Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
by Antony Easthope
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Difference, the key term in deconstruction, has broken free of its rigorous philosophical context in the work of Jacques Derrida, and turned into an excuse for doing theory the easy way. Celebrating variety for its own sake, Antony Easthope argues, cultural criticism too readily ignores the role of...
by Anna Koustinoudi
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell’s First-Person Fiction analyzes a number of Elizabeth Gaskell's first-person works through a post-modern perspective employing such theoretical frameworks as psychoanalytic theory, narratology, and gender theory. It attempts to explore the problematics...
by Hans Walter Gabler
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and...
Satire in Narrative
Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, & Pynchon
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of "Shakespeare's plays," has now been for fifty years before the learned world. Its advocates have met with less support than they had reason to expect. Their methods, their logic, and their hypotheses closely resemble those applied...
Re-membering Milton
Essays on the Texts and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
First published in 1987. Passionately praised and equally passionately criticised by contemporary and later writers, the figure of Milton inherited by the twentieth century is by no means unified, despite the appearance of monumental unity his work sometimes acquires in the classroom and in academic...
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America
Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies
The Exquisite Corpse of
Asian America
addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social
construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,
authors,...
Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature
Australian Psychoses
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze colonialism, this radical re-assessment of novels by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville provides a sustained account...
Attention Equals Life
The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history,...
Postmodern Ethics, Emptiness, and Literature
Encounters between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This study advances contemporary postmodern/poststructural critical theory, literary criticism in particular, with the help of Mahāyāna—especially Ch’an/Seon (Chinese and Korean Zen)—Buddhist thought. The quest for the**infinity of the Other (West) and Emptiness or the true I (East) contributes...
Journeys and Journals
Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements. Diaspora travel has been forced and selected...
ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction
African Literature Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions are increasingly present in literary criticism forums as African writers become bolder in exploring the challenges they face and celebrating gender diversity in the writing of short stories, novels, poetry,...
The Cinematic Eighteenth Century
History, Culture, and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the subjects...
by Dr David West
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
I. A. Richards is an influential figure in literary criticism but has rarely been thought of as someone who laid the foundations for cognitive stylistics. This book proposes that Richards was a "protocognitivist".
West argues that Richards anticipated many of the discipline's core...