A Theory Of Literary Explication

Author : Kenneth B. Newell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443832304

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A Theory of Literary Explication by Kenneth B. Newell Pdf

This book presents current multidisciplinary research and theory from 17 different fields (most of them never before applied to literary explication) in order to provide (1) justification for the practice of a relative-probability type of explication as distinguished from interpretation, (2) a relativistic foundation for the preference of some explication(s) of a literary work over others, and thereby (3) a middle way between the postmodern pluralist view that a work has only an unlimited number of equally acceptable though different explications and the modern intentionalist view that it has only one acceptable explication (the author’s). Nine of the 17 fields are of primary relevance: critical theory, hermeneutics, probability theory, philosophy of science, second-order logic, and four fields of cognitive science (linguistics, epistemology, neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence). But the book also touches upon textual criticism, legal theory, measure theory, fuzzy logic, animal learning behavior, developmental psychology, evolutionary epistemology, and neurobiology. The book shows that those using a relative-probability type of explication on a literary work can achieve consensus because the healthy, adult human brain has an evolved, uniform, and probably innate ability to form relative-probability judgments and to form them in the practice of activities (like reading and explicating) that are not uniform and innate. Lastly, the book contributes to the scholarly areas of explication theory and practice, first, by providing a relativistic foundation for a craft (explication) that currently is not acknowledged to have any foundation but nonetheless continues and will continue to be practiced and, second, by presenting a means (relative epistemic probability) by which judging some explication(s) of a literary work to be more acceptable than others may be justified philosophically—an uncommon circumstance in this postmodern era in which philosophical justification of many beliefs and practices is thought to be untenable.

Author : John M. Ellis,John Martin Ellis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520034139

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The Theory of Literary Criticism by John M. Ellis,John Martin Ellis Pdf

Author : Nancy Easterlin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421405049

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A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation by Nancy Easterlin Pdf

Combining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theory and criticism opens up new possibilities for literary interpretation. Easterlin maintains that the practice of literary interpretation is still of central intellectual and social value. Taking an open yet judicious approach, she argues, however, that literary interpretation stands to gain dramatically from a fair-minded and creative application of cognitive and evolutionary research. This work does just that, expounding a biocultural method that charts a middle course between overly reductive approaches to literature and traditionalists who see the sciences as a threat to the humanities. Easterlin develops her biocultural method by comparing it to four major subfields within literary studies: new historicism, ecocriticism, cognitive approaches, and evolutionary approaches. After a thorough review of each subfield, she reconsiders them in light of relevant research in cognitive and evolutionary psychology and provides a textual analysis of literary works from the romantic era to the present, including William Wordsworth’s “Simon Lee” and the Lucy poems, Mary Robinson’s “Old Barnard,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode,” D. H. Lawrence’s The Fox, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, and Raymond Carver’s “I Could See the Smallest Things.” A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation offers a fresh and reasoned approach to literary studies that at once preserves the central importance that interpretation plays in the humanities and embraces the exciting developments of the cognitive sciences.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780192853189

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Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton Pdf

Author : Nancy Easterlin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421404721

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A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation by Nancy Easterlin Pdf

"A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation offers a fresh and reasoned approach to literary studies that at once preserves the central importance that interpretation plays in the humanities and embraces the exciting developments of the cognitive sciences.

Author : Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783656160939

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Hermeneutics As a Theory of Interpretation and As a Literary Theory by Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Africa, University of Nigeria, language: English, abstract: Theories of language, linguistic and non linguistic communication are diverse. In the Humanities there are so many interpretative tools. These tools are means to an end and not the end in themselves. Just as we have equations in the natural sciences so do we have theoretical frameworks, literary criticisms and approaches to literature and the communication arts in the Humanities. These interpretative tools are keys to opening and analyzing works in the Humanities and other disciplines. Most of these theories are borrowed from other disciplines other than the ones exploiting them. In the literary sciences, rooms are given for inter-textual interpretations as well as for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. Hence one could analyze a given fiction, drama or poem using one or more approaches as the case may be. At the primary and secondary school level, essays are simply written and novels are simply read and interpreted by simple minds. But at the tertiary educational level, one would expect the reader, the critic or the recipient to be thorough, analytical and scientific in his appraisal of the text before him. In receptions-theory the analytical mind is not left empty handed in this art of researching on or beyond the text .For one to access these tools effectively one must be equipped with literary terms. Interpretative tools are legion. Some are text-centered and linguistic and others are extra-textual and non linguistic. Hermeneutics and the sister theoretical frameworks like the positivism, formalism, explication de texte, New Criticism, Structuralism, post-structuralism, Semiotics, de-construction etc are text-centered interpretative tools while the society based theories like Marxist-socialism, psycho-analytic theory, feminism, receptions-theory, racial theory, cultural and intercultural studies, Literature and the media, l

