Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Fiction of Narrative The Fiction of Narrative Hayden White Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines where… OL15296274W
Harold Bloom's Shakespeare Harold Bloom's Shakespeare Robert Sawyer,Christy Desmet "Harold Bloom is one of the most influential and controversial of contemporary Shakespeare critics. These essays examine the sources and impact of Bloom's Shakespearean criticism from a variety of th… OL18222555W
Bakhtinian Thought Bakhtinian Thought Simon Dentith An understanding of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin is essential for a comprehensive grasp of contemporary debates in literary theory, language and social history. Bakhtinian Thought is the first collec… OL1877717W
Virginia Woolf and the essay Virginia Woolf and the essay Beth Carole Rosenberg,Jeanne Dubino "Unbeknown to many, Virginia Woolf spent the first twenty years of her career writing essays and book reviews. So well-known is Woolf for her fiction that her readers may easily overlook the fact tha… OL21224658W
Literary Darwinism Literary Darwinism Joseph Carroll In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and rev… OL3384916W
The madwoman in the attic The madwoman in the attic Sandra M. Gilbert Discusses the works of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. OL545633W
Marxism and literary criticism Marxism and literary criticism Terry Eagleton Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton has some answers in this wonderfully clear analysis. For this R… OL90120W
Writing a New Society Writing a New Society Virginia Matheson Hooker "Writing a New Society is the first extended study of the novel in Malay and is a groundbreaking study of the relationship between social change and literary practice. The book traces the emergence o… OL96772W