philosopher Seneca, addressed to his young pupil an essay called De Clementia in which he offered advice on how to behave in his new role. This is the first full philological edition of the De Clementia in English. It includes the text with apparatus...
Changing Subjects
The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
These twenty autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, articulating the connections between the personal and political in their lives and work. They describe the experiences that radicalised women within academia...
Rereading Modernism
New Directions in Feminist Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Until about 1986, feminists generally considered modernism a reactionary, misogynist, and hegemonic mire not worth investigating. Since then enough studies of modernism have appeared that 17 feminist critics can now review and debate their treatment of the period. They evaluate the progress and goals...
Words for a Small Planet
Ecocritical Views
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture. In keeping with our sense of a global community, these essays...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1999
This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers...
Who Can Afford to Improvise?
James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlić offers an unconventional, lyrical, and accessible meditation on the life, writings, and legacy of James...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
What Matters Now? (What Can't You Hear?) is an anthology of sixteen newly-commissioned texts, ranging from music criticism to short fiction, from visual poetry to art writing, responding to the prompts expressed in the title. Texts by Cheryl Tipp, Chiara Guidi, David Toop, Francesco Tenaglia, Helena...