Historical Studies and Literary Criticism
Author : Jerome J. McGann
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299102845
Literary Historicity
Author : Ruth Mack
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804759111
Book Description
Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Mack moves between close examinations of literature, historiography, and recent philosophical writing on history, offering a new view of eighteenth-century philosophies of history in Britain. Such philosophies, she argues, could be important literarily without being focused, as has been assumed, on questions of fact and fiction. Eighteenth-century writerslike many twentieth-century philosophersoften used literary form not in order to exhibit a work's fictional status but in order to consider what the relation between the past and present might be. Literary Historicity portrays a British Enlightenment that both embraces the possibility of historical experience and interrogates the terms for such experience, one deeply engaged with historical consciousness not as an inevitability of the modern world, but as something to be understood within it.
Why Literary Periods Mattered
Author : Ted Underwood
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804788448
Book Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized structure of the curriculum has remained oddly unshaken, as if the exercise of contrasting one literary period with another has an importance that transcends the content of any individual course. Why Literary Periods Mattered explains how historical contrast became central to literary study, and why it remained institutionally central in spite of critical controversy about literature itself. Organizing literary history around contrast rather than causal continuity helped literature departments separate themselves from departments of history. But critics' long reliance on a rhetoric of contrasted movements and fateful turns has produced important blind spots in the discipline. In the twenty-first century, Underwood argues, literary study may need digital technology in particular to develop new methods of reasoning about gradual, continuous change.
Literary Criticism
Author : Joseph North
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674967739
Book Description
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Critical Revolution Turns Right -- 2. The Scholarly Turn -- 3. The Historicist/Contextualist Paradigm -- 4. The Critical Unconscious -- Conclusion: The Future of Criticism -- Appendix: The Critical Paradigm and T.S. Eliot -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Literary Studies
Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131792942X
Book Description
Literary Studies: A Practical Guide provides a comprehensive foundation for the study of English, American, and world literatures, giving students the critical skills they need to best develop and apply their knowledge. Designed for use in a range of literature courses, it begins by outlining the history of literary movements, enabling students to contextualize a given work within its cultural and historical moment. Specific focus is then given to the use of literary theory and the analysis of: Poetry Prose fiction and novels Plays Films. A detailed unit provides clear and concise introductions to literary criticism and theory, encouraging students to nurture their unique insights into a range of texts with these critical tools. Finally, students are guided through the process of generating ideas for essays, considering the role of secondary criticism in their writing, and formulating literary arguments. This practical volume is an invaluable resource for students, providing them with the tools to succeed in any English course.
A History of Literary Criticism
Author : M. A. R. Habib
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405148845
Book Description
This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud’s views on civilization Can be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction
Context in Literary and Cultural Studies
Author : Jakob Ladegaard
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1787356248
Book Description
Context in Literary and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that deals with the challenges of studying works of art and literature in their historical context today. The relationship between artworks and context has long been a central concern for aesthetic and cultural disciplines, and the question of context has been asked anew in all eras. Developments in contemporary culture and technology, as well as new theoretical and methodological orientations in the humanities, once again prompt us to rethink context in literary and cultural studies. This volume takes up that challenge. Introducing readers to new developments in literary and cultural theory, Context in Literary and Cultural Studies connects all disciplines related to these areas to provide an interdisciplinary overview of the challenges different scholarly fields today meet in their studies of artworks in context. Spanning a number of countries, and covering subjects from nineteenth-century novels to rave culture, the chapters together constitute an informed, diverse and wide-ranging discussion. The volume is written for scholarly readers at all levels in the fields of Literary Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Art History, Film, Theatre Studies and Digital Humanities.
Studying Transcultural Literary History
Author : Gunilla Lindberg-Wada
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110189551
Book Description
Today's spectrum of research in literary studies is characterized by a sense of openness to the methods of comparative literature and cultural studies, along with a wide range of interdisciplinary crossover. The spectrum Literaturwissenschaft series is intended to be a forum for this pluralistic new model of literary studies. It presents papers that are informed by methodologically innovative, frequently comparative approaches, and whose findings are of importance well beyond the narrow boundaries of national philological horizons.
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism
Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521300124
Book Description
The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.
Cognition, Literature, and History
Author : Mark J. Bruhn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317936868
Book Description
Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows how understanding of underlying structures of mind can productively inform literary analysis and historical inquiry, and how formal and historical analysis of distinctive literary works can reciprocally enrich our understanding of those underlying structures. Applying the cognitive neuroscience of categorization, emotion, figurative thinking, narrativity, self-awareness, theory of mind, and wayfinding to the study of literary works and genres from diverse historical periods and cultures, the authors argue that literary experience proceeds from, qualitatively heightens, and selectively informs and even reforms our evolved and embodied capacities for thought and feeling. This volume investigates and locates the complex intersections of cognition, literature, and history in order to advance interdisciplinary discussion and research in poetics, literary history, and cognitive science.
