Beyond Literary Theory
Title | Beyond Literary Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Eduard Hugo Strauch |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780761819929 |
Beyond Literary Theory is not representative of any particular school of criticism. Its purpose is to demonstrate the scope and limits of critical theories based on logic, scientism, and psychoanalysis. Eduard H. Strauch allows readers to explore beyond literary theory to discover dimensions of human experience that define timeless literature.
African American Literature Beyond Race
Title | African American Literature Beyond Race PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Andrew Jarrett |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2006-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0814742882 |
An anthology of 16 stories and excerpts from novels by African American writers includes critical essays on each author by a variety of scholars.
Literature Beyond the Human
Title | Literature Beyond the Human PDF eBook |
Author | Luca Bacchini |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2022-07-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000607135 |
How can Clarice Lispector’s writings help us make sense of the Anthropocene? How does race intersect with the treatment of animals in the works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis? What can Indigenous philosopher and leader Ailton Krenak teach us about the relationship between environmental degradation and the production of knowledge? Literature Beyond the Human is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to an investigation of Brazilian literature from the viewpoint of the environmental humanities, animal studies, Anthropocene studies, and other critical and theoretical perspectives that question the centrality of the human. This volume includes 15 chapters by leading scholars covering two centuries of Brazilian literary production, from Gonçalves Dias to Astrid Cabral, from Euclides da Cunha to Davi Kopenawa, and others. By underscoring the vast theoretical potential of Brazilian literature and thought, from the influential Modernist thesis of “cultural cannibalism” (antropofagia) to the renewed interest in Amerindian perspectivism in culture. Post-Anthropocentric Brazil shows how the theoretical strength of Brazilian thought can contribute to contemporary debates in the anglophone realm.
Beyond Life
Title | Beyond Life PDF eBook |
Author | James Branch Cabell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | American essays |
ISBN |
The Truth of Uncertainty
Title | The Truth of Uncertainty PDF eBook |
Author | Edward L. Galligan |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780826211927 |
Galligan (Professor Emeritus, English, Western Michigan U.-Kalamazoo) argues that contemporary American critics should embrace literary truths with all of their uncertainties rather than cling to make- believe certainties of ideologies. He celebrates values commonly associated with modern, not postmodern, criticism, applying them to contemporary works in a series of fresh and unusual inquiries. He finds implications for criticism in work from the physical sciences and in the works of largely ignored novelists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Beyond Culture
Title | Beyond Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Lionel Trilling |
Publisher | New York : Viking Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Criticism |
ISBN |
Beyond Postmodernism
Title | Beyond Postmodernism PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Stierstorfer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9783110177220 |
After the veritable hype concerning postmodernism in the 1980s and early 1990s, when questions about when it began, what it means and which texts it comprises were apt to trigger heated discussions, the excitement has notably cooled down at the turn of the century. Voices are now beginning to be heard which seem to suggest a new episteme in the making which points beyond postmodernism, while it remains at the same time very uncertain whether what appears as newness is not rather a return to traditional concepts, theoretical premises, and authorial practices. Contributors to this volume propose to explore new openings and recent developments in anglophone literatures and cultural theories which engage with issues seen to be central in the construction of a postmodern paradigm, but deal with them in ways that promise new openings or a new Zeitgeist.