Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
The Power and Value of Music
Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What impact can or should music have on individuals and on society as a whole? What are the factors responsible...
Mimetic Contagion
Art and Artifice in Terence's Eunuch
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more dynamic effect on their viewers, inspiring...
Literary Bondage
Slavery in Cuban Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
In the nineteenth century, the Cuban economy rested on the twin pillars of sugar and slaves. Slavery was abolished in 1886, but, one hundred years later, Cuban authors were still writing antislavery narratives. William Luis explores this seeming paradox in his groundbreaking study Literary Bondage, asking...
by Alejandra M. Salinas
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book seeks to fill a double lacuna in Borges scholarship. For one, this scholarship has been largely developed through the lens of literary and cultural studies, and not by political theorists who bring a distinct disciplinary perspective into the reading of literary works. Secondly, mainstream...
The Cultural Revolution and Overacting
Dynamics between Politics and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which took place in China between 1966 and 1976, was a major political and social tragedy in Chinese history. As part of an effort to understand how the state enforced control amid seeming chaos, this book looks at the ubiquitous revolutionary presentations...
The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture
Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén...
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Intervening Acts
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Women have always been the muses who inspire the creativity of men, but how do women become the creators of art themselves? This was the challenge faced by Latin American women who aspired to write in the 1920s and 1930s. Though women's roles were opening up during this time, women writers were not...
Global Matters
The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics focus increasingly on theorizing difference and complicating the geographical framework defining their approaches. At the same time, Anglophone literature...
by David Punter
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor.
In this fascinating volume, David...
Fleshly Tabernacles
Milton and the Incarnational Poetics of Revolutionary England
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In Fleshly Tabernacles, Bryan Hampton examines John Milton’s imaginative engagement with, and theological passion for, the Incarnation. As aesthetic symbol, theological event, and narrative picture of humanity’s potential, the Incarnation profoundly governs the way Milton structures his 1645 Poems,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism...
Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature
Time, Narrative, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Typically, studies of early cinema’s relation to literature have focused on the interactions between film and modernism. When film first emerged, however, it was naturalism, not modernism, competing for the American public’s attention. In this media ecosystem, the cinema appeared alongside the...
by Simon Grennan
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior. It refigures the existing descriptions of visual story-telling that pause with theorizations...
Ancestral Recall
The Celtic Revival and Japanese Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Despite distance and differences in culture, the early twentieth century was a time of literary cross-pollination between Ireland and Japan. Notably, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats had a powerful influence on Japanese letters, at the same time that contemporary and classical Japanese...