Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
The Poor Bugger's Tool
Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the world stage as a major cosmopolitan country.Taking...
Laying Out the Bones
Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel from James Joyce to Anne Enright
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse. She argues that the treatment of death in Irish novels offers a way of making sense of mortality and provides...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The Anti-Slavery Alphabet was a poem-based pamphlet that was produced for an 1846 Anti-slavery Fair in Philadelphia. As noted by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History...
The Alphabet consists of sixteen leaves, printed on one side, with the printed pages facing each...
Reading Uncreative Writing
Conceptualism, Expression, and the Lyric
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This book examines Uncreative Writing—the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry—against a decade of controversy. David Kaufman analyzes texts by Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, Robert Fitterman, Ara Shirinyan,...
Faulkner and the Native Keystone
Reading (Beyond) the American South
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The last fifty years have witnessed a never-ending flow of criticism of William Faulkner and his fiction. While this book touches on the prevailing critical theory, it concentrates on a number of fresh observations on themes and motifs that place William Faulkner’s fiction in general, regional,...
Wilde Style
The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates...
by Theresia Knuth
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2007
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A2 (highly excellent), University of Edinburgh (Department of English Literature), course: Modernism, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The rise of feminist theory during...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This study focuses on the return of the narrative as applied by literary historians. Through the 1980s, criticism on the hermetic nature of many postmodern texts grew louder and louder: novelists expressed the wish to restore the bonds between the reader and the texts as well as between the texts...
Faulkner's Imperialism
Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In Faulkner's Imperialism, Taylor Hagood explores two staples of Faulkner's world: myth and place. Using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the economic, sociological, and political factors in Faulkner's writing, he applies postcolonial theory, cultural materialism, and the work of the New Southernists...
Routledge Revivals: Literary Fat Ladies (1987)
Rhetoric, Gender, Property
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1987, the essays in this volume focus on questions of gender, property and power in the use of rhetoric and the practice of literary genres, and provide a historicised cultural critique. They analyse the links between rhetoric and property, but also representations of women as unruly,...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Individually, these articles approach narrative from various angles, focusing both on matters that have been debated since even before the advent of narratology and on questions that have been dealt with in only a limited way in the past; together, they show that narratology, far from being a method...
The One vs. the Many
Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative...
Chomsky and Deconstruction
The Politics of Unconscious Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This book offers a careful and measured response to Noam Chomsky's criticism against deconstructive theories of language. The author reveals the connections between Chomsky's linguistic theories and politics by demonstrating their shared philosophical basis.
Essential Essays, Volume 1
Foundations of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark...