Author : Richard Machin
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 1987-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521315838
A selection of close-readings of canonical English poems with a focus on ideas and debates in critical theory and literary history.
Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521367806
Recent developments in literary theory, such as structuralism and deconstruction, have come under attack for neglecting history, while historically-based approaches have been criticized for failing to take account of the problems inherent in their methodological foundations. This collection of essays is unique in that it focuses on the relation between post-structuralism and historical (especially Marxist) literary theory and criticism. The volume includes a deconstructive reading of Marx, essays that relate history to the philosophical and institutional context, and a number of studies of particular texts, literary and non-literary, which pose the question of history and literary theory with particular force.
Author : Gayatri Spivak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135217122
Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies. Although her rigorous reading of various authors has often rendered her work difficult terrain for those unfamiliar with poststructuralism, this collection makes significant strides in explicating Spivak's complicated theories of reading.
Author : Jean E Howard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136566643
First published in 1987. The essays in Shakespeare Reproduced offer a political critique of Shakespeare's writings and the uses to which those writings are put Some of the essays focus on Shakespeare in his own time and consider how his plays can be seen to reproduce or subvert the cultural orthodoxies and the power relations of the late Renaissance. Others examine the forces which have produced an overtly political criticism of Shakespeare and of his use in culture. Contributors include: Jean E Howard and Marion O'Connor, Walter Cohen, Don E Wayne, Thomas Cartelli, Peter Erickson, Karen Newman, Thomas Moisan, Michael D Bristol, Thomas Sorge, Jonathan Goldberg, Robert Weimann, Margaret Ferguson.
Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474236340
This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively the manifold resources of poetic language and form. Through a series of verse-essays, reflective monologues, and inventive variations on topics in literary theory The Winnowing Fan makes a strong case for revising received ideas about the scope and limits of criticism. Norris's poems traverse the full range of European poetic history from Homer's Odyssey, through the work of French symbolists such as Mallarmé, to modern writers such as Yeats, Benjamin, Heaney, Larkin, and Barthes. There are also verse-essays and shorter pieces on philosophers from Hume and Leibniz to Heidegger, Althusser, Derrida, de Man, Rorty, Deleuze, Badiou, and Agamben. In each case Norris seeks to free criticism from conventional academic forms and return it to an active mutual engagement with the practice of literature itself.
Author : Aleksandar Prnjat
Publisher : Alfa BK University
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 866461010X
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2010
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1438132034
Presents a collection of essays discussing historical aspects of William Shakespeare's comedy in which Beatrice and Benedick overcome the obstacles preventing their union and ultimately conceding to mutual love and respect for each other.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1316805816
Much Ado about Nothing has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of Elizabethan language. In this new edition, Travis D. Williams reviews recent stage, television, film and critical interpretations of the play, considering treatment of the play's special interest in language, bodies and gender.
Author : Richard Freadman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 1991-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349216135
The principle aim of this book is to explore the relationship between contemporary literary theory and analytic philosophy. The volume addresses this issue in two ways: first, through four exchanges between, on the one hand, proponents of avant-garde literary theory and, on the other, proponents of analytic philosophy (or of related literary critical positions); and second, through three cross-disciplinary essays on the relationship in question. Central topics in the volume include Self, Ethics, Interpretation, Language and characterisations of 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophy.
Author : Patrick Chatelion Counet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004493905
This study deals with the postmodern philosophy of language as developed mainly by French authors as R. Barthes, J. Derrida and J.-F. Lyotard. The four chapters of the first part are theoretical and relate the literary concepts of postmodernity, poststructuralism and deconstruction to the practice of biblical exegesis. One of the important conclusions is that deconstruction affects both diachronic and synchronic approaches of texts. Each chapter closes with -not suggestions but- implications for a postmodern, deconstructive strategy of reading. The four chapters of the second part apply this postmodern, deconstructive strategy of reading to the Fourth Gospel as a whole (chapter five), to John 6 (chapter six), to John 17 (chapter seven) and to John 21, 24-25 (chapter eight). This deconstructive reading shows the differential and apophatic character of Saint John's Gospel.
