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Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies


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This series provides concise, authoritative guides to key concepts in literary and cultural studies. Edited by acknowledged leaders in the field, the volumes consist of essential secondary literature. They give historical purchase on the development of the concept concerned and also provide students with a snapshot of current thinking.

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Gender and Modernism: Critical Concepts 4 vols Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Gender and Modernism: Critical Concepts 4 vols: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Bonnie Kime Scott
April 07, 2008

Modernism, whether seen as a period designation, a manifestation of formal experimentation, or an aspect of modernity, has since its inception been marked, consciously or unconsciously, by gender. The dates 1890-1940, typically accepted as encompassing the modernist period, coincide with the first ...

Modern Drama

Modern Drama

1st Edition

Edited By Martin Puchner
February 07, 2008

What is generally referred to as modern drama was an international development or movement centred in Europe and North America, a movement directed against many of the conventions and institutions of nineteenth-century drama and theatre. Between 1880 and 1960, a number of foundational figures broke...

Autobiography

Autobiography

1st Edition

Edited By Trev Lynn Broughton
January 08, 2007

The analysis of life-writing as a distinct and specialized project emerged only in the second half of the twentieth century. That it has achieved both academic respectability and critical cachet over the last twenty-five years is the result of a number of trends. Politically 'progressive' ...

Children's Literature

Children's Literature

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Hunt
September 06, 2006

The study of children’s literature is currently centred on literary studies, educational studies, and a third more diverse group of many other related disciplines, including history, bibliography, sociology and psychology. All of these then overlap with cultural studies and contribute to the ...

Romanticism

Romanticism

1st Edition

Edited By Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy
November 07, 2005

Romanticism is, and always has been, one of the most hotly contested terms in literary and cultural history. Many of the writers now described as Romantic refused to be defined by the word: 'it would be such bad taste', said Byron in 1820. Lovejoy spoke of a plurality of ‘romanticisms’, ...

Folklore Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Folklore: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Alan Dundes
May 17, 2005

The academic study of folklore is a worldwide, interdisciplinary field spanning the humanities and the social sciences. It is very much tied to nationalism and national identity and for this reason it has often been the smaller countries that have led the way in terms of providing theory and method...

Narrative Theory Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Narrative Theory: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Mieke Bal
September 28, 2004

This set of volumes sketches the history, breadth, and applicability of narrative theory, thus demonstrating its value as an analytical instrument. The collection includes articles from the leading names of narrative theory, such as Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, Tzvetan Todorov and ...

Urban Culture Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Urban Culture: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Chris Jenks
September 24, 2004

This collection is an interdisciplinary study focusing on the various cultural aspects of city life. The works included are drawn from a broad range of canonical and secondary sources and emphasise the 'new', covering modernist and postmodernist perspectives of urban culture. The collection is ...

Gothic Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Fred Botting, Dale Townshead
June 15, 2004

In the last two decades criticism of Gothic fiction has been transformed from a scholarly backwater, interesting itself in literary curiosities, to a wave of wide-ranging critical investigations collectively convinced of the significance, scope and centrality of the genre.Embracing recent ...

Performance Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Philip Auslander
May 23, 2003

Over the past twenty years, 'performance' has emerged as a central analytical and critical concept. Now the focus of a burgeoning academic discipline, performance studies, it is also crucial to many other fields, including anthropology, sociology, communications, art history, cultural studies, ...

Modernism Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Modernism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Middleton
January 16, 2003

As befits so notoriously ambiguous a term, 'modernism' may be studied in a wide variety of contexts. The term embraces subjects ranging from the new architectural practices of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, the innovative art of painters as diverse as Monet and Kandinsky, the drama of Strindberg ...

Deconstruction Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

1st Edition


December 23, 2002

This collection reprints a cross section of key works, which chart the ways in which deconstruction is conceptualised and demonstrates the impact it has had on a wide range of traditions - areas as diverse as psychoanalysis, law, gender studies and architecture....

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