Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Borrowed Light
Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the "anticolonial century." The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from all over the world in interwar Europe....
The Frontier Within
Essays by Abe Kobo
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Abe Kobo (1924–1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. However, he also wrote theoretical criticism for which he is lesser known, merging literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives into keen reflections...
Jane Austen the Reader
The Artist as Critic
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Jane Austen the Reader explains Austen's excellence and endurance by showing how her writing developed as a response to the writing of others: as parody, satire, criticism and even, on occasion, homage. Seeing Austen as a critic offers new insights into her creativity, and new interpretations of her novels.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an...
Rewriting the Victorians
Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology,...
by David Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
First published in 1988, this book is a study of all Blake’s work in illuminated printing. It traces in particular, the development of his ideas on politics, religion, sexuality, and the imagination. There are substantial sections on some of Blake’s best-known works, including the Marriage of...
Blake's Drama
Theatre, Performance and Identity in the Illuminated Books
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.
Women Who Did
Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
"A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes of the new woman, as she encountered...
Adventures in the French Trade
Fragments Toward a Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache—his injured and occasionally injurious love—for France...
Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South
The Life of a Soldier of Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this innovative collection, Jason Phillips and ten other historians and literary scholars explore the enduring dynamic between history, literature, and power in the American South. Blending analysis with storytelling, and professional insights with personal experiences, they "deconstruct Dixie,"...
Poetry and Popular Protest
Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.
The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China
From Dreamscapes to Theatricality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Emotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is spatial, at turns embedding us from without, transporting us somewhere else, or putting us ahead of ourselves. In this book, Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
A History of Irish Autobiography is the first ever critical survey of autobiographical self-representation in Ireland from its recoverable beginnings to the twenty-first century. The book draws on a wealth of original scholarship by leading experts to provide an authoritative examination of autobiographical...
Scarlett's Women
'Gone With the Wind' and its Female Fans
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have.
Seventy-five years on from the cinematic release of Gone with the Wind,...