Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Filmspeak
How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Filmspeak is an accessible, innovative book which uses specific examples to show how once arcane literary and cultural theory has infiltrated popular culture.
Theory reaches us in ways we do not even realize. Issues such as the nature of knowledge or truth, the function of personal response...
Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé
The Passage from Art to Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 1993
Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé offers a new theory of performance in the poetic and critical texts of Stephane Mallarmé, a theory challenging the prevailing interpretation of his work as epitomizing literary purism and art for art's sake.
Following an analytical presentation of the...
Theory Matters
The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of particularity and contingency – including its own. What is the place of literary and cultural theory after the Age of Theory has ended?
Grouping...
Theory after Derrida
Essays in Critical Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A critical anthology that re-examines Jacques Derrida’s thought by way of theory and praxis, this volume reflects on his striking legacy and the future of theory. Among contemporary thinkers, Derrida challenges not only our ways of thinking but also hitherto methods of inquiry. This book captures...
by Professor Megan Becker-Leckrone
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
Engaged debate among feminist, political, and psychoanalytic thinkers has secured Julia Kristeva's status as one of the most formidable figures in twentieth-century critical theory. Nevertheless, her precise relevance to the study of literature - the extent to which her theory is specifically a literary...
by Barbara Foley
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to be published in decades, Barbara Foley argues that Marxism continues to offer the best framework for exploring the relationship between literature and society.*BR**BR*She lays out in clear terms the principal aspects...
by Michael Parrish Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and theory of the novel, uncovering the “food plot” against which the marriage plot and modern subjectivity take shape....
Ignorance
Literature and agnoiology
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. He sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves...
Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought
The Radical Unspoken
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Presenting an engaging reflection on the work of prominent modern Iranian literary artists in exchange with contemporary Continental literary criticism and philosophy, this book tracks the idea of silence – through the prism of poetics, dreaming, movement, and the body – across the textual imaginations...
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis
Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique, Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D, utilizes ecocriticism and ecofeminism to develop his concept of transversal practice: an interdisciplinary combination of theory and applied criticism. He begins by explaining...
Communicating Terror
The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The only book to examine terrorism as a rhetorical act
*"This is an excellent text in furthering our understanding of the web of language and how it creates our mediated realities – which reflect our culture, politics, religion, economics, etc. Students really like the case studies and...
by Stathis Gourgouris
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name of modernity. Using this notion as a compass,...
The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature
Over the Fence
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children’s Literature: Over the Fence analyzes the ways in which myths about farmed animals’ lives are perpetuated in children’s materials. Specifically, this book investigates the use of five recurring thematic devices in about eighty books for young children...
ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction
African Literature Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions are increasingly present in literary criticism forums as African writers become bolder in exploring the challenges they face and celebrating gender diversity in the writing of short stories, novels, poetry,...