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The basis of Arnold's high reputation as literary critic
Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780472116539
The basis of Arnold's high reputation as literary critic
Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1473363144
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the 1970s, her works having inspired countless women to take up the cause. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. This volume contains a fantastic collection of some of Woolf's best essays and lectures on various subjects ranging from American fiction to the works of Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, and others. Highly recommended for literature lovers and fans of Woolf's seminal work. Contents include: “Virginia Woolf”, “Joseph Conrad”, “'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights'”, “Henry James: The Old Order”, “Modern Fiction”, “Defoe”, “Addison”, “Henry James: Within the Rim”, “The Letters of Henry James”, “Sir Walter Scott. The Antiquary”, “American Fiction”, “Jane Austen”, etc. Read & Co. Great Essays is publishing this brand new collection of classic essays now complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
Author : Lydia Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374719241
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her “a magician of self-consciousness,” while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, “Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive.” Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis’s gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past five decades. In this first of two volumes, her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories, from John Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote’s painting, and from the Shepherd’s Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest, most capacious minds writing today.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780141187099
Author : Meyer Howard Abrams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393307474
"One of the most respected literary scholars alive, . . . Abrams stands for understanding and conciliation, calling for a kind of humanism that can embrace the good in all literary theories." --Washington Post
Author : Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135975086
'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and in the arts in the course of the twentieth century. His subjects range from the beginnings of scientific speculation in classical Greece to the destructive effects of twentieth century totalitarianism, from major figures of the Enlightenment such as Kant and Voltaire to the role of science and self-criticism in the arts. The essays offer striking new insights into the mind of one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers.
Author : Mary Cappello
Publisher : Undelivered Lectures
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 20,17 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781945492426
An energetic and irreverent essay on the forgotten art of the lecture, part of Transit's new Undelivered Lectures series.
Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 1962
Category : English prose literature
ISBN :