Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Across Meridians
History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of...
Literary Intellectuals
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is particularly true of the line in British...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work.
The volume is divided into six sections that consider:
the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and...
Feminist Theory Across Disciplines
Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary...
Liberty of the Imagination
Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In Liberty of the Imagination, Edward Cahill uncovers the surprisingly powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination—philosophical ideas about aesthetic pleasure, taste, genius, the beautiful, and the sublime—on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth...
The Tenth Muse
Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of early...
A Scholar's Tale
Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity. Later, his writings were crucial to the explosive developments in literary theory in the late seventies,...
by Laurie A. Finke
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical...
Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism
Reading Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function'...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Bringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory.
Black Feminist Literary Criticism
Past and Present With an Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Since its inception, black feminist literary criticism has produced a number of sophisticated theoretical works that have challenged traditional approaches to (black) literature. This collection of essays explores past and current productions of black feminist theorizing, attempting to trace the trajectories...
The Critical Twilight (Routledge Revivals)
Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory. It interrogates, comprehensively and in detail, the assumptions and categorical development within critical ideas from I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever. This book shows how concepts of ‘language’...
Literary Modernism and Beyond
The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took various forms, including a Jamesian sense of moral ambiguity, Proustian time spots, and B ergsonian intuition,...