Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Sanctuary in the Wilderness
A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution....
Freedom and the Arts
Essays on Music and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is perpetual negotiation required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work.
The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen
Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen'
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation's hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, its gender, sexual and racial...
Virtual Modernism
Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Virtual Modernism, Katherine Biers offers a fresh view of the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing dynamic readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein,...
Reading Unruly
Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Drawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, Reading Unruly examines unruliness as both an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response. Zahi Zalloua argues that when faced with an unruly work of art, readers confront an ethical double bind, hesitating then...
by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term "literature" as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing...
The Censorship Effect
Baudelaire, Flaubert, and the Formation of French Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In 1857 the trials of Flaubert and Baudelaire for offending against religion and public morality drew attention to the features we now associate with literary modernism; but instead of winning praise for their innovations they were indicted for "ideological crimes." With the passage of time...
Bandersnatch
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other’s works-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing?...
Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Source criticism—analysis of a writer’s source material—has emerged as one of the most popular approaches in exploring the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since Tolkien drew from many disparate sources, an understanding of these sources, as well as how and why he incorporated them, can enhance readers’...
Neither Fugitive nor Free
Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical...
by April London
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture critically reassesses the significance of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal to the transatlantic literary culture of the nineteenth century. Long appreciated primarily as a powerful advocate of literary nationalism...
French Renaissance and Baroque Drama
Text, Performance, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies,...