...Margaret Ronda Theory of the Lyric . By Culler Jonathan . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 416 p. Copyright © 2017 University of Oregon 2017 BOOK REVIEWS Theory of the Lyric. By Jonathan Culler. Cambridge...

...Emily Brady The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant . By Doran Robert . Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 313 p. Copyright © 2018 University of Oregon 2018 BOOK REVIEWS T T S L K By Robert Doran...

...Maria DiBattista Theory of the Novel . By Guido Mazzone . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . 392 p. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oregon 2019 One symptom of the current crisis of confidence in the humanities is the proliferation of titles that turn...

... as hysteria. Contemporary theory has taken shape in and around these two modes of response to the disappearance of the absolute addressee. The four movements considered are New Criticism, structuralism (and post-structuralism), New Historicism (and Cultural Studies), and what I call the “New Vitalism...

... . ———. “Re: postkolonialny Castorp.” E-mail to Ania Spyra . 29 July , 2010 . ———, and Libera Antoni . “Listy o Castorpie.” Przegląd Polityczny 66 ( 2004 ): 50 – 59 . Print . Hutcheon Linda Valdés Mario J. , eds. Rethinking Literary History: A Dialogue on Theory . Oxford...

...Daniel Just This essay discusses the implications of Milan Kundera's conception of the novel for literary theory and history. It presents Kundera's theory of the novel as a search for a type of didacticism that inscribes the reader in a process of learning that does not have a concrete content...

...Jennifer Wise After Dionysus: A Theory of the Tragic. By William Storm. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. 186 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/255 BOOK...

...Thomas Pfau Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Romantic Era. By Leon Chai. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xx, 283 p. University of Oregon 2008 BOOK REVIEWS SURPRISED IN TRANSLATION. By Mary Ann Caws...

... Storytelling and Theory “ LL SORROWS CAN BE BORNE if you put them into a story or tell a story A about them.” The words stand as an epigraph to the chapter on action in Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition, first published in 1958. They are attrib- uted to “Isak Dinesen,” the British and American nom...

... . Derrida, Jacques. “Faith and Knowledge.” Religion: Cultural Memory in the Present . Ed. Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998 . 1 -78. ____. “How to Avoid Speaking: Denials.” Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory...

...Revathi Krishnaswamy While the literatures of the (third) world are being rapidly curricularized in revamped Comparative/World or Postcolonial literature classes, the theories and methodologies used to interpret and evaluate these texts are still drawn primarily from the Western tradition...

... >. ———. “ The Politics of Fear and the Fear of Politics (Essay on the pogroms) .” 5 June 2008 . Web. < http://www.abahlali.org/node/3616 >. Nuttall, Sarah. “Flatness and Fantasy: Representations of the Land in Two Recent South African Novels.” Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa...

...Jonas Elbousty [email protected] The Arabic Prose Poem: Theory and Practice , by Huda Fakhreddine . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2021 . 288 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023 In her recently published book, The Arabic Prose Poem...

... critical theory — when they are acknowledged at all — tends to allow the visual paradigm to reassert itself, if only as the object of endless deconstructive critique. Anzieu, Didier. Beckett et le Psychanalyste . Paris: Mentha-Archimbaud, 1992 . Print. ———. “L'Enveloppe Sonore du Soi.” Nouvelle...

...). As a consequence of her reliance on a referential criterion, Cohn rejects the speech-act theory of fiction, according to which fictional narratives are pretended speech-acts. A story like Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is not a pretended biography of a character that happens to be nonexistent, Cohn...

...Charles Forsdick Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory, and the Work of Fiction. By Nicholas Harrison. London: Polity, 2003. vii, 221 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/256 BOOK REVIEWS BIRTH OF THE SYMBOL...

... Noydens publicadas en la de 1674 . Ed. Martín de Riquer. Barcelona: S.A. Horta, 1943 . Deguzmán, María. Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005 . Delgado, Richard, ed. Critical Race Theory: The Cutting...

... : Markus Wiener , 2000 . Print . Hever Hannan . Ha-sipur ve-ha'leom [The Story and the Nation] . Tel-Aviv : Resling , 2007 . Print . Honig Bonnie . “‘Antigone Versus Oedipus?’ Feminist Theory and the Turn to Antigone.” Web. < http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/Uploads/Documents...

...Joseph C. Carroll This essay argues that the sciences most relevant to literary study form an integrated complex summarized by the term “biocultural theory.” Foundational theories accepted currently in literary scholarship are incompatible with a biocultural understanding of the evolved character...

...LINDA KINTZ University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/338 REVIEW ESSAY LINDA KINTZ Ethically Challenged: The Impasse Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory Beatrice Hanssen. Critique of Violence: Between...