Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Modern - 20th Century

The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics revisits the work and place of eight scholars roughly contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism: Leo Spitzer, Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Albert BEguin, Jean Rousset, C.S. Lewis, F.O. Matthiessen, and Northrop Frye. William Calin first considers the achievements of each critic, examining his methodology and basic presuppositions as well as the critiques marshalled against him. Calin explores their relation to history, to canon-formation, and to our current theoretical debates. He then goes on to show how all eight form a...

There was a time when "the Beats" seemed a familiar, even fixed, pantheon: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso, Ferlinghetti, with Neil Cassady as Wild Boy and icon and Gary Snyder as Buddhist and eco-guru.

But we have infinitely moved on. Scholarship has increasingly recognized the likes of Herbert Huncke, John Clellon Holmes, Michael McClure, Ray Bremser, Andy Clausen, David Meltzer, Jack Micheline, Kathy Acker, Harold Norse, Ed Sanders. Women's Beat authorship looks to established presences like Di Prima, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman, Ruth Weiss, Joyce Johnson, Janine...

This book begins a new and foundational discussion of maximalism by investigating how the treatment of detail in contemporary literature impels readers to navigate, tolerate, and enrich the cultural landscape of postindustrial America. It studies the maximalist novels of David Foster Wallace, Nicholson Baker, Thomas Pynchon, and others, considering how overly-detailed writing serves the institutional, emotional, and intellectual needs of contemporary readers and writers. The book argues that maximalist novels not only exceed perceived limits of style, subject matter, and scope, but strive...

Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as "decolonial" and "coloniality" to question methodologies in literary and cultural scholarship. While the eleven contributions produce diverse approaches to literary and cultural texts ranging from Pre-Columbian to contemporary works, there is a collective questioning of the very idea of "Latin America," what "Latin American" contains or leaves out, and the various practices and locations constituting Latinamericanism. This transdisciplinary study aims to open an evolving...