Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Christopher Smart's English Lyrics
Translation in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
In the first full-length study of Christopher Smart’s translations and the place and function of translation in Smart’s poetry, Rosalind Powell proposes a new approach to understanding the relationship between Smart’s poetics and his practice. Drawing on translation theory from the early modern...
by Anthony J. Cascardi
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Literature and philosophy have long shared an interest in questions of truth, value, and form. And yet, from ancient times to the present, they have often sharply diverged, both in their approach to these questions and in their relationship to one another. Moreover, the vast differences among individual...
by David Carter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. It sounds daunting: all those...
Thinking Through Poetry
Field Reports on Romantic Lyric
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric pursues two goals. The title signals the contribution to debates about reading. Do we think 'through' - 'by means of', 'with'- poems, sympathetically elaborating their surfaces? Is this compatible with a second meaning: 'thinking through' poems...
Apples and Ashes
Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures,...
Aesthetic Hysteria
The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic...
A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning
Linguistics, Semiotics and Discourse Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In this book, first published in 1987, Professor Schleifer sets Greimas’ work in its intellectual context and sets forth the development of his distinctive style of interpretation. Moreover, the author goes on to consider Greimas’ work against the latest examinations of discourse in philosophy,...
The Varieties of Authorial Intention
Literary Theory Beyond the Intentional Fallacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the intentions of authors without apology. The taboo was enforced by a seminal article, “The Intentional Fallacy,” and it deepened during the...
Literary Activism
Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Literary Activism revisits and interrogates, and looks to renew, the force of the literary. It's a movement that emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where what Amit Chaudhuri calls ‘market activism’ has effected changes – on language, on the measuring...
by J. A. Cuddon, M. A. R. Habib, Matthew Birchwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century.
Written in a clear and highly readable style
Comprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present day
Broad intellectual and cultural range
Expands...
Literature Against Criticism
University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions and futures of critique. The contributors to Critique and Postcritique join this conversation, evaluating critique's structural, methodological, and political...
Eleanor Cameron
Dimensions of Amazement
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science...
New Feminist Discourses
Critical Essays on Theories and Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered...