The Myth of Theory
The role of theory in critical observation, and new ways of thinking about literature.
View ArticleParatexts (Hardback)
Genette shows how paratexts - titles, forewords, publishers' blurbs - shape both individual readings and literature as cultural institution.
View ArticleBeginning Postmodernism: Second Edition (Beginnings)
"Postmodernism" became the buzzword of contemporary society in the 1990s. Yet, even now, it still remains confusing and baffling in its variety of defiinitions, contexts and associations. Beginning...
View ArticleInwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
Katharine Eisaman Maus explores Renaissance writers' uneasy preoccupation with the inwardness and invisibility of truth. The perceived discrepancy between a person's outward appearance and inward...
View ArticleWordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism (Paperback)
This challenging book uses the case of Wordsworth studies to make a far-reaching survey of modern literary theory and its implications.
View ArticleAdorno and Literature (Hardback)
Offers an account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking. This work is divided into three sections, dealing with the concept of literature, with poetry and poetics, and with modernity, drama and
View ArticleWriting Marginality in Modern French Literature
Hughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyzes the hierarchies of cultural value that inform the work of
View ArticleWordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism
In recent decades, Wordsworth's poetry has become a point of focus for a great many of the proliferating schools of criticism and theoretical paradigms that dominate modern literary studies. Don...
View ArticleJoyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History
Joyce Effects is a collection of essays by a leading commentator on James Joyce. Joyce's books, Derek Attridge argues, go off like fireworks, and one of this book's aims is to enhance
View ArticleWorks on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
A stunning collection of essays on the craft of biography and autobiography by the acclaimed biographer of George Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey. Works on Paper is a selection by one of
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