Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
by Kevin M. Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In this book, Kevin M. Cherry compares the views of Plato and Aristotle about the practice, study and, above all, the purpose of politics. The first scholar to place Aristotle's Politics in sustained dialogue with Plato's Statesman, Cherry argues that Aristotle rejects the view of politics advanced...
by Otto Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This volume is the best-known and most widely discussed work of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. It is also the work that best conveys the ethical and aesthetic core of his thought. Broad in scope, it examines...
Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk
A Rhetoric of Rhythm
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking and...
Georg Trakl's Poetry
Toward a Union of Opposites
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 1991
The chaotic mixture of elements in Trakl's poems is more apparent than real, this book argues, thus challenging the "Orphic" view of Walther Killy and his followers. A dream of unity—one of the most ancient dreams in human history—is in fact reflected in all of Trakl's work.
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Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience
Psychoanalysis and the uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny,Gregorio Kohon examines and reflects upon psychoanalytic understandings of estrangement, the Freudian notions of the uncanny...
Close to the Sources
Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting...
Konsum und Imagination- Tales of Commerce and Imagination
Das Warenhaus und die Moderne in Film und Literatur- Department Stores and Modernity in Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Das Warenhaus war über Deutschland hinaus bis in die 1930er-Jahre einer der kulturgeschichtlich bedeutendsten Ansatzpunkte für die Auseinandersetzung mit der Moderne und der Konsumkultur. Die Autoren und Autorinnen dieses Bandes zeigen sowohl den Facettenreichtum des Warenhaus-Diskurses in der Literatur,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory offers an insightful look at the development of feminist theory through a literary lens. Stressing the significance of feminism's origins in the European Enlightenment, this book traces the literary careers of feminism's major thinkers in order to...
Ezra Pound in the Present
Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? Or did he inaugurate a form of comparative literature that could save the discipline from its untimely demise? Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis? What might he say about America's economic dependence on China? Would he have been...
A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities
The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy. The text considers trans-Atlantic case studies across...
by Alfred Kazin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
A deft blend of autobiography, history, and criticism, Writing Was Everything emerges as a reaffirmation of literature in an age of deconstruction and critical dogma. It stands as clear testimony to Kazin's belief that "literature is not theory but, at best, the value we can give to our experience, which in our century has been and remains beyond the imagination of mankind."
Annotating Salman Rushdie
Reading the Postcolonial
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
How does one read a foundational postcolonial writer in English with declared Indian subcontinent roots?
This book looks at ways of reading, and uncovering and recovering meanings, in postcolonial writing in English through the works of Salman Rushdie. It uses textual criticism and applied...
The Tempest
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present. The volume reprints influential criticism, and it also offers eight originalessays which study The Tempest...
Arabic Poetry
Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in transformation...