Book Description
Provides bibligraphies to aid in identifying sources of literary criticism for a specific work of literature.
Author : Alan R. Weiner
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Provides bibligraphies to aid in identifying sources of literary criticism for a specific work of literature.
Author : Roger Matuz
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Contemporary literary criticism
ISBN : 9780810344433
Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135053014
This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler; key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory; genres and movements in literary history: epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Historical connections between theorists and theories are traced and the book is generously cross-referenced. With useful features such as key-point conclusions, further reading sections, descriptive text boxes, detailed headings, and with a comprehensive index, this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching literary theory for the first time or unfamiliar with the scope of its history.
Author : Gale Editor
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781414489025
Author : Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501705423
German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issues, had lost its meaning. In The Institution of Criticism, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores the implications of this crisis from a Marxist perspective and attempts to define the tasks and responsibilities of criticism in advanced capitalist societies. Hohendahl takes a close look at the social history of literary criticism in Germany since the eighteenth century. Drawing on the tradition of the Frankfurt School and on Jürgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere, Hohendahl sheds light on some of the important political and social forces that shape literature and culture. The Institution of Criticism is made up of seven essays originally published in German and a long theoretical introduction written by the author with English-language readers in mind. This book conveys the rich possibilities of the German perspective for those who employ American and French critical techniques and for students of contemporary critical theory.
Author : Andrew Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317313127
Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters range from the familiar, such as ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’, to the more unusual, such as ‘Secrets’, ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its fifth edition, Bennett and Royle’s classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, for example, while Chaucer, Raymond Chandler and Monty Python are all invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter. The fifth edition has been revised throughout and includes four new chapters – ‘Feelings’, ‘Wounds’, ‘Body’ and ‘Love’ – to incorporate exciting recent developments in literary studies. In addition to further reading sections at the end of each chapter, the book contains a comprehensive bibliography and a glossary of key literary terms. A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature.
Author : Cengage Gale
Publisher : Gale / Cengage Learning
Page : pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2002-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780787637873
Author : Gale Research Company
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2014-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781414494104
Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317900987
Presents a coherent and accessible historical account of the major phases of British and American Twentieth-century criticism, from 'decadent' aestheticism to feminist, decontsructonist and post-colonial theories. Special attention is given to new perspectives on Shakesperean criticism, theories of the novel and models of the literary canon. The book will help to define and account for the major developments in literary criticism during this century exploring the full diversity of critical work from major critics such as T S Eliot and F R Leavis to minor but fascinating figures and critical schools. Unlike most guides to modern literary theory, its focus is firmly on developments within the English speaking world.
Author : Joseph North
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674967739
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