Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History
10 best books like Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (Franco Moretti): The Rhetoric of Fiction, Narrative Discourse, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Anatomy of Criticism, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics, Ecocriticism
| Author | Wayne C. Booth |
| ISBN | 0226065588 |
The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and...
| Author | Gérard Genette |
| ISBN | 0801492599 |
Gerard Genette, a critic of international stature, here builds a systematic theory of narrative upon an analysis of the writings of Marcel Proust, particularly Remembrance of Things Past. Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies and names the basic constituents...
| Author | Hayden White |
| ISBN | 0801841151 |
Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to...
I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women
| Author | Caroline Bergvall |
| ISBN | 1934254332 |
Conceptual writing is emerging as a vital 21st century literary movement and I’ll Drown My Book represents the contributions of women in this defining moment. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, I’ll Drown My Book takes its name from a poem by Bernadette...
Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
| Author | Marjorie Perloff |
| ISBN | 0226660613 |
What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information— a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people’s...
| Author | Mieke Bal |
| ISBN | 0802078060 |
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal...
| Author | Northrop Frye |
| ISBN | 0691069999 |
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. Employing examples of world literature from ancient times to...
| Author | Sianne Ngai |
| ISBN | 0674046587 |
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory of the aesthetic categories that most people...
| Author | Timothy Morton |
| ISBN | 0674024346 |
In "Ecology without Nature," Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the "nature" they revere. The problem is a symptom...
| Author | Greg Garrard |
| ISBN | 0415196922 |
Inspired by a range of ecological movements, ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production, from Wordsworth and Thoreau to Disney and BBC nature documentaries. Greg Garrard's animated and accessible...
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities
| Author | Stanley Fish |
| ISBN | 0674467264 |
Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers...
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
| Author | Peter Brooks |
| ISBN | 0674748921 |
Più che di lettura, si è trattato di studio appassionato e attento. Matita sempre pronta. Un testo per cultori, studiosi e appassionati. Accademico, serrato, profondo, impegnativo. Entusiasmante. Vi si analizzano a fondo la storia, le tecniche, le ragioni e gli esiti della necessità di una trama,...
| Author | György Lukács |
| ISBN | 0262620278 |
Georg Lukacs wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukacs's early essays, it is...
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter...
Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. 'For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story-whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject...
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method
| Author | James Paul Gee |
| ISBN | 0415328616 |
Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. In this book, James Paul Gee introduces the field and presents his unique integrated approach to it.
Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, the author presents...
| Author | N. Katherine Hayles |
| ISBN | 0262582155 |
A pseudo-autobiographical exploration of the artistic and cultural impact of the transformation of the print book to its electronic incarnations.
Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature...
| Author | Terry Eagleton |
| ISBN | 0415285844 |
Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis. Sharp and concise, it is, without doubt, the most important...
| Author | Caroline Levine |
| ISBN | 0691160627 |
Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of art but also political life--and our attempts...
Maps of the Imagination takes us on a magic carpet ride over terrain both familiar and exotic. Using the map as a metaphor, fiction writer Peter Turchi considers writing as a combination of exploration and presentation, all the while serving as an erudite and charming guide. He compares the way a writer...
| Author | Pascale Casanova |
| ISBN | 0674010213 |
The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems,...
