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Postcolonial Conrad
Paradoxes of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.
The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
All of American author Frank Norris’s significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896–1897 and selections from his “Weekly Letter” column for the Chicago American in 1901. Essays from these two previously unexploited...
by Javed Akhtar
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The aim of this research paper is to trace the origin and development of Art for art's sake movement from Marxist perspective. The origin of Art for art's movement can...
The Intimate Critique
Autobiographical Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1993
For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts—above all, "objectivity"—seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement...
Melville's Mirrors
Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. Until now, however, there has been no standard volume on the history of Melville criticism. That a volume on this subject is timely and important is...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has...
Ted Hughes and Trauma
Burning the Foxes
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work. As an undergraduate, Hughes was visited in his sleep by a burnt fox/man who left a bloody...
Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism
The Humanistic Alternative
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
This book offers a history of literary criticism from Plato to the present, arguing that this history can best be seen as a dialogue among three traditions - the Platonic, Neoplatonic, and the humanistic, originated by Aristotle. There are many histories of literary criticism, but this is the first...
Theory into Practice: A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism
A Reader In Modern Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 1992
Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem to the general reader. This book brings together essays by major critics which apply theory to practice...
by Eugene Goodheart
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century. These have extended from F.R. Leavis's laments for a "lost center of intelligence and urbane spirit," to current opposition to the predominance of radical...
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...
Criticism after Critique
Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.
by David Bokovoy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Book Description:
For the last two centuries, biblical scholars have made discoveries and insights about the Old Testament that have greatly changed the way in which the authorship of these ancient scriptures has been understood. In the first of three volumes spanning the entire Hebrew Bible,...
Literature and the Growth of British Nationalism
The Influence of Romantic Poetry and Bardic Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book explores how British Romantic poetry—the writing, reading, and critical reception of it—reinforced British nationalism in the 19th century, ripening the political processes of nationhood that began with the first Act of Union in 1707. Using archival research on literary collections,...