Author : Rene Wellek,Austin Warren
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 1628972831

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Theory of Literature by Rene Wellek,Austin Warren Pdf

Theory of Literature was born from the collaboration of Ren Wellek, a Vienna-born student of Prague School linguistics, and Austin Warren, an independently minded "old New Critic." Unlike many other textbooks of its era, however, this classic kowtows to no dogma and toes no party line. Wellek and Warren looked at literature as both a social product--influenced by politics, economics, etc.--as well as a self-contained system of formal structures. Incorporating examples from Aristotle to Coleridge, written in clear, uncondescending prose, Theory of Literature is a work which, especially in its suspicion of simplistic explanations and its distrust of received wisdom, remains extremely relevant to the study of literature today.

Author : Paolo Euron
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004409231

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Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work by Paolo Euron Pdf

This book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features, presenting basic topics and ideas in their historical context and development in Western culture.

Author : Stein Haugom Olsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521333269

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The End of Literary Theory by Stein Haugom Olsen Pdf

The essays in this collection are concerned with the philosophical problems that arise in connection with the understanding and evaluation of literature - such problems as the relationship between the work and the author (authorial intention), between the work and the world (reference and truth), the definition of a literary work, and the nature of literary theory itself. Professor Olsen attacks many of the orthodoxies of modern literary theory, in particular the enterprise to build a comprehensive systematic literary theory. His own work is informed by a consistent perspective: the assumption that literature is a social institution governed by conventions, and that answers to problems of interpretation and appreciation can be found only through an analysis of these conventions. This is an important book for scholars and students of literary theory and philosophy, especially for those who see an ever-increasing cross-fertilization between the two disciplines.

Author : Celena Kusch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317420958

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Literary Analysis: The Basics by Celena Kusch Pdf

Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts that affect the analysis of any text. It addresses such questions as: What counts as literature? Is analysis a dissection? How do gender, race, class and culture affect the meaning of a text? Why is the social and historical context of a text important? Can digital media be analysed in the same way as a poem? With examples from ancient myths to young adult fiction, a glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading, Literary Analysis: The Basics is essential reading for anyone wishing to improve their analytical reading skills.

Author : Wendell V. Harris
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814735008

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Literary Meaning by Wendell V. Harris Pdf

"In this clearly written and accessible book, (Wendell) Harris sets out to expose the inadequacies of current methods and trends in literary criticism. . . . The book's greatest strength is its lucid presentation of critical works, which are then shown to be compromised by fallacies and flaws".-- CHOICE.

Author : Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Lasse Horne Kjældgaard,Lis Møller,Lilian Munk Rösing,Peter Simonsen,Dan Ringgaard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474271981

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Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Lasse Horne Kjældgaard,Lis Møller,Lilian Munk Rösing,Peter Simonsen,Dan Ringgaard Pdf

How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: ·Key definitions – from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author ·Literature's relationship to the surrounding world – ethics, politics, gender and nature ·Modes of literature and criticism – from books to performance, from creative to critical writing With annotated reading guides throughout and a glossary of major critical schools to help students when studying, revising and writing essays, this is an essential introduction and reference guide to the study of literature at all levels

Author : M. J. Fenwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005876720

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Dependency Theory and Literary Analysis by M. J. Fenwick Pdf

Author : William E. Cain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106014697848

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The Crisis in Criticism by William E. Cain Pdf

"This book is a statement of my views on a number of problems in literary theory and contemporary criticism. But it is also - as any theoretical study must be - a progress report, a record of inquiry that has not yet concluded. In a sense, a book on "theory" cannot really end. At a certain point, work on it ceases, even though one continues to think critically and skeptically about the problems - and the solutions - that the book contains." -- Preface. p. xi.

Author : Arshad Ahammad A.,Nada Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781527570412

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Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas by Arshad Ahammad A.,Nada Rajan Pdf

The papers in this book, covering a wide range of themes such as history, globalisation, colonialism, trauma, ecology, cinema, science, post-humanism, feminisms, and alternative sexualities, explore the structures of power that bring about and contour the prevailing, stereotypical and hegemonic notions of identity, gender and culture. The focal point of these interactions is the perpetual dissemination of ideas which stimulate the knowledge system with its roots spread across diverse scholarly disciplines. This collection will be of great interest to academicians, scholars, researchers, and students, as it explores various discourses in literature, cultural studies, literary theory and film studies.