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Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 49.99Claiming that a Cold War mentality has impaired the ability of literary theorists to talk about the politics of criticism effectively, the author of this treatise argues that modern criticism is a child of the Cold War. more...
Fifty Key Literary Theorists
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 27.95Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this book presents the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on the way we all experience literary works. It includes a glossary of terms, full cross-referencing for maximum ease of use, and authoritative guides to further reading. more...
From Text to Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 109.00The articles in this collection focus attention on the concept of literature and on the relationship between this concept and the concepts of a literary work and a literary text. Adopting an analytic approach, the articles attempt to clarify how these concepts govern our thinking about the phenomenon of literature in various ways, exploring the issues... more...
The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 18.99Offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation. The stories considered in this book range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood. They describe a human way of negotiating reality, illusion, identity, authenticity, memory, and more. more...
The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 99.95This student-friendly text introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, as well as showing them how to perform literary analysis. Designed to be used alongside primary theoretical texts as an introduction to theory or alongside literary texts as a model for performing literary analysis. Presents a series of exemplary readings... more...
Language and History in Theodore W. Adorno's Notes to Literature
CRC Press 2006; US$ 70.00This is the first book-length study of Adorno's philosophical criticism of literature contained in his four-volume Notes to Literature. Rather than relying exclusively on aesthetic concepts inherited from his predecessors in the Western tradition (such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard), Adorno's essays on literature seek to transgress and... more...
Of Literature and Knowledge
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 37.95" Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting." ? Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University. Framed by the theory of evolution, this colourful and engaging volume presents a new understanding of the mechanisms... more...
American Theorists of the Novel
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 24.95The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work have become part of the fabric of novel criticism today, influencing theorists, authors and readers alike. Emphasizing the crucial relationship between... more...
The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 36.00The representation of the Jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into uniquely sharp focus. more...
Temporality in Life as Seen Through Literature
Springer 2007; US$ 159.99Temporality pervades the existence, and the human being as such. As human beings unfold through ontopoiesis, each move of which punctuates the temporality of life, they, whose life experience, deliberation, planning, and dreaming are permeated by temporal motivations and concerns, feel that they are engaged in the spinning of a common thread. more...









