Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Composing Cultures
Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture...
by Brenda Beckman-Long
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields’ critical feminist project has, until now,...
Literature, Analytically Speaking
Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In a new approach to interdisciplinary literary theory, Literature, Analytically Speaking integrates literary studies with analytic aesthetics, girded by neo-Darwinian evolution. Scrutinizing narrative fiction through a lens provided by analytic philosophy, revered literary theorist Peter Swirski...
by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism (1957) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of literary theory. The product of years of reading and reflection, the book's value extends far beyond its impact on criticism as a whole; ultimately, it must be viewed as a synoptic defense of liberal learning by one...
by Elena Abramov-van Rijk
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book takes its departure from an experiment presented by Vincenzo Galilei before his colleagues in the Florentine Camerata in about 1580. This event, namely the first demonstration of the stile recitativo, is known from a single later source, a letter written in 1634 by Pietro dei Bardi, son...
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies
Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women’s Collaborative Book Prize 2017
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies is a volume of essays by leading scholars in the field of early modern studies on the history, present state, and future possibilities of feminist criticism...
Annotating Salman Rushdie
Reading the Postcolonial
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
How does one read a foundational postcolonial writer in English with declared Indian subcontinent roots?
This book looks at ways of reading, and uncovering and recovering meanings, in postcolonial writing in English through the works of Salman Rushdie. It uses textual criticism and applied...
King Lear and the Naked Truth
Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Taking King Lear as her central text, Judy Kronenfeld seriously questions the critical assumptions of much of today’s most fashionable Shakespeare scholarship. Charting a new course beyond both New Historicist and deconstructionist critics, she suggests a theory of language and interpretation that...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries.
Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches
Discusses...
by Linda Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
If every writer necessarily draws on their own life, is any writing outside the realm of ‘autobiography’? The new edition of this classic guide is fully updated to include:
developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts
different forms of the...
Literary Politics
The Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Literary Politics identifies and debates competing definitions of 'English Studies' as an academic subject, celebrates the diversity of contemporary literary studies, and demonstrates the ways in which a range of literary texts can be understood as politically engaged, sometimes in unexpected ways.
by John Constable, I. A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Writing after Sidney
The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586-1640
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Writing After Sidney examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), author of the Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, and The Defence of Poesy, and the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely both at Sidney and at four writers who had...
Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory
Perspectives on Literary Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with cognitive...