Critical Essays On Literature Language And Aesthetics

Author : Saroja Ganapathy,Arnapurna Rath
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781527522503

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Critical Essays on Literature, Language, and Aesthetics by Saroja Ganapathy,Arnapurna Rath Pdf

This volume of critical essays explores various facets of the social sciences and humanities from an interdisciplinary perspective. The essays gathered here have been culled from different aspects of humanities research in order to widen the scope of research possibilities. The dialogic mode in which the essays are arranged lends a unique texture to the book. This volume will be of interest to researchers, academics and even the casual reader with an interest in the humanities. The rich array of topics covered here gives an inkling of the range of Professor Milind Malshe’s research interests and his academic associations in his career as a scholar and mentor. The different sections in this volume engage in a performance of sorts, allowing a free play of many voices—identified as the core to teaching and research in the humanities.

Author : Ranjan K. Ghosh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811324604

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Essays in Literary Aesthetics by Ranjan K. Ghosh Pdf

The book deals with philosophical issues concerning the understanding of the literary text and its distinctive nature, meaning, and relevance to life. It also provides an occasion to revisit many of the seminal ideas towards these ends by contextualizing them in the current ongoing philosophical discourse on art, in general, and literary art, in particular. Some of the questions addressed in this book are: What is a literary text? What do we understand by the concept of intention in the context of literary arts? Are the feelings experienced in a literary text real? What then is the sense of “truth” in literature which is fictional in character? What relevance do moral concerns and perceptions have in appreciation of the literary text? These are some of the seminal questions that are dealt with by critically responding to views of contemporary thinkers. In short, the book makes an attempt to provide a critical overview of contemporary debates and discussions of literary aesthetics mainly from a Western analytical perspective. The author argues that understanding a literary text is not a purely cognitive exercise; on the contrary, we experience aