Browse by Subject: Theory/Criticism

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Ordinary Masochisms: Agency and Desire in Victorian and Modernist Fiction

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British Representations of Latin America

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Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman

With this first major study of the historical context of the English and Irish Bildungsroman, Gregory Castle revisits the genre with a special interest in self-development and identity, as well as the viability of the classical concept of Bildung in the modernist era.

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Violence and Modernism: Ibsen, Joyce, and Woolf

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The Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism

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Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing

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Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry

Witty, contentious, brutually frank essays by "the most hated man in American poetry" on the deplorable quality of poetry in our age. A "neo-formalist," Logan devotes longer essays to the work of masters Auden, Snodgrass, Justice, & Hill.

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The Harlem and Irish Renaissances

Draws comparisons between the Harlem Renaissance i

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Roland Barthes on Photography: The Critical Tradition in Perspective