LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
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Revolutions in Verse
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
This book shows how the early Soviet proliferation of interartistic modernist experiments and the emergence of new media technologies made poetry visible as a medium in its own right, taking seriously literature's transformative potential as a means of knowing and understanding the social world.
Negative Life
How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection, Negative Life:...
Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form
Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature
The Unwritten Enlightenment
Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature
Archival Afterlives
Combining close readings of key texts and previously unexamined ephemera, Laura Hughes traces critical connections between Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida across their overlapping archives.
Guerrilla Theory
This book is an original contribution to digital humanities (DH), a newly established field rethinking literary critical approaches to reading and writing in light of technological advances. Applegate draws from political theorists to reimagine digital humanities’ intervention into the humanities.
New Digital Worlds
New Digital Worlds explores postcolonial digital humanities as an approach to reducing the inequalities in digital knowledge production that arise from colonial and neocolonial politics of knowledge.
Dark Conceit
Dark Conceit is the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory,...
Out of Russia
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Out of Russia is the first scholarly work to focus on a group of writers who, over the past decade, have formed a distinct phenomenon: immigrants with cultural and linguistic roots in Russia who have chosen to write in the language of their adopted countries. The best known among these are Andreï Makine, who writes in French, Wladimir Kaminer, who writes in German, and Gary Shteyngart, who writes in English.
Speculative Formalism
In Speculative Formalism Tom Eyers proposes a new theory of form and formalization, with particular reference to literature.
Revolutions in Verse
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
This book shows how the early Soviet proliferation of interartistic modernist experiments and the emergence of new media technologies made poetry visible as a medium in its own right, taking seriously literature's transformative potential as a means of knowing and understanding the social world.
Negative Life
How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection, Negative Life:...
Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form
Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature
The Unwritten Enlightenment
Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature
Archival Afterlives
Combining close readings of key texts and previously unexamined ephemera, Laura Hughes traces critical connections between Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida across their overlapping archives.
Guerrilla Theory
This book is an original contribution to digital humanities (DH), a newly established field rethinking literary critical approaches to reading and writing in light of technological advances. Applegate draws from political theorists to reimagine digital humanities’ intervention into the humanities.
New Digital Worlds
New Digital Worlds explores postcolonial digital humanities as an approach to reducing the inequalities in digital knowledge production that arise from colonial and neocolonial politics of knowledge.
Dark Conceit
Dark Conceit is the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory,...
Out of Russia
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Out of Russia is the first scholarly work to focus on a group of writers who, over the past decade, have formed a distinct phenomenon: immigrants with cultural and linguistic roots in Russia who have chosen to write in the language of their adopted countries. The best known among these are Andreï Makine, who writes in French, Wladimir Kaminer, who writes in German, and Gary Shteyngart, who writes in English.
Speculative Formalism
In Speculative Formalism Tom Eyers proposes a new theory of form and formalization, with particular reference to literature.