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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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  1. The Figure of Consciousness

    William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton

    By Jill M. Kress

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge

  2. From Within the Frame

    Storytelling in African-American Studies

    By Bertram D. Ashe

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the "frame tale"-an inside-the-text...

    Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge

  3. The Space and Place of Modernism

    The Little Magazine in New York

    By Adam McKible

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and The Dial) in order to analyze some of the ways modernist writers negotiate the competing demands of aesthetics, political commitment and...

    Published June 6th 2002 by Routledge

  4. Eugenic Fantasies

    Racial Ideology in the Literature and Popular Culture of the 1920's

    By Betsy Lee Nies

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Eugenic Fantasies is an innovative work that combines interpretive strategies from the fields of psychoanalysis, anthropology, and literary studies to create a new model for theorizing race....

    Published February 28th 2002 by Routledge

  5. Allegories of Violence

    Tracing the Writings of War in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction

    By Lidia Yuknavitch

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Allegories of Violence demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if we understood war as discursive via late 20th Century novels of war....

    Published July 12th 2001 by Routledge

  6. The Dialectic of Self and Story

    Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction

    By Robert Durante

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published May 28th 2001 by Routledge

  7. Making Homes in the West/Indies

    Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid

    By Antonia Macdonald-Smythe

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This study focuses on the ways in which two of the most prominent Caribbean women writers residing in the United States, Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid, have made themselves at home within Caribbean poetics, even as their migration to the United States affords them participation and acceptance...

    Published February 1st 2001 by Routledge

  8. Postcolonial Masquerades

    Culture and Politics in Literature, Film, Video, and Photography

    By Niti Sampat Patel

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published January 4th 2001 by Routledge

  9. Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas

    From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson

    By Timothy J. Cox

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published November 28th 2000 by Routledge

  10. Plain and Ugly Janes

    The Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction

    By Charlotte M. Wright

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 18th 2000 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Idioms of Self Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature
    By Jill Phillips Ingram
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  2. The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel
    By Stephen Hancock
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  3. Twentieth-Century Americanism: Identity and Ideology in Depression-Era Leftist Literature
    By Andrew Yerkes
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  4. Contested Masculinities: Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray
    By Nalin Jayasena
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  5. Vital Contact: Downclassing Journeys in American Literature from Melville to Richard Wright
    By Patrick Chura
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  6. Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern
    By William Slocombe
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  7. An Ethics of Becoming: Configurations of Feminine Subjectivity in Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot
    By San Jeong Cho
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  8. The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel
    By Stephen Hancock
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  9. Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin
    By Sarah Relyea
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  10. Twentieth-Century Americanism: Identity and Ideology in Depression-Era Leftist Literature
    By Andrew Yerkes
    To Be Published September 26th 2013

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