Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry
This Feeling of Exaltation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects. Affect, Psychoanalysis and American Poetry challenges the dominant metaphor of poetic containers by turning to recent poetic texts that represent the contagious and...
A Gallery of Mirrors
Observations on Novelists and Poets
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The essays in this classic volume range from broad concerns with critical theory and aesthetic formulation to specific analysis of forms and texts. Levin discusses such matters as the symbolic interpretation of literature, the development of literary criticism during the past half-century, European...
Black Feminist Literary Criticism
Past and Present With an Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Since its inception, black feminist literary criticism has produced a number of sophisticated theoretical works that have challenged traditional approaches to (black) literature. This collection of essays explores past and current productions of black feminist theorizing, attempting to trace the trajectories...
The Prague School
Selected Writings, 1929-1946
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The Prague Linguistic Circle came into being on the afternoon of October 6, 1926, when five Czech and Russian linguists gathered to hear a lecture by a German colleague. From this international beginning, the interests of the group grew to first encompass language in all its functional heterogeneity...
The Vanishing Frame
Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism has been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader...
Poetics
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Aristotle's 'Poetics' is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
Theory of African Literature
Implications for Practical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Written by a prominent Nigerian public intellectual, the book was one of the first to challenge the conventional critical assessment of African literature.
A provocative Afro-centric analysis of African literature that remains essential reading for anyone studying work from the region.
Features a new foreword by Buidun Jeyifo, Professor of African Literature at Harvard University.
Oppression and Responsibility
A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Practices and Moral Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2002
Combating homophobia, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination and violence in our society requires more than just focusing on the overt acts of prejudiced and abusive individuals. The very intelligibility of such acts, in fact, depends upon a background of shared beliefs, attitudes, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever. This book shows how concepts of ‘language’...
by Tobin Anthony Siebers
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability...
Vodou in the Haitian Experience
A Black Atlantic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and...
Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms
Geography, Culture, Identity, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
This book proffers a new theory of the radical possibilities of contemporary postcolonial feminist writings from Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and the Caribbean, against what can be described as “actually-existing colonialisms.” These writers include prominent and other less-known postcolonial...
Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space
Borders, Networks, Escape Lines
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts....
by Sarah Jonckheere
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The book brings to light Neal Stephenson’s answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. The author of this book analyses the ethnocultural, technological, and ideological skeins that make up the biopolitical production of the self. The coming-of-age novel «The Diamond Age» reflects...