Mimesis in Contemporary Theory : Volume 1: The literary and philosophical debate. by Spariosu, Mihai

Table of Contents: “…MIMESISIN CONTEMPORARY THEORY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHVolume I: The Literary and Philosophical Debate; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; NOTES; PART I. …”
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What's Left of Theory? : New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory. by Butler, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Classroom, What's Left of Theory?; ~Like Race~ Arguments; Zones of Privacy; Extreme Criticism; The Return of Realism and the Future of Contingency; Refashioning the Secular; Picturing Pleasure: Some Poems by Elizabeth Bishop; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Anorexia: The Case of Oscar Wilde; The Literary in Theory.…”
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The State of theory

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An emergent theory of digital library metadata : enrich then filter / by Alemu, Getaneh, Stevens, Brett

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata; Copyright Page; Contents; Authors biography; Re-thinking library metadata; 1 Introduction; The construction of metadata; Metadata categories; The continued relevance of metadata; 2 Existing standards-based metadata approaches and principles; The principle of sufficiency and necessity; The principle of user convenience; The principle of representation; The principle of standardisation; Integration and interoperability; Metadata derivation; Metadata application profiles; Metadata cross-walking (mapping); Metadata registries.…”
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The New hegemony in literary studies : contradictions in theory / by Hilfer, Anthony Channell

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The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons. by Liu, Hsieh

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Literature and Literary Theory in Contemporary China. by Jiong, Zhang

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1; 1 Marxism and trends of literary theories; 2 Marxist theories of literature and art and challenges facing them; 3 Marxism and Chinese new literature and art; 4 Epoch-making literature on Marxist theories of literature and art; Part 2; 5 The outlook on the essence of literature; 6 On the relationship between literature and the people; 7 Discussion on the relationship between literature and politics; 8 On relationship between literature and reality; 9 On relationship between perception and rationality in literary creation.…”
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Jorge Luis Borges Variaciones Interpretativas Sobre Sus Procedimientos Literarios y Bases Epistemológicas. by Blüher, Karl Alfred

Subjects: “…Literary Theory and Criticism.…”
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The literary theories of August Wilhelm Schlegel / by Ewton, Ralph W., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…The Audience's Experience of Poesie; VII. Literary Criticism; VIII. Theory of Genres; IX. Literary History; X. …”
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Marxist literary criticism today by Foley, Barbara (Barbara C.)

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Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory : Perspectives on Literary Metaphor. by Fludernik, Monika

Table of Contents: “…Reaching Beyond Silence: Metaphors of Ineffability in EnglishPoetry-Donne, Wordsworth, Keats, Eliot: Ina Habermann5. Literary Criticism Writes Back to Metaphor Theory: Exploring the Relation between Extended Metaphorand Narrative in Literature: Bo Pettersson; 6. …”
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Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts : an Introduction. by Schmitz, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Modern LiteraryTheory and Ancient Texts : An Introduction; Contents; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments for the English Translation; Introduction; 1 Russian Formalism; 2 Structuralism; 3 Narratology; 4 Mikhail Bakhtin; 5 Intertextuality; 6 Reader-Response Criticism; 7 Orality -- Literacy; 8 Deconstruction; 9 Michel Foucault and Discourse Analysis; 10 NewHistoricism; 11 Feminist Approaches/Gender Studies; 12 Psychoanalytic Approaches; Conclusions?…”
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Contemporary approaches in literary trauma theory /

Table of Contents: “…1. Literary Trauma Theory Reconsidered; Michelle Balaev -- 2. …”
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Aesthetics, theory and interpretation of the literary work / by Euron, Paolo, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Art, Beauty and Imitation in Plato's Philosophy -- Art and Imitation in Aristotle -- Horace, Pseudo-Longinus and the Aesthetics of Literature in Hellenism -- Plotinus, Neo-Platonic and Christian Conception of Beauty -- The Middle Ages and Dante Alighieri -- The Heritage of Kantian Philosophy in Romanticism -- Moritz: Beyond the Concept of Imitation -- Theory of Poetry of Early German Romanticism -- Hegel: Art as a Form of the Absolute Spirit -- Schopenhauer: Art as Disinterestedness and Knowledge of Reality -- Nietzsche: Knowledge and Art -- Symbolism and Aestheticism -- Benedetto Croce: Art and intuition -- Linguistics and Criticism -- Antonio Gramsci: The Role of Intellectuals in Culture -- Structuralism -- Martin Heidegger: The Work of Art and Truth -- Hans-Georg Gadamer: Poetry and Interpretation -- Critical Theory: A New Attitude towards Art and Society -- Perspectives of Post-Structuralism -- The Practice of Deconstruction -- Contemporary Schools and Traditions in Literary and Critical Theory -- Postmodern and the New Character of the Literary Work.…”
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Topological Library - Part 2 : Characteristic Classes And Smooth Structures On Manifolds.

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An introduction to Literary Studies by Klarer, Mario, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…6 How to write a research paper7 Suggestions for further reading; General literary terminology; Authors and works; Literary theory; Genres; Literary history; How to write a research paper; 8 Glossary of literary and cinematographic terms; References; Author and title index; Subject index.…”
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Literary History, Modernism, and Postmodernism : (The Harvard University Erasmus Lectures, Spring 1983). by Fokkema, Douwe W.

