| Author | : Hugh Stevens |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521888441 |
In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing introduces readers to important concepts, methods and cultural and historical debates relevant to the study of sexuality and literature.
| Author | : Scott Herring |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2015-05-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316298981 |
This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.
| Author | : Jodie Medd |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2015-12-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316453561 |
The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a helpful orientation to key literary-historical periods, critical concepts, theoretical debates and literary genres, this Companion considers the work of such well-known authors as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel and Sarah Waters. Written by a host of leading critics and covering subjects as diverse as lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century and same-sex love in a postcolonial context, this Companion delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.
| Author | : Cyrus R. K. Patell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2010-03-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521514711 |
A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
| Author | : Siobhan B. Somerville |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2020-06-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108594565 |
This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture. Rather than being organized around a set of literary texts defined by a particular theme, literary movement, or demographic, this volume foregrounds a queer critical approach that moves across a wide array of literary traditions, genres, historical periods, national contexts, and media. This book traces the intellectual and political emergence of queer studies, addresses relevant critical debates in the field, provides an overview of queer approaches to genres, and explains how queer approaches have transformed understandings of key concepts in multiple fields.
| Author | : E. L. McCallum |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1203 |
| Release | : 2014-11-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316194566 |
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is grounded in current scholarship. It presents new critical approaches to gay and lesbian literature that will serve the needs of students and specialists alike. Written by leading scholars in the field, The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature will not only engage readers in contemporary debates but also serve as a definitive reference for gay and lesbian literature for years to come.
| Author | : Derek Attridge |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2004-06-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 110749494X |
This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.
| Author | : Jodie Medd |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107054001 |
The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In so doing, it delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.
| Author | : Harriet Turner |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2003-09-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521778152 |
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the relationships between history and fiction, high and popular culture, art and ideology, and gender and society. Contributors highlight the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel, which often takes a self-conscious stance toward literary tradition. Topics covered include the regional novel, women writers, and film and literature. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.
