Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
The Craft of Poetry
Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers....
by Dr. Nora Hämäläinen
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Literature and Moral Theory investigates how literature, in the past 30 years, has been used as a means for transforming the Anglo-American moral philosophical landscape, which until recently was dominated by certain ways of "doing theory†?. It illuminates the unity of the overall agenda of...
Reading Zadie Smith
The First Decade and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Since the publication of White Teeth in 2000, Zadie Smith has become one of the most popular contemporary writers and also one of the mostly widely studied. Taking criticism of Smith's work beyond its traditional focus on postcolonialism and multicultural identity, Reading Zadie Smith brings together...
by Britta Martens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes...
by Alexander Pope
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Alexander Pope was an 17th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer.
Collection of 9 Works of Alexander Pope
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An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Man
The Iliad by Homer (Translated by...
by Francis Mulhern
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Marxism has had an enormous impact on literary and cultural studies, and all those interested in the field need to be aware of its achievements. This collection presents the very best of recent Marxist literary criticism in one single volume.
An international group of contributors provide an...
Literature on Trial
The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland & Russia, 1700-1800
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Literature on Trial traces the rise of modern literary criticism in Central and Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century. S.D. Chrostowska juxtaposes the discourse's written forms in three linguistic-cultural regions — Germany, Poland, and Russia — to show how fluid the relationship once was...
Back Issues
Periodicals and the Formation of Critical and Cultural Theory in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2019
Using independent critical and cultural theory journals that cross the Canada/US border as key examples, this book shows how to interpret the original practices of periodicals by tracing editorial diasporas and transitions to electronic publishing.
Back Issues explains the role of independent...
English Romantic Poets
Modern Essays in Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1975
This highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonathan Wordsworth, and Jack Stillinger. Covering the major poems by each of the important Romantic poets,...
by F. Brevik
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This study on New World-utopian politics in The Tempest traces paradigm shifts in literary criticism over the past six decades that have all but reinscribed the text into a political document. This book challenges the view that the play has a dominant New World dimension and demonstrates through close...
by Patsy Stoneman
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This pioneering study, described as ‘a model of feminist criticism’ (The Year’s Work in English Studies) on first publication, revealed Gaskell as an important social analyst who deliberately challenged the Victorian disjunction between public and private ethical values, who maintained a steady...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
This newly commissioned volume presents a focused overview of Dante's masterpiece, the Commedia, offering readers of today wide-ranging insights into the poem and its core features. Leading scholars discuss matters of structure, narrative, language and style, characterization, doctrine, and politics,...
Spatial Ecologies
Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the spatial turn in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst...
Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory
Perspectives on Literary Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with cognitive...