Literary theory

A wonderfully candid and insightful account of a writer s life William BoydLuck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer s career.

Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The House of the Dead & Notes from Underground: Autobiographical Novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Unabridged)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Vast and diverse, Brooklyn is often portrayed in literature as a place of traditional community values and face-to-face relations, distinct from anonymous, capital-driven Manhattan.

Vast and diverse, Brooklyn is often portrayed in literature as a place of traditional community values and face-to-face relations, distinct from anonymous, capital-driven Manhattan.

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering world of literary theory for the first time.

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering world of literary theory for the first time.

In this first scholarly work on India's great modern poet, Laetitia Zecchini outlines a story of literary modernism in India and discusses the traditions, figures and events that inspired and defined Arun Kolatkar.

"Free will: mental energy that poofs into existence from scratch?

"Free will: mental energy that poofs into existence from scratch?

For much of the 20th century the modernist city was articulated in terms of narratives of progress and development.

For much of the 20th century the modernist city was articulated in terms of narratives of progress and development.

The nature of fiction has long been debated across the humanities, and is of considerable importance for philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, narratology and the history of ideas.

The nature of fiction has long been debated across the humanities, and is of considerable importance for philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, narratology and the history of ideas.

Now in its seventh edition, Studying the Novel is an authoritative introduction to the study of the novel at undergraduate level.

Now in its seventh edition, Studying the Novel is an authoritative introduction to the study of the novel at undergraduate level.

This volume looks at Marx and Freud, who, though not 'Shakespeareans' in the usual academic or theatrical sense, were both deeply informed by Shakespeare's writings, and have both had enormous influence on the understanding and reception of Shakespeare.

Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years.

Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works.

Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works.

Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years.

Slavoj i ek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time.

Exploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the 'global turn' in contemporary Modernist Studies.

Exploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the 'global turn' in contemporary Modernist Studies.

This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other.

This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other.

Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Slavoj i ek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

By interrogating the terms and concepts most central to cultural change, Future Theory interrogates how theory can play a central role in dynamic transition.

By interrogating the terms and concepts most central to cultural change, Future Theory interrogates how theory can play a central role in dynamic transition.

Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women?

Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women?

Paul Cefalu argues that Shakespearean characters raise timely questions about the relationship between cognition and consciousness and often defy our assumptions about “normal” cognition.

For more than a decade literary criticism has been thought to be in a post-theory age.

Twentieth-century literature changed understandings of what it meant to be human.

The twentieth century with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'modern' age.

Violence and the Sacred is Ren Girard's landmark study of human evil.

Violence and the Sacred is Ren Girard's landmark study of human evil.

For more than a decade literary criticism has been thought to be in a post-theory age.

In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world.

What exactly is “modernism”?

What exactly is “modernism”?

In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world.

Paul Cefalu argues that Shakespearean characters raise timely questions about the relationship between cognition and consciousness and often defy our assumptions about “normal” cognition.

The twentieth century with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'modern' age.

Since his astonishing Academy Award-nominated film, My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Hanif Kureishi has been recognized as a major writer who has both documented and profoundly influenced contemporary British culture.

Since the publication of White Teeth in 2000, Zadie Smith has become one of the most popular contemporary writers and also one of the mostly widely studied.

Since the publication of White Teeth in 2000, Zadie Smith has become one of the most popular contemporary writers and also one of the mostly widely studied.

Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period.