View All Book Series

BOOK SERIES


Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture


16 Series Titles

Per Page
Sort

Display
On the Winds and Waves of Imagination Transnational Feminism and Literature

On the Winds and Waves of Imagination: Transnational Feminism and Literature

1st Edition

By Constance S. Richards
July 26, 2016

First published in 2000.This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and South African writer Zoe Wicomb. The author draws from post-colonial studies and considers how gender collides with race, national ...

Texts and Textuality Textual Instability, Theory, and Interpretation

Texts and Textuality: Textual Instability, Theory, and Interpretation

1st Edition

Edited By Philip Cohen, Philip G. Cohen
March 01, 1997

These essays deal with the scholarly study of the genesis, transmission, and editorial reconstitution of texts by exploring the connections between textual instability and textual theory, interpretation, and pedagogy.What makes this collection unique is that each essay brings a different ...

Women on the Edge Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women

Women on the Edge: Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women

1st Edition

Edited By Corinne H. Dale
December 01, 1998

This collection of essays explores the intertwining social conditions of ethnicity and gender as they are represented in short stories by contemporary American women. The introduction to the collection explains the theoretical understanding of gender and ethnicity as social constructions that ...

Reconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies Rhetoric, History, and Politics in the Humanities

Reconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, History, and Politics in the Humanities

1st Edition

Edited By William E. Cain, William E. Cain
August 04, 2016

Three extensively revised essays by Mailloux, an influential proponent of cultural studies, describe his approach in depth. Following are ten essays, nine of them written specifically for this volume, by scholars who offer various perspectives on Mailloux's ideas. Each essayist weighs the strengths...

Blake, Politics, and History

Blake, Politics, and History

1st Edition

By George A. Jr. Rosso Jr., Christopher Z. Hobson
July 08, 2016

A groundbreaking, international collection This anthology of original essays charts new territory in mapping the work of William Blake, combining traditional and current historicist methods with a plurality of other approaches. The first new volume on Blake in the U.S. in over 10 years, it features...

Canon Vs. Culture Reflections on the Current Debate

Canon Vs. Culture: Reflections on the Current Debate

1st Edition

Edited By Jan Gorak
June 22, 2016

Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century-- the changes from academic inquiry conducted through a selected list of accepted authorities to an investigation of the cultural operations of an entire society....

Literary Influence and African-American Writers Collected Essays

Literary Influence and African-American Writers: Collected Essays

1st Edition

Edited By Tracy Mishkin
March 03, 2016

First published in 1996. This volume includes a collection of essays that where collected after the inspiration of finding positive interactions between African-American and Irish Writers during the Harlem Renaissance, a time when these two groups were hardly on good terms. The essays look at ...

British Marxist Criticism

British Marxist Criticism

1st Edition

Edited By Victor N. Paananen
December 22, 2014

First Published in 2000.  British Marxist Criticism provides selective but extensive annotated bibliographies, introductory essays, and important pieces of work from each of eight British critics who sought to explain literary production according to the principles of Marxism....

American Women Short Story Writers A Collection of Critical Essays

American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays

1st Edition

Edited By Julie Brown
May 03, 2000

This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss ...

Going Global The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers

Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers

1st Edition

By Amal Amireh, Lisa Suhair Majaj
July 27, 2000

This book explores the problematic of reading and writing about third world women and their texts in an increasingly global context of production and reception. The ten essays contained in this volume examine the reception, both academic and popular, of women writers from India, Bangladesh, ...

The New Romanticism A Collection of Critical Essays

The New Romanticism: A Collection of Critical Essays

1st Edition

Edited By Eberhard Alsen
April 20, 2000

The New Romanticism is an overview of the romantic trend taken up by American novelists in the twentieth-century. Includes three classic essays by Saul bellow, Thomas Pyncheon, and Toni Morrison....

Literature and the Internet A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars

Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars

1st Edition

By Stephanie Browner, Stephen Pulsford, Richard Sears
January 01, 2000

Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars is the only Internet guide written for those who love and study literature. The book begins with a practical introduction for readers who want help finding, navigating, and using literary sites. Later chapters focus on ...

1-12 of 16
AJAX loader