Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
by Martin Lausten
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A+, , course: Literary History and Theory, language: English, abstract: Published in 1968 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick, the novel is set in a post-apocalyptic near-future America, which...
by Mary Klages
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Students of literature, film and cultural studies need to understand key theoretical terms and concepts but often find it hard to get to grips with exactly what they mean. This book provides precise definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements...
by Dr. Ujjwala Kakarla
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The book Indian and Western Aesthetics in Sri Aurobindo’s Criticism is a comparative study of Indian and western aesthetics. It depicts the beauty of evolution of multiplicity of theories to vastness of concepts postulated by different literary theoreticians. Moreover, it gives a keen insight into...
Text in the Natural World
Topics in the Evolutionary Theory of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of the same evolutionary process that gave rise to the human species. In this view, literature is an evolutionary...
Narratology and Ideology
Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, brings together many of the most prominent figures in the interface between narratology and postcolonial criticism. While narrative theory has...
Thinking en español
Interviews with Critics of Chicana/o Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Thinking en español captures conversations with leading Chicana and Chicano literary critics. This unique book consists of interviews with founding members of Chicano criticism conducted by the author, Jesús Rosales, who, through his conversations with leaders such as Luis Leal, María Herrera-Sobek,...
Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice
A Feel for the Text
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
*Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice *develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern....
Lord Byron's Cain
Twelve essays and a text with variants and annotations
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Cain has been ranked as one of the two best dramatic poems written in England in the nineteenth century. Because of its religious heterodoxy, which veiled a political iconoclasm, and also because of Byron's notoriety, Cain stirred up a storm among Tories and clergymen "from Kentish town to Pisa." From...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the ‘religious turn’ in recent literary theory and...
The Bush Garden
Essays on the Canadian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
"Any publication by Northrop Frye is an important literary event; this one is of the highest importance to Canadian literature." — Globe and MailOriginally published by Anansi in 1971, The Bush Garden features Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on Canadian literature and painting.In...
by Wai-chew Sim
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times.
In this guide to Ishiguro’s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents:
a biographical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book in any language to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in literary and cultural theory. It brings together scholars whose work is defined both by their innovations in the study of Mexican literature and...
Eliot and His Age
T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to T. S. Eliot’s life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk’s view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot’s writings...