Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
Hermeneutics as a Theory of Interpretation and as a Literary Theory
Hermeneutics Applied to Text, Language and African Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Africa, University of Nigeria, language: English, abstract: Theories of language, linguistic and non linguistic communication are diverse. In the Humanities there are so many interpretative tools. These tools are means to an end and not...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Žižek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Žižek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Žižek's practice of reading theory and literature...
On Deconstruction
Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation...
by Catherine Belsey
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism.
Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for critical practice, from one of Britain's most prominent literary theorists and critics
Proposes a...
Reading Beyond the Code
Literature and Relevance Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
This book explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples—lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton—nine of the ten essays...
Criticism in the Borderlands
Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1991
This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts—both old and new—draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist.
The...
Latin American Literature
Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Critical theory meets Latin American fiction in this bold and challenging analysis of literature and literary criticism through post-structuralist analysis. Focusing on Latin American literary and critical production from the 1890s to the 1990s, Bernard McGuirk highlights the confrontation between...
Seven Essays
Studies in Literature, Drama, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
In Seven Essays: Studies in Literature, Drama, and Film, Abdulla Al-Dabbagh’s unique approach to literary and cultural issues succeeds in casting new light on these subjects, revealing innovative fields of research and investigation. Expressed in his usual lucid and eloquent style, this collection...
Emancipation and Illusion
Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1997
In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea...
Semantics and the Body
Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 1997
In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, by contrast, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity. Strictly language-based theories, and theories which conflate formal and natural languages, run into...
Around 1981
Academic Feminist Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Jane Gallop’s book offers a clear-eyed and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. Why, she asks, have we so quickly buried 1970s feminist criticism? What lies buried there? Why do 1990s academic feminists accuse other academic feminists of being ‘academic’?
Gallop takes...
Between the Psyche and the Social
Psychoanalytic Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, film theory, literary criticism, and philosophy...
The Barbara Johnson Reader
The Surprise of Otherness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary...
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
IT HAS been said that a good critique on a poem...