Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Complete Essays, Literary Criticism, Cryptography, Autography, Translations & Letters
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Po's complete nonfiction works. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism...
by I.A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that...
Making Men
Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1998
Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked—and relocated—to the United States. Incorporating...
Improper Modernism
Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. Through close readings of Barnes's manuscripts, correspondence, critically acclaimed and little-known...
From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience
Polish Studies in Literary History and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The volume From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience contains a wide selection of essays, which were published during past decades in academic journal Teksty Drugie and were widely appreciated as significant contributions to the ongoing debate on principles and methods of literary studies. Articles...
Hidden Designs (Routledge Revivals)
The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the ‘new historicism’ and post-structuralism, Hidden Designs makes a plea for criticism to be practiced in its own name rather than in the name of...
Transcendentalist Hermeneutics
Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1990
American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson’s resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opposed...
by Zhang Jiong
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Each age has its value system of literary criticism whose construction is inseparable from the mainstream ideology of the society. In contemporary China, the mainstream ideology is inevitably Marxism.
This book is composed of two parts. The first part studies literary criticism in contemporary...
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This meticulously edited collection contains complete nonfiction works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning...
by I.A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that...
Liminality, Mimicry, Hybridity and Ambivalent in Literary Speculations of Homi K. Bhabha
Homo Bhabha's Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, course: English Literature & Literary Theory, language: English, abstract: Objective of this paper is to discuss how culture of a nation gets formed strongly...
Russian Formalism
A Metapoetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of more recent developments in literary theory, Peter Steiner here offers the most comprehensive critique of Formalism...
The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory
Institution, Aesthetics, Nihilism
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Using Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy's groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point, Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory. The central contention of this book is that contemporary...
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry
The Cognitive Poetics of Desire, Dreams and Nightmares
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry applies advances in cognitive poetics and text world theory to four poems by the nineteenth century poet John Keats. It takes the existing text world theory as a starting point and draws on stylistics, literary theory, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology...