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Author : Clyde de L. Ryals
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780814203521
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013979433
Author : Dr Britta Martens
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478874
Taking an original approach to Robert Browning's poetics, Britta Martens focuses on a corpus of relatively neglected poems in Browning's own voice in which he reflects on his poetry, his self-conceptualization and his place in the poetic tradition. She analyzes his work in relation to Romanticism, Victorian reactions to the Romantic legacy, and wider nineteenth-century changes in poetic taste, to argue that in these poems, as in his more frequently studied dramatic monologues, Browning deploys varied dramatic methods of self-representation, often critically and ironically exposing the biases and limitations of the seemingly authoritative speaker 'Browning'. The poems thus become devices for Browning's detached evaluation of his own and of others' poetics, an evaluation never fully explicit but presented with elusive economy for the astute reader to interpret. The confrontation between the personal authorial voice and the dramatic voice in these poems provides revealing insights into the poet's highly self-conscious, conflicted and sustained engagement with the Romantic tradition and the diversely challenging reader expectations that he faces in a post-Romantic age. As the Victorian most rigorous in his rejection of Romantic self-expression, Browning is a key transitional figure between the sharply antagonistic periods of Romanticism and Modernism. He is also, as Martens persuasively demonstrates, a poet of complex contradictions and an illuminating case study for addressing the perennial issues of voice, authorial authority and self-reference.
Author : John Haydn Baker
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838640389
"This book will be of interest to students of English literature - particularly those working on Bloomian influence theory, Wordsworth, or Browning - as well as to more senior scholars working on poetry of the Romantic and Victorian periods. The work will also interest those working on the deeply ambiguous figure of the later Browning - simultaneously the most popular poet in the country after Tennyson and one of the most uncompromisingly complex - and his vexed relationship with the reading public."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Hédi A. Jaouad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319926483
Browning Upon Arabia charts Robert Browning’s early and enduring engagement with the East, particularly the Arab East. This book highlights the complexities of Browning’s poetry, revealing Browning’s resistance to triumphalist and imperialist forms of Orientalism generated by many nineteenth-century British and European literary and scholarly portrayals of the East. Hédi A. Jaouad argues that Browning extensively researched the literature, history, philosophy, and culture of the East to produce poetry that is sensitive to its Eastern resources and devoted to confirming the interrelation of Northern and Eastern knowledge in pursuit of a new form of transcendental humanism.
Author : David Miller
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443802758
Taking its point of initiation from the long-standing dialogue between poetry and philosophy concerning their respective claims to contrasting orders of insight, this book tackles issues relating to the differing conditions of knowledge and insights relating to language and thought imparted by ‘modern’ poets and philosophers, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. The book draws on recent debates in literary theory and philosophy in order to outline a new ‘dialogic’ approach for conducting comparative criticism and literary history. The poets and the philosophers appear under configurations of reading that produce considerations that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
Author : Stefan Hawlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134596430
Accessibly written throughout, this guidebook covers biographical details, information on the historical and social contexts of Browning's work, an overview of the full range of his work and a survey of the major critical debates surrounding him and his work.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438115825
Provides insight into five of Browning's most influential works along with a brief biography of the poet.
Author : Thomas J. Collins,Richard J. Shroyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429638978
Published in 1988, and including all seven of Robert Browning’s dramas, Collins and Shroyer introduce this convenient and reliable reading text by discussing the plays with a history of criticism and giving insightful notes on each individual play in the book.
Author : Mary Sanders Pollock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317201496
First published in 2003, this book examines the creative partnership of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, and provides a critical analysis of the poems written by this famous couple during the 16 year period of their friendship, courtship and marriage. Even quite early in their relationship, the Brownings shared a frame of reference: similar themes, narrative structures, and details of phrasing resonate in their works and suggest dialogue, rather than merely mutual influence. Pollock traces parallels between the Brownings' lives and works even before they met, and then throughout their courtship and married life, suggesting that their creative dialogue continued after Barrett Browning died in 1861, as her presence and themes continued to inform Browning's poetry for at least a decade afterward.
Author : Suzanne Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136993336
Current work on speech pragmatics and visual thinking calls for a radical reassessment of the problem of obscurity or difficulty in Robert Browning’s work. In this innovative study, Bailey reinterprets Browning's life and work in the context of contemporary theories of language and attention, drawn from the cognitive sciences. Specifically, new readings of under-examined historical sources show the extent to which Browning’s cognitive and perceptual worlds differed from the norm, aligning him with Victorians like Sir Francis Galton or fellow-artist William Wetmore Story. Exploring how perceptual biases are transformed in the language of the poems, Bailey demonstrates how the cognitive sciences can ground a new biographical practice, drawing attention to such matters as the creative process and the ethics of understanding individuals who think differently. In doing so, she re-energizes debates about this unusual Victorian poet, his later works, and the nature of literary style.
Author : Britta Martens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349928743
Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes him a key figure in the wider field of Victorian studies. This stimulating introduction to Browning criticism provides an overview of the major responses to the poet's work over the last two hundred years. It offers an insightful guide to criticism from various theoretical perspectives, elucidating Browning's participation in Victorian debates about aesthetics, history, politics, religion, gender and psychology.
Author : Richard S. Kennedy,Donald S. Hair
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826265524
Author : Donald S. Hair
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487589622
What are the influences that shaped the language used by one of the nineteenth century's greatest writers? How did his religious beliefs, the books he owned, the paintings and music he loved, affect almost sixty years' output of poems, plays, essays, and letters? This book attempts to define Browning's understanding of the nature and use of words and syntax by considering not only a full range of texts from the 1833 Pauline to the 1889 Asolando, but also the ideas important to Browning, the historical context in which he lived, and the other artistic passions that played a part in his life. In this companion volume to Tennyson's Language, Donald Hair establishes Browning's place at the crossroads between empirical and idealist traditions and explains his "double view" of language, arguing that both Locke and the Congregationalists found language to be at the same time empty and a God-given essential. The Victorian age's anti-theatrical bias, which Browning came to share, and his reading of predecessors, principally Quarles, Bunyan, Donne, and Smart, also shaped his understanding of the diction of poetry. Hair conceives of Browning's language as a theoretical whole, encompassing words, genres, rhyme, syntax, and phonetics. He also links Browning's interest in music with his rhyming, the most essential and characteristic feature of his prosody, and relates his interest in painting to the interpretation of the visual image in the emblem and in typology.
Author : Eleanor Cook
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442637634
Browning's lyrics are favourite choices for anthologies but are rarely examined closely. This is the first full-length study of the lyrics, and includes detailed analyses of such well-known poems as Love Among the Ruins, Two in the Campagna, A Serenade at the Villa, A Toccata of Galuppi's, By the Fireside, and James Lee's Wife. Eleanor Cook explores Browning's use of repeated images and themes in the lyrics, examines these patterns in other poems and in his letters, and analyses their growth and change in all his work. She demonstrates how the lyrics may be linked with Browning's other work and shows something of his essential artistic unity. His imaginary is found to be more consistent and complex than is usually assumed. Students of Browning will find this work stimulating and instructive, while lovers of Browning will read it with pure pleasure. The reader will return to many of the poems with a rciher sense of their continuing vitality. In an earlier form this study was awarded the first A.S.P. Woodhouse Prize by the University of Toronto.