The Return of Thematic Criticism

About the author

Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Summary

How to determine the theme of a text—can a focus on form be the theme? Can the motif be a formal category? What operations permit us to say that texts are variants of the same theme? The contributors challenge the dismissal of “merely” thematic approaches and offer different ways to tackle the issue of what a piece of writing is “about.”

Product details

• Assisted by: Werner Sollors (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1993
• EAN: 9780674766877
• ISBN: 978-0-674-76687-7
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Harvard English Studies; Harvard English Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies