In this lucid and stimulating new book, Peter Burger, one of the foremost literary critics in Germany today, addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the eighteenth century to the decline of modernism in the twentieth century.
This book inserts Lacanian theory into contemporary debates within the emerging interdisciplinary field of ‘Mad Studies’ via an analysis of psychotic writing.
In this lucid and stimulating new book, Peter Burger, one of the foremost literary critics in Germany today, addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the eighteenth century to the decline of modernism in the twentieth century.
The development of digital technology and its widespread availability on the personal computer are bringing about a fundamental paradigm shift in the ways that literary texts are created, preserved, disseminated, and studied--a revolution that many scholars have argued is as profound as that created by Gutenberg's invention of movable type.
The development of digital technology and its widespread availability on the personal computer are bringing about a fundamental paradigm shift in the ways that literary texts are created, preserved, disseminated, and studied--a revolution that many scholars have argued is as profound as that created by Gutenberg's invention of movable type.
A reconstitución do campo cultural galego tras o enorme impacto da Guerra Civil presenta unha serie de circunstancias específicas que sempre a diferenciaron das experiencias doutras realidades nacionais, tanto nos efectos inmediatos da represión franquista como na estratexia de oposición desenvolvida no medio e longo prazo.
This is Bourdieu's long-awaited study of Flaubert and the formation of the modern literary field, it is an important contribution to the study of the social and historical conditions of literary works.
An influential introduction to Marxist cultural criticism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn Marxism and Form, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, offers a pioneering look at major European Marxist and Frankfurt School thinkersAdorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Bloch, Lukacs, and Sartre.
An influential introduction to Marxist cultural criticism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn Marxism and Form, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, offers a pioneering look at major European Marxist and Frankfurt School thinkersAdorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Bloch, Lukacs, and Sartre.
Aquest assaig d'Elvira Prado-Fabregat fa una lectura atenta de Solitud, l'obra principal, de Víctor Català i del seu ideari, i ens ofereix una introducció a l'ecocrítica, la disciplina que estudia la construcció cultural de la Natura des d'una perspectiva ecologista i en diàleg tant amb el camp científic com amb el coneixement tradicional.
La microliteratura (según se propone en este libro) es una forma de producción de la cultura escrita que aprovecha los huecos en blanco del espacio y del tiempo.
"Estética de la novela" expone una historia de la novela a través de las diversas estéticas que ha desplegado este género desde su aparición en la Antigüedad hasta la actualidad.
El autor recorre los períodos de la historia norteamericana a través de obras literarias que reflejen su evolución, desde las vísperas de la independencia hasta nuestros días.
Eine Zusammenstellung von drei faszinierenden Essays, in denen die Literatur im Vordergrund steht: Hugo von Hofmannsthal lässt in "Über Charaktere im Roman und im Drama" Honoré de Balzac und Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall in einem Garten im Jahre 1842 über Erzählformen diskutieren, geht in "Sebastian Melmoth" Oscar Wilde auf die Spur, der diese Namen als Pseudonym verwendete, und untersucht die orientalische Dichtung in "Tausendundeine Nacht".
Das von der Forschung vernachlassigte und kontrovers diskutierte spate Gedicht Holderlins ist eine elegische Hymne, in der Holderlin seiner Dichtung eine poetologische Neuorientierung gibt, die dem Geist der Zeit zwischen 1800 und 1805/06 entspricht.
American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is best known today for her tales of the city and the experiences of patrician New Yorkers in the "e;Gilded Age.
Art as opposed to Reality, Beauty as opposed to Ugliness, Construction as opposed to Deconstruction, War as opposed to Peace, Men as opposed to Women, Progress as opposed to Regression, Imagination as opposed to Common Sensical jarring, Stability as opposed to Chaos, Betrayal as opposed to Loyalty…All these themes, which in fact prove to be universal, are present in Rebecca West's fictional work and critical work.
Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict.
Virtue, as used here, connotes integrity--that living force that issues from persons, societies, or texts in consequence of their accomplishing their distinctive ends.
This succinct and lucid study examines the thought of the philosopher Charles Peirce as it applies to literary theory and shows that his concept of the sign can give us a fresh understanding of literary art and criticism.
"e;The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old.
Building on recent transformative theories of influence, John Foster explores the many ways Nietzsche's intellectual and artistic example helped shape an interconnected series of major literary projects from 1900 to the 1940s.
Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillen proposes a structural approach to literary history.
Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts.
This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox, the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts, the conflict between law and equity in Antigone and The Merchant of Venice, the eighteenth-century codification controversy in the works of Kleist, the modern debate between "e;pure"e; and "e;free"e; law in Kafka's The Trial and other fin-de-siecle works, and the effects of totalitarianism, the theory of universal guilt, and anarchism in the twentieth century.
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents.
Brown proposes a theory of poetic metaphor that attempts to account for literatures complex role in the discovery and creation of significant patterns within both language and life.
Espíritu de la letra, de José Ortega y Gasset, pensador fundacional de la modernidad española, reúne sus mejores reseñas y ensayos literarios, donde demuestra que la crítica literaria es, ante todo, un ejercicio de filosofía aplicada a la vida.
