In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic accomplishment that were later codified as 'modernism'. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed ...

2001), Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman (2006) and The Literary Theory Handbook (2013). He has also published essays on the Bildungsroman and Irish writers such as W. B. Yeats, John M. Synge, James ...

A key area of study in cognitive literary theory is how literature stimulates imagination, encouraging readers to visualize scenes, events and characters. By engaging readers’ mental imagery, ...

Fredric Jameson, a cultural theorist and literary critic who influenced generations of scholars and helped raise the ...

The intellectual titan bestowed on us so many things, chief among them a reminder to Always Be Historicizing.

Study post-1900 literature in all its geographical, formal and thematic complexity and diversity. Explore a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary writing. Study at ...

the great historical monument modern tourists visit, which is so magnificently depicted by Canaletto. David Carrier is a philosopher who writes art criticism. His Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art ...

Among the world’s leading academic critics, he brought his analytical rigor to topics as diverse as German opera and sci-fi ...

As a cultural Marxist, Jameson asserts that all cultural texts are inherently political and shaped by the socio-economic conditions of their time. His famous dictum “Always historicize” reflects his ...

Raymond Williams showed us what Marxist cultural analysis should really involve in a series of brilliant works. ...

One prevailing stereotype of a political assassin is someone with strong convictions: John Wilkes Booth, for example, who is ...

Modern pentathlon tests athletes across five separate disciplines. Athletes must swim, fence, ride an unfamiliar horse through a show jumping course — they get just 20 minutes to get acquainted — and ...