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Key Concepts in Literary Theory, Second Edition. by Wolfreys, Julian

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Dialogue of Voices : Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin. by Hohne, Karen

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Future Indicative : Literary Theory and Canadian Literature. by Moss, John

Table of Contents: “…Reconstructing Structuralism: The Theme-Text Model of Literary Language and F.R. Scott's "Lakeshore"History and/as Intertext; Language and Silence in Richardson and Grove; Rewriting Roughing It; Bakhtin Reads De Mille: Canadian Literature, Post-modernism, and the Theory of Dialogism; The Reader as Actor in the Novels of Timothy Findley; Blown Figures and Blood: Toward a Feminist/Post- Structuralist Reading of Audrey Thomas' Writing; Reconstructing the Deconstructed Text: A Reading of Robert Kroetsch's What the Crow Said; Present Tense: The Closing Panel; Contributors.…”
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Compelled to write : alternative rhetoric in theory and practice by Wallace, David L., 1960-

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Freud's literary culture by Frankland, Graham

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Literary Darwinism : evolution, human nature, and literature by Carroll, Joseph, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; The Use of Arnold in a Darwinian World; Biology and Poststructuralism; ~Theory, ~ Anti-Theory, and Empirical Criticism; Out of Eden and to the Left: A Review of John Ellis's Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities; Literary Study and Evolutionary Theory: A Review of Books by Alexander Argyros, Walter Koch, Karl Kroeber, Robert Storey, Frederick Turner, and Mark Turner; Pinker, Dickens, and the Functions of Literature; Wilson's Consilience and Literary Study.…”
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The theory and craft of digital preservation by Owens, Trevor

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Medieval theory of authorship : scholastic literary attitudes in the later Middle Ages / by Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.)

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface to the Reissued Second Edition; Preface; Abbreviations; Notes on Style; Introduction: The Significance of the Medieval Theory of Authorship; 1: Academic Prologues to 'Auctores'; 2: Prologues to Scriptural 'Auctores'; 3: Authorial Roles in the 'Literal Sense'; 4: Literary Forms in the 'Literal Sense'; 5: Literary Theory and Literary Practice; Epilogue: The Familiar Authors; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Latin terms; A; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.…”
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Philosophy of literature : an introduction by New, Christopher

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The singularity of literature by Attridge, Derek

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Verbal art : a philosophy of literature and literary experience by Pettersson, Anders, 1946-

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Literature as system : essays toward the theory of literary history. by Guillen, Claudio

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A companion to literary biography

Table of Contents: “…Issues, Theories, and Methodologies -- Ethics and literary biography -- Concerns about facts and form in literary biography -- Women with a theory: feminism and biography -- The role of diaries in the development of literary biography -- Blurred Boundaries: Literary Biography, Literary Autobiography, and Evidence -- Reading and Interpreting: The Archival Legacies of Canadian Women Writers -- Johnny and Bess: Life Writing and Gender -- "The Man's Life in the Letters of the Man": Larkin, Letters, and Literary Biography -- J.M. …”
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From romanticism to critical theory : the philosophy of German literary theory / by Bowie, Andrew, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The philosophy of critique and the critique of philosophy: Romantic literary theory -- 4. Interpretative reasons -- 5. …”
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Gamificación en bibliotecas : el juego como inspiración by Ordás, Ana

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Metawritings : toward a theory of nonfiction. by Talbot, Jill

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The knife in the stone : essays in literary theory / by Will, Frederic

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What is fiction for? : literary humanism restored by Harrison, Bernard, 1933-

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Reading East Asian Writing : the Limits of Literary Theory. by Hockx, Michel

Table of Contents: “…7 The Power of Words: Forging Fujiwara no Teika's Poetic Theory. A Philological Approach to Japanese Poetics8 What the Messenger of Souls Has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture; 9 Places of Mediation: Poets and Salons in Medieval Japan; 10 Theory as Practice: Modern Chinese Literature and Bourdieu; 11 Making Space: Kunikida Doppo and the 'Native Place' Ideal in Meiji Literature; 12 Re/reading' Modern Japanese Literature' as a Critical Project: The Case of Dazai Osamu's Autobiographical Novel Tsugaru.…”
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Heroizability : an anthroposemiotic theory of literary characters / by Tāhā, Ibrāhīm

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction. Literary Characters and Anthroposemiotics; 1 Heroism: An Overview; 2 Living Signs; 3 A 3A Model; 4 Semiotics, Biosemiotics and Anthroposemiotics; 5 Heroizability and Modeling Systems Theory; Chapter One. …”
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Why literary periods mattered : historical contrast and the prestige of English studies by Underwood, Ted

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A companion to critical and cultural theory

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Genre theory in information studies

Table of Contents: “…McKenzie -- The role of calendars in constructing a community of historical workers in the public records office of Great Britain ca. 1850s-1950s / Heather MacNeil -- Organizational records as genres : an analysis of the documentary reality of organizations from the perspectives of diplomatics, records management and rhetorical genre studies / Fiorella Foscarini -- Genres of war : informing a city / Laura Skouvig -- Utterance and function in genre studies : a literary perspective / Sune Auken -- Final summary : genre theory in information studies / Jack Andersen.…”
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