Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
by Kojin Karatani
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993
Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory,...
Double Visions, Double Fictions
The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present
Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Dopplegänger (double-walker) can be found throughout a vast array of literature, culture, and media. This motif...
Edmund Spenser
Essays on Culture and Allegory
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature, it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologist whose work develops a complex theory of cultural change. The contributors to this volume approach...
The Necropastoral
Poetry, Media, Occults
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
In The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of Art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination, and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media;...
by John M. Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
In this 1897 collection the Victorian freethinker applies the tests of his earlier compilation of essays in a new way. Includes the essays “The Theory and Practice of Criticism,” “Poe,” “Coleridge,” “Shelley and Poetry,” “The Art of Keats,” “The Art of Burns,” “Stevenson on Burns,” and “Clough.”
Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe
The Revival of Momus, the Agnostic God
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
In this book, George McClure examines the intellectual tradition of challenges to religious and literary authority in the early modern era. He explores the hidden history of unbelief through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery. Surveying his revival in Italy, France, Spain, Germany,...
Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism
Toward Urbanatural Roosting
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature.
Adapting Poe
Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era.
Literature, Analytically Speaking
Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In a new approach to interdisciplinary literary theory, Literature, Analytically Speaking integrates literary studies with analytic aesthetics, girded by neo-Darwinian evolution. Scrutinizing narrative fiction through a lens provided by analytic philosophy, revered literary theorist Peter Swirski...
by Michael Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Michael Kirby presents a penetrating look a theater theory and analysis. His approach is analytically comprehensive and flexible, and nonevaluative. Case studies demonstrate this unique approach and record performances that otherwise would be lost.
Foreign Accents
Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Foreign Accents examines the various transpacific signifying strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.S. have sought to represent cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic subjectivity, in Chinese as well as in English. In assessing both the dynamics and the politics of poetic...
Poetics in a New Key
Interviews and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to Poetics in a New Key that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was “at once honored and mystified.” But to Perloff’s surprise and her readers’ delight, the resulting assembly not...
Friedrich Schlegel
Literary Notebooks 1797-1801
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Schlegel's notebooks, like those of Coleridge, are complementary to his published writings; they are repositories in which can be traced the growth and continued revision of his ideas. One hundred survived his death, more than half of which have been preserved; of the series of fifteen which deal...
This Compost
Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves. In This Compost Rasula surveys both the convictions asserted by American...