Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Abjection, Melancholia and Love
The Work of Julia Kristeva
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, ‘The Adolescent Novel’, in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an ‘open structure’. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva’s work central...
Shakespeare's Folly
Philosophy, Humanism, Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities...
The Linguistics of Stephen King
Layered Language and Meaning in the Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Stephen King, “America’s Favorite Boogeyman,” has sold over 350 million copies of his books, becoming in effect the face of horror fiction. His influence on popular culture has drawn both strong praise and harsh criticism from reviewers and scholars alike. While his popularity cannot be overstated,...
by Christopher Marlow
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years. Combining close attention to Shakespearean texts and the conditions of their production with an explicit left-wing political affiliation, cultural materialism offers...
Sacred Tears
Sentimentality in Victorian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
An absorbing study of the evolution of sentiment in Victorian life and literature
What is sentimentality, and where did it come from? For acclaimed scholar and biographer Fred Kaplan, the seeds were planted by the British moral philosophers of the eighteenth century. The Victorians gained from...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1995
This collection of essays explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and written in accessible English, ten major Faulkner scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's oeuvre. Bringing into focus the broader cultural context which lent its resonance...
Songbirds on the Literary Stage
The Woman Singer and her Song in French and German Prose Fiction, from Goethe to Berlioz
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the 1790s to the mid-nineteenth century. Through selected case studies, this diachronic history of motifs...
by Andy Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition offers a fresh reading of the later career development of one of America’s most celebrated authors. Through a contextual analysis of a select number of texts, this innovative study discusses how famed novels such as American Pastoral and The Plot against...
by Linda Hutcheon
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme...
Frances Newman
Southern Satirist and Literary Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
This first biographical and literary assessment of Frances Newman highlights one of the most experimental writers of the Southern Renaissance.
Novelist, translator, critic, and acerbic book reviewer Frances Newman (1883-1928) was praised by Virginia novelist James Branch Cabell and critic H....
by Julie Cross
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of ‘simple’ versus ‘complex’...
Interfaces of the Word
Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Drawing on a wide range of disciplines—linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history—Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The essays in Interfaces...
Ambiguous Discourse
Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection...
by Ken Monteith
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest...