Rereading the New Criticism
Author : John D. McIntyre
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2012
Category : New Criticism
ISBN : 9780814270462
Author : John D. McIntyre
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2012
Category : New Criticism
ISBN : 9780814270462
Author : Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674267478
After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s fiction reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.
Author : Miranda B. Hickman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814252369
Addressing the work of New Critics such as Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren and reevaluates the New Critical corpus, tracing its legacy, and exploring resources it might offer for the future of theory, criticism, and pedagogy.
Author : Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472102907
Leading scholars speculate on the postmodern aspects of modernist literature
Author : John Crowe Ransom
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780837190792
Author : Lisa Rado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0415524121
Until about 1986, feminists generally considered modernism a reactionary, misogynist, and hegemonic mire not worth investigating. Since then enough studies of modernism have appeared that 17 feminist critics can now review and debate their treatment of the period. They evaluate the progress and goals of the new era of modernist scholarship. As the authors in this volume suggest, instead of condemning writers for not practicing or portraying an acceptable politics of gender, we ought instead to show how their assumptions about the nature of the sexes inform their texts, both in their creation and in their reception. This also allows examination of the complex and changing relationship between human subjectivity and aesthetics. This volume is a highly reflective dialogue, introspective and evaluative, at a moment of crisis within modernist studies and feminist studies. The analysis of critical work on early-twentieth-century literature not only helps reread and redefine a definition of modernism; it also intends to redirect and reintegrate feminist theory.
Author : Vivian Gornick
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0374716609
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2020. One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life I sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of reading—and re-reading—as life progresses. Gornick finds herself in contradictory characters within D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, assesses womanhood in Colette’s The Vagabond and The Shackle, and considers the veracity of memory in Marguerite Duras’s The Lover. She revisits Great War novels by J. L. Carr and Pat Barker, uncovers the psychological complexity of Elizabeth Bowen’s prose, and soaks in Natalia Ginzburg, “a writer whose work has often made me love life more.” After adopting two cats, whose erratic behavior she finds vexing, she discovers Doris Lessing’s Particularly Cats. Guided by Gornick’s trademark verve and insight, Unfinished Business is a masterful appreciation of literature’s power to illuminate our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who “still read[s] to feel the power of Life with a capital L.”
Author : Joel Elias Spingarn
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374530549
Answering the question "is a book the same the second time around?" this collection of essays includes contributions from Sven Krkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante, among others.
Author : Peter Widdowson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136490671
First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change. To stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.