The Rhetoric of Redemption

Alan R Blackstock

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 23
• "The Rhetoric of Redemption: Chesterton, Ethical Criticism, and the Common Man" examines the literary criticism written by G. K. Chesterton between 19... Lees meer

Fiction and the Social Contract

Larry L Langford

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 9
• Although postmodernism has questioned the distinction between history and fiction, it has not weakened it. History is a discourse with necessary conse... Lees meer

Parody

Robert Chambers

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 21
• Parody: The Art That Plays with Art explodes the near-universal belief that parody is a copycat genre or that it consists of a collection of trivial a... Lees meer

Death in the Funhouse

Alan G Lindsay

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 2
• In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, Death in the FUNhouse finds deep complicity between the two discou... Lees meer

Defining Modernism

Andrea Gogröf-Voorhees

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 8
• Defining Modernism investigates the intellectual connections among three leading nineteenth-century European modernists - Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and R... Lees meer

Modern and Postmodern Strategies

Monika Kilian

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 11
• The postmodern notion of gaming as a legitimate method of philosophical inquiry opposes the either/or model of modern discourse. Modern and Postmodern... Lees meer

Evolution, History, and Destiny

Johnny Washington

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 13
• Presented in an epistolary form addressed mainly to the African American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954), evolution, history and destiny constitut... Lees meer

Theoretically-Informed Criticism of Donne's Love Poetry

David Buck Beliles

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 12
• John Donne's love poetry continues to generate substantial critical response. This study focuses on recent theoretically-informed approaches to the su... Lees meer

Plerosis/Kenosis

Richard A Nanian

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 22
• Why do readers report being powerfully affected by great poetry? What happens to us when we read a poem? Literary criticism has struggled to answer th... Lees meer

Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge in the Work of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze

Sarah Gendron

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 19
• Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge dialogues with novels, theatre, philosophy, and literary theory in order to explore how three thinkers - Samuel ... Lees meer

Moving Toward Redemption

Andrea Ivanov-Craig

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 24
• American short-story writer Andre Dubus (1936-1999) was a "writer's writer." His acclaimed collections of short stories and essays involve one or all ... Lees meer

Borges and Philosophy

William H Bossart

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 16
• Jorge Luis Borges is acknowledged as one of the great Spanish writers of the twentieth century. On the broader literary scene, he is recognized as a m... Lees meer

Heralds of the Postmodern

Yuan-Jung Cheng

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 4
• Heralds of the Postmodern inquires into the possibility of a poetics of madness in Heart of Darkness, Mrs. Dalloway , and The Golden Notebook . By rel... Lees meer

Between Philosophy and Rhetoric

Dennis Ciesielski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 6
• Between Philosophy and Rhetoric is a book about dialogue, pure and simple. It «dialogues» modern / postmodern; it «dialogues» theory / praxis; it «dia... Lees meer

Gustavo Sainz

Salvador C Fernandez

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 7
• In this study Professor Fernández examines narratives written by Gustavo Sainz as representative postmodernist fiction. The author focuses on Sainz's ... Lees meer

Literary Texts & the Arts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 18
• Literary Texts & the Arts 's sixteen essays explore numerous aspects of both the theoretical and applied relationships between textuality in the form ... Lees meer

Gadamer, History and the Classics

Alison Forsyth

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 15
• Should The Merchant of Venice be staged post-Holocaust? How was Antigone (an icon of «noble» suffering in the Western liberal humanist tradition) rece... Lees meer

Ezra Pound's (Post)Modern Poetics and Politics

Roxana Preda

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 14
• Ezra Pound, the poet called «the contemporary of our grandchildren», has exercised enormous influence on the development of American poetry and critic... Lees meer

Text/Countertext

Marie A Danziger

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 3
• Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth analyzes the psychological and structural dynamic of three pos... Lees meer

Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity

Marshall Needleman Armintor

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 20
• To understand the achievement of Jacques Lacan, one must turn to his roots. This book explores the grounding of Lacan's psychoanalytic work in the int... Lees meer

Perspectives of Four Women Writers on the Second World War

Zofia P Lesinska

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 17
• In their writings composed during the Second World War and the political turmoil of the 1930s in Europe, Gertrude Stein, Janet Flanner, Kay Boyle, and... Lees meer

The Gamefulness of American Postmodernism

Steven D Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory | nr. 10
• This book examines the twin problems of play and game in American literary postmodernism. There have been many studies of the function of play in post... Lees meer