Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Double Visions, Double Fictions
The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present
Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Dopplegänger (double-walker) can be found throughout a vast array of literature, culture, and media. This motif...
Edmund Spenser
Essays on Culture and Allegory
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature, it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologist whose work develops a complex theory of cultural change. The contributors to this volume approach...
by Seth Whidden
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution technologies provided writers with more readers and literary outlets than ever before, while the ever-changing political contexts occasioned by the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 brought about differing degrees of political, social, and literary...
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Translated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and criticism comparable in scope and achievement to Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis. Italian critic Francesco Orlando explores Western literature’s obsession with outmoded and nonfunctional objects (ruins, obsolete...
Adapting Poe
Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era.
Poetics in a New Key
Interviews and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to Poetics in a New Key that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was “at once honored and mystified.” But to Perloff’s surprise and her readers’ delight, the resulting assembly not...
Friedrich Schlegel
Literary Notebooks 1797-1801
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Schlegel's notebooks, like those of Coleridge, are complementary to his published writings; they are repositories in which can be traced the growth and continued revision of his ideas. One hundred survived his death, more than half of which have been preserved; of the series of fifteen which deal...
This Compost
Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves. In This Compost Rasula surveys both the convictions asserted by American...
Studying and Teaching W.C. Falkner, William Faulkner, and Digital Literacy
Personal Democracy in Social Combination
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book explores the ways to teach the literary works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner to ESL (English as a Second Language) students in today’s digital environment. William Faulkner’s great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, wrote romantic literary works, and William Faulkner...
Ghostwriting
W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the émigré writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents...
by Michael Fried
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is every-thing.” So wrote Joseph Conrad in the best-known account of literary impressionism, the late nineteenth- and...
The Regal Phantasm (Routledge Revivals)
Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship between theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare’s Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal portraiture...
English Heart, Hindi Heartland
The Political Life of Literature in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in the visual interpretation of African American literary texts using film, music, black masculinity, black feminist, and cultural theory.