Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Adaptation Theory and Criticism
Postmodern Literature and Cinema in the USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Traditional critics of film adaptation generally assumed a) that the written text is better than the film adaptation because the plot is more intricate and the language richer when pictorial images do not intrude; b) that films are better when particularly faithful to the original; c) that authors...
by Shiloh Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
One of the biggest attractions of George R.R. Martin's high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, and by extension its HBO television adaptation, Game of Thrones, is its claim to historical realism. The author, the directors and producers of the adaptation, and indeed the fans of the books and show,...
by Doris T. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Although C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) achieved a level of popularity as a fiction writer, literary scholars have tended to view him as a minor figure working in an insignificant genre-science fiction-or have pigeonholed him as a Christian apologist and moralist. In C. S. Lewis in Context, Doris T. Myers...
Annotating Salman Rushdie
Reading the Postcolonial
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
How does one read a foundational postcolonial writer in English with declared Indian subcontinent roots?
This book looks at ways of reading, and uncovering and recovering meanings, in postcolonial writing in English through the works of Salman Rushdie. It uses textual criticism and applied...
by Richard Meek
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'literary dramatist', suggesting ways in which his works themselves debate the question of text versus...
The Deed of Reading
Literature * Writing * Language * Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Garrett Stewart begins The Deed of Reading with a memory of his first hesitant confrontation, as a teenager, with poetic density. In that early verbal challenge he finds one driving force of literature: to make language young again in its surprise, coming alive in each new event of reading. But what...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This Handbook offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of contemporary issues in Literary Translation research through in-depth investigations of actual case studies of particular works, authors or translators. Leading researchers from across the globe discuss best practice, problems, and possibilities...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries.
Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches
Discusses...
Literary Cynics
Borges, Beckett, Coetzee
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider what happens when authors write themselves into their art, against the rhetoric of authority.
Rose takes as his starting point three moments...
The Fairy Way of Writing
Shakespeare to Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeare’s plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase "fairy way of writing" to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis...
Style and the Single Girl
How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922–1977
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograph to use fashion theory and history to trace the literary progress of British women in later modernity,...
Literary Politics
The Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Literary Politics identifies and debates competing definitions of 'English Studies' as an academic subject, celebrates the diversity of contemporary literary studies, and demonstrates the ways in which a range of literary texts can be understood as politically engaged, sometimes in unexpected ways.
Far Country
Scenes from American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the public
In the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the...
Metapoesis
The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Readers have been schooled to see nineteenth-century Russian literature as the summit of social and psychological realism. But in the work of writers from Pushkin to Chekhov, Michael C. Finke discloses a pervasive self-referentiality, a running commentary on the literary conventions these texts seem...