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Pre-Owned Theory into Practice : An Introduction to Literary Criticism 9780155068582

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Acting Out : Performance Theory in African and African American Literature (Paperback)

John Glenn s innovative criticism champions the connection between African and African American literature unfolding a new theory that elaborates on the black experience itself. Linking resistance to the literary history and to the expressiveness of... more

Pre-Owned Feminist Literary Criticism (Paperback) 0582050154 9780582050150

Looks at the work of a range of critics including Elaine Showalter Kate Millett Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of... more

Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to Postcolonialism (Paperback)

This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts while seeking to encourage the reader s critical... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Different Dispatches: Journalism in American Modernist Prose (Hardcover)

In Different Dispatches David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather Sherwood Anderson Ernest Hemmingway Zora Neale Hurston James Agee and Robert Penn... more

The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism 9780231072434 Used / Pre-owned

More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film psychoanalytic deconstructive poststructuralist and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy media... more

Pre-Owned Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism (Paperback) 0801317657 9780801317651

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Signifying Monkey : A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism 9780195060751 Used / Pre-owned

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Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities (Hardcover)

Distinguished scholars discuss editorial theory and how it is applied across the humanities more

Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory (Paperback)

Through a series of short essays Readings traces the consideration given to the act of close reading in literary criticism and theory over the last thirty years. Focusing on short passages from a number of critical works including those by Barthes... more

Literary Fiction: The Ways We Read Narrative Literature (Paperback)

Insofar as literary theory has addressed the issue of literature as a means of communication and the function of literary fiction opinions have been sharply divided indicating that the elementary foundations of literary theory and criticism still... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Knots: Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis Literature and Film (Paperback)

This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory queer studies post-colonial studies feminism and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature. We have... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Between Profits and Primitivism: Shaping White Middle-Class Masculinity in the U.S. 1880-1917 (Paperback)

Between 1800 and the First World War white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject showing that men have... more

Pre-Owned Literary Theory : A Practical Introduction 9781405107204

A unique combination of classic criticism and new theories that have revolutionized literary study in the past several decades. This unprecedented collection is an invaluable reference for readers interested in adding to their knowledge of how and... more

Pre-Owned Literary Theories in PRAXIS (Paperback) 0812212347 9780812212341

Literary Theories in Praxis analyzes the ways in which critical theories are transformed into literary criticism and methodology. To demonstrate the application of this analysis critical writings of Roland Barthes Harold Bloom Cleanth Brooks Jacques... more

Flight from Eden : The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory 9780520068636 Used / Pre-owned

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Pre-Owned History Politics and the Novel 9780801420337 Used

Dominick LaCapra an intellectual historian well versed in literary theory and methodology here addresses the complex role of the novel in history and criticism seeking to establish a few guiding principles for the study of the historicity of... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys Woolf Stein and Nella Larsen (Paperback)

Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry considering... more

The evaluative apparatus in the enunciative discourse of Boris Diop (Paperback)

Breaking with certain established traditions in literary criticism which lead to the application of previously developed tools to a text with the text only serving to illustrate the theory is the basis of the work presented. It proposes an opposite... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East (Hardcover)

Victorian Narrative Technologies tells the story of how the British who wanted nothing to do with the Suez Canal during the decades in which it was being internationally planned and invested came to own it. It stands to reason that the nation that... more

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism: Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature: South Africa s Wounded Feelings (Paperback)

This book examines South Africa s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the new South Africa best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings was... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Telling Details: Chinese Fiction World Literature (Paperback)

What is a detail? How is it different from xijie its Chinese counterpart? Is reading for the details fundamentally different from reading for the plot ? Did xijie xiaoshuo the Chinese novel of details give the world its earliest form of modern... more

The Verbal Icon (Paperback)

The sixteen essays in this volume form a series of related focuses upon various levels and areas of literary criticism. W.K. Wimsatt s assumption is that practice and theory of both the past and the present are integrally related-that there is a... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Narrative Mutations: Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature (Hardcover)

Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of race and the body it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral... more

Literary Criticism Of R.S. Crane: Theory and Practice

Product Description This book examines and evaluates the critical position of R.S. Crane the leader of the Chicago school of formalistic criticism. Crane and his colleagues in the university of Chicago set a new trend in literary criticism in the... more

Pre-Owned Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback 9780816612512) by Terry Eagleton

This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today that have made academic criticism both intriguing and off-putting to the outsider. New York Times Book Review... more

Pre-Owned Feminist Literary Criticism-Pa (Paperback) 0813101905 9780813101903

The first major book of feminist critical theory published in the United States is now available in an expanded second edition. This widely cited pioneering work presents a new introduction by the editor and a new bibliography of feminist critical... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory The Waste Fix; Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to the Sopranos (Paperback)

First published in 2002. This book explores the philosophical social and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America s obsession with eliminating waste. Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture William Little... more

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism: Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature: South Africa s Wounded Feelings (Hardcover)

This book examines South Africa s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the new South Africa best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings was... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory The Zimbabwean Maverick (Hardcover)

This book seeks to unfold the complexity within the works of Dambudzo Marechera and presents scholars and readers with a way of reading his works in light of utopian thinking. Writing during a traumatic transitional period in Zimbabwe s history... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature (Paperback)

The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature explores and analyses political conflicts between individuals and authority figures as those conflicts are depicted in thirteen Egyptian novels written from 1957 to the last years... more

An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism 9780820315317 Used / Pre-owned

Sarup has revised his accessible and popular introduction to post-structuralist and postmodern theory. In tracing the impact of post-structuralist thought not only on literary criticism but on such disciplines as philosophy politics psychoanalysis... more

Anglo-Amerikanische Studien / Anglo-American Studies: Reading Autobiographical Comics: A Framework for Educational Settings (Hardcover)

This study updates reader-response criticism as the foundation of aesthetic reading in the classroom by bringing it in line with cognitive theories in literary studies and linguistics. Such a framework facilitates a consistent theoretical approach... more

Pre-Owned The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism (Paperback) 1557860467 9781557860460

9781557860460. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 263. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 263 p. This anthology provides a wide-ranging survey of contemporary feminist critical theory and practice including... more

Ecocritical Theory and Practice: Feminist Ecocriticism : Environment Women and Literature (Hardcover)

Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Masculinity and the English Working Class: Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction (Hardcover)

This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially... more

American criticism a study in literary theory from Poe to the present 1928 [Leather Bound]

Select Your Preferred Color at No Additional Cost! Explore More Options by Clicking on More Images and Notify Us of Your Choice via Email. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition expertly crafted by the prestigious organization “Rare... more

Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1976-1991 (Hardcover)

his new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular Scripture together with thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism from the last fifteen years of Frye s life. more