Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Rebels
Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean—these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were often embraced and hotly debated at the dawn of the Cold War era because they stood for dissent and defiance...
Latent Destinies
Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that the Cold War has ended and the threat of nuclear annihilation has been dramatically lessened by most estimates,...
Virtual Americas
Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing it—placing it in unfamiliar contexts. Paul Giles looks...
The Ethics of Opting Out
Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular attention to the field's rejection of dominant neoliberal narratives of success, cheerfulness, and...
Chick Lit
The New Woman's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the...
Literary Theory
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to the
full range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and science studies.
Introduces students to...
by Jay Dorfman
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Based on educational theory and on recognized music teaching methods, Theory and Practice of Technology-Based Music Instruction develops a framework for examining music teaching that uses technology to introduce, reinforce, and assess skills and concepts. The framework guides in-depth discussions...
by Leah Price
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Secretaries are the hidden technicians of much literary (and non-literary) writing; they also figure startlingly often as characters in modern literature, film, and even literary criticism. Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture brings together secretaries' role in the production (and, more surprisingly,...
The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages
On the Unwritten History of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should—indeed must—reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his Legitimacy of the Modern Age describes the "modern age" as a complete departure from the...
by David Rudrum
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Stanley Cavell is widely recognized as one of America's most important contemporary philosophers, and his legacy and writings continue to attract considerable attention among literary critics and theorists. Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature comprehensively addresses the importance of literature...
Postcolonial Audiences
Readers, Viewers and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent...
Moral Spectatorship
Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Why were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s? In Moral Spectatorship, Lisa Cartwright rethinks the politics of spectatorship in film studies. Returning to impasses...
by Leo Bersani
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Leo Bersani’s career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields—including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory. Throughout this new collection of essays that ranges, interestingly and brilliantly, from...
The Jazz Bubble
Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism. The Jazz Bubble...