Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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21. Idioms of Self Interest

    Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature

    By Jill Phillips Ingram

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of economic self-interest in early modern England by examining literary representations of credit relationships in which individuals are both held to standards of communal trust and rewarded for risk-taking enterprise. Drawing on women...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
22. Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner

    By Randy Boyagoda

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence. Inspired by the unexpected lines of influence and sympathy that Rushdie’s statement implied, this book seeks to understand connections between American and global...

    Published December 6th 2009 by Routledge
23. Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel

    By Adrian Wisnicki

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Drawing on critical and theoretical work by Miller, Boone, Foucault, Jameson, and others, as well as cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the author defines and explores what he calls the Victorian "conspiracy narrative tradition"--a tradition which embraces...

    Published December 6th 2009 by Routledge
24. Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

    By Robin Bates

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney resisted...

    Published October 20th 2009 by Routledge
25. Novels, Maps, Modernity

    The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000

    By Eric Bulson

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    "Novels, Maps, Modernity is a remarkable book that promises to transform our knowledge of the representation of space in modern fiction." - Brian Richardson, University of Maryland "Bulson’s informative book maps out the territory and points the way to further research and discovery." - Ian Pindar...

    Published September 29th 2009 by Routledge
26. City/Stage/Globe

    Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London

    By D.J. Hopkins

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This interdisciplinary study theorizes the interaction of individual performance and social space. Examining three categories of space – the urban, the theatrical, and the cartographic – this volume considers the role of performance in the production and operation of these...

    Published September 16th 2009 by Routledge
27. Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry

    By John Wrighton

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    From the Objectivists to e-poetry, this thoughtful and innovative book explores the dynamic relationship between the ethical imperative and poetic practice, revitalizing the study of the most prominent post-war American poets in a fresh, provocative way. Contributing to the "turn to ethics" in...

    Published July 20th 2009 by Routledge
28. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel

    V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie

    By John Clement Ball

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric."...

    Published July 8th 2009 by Routledge
29. Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations

    A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, and Salman Rushdie

    By Timothy Gauthier

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 21st 2009 by Routledge
30. The Life Writing of Otherness

    Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson

    By Lauren Rusk

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively "other," and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact....

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge