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African and African American Children’s and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom
A Critical Guide©2011 Textbook -
Problem-posing with Multicultural Children’s Literature
Developing Critical Early Childhood Curricula©2004 Textbook -
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Black Australian Literature
A bibliography of fiction, poetry, drama, oral traditions and non-fiction, including critical commentary, 1900-1991©2000 Others -
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Critical Literacy in English Literature
©2013 Textbook -
Critical Time in Modern German Literature and Culture
©2016 Edited Collection -
Critical Probings: Essays in European Literature
From Wolfram von Eschenbach to Thomas Mann©1984 Others -
Contemporary Critical Concepts and Pre-Enlightenment Literature
ISSN: 1074-6781
"Writers who worked before the beginning of rationalist universalism's triumphal period which may be ending now-explored issues of consciousness, ideology, and culture that recent criticism and critical theory, using various specialized vocabularies of concepts, have returned to the center of literäry and social criticism. These early modern figures often anticipated some of our clilemmas; How to manipulate an apparently quite mutable world and, at the same time, preserve belief in an immutable "centered" self? How to reconcile rationalist universalism with personal and cultural stability? Rene Descartes's postulate of man as the master and proprietor of an increasingly built world is fundamentally incompatible with his effort to underwrite man as a stable philosophical subject. Man's technical and linguistic mastery devours his "transcendent subjectivity." Students of literature are now using the ideas of what Larry Riggs calls "post-enlightenment thinkers"-Max Horkheimer, Jacques Lacan, Michael Foucault, Rene Girard, and others-to elucidate the implicit and explicit debates about rationalism that are embedded in literary works. This trend is most usefully seen as a renewal of contact with preoccupations that were quite current in medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century European literature. To date, however, innovative criticism has focused an more recent literature. Some post-structuralists-most notably Jacques Lacan-have tried their hand at interpreting early works. Their ideas are interesting, but their knowledge of the periods in question is often weak. Manuscripts on Elizabethan and Restoration theater, French, Italian, and German writers of the medieval and Renaissance periods, and die seventeenth-century French dramatists and moralists are welcome. "
3 publications
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Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
ISSN: 2297-4628
The peer-reviewed series provides a forum for first-class scholarship in the field of English and American Studies and focuses on English and American literature, drama, film, theatre and communication. The series welcomes critical perspectives on the reading and writing of texts, the production and consumption of high and low culture, the aesthetic and social implications of texts and communicative practices. It publishes monographs, collected papers, conference proceedings and critical editions. The languages of publication are both English and Spanish. Scholars are invited to submit their manuscripts to the editors or to the publisher.
35 publications
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Fictions and Metafictions of Evil
Essays in Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies©2013 Edited Collection