Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Binding Violence
Literary Visions of Political Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Binding Violence exposes the relation between literary imagination, autonomous politics, and violence through the close analysis of literary texts—in particular Sophocles' Antigone, D. A. F. de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, and Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat—that speak to a blind spot in democratic...
The Subject and Other Subjects
On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The Subject and Other Subjects theorizes the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. When a person is called beautiful, why does it strike us as an objectification? Is a person whom we consider to be an exemplary person still a person, and not an example? Can one...
Where the Meanings Are (Routledge Revivals)
Feminism and Cultural Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
First published in 1990, this collection of essays in literary criticism, feminist theory and race relations was named one of the top twenty-five books of 1988 by the Voice Literary Supplement. The title covers such subjects as black literature; the reconstruction of culture, changing arts, letters...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke...
Error and the Academic Self
The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book illuminates...
by Andrew Elfenbein
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
What happens to books as they live in our long-term memory? Why do we find some books entertaining and others not? And how does literary influence work on writers in different ways? Grounded in the findings of empirical psychology, this book amends classic reader-response theory and attends to neglected...
The Americas of Asian American Literature
Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1999
Drawing on a wide array of literary, historical, and theoretical sources, Rachel Lee addresses current debates on the relationship among Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, and gender. Lee argues that scholars have traditionally placed undue emphasis on ethnic-based...
by Catherine Belsey
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism.
Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for critical practice, from one of Britain's most prominent literary theorists and critics
Proposes a...
Stanley Cavell
Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1999
Stephen Mulhall presents the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian literary criticism, and the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary theory. It is not properly appreciated...
by Leah Price
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Secretaries are the hidden technicians of much literary (and non-literary) writing; they also figure startlingly often as characters in modern literature, film, and even literary criticism. Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture brings together secretaries' role in the production (and, more surprisingly,...
Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness
A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book boldly ventures to cross some traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument regarding the nature of language by reading and interpreting the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. So it is a work both in literary criticism...
Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space
Borders, Networks, Escape Lines
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts....
After Derrida
Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This collection of essays explores the main concepts and methods of reading launched by French philosopher Jacques Derrida who died in 2004. Derrida exerted a huge influence on literary critics in the 1980s, but later there was a backlash against his theories. Today, one witnesses a general return...
by Professor Sean Latham, Dr Gayle Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
What exactly is "modernism†?? And how and why has its definition changed over time?
Modernism: Evolution of an Idea is the first book to trace the development of the term "modernism†? from cultural debates in the early twentieth century to the dynamic contemporary field of modernist...