Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
John McGahern
Authority and vision
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy. Featuring a range of distinguished contributors, including...
Reader in Tragedy
An Anthology of Classical Criticism to Contemporary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways...
The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands
Literary and Historical Imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of the Anthropocene are being played out.
This...
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies
Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies offers a revelatory re-reading of Edward Thomas. Adapting Pascale Casanova’s vision of ‘world literature’ as a system of competing national traditions, this study analyses Thomas’s appropriation of Anglocentric British literary culture at key moments...
A Loaded Gun
Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist
O, The Oprah Magazine Best Books of Summer” selection
Magnetic nonfiction.” -O, The Oprah Magazine
Remarkable insight . . . [a] unique meditation/investigation. . . . Jerome Charyn the unpredictable, elusive, and enigmatic...
Between the Sheets
Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The literary critic examines the love lives and career ambitions of some of the twentieth century’s greatest female authors—from Sylvia Plath to Anaïs Nin.
Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) want to marry...
Verse and Worse
Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 presents texts from the last two decades of work by Steve McCaffery, one of the most influential and innovative of contemporary poets. The volume focuses on selections from McCaffery’s major texts, including The Black Debt, Theory...
How Literature Works
50 Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. It offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland--widely admired for his...
by Charles Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory. Pitch of Poetry is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary poetics.
Subjects range across Holocaust...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became a key literary figure in the regime...
The Accidental Masterpiece
On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
A New York Times bestseller—a dazzling and inspirational survey of how art can be found and appreciated in everyday life
Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a deep and graceful writer across the disciplines...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2001
With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature...
Writing in Light
The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan’s "pure film movement" of the 1910s is widely held to mark the birth of film theory as we know it and is a touchstone for historians of early...
by Janine Utell
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Balancing key foundational topics with new developments and trends, Engagements with Narrative offers an accessible introduction to narratology. As new narrative forms and media emerge, the study of narrative and the ways people communicate through imagination, empathy, and storytelling is especially...