Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Invalid Women
Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
*"A fine example of politically engaged literary criticism.--Belles Lettres
"Price Herndl's compelling individual readings of works by major writers (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hawthorne, Wharton, James, Fitzgerald) and minor ones complement her examination of germ theory, psychic and...
Literary Theory
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.
Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
As a concept, 'trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, applicable to individuals,...
by Mary Klages
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren’t really sure what they mean? Have you taken a whole course on literary criticism but are still feeling lost? Here’s the book you need to sort it all out—and enjoy doing so!
In Literary Theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the critical reception...
Textual Awareness
A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which themselves thematized time. Textual Awareness analyzes the writing processes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, and Thomas Mann's...
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero
Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1974. Wordsworth, with Coleridge, is the major literary critic of the Romantic period. This volume assembles all of Wordsworth’s formal critical writings and a selection of critical comments from his correspondence. These documents are invaluable for Romantic poetry at large,...
Rethinking Metonymy
Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right. Not only has this created a gap in literary analytical scholarship which needs to be addressed, but it has also allowed for problematic appropriations...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse. It also provides an overview of the developments...
(Un)like Subjects
Women, Theory, Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
What is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature?
This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied...
by Catherine Belsey
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation?...
Eliot's Objective Correlative
Tradition or Individual Talent? Contributions to the History of a Topos
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Eliot’s dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted but rarely analysed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input...
Johnson's Critical Presence
Image, History, Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Samuel Johnson remains one of the most frequently discussed and cited of the eighteenth-century critics; but historians of criticism have invariably interpreted his work within conventions that have allowed for little evaluative commerce between the needs of the critical present and the voices of...