Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism...
The Music of Verse
Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the 'music' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse.
by Katharine Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1979, this book provides thorough a guide through Coleridge’s diverse body of work, looking not just his poetry but also his literary criticism and theories, plays, political journalism and theory, and writings on religion and philosophy. The author is careful to avoid emphasising...
English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime
Fictions of Transport in Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Patrick Cheney's new book places the sublime at the heart of poems and plays in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Specifically, Cheney argues for the importance of an 'early modern sublime' to the advent of modern authorship in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson. Chapters...
by Francesco Ciabattoni
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In Dante's Journey to Polyphony, Francesco Ciabattoni's erudite analysis sheds light on Dante's use of music in the Divine Comedy. Following the work's musical evolution, Ciabattoni moves from the cacophony of Inferno through the monophony of Purgatory, to the polyphony of Paradise and argues that...
Colonialism, Culture, Whales
The Cetacean Quartet
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern Western culture. Foraging across the disciplines and moving between ideas and methods drawn from postcolonial criticism,...
by A. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
This Guide surveys existing criticism and theory, making clear the key critical debates, themes and issues surrounding a wide variety of Irish poets, playwrights and novelists. It relates Irish literature to debates surrounding issues such as national identity, modernity and the Revival period, armed struggle, gender, sexuality and post colonialism.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis.
Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats
Subjective Identity and Anarcho-Syndicalist Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.
Composing Cultures
Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture...
The Feminization of Quest-Romance
Radical Departures
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed...
Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature
Time, Narrative, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Typically, studies of early cinema’s relation to literature have focused on the interactions between film and modernism. When film first emerged, however, it was naturalism, not modernism, competing for the American public’s attention. In this media ecosystem, the cinema appeared alongside the...
The Flirt's Tragedy
Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2002
In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and W. M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, flirting harbors potentially tragic consequences, a perilous game then adapted by...
Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies
The Limits of Inference
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies, Carol Shloss moves from biographical, thematic, and theological approaches and instead focuses her criticism on the successes and failures of O'Connor as a rhetorician.
This valuable study of O'Connor's style uses reader-response theory to dissect the author's...