Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Across Meridians
History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of...
Learning to Kneel
Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers....
by Ivo Kamps
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Shakespeare Left and Right brings together critics, strikingly different in their politics and methodologies, who are acutely aware of the importance of politics on literary practice and theory. Should, for example, feminist criticism be subjected to a critique by voices it construes as hostile to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
This book captures a cross-section of the most significant recent developments in criticism on one of the most challenging authors of our time. It brings together essays by a new generation of Pynchon critics alongside some more established names in the field, building on and moving beyond existing...
Early Postmodernism
Foundational Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture, particularly in the literary and narrative imagination, the...
Clarissa's Ciphers
Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically...
Women, Reading, Kroetsch
Telling the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are Exiles to Completed Field Notes....
Love Minus Zero
The Dialectic of Existentialism and Religious Faith in Bob Dylan's Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This thesis outlines the influence of Judeo-Christian Religious Faith and American literature of the lyrics of American songwriter Bob Dylan, who rose to prominence in the culture of 1960s America.
Reading Project
A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Electronic literature is a rapidly growing area of creative production and scholarly interest. It is inherently multimedial and multimodal, and thus demands multiple critical methods of interpretation. Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless...
by Adriana Varga
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
“A truly comprehensive, multi-perspective, and up-to-date survey of the undeniable role of music in Woolf ’s life and writings” (Music and Letters).
Through Virginia Woolf's diaries, letters, fiction, and the testimony of her contemporaries, this fascinating volume explores the inspiration...
Literary Intellectuals
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is particularly true of the line in British...
by Marjorie Garber
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
“Witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays on interdisciplinary topics . . . from Shakespeare to psychoanalysis, and the practice of higher education today.” —Publishers Weekly
As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses do on their lunch hour today? This collection of essays...
by Carol Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
W. G. Sebald's writing has been widely recognized for its intense, nuanced engagement with the Holocaust, the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII, and other episodes of violence throughout history. Through his inventive use of narrative form and juxtaposition of image and text, Sebald's work has offered...
André Gide Igor Strawinsky: "Perséphone"
Von der Idee zum vollendeten Werk bei Betrachtung der verschiedenen Denkweisen von Schriftsteller und Komponist
Language: German
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In Perséphone vereinten zu Beginn der 1930er Jahre mit André Gide und Igor Strawinsky zwei der bedeutendsten Kunstschaffenden ihrer Zeit ihr Können. Diese Studie zielt daher – neben der Nachzeichnung der Entstehungsgeschichte – auf eine Gegenüberstellung der unterschiedlichen Charaktere, die...