Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
The Age of Thomas Nashe
Text, Bodies and Trespasses of Authorship in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Traditional literary criticism once treated Thomas Nashe as an Elizabethan oddity, difficult to understand or value. He was described as an unrestrained stylist, venomous polemicist, unreliable source, and closet pornographer. But today this flamboyant writer sits at the center of many trends in early...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
For two decades, the 'transnational turn' in literary studies has generated enormous comment and controversy. This Companion provides a comprehensive account of the scope, impact, and critical possibilities of the transnational turn in American literary studies. It situates the study of American literature...
Volition's Face
Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia signals a form of reduced agency. Andrew Escobedo...
The Tragic Imagination
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001
U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fostered a unique consciousness and represented a moment of...
Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader
Reading Science Fiction and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The writer of alternate history asks “what if?” What if one historical event were different, what would the world look like today? In a similar way, the postmodern philosopher of history suggests that history is literature, or that if we read certain historical details differently we would get...
Labor and Desire
Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges the conventional wisdom that feminism as a discourse...
by Maria Nikolajeva
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Now available in paperback! Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical studies of literary characters in general. In her latest intellectual foray, the author of From Mythic to Linear ponders the art of characterization. Through...
by Kate Houlden
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This book focuses on sex and sexuality in post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Countering the critical orthodoxy that literature from this period dealt with sex only tangentially, implicitly transmitting sexist or homophobic messages, the author instead highlights the range and diversity...
Introducing Children's Literature
From Romanticism to Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence...
Living in the Future
Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Nationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality. Living in the Future analyzes how the anachronistic nationalist fantasies in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales create a false sense of England’s historical continuity that in turn...
by Ewa Płonowska Ziarek
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the oppressive...
by Anna Ball
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative practitioners...
Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century
"By Succession of Delight"
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
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Poet, essayist, actor, hymn-writer, wit, magazine editor, transvestite stage performer: Christopher Smart, Georgian don-turned-writer, was all of these. He was, and remains, a mercurial individual, an idiosyncratic yet strangely familiar writer of spiritual heights and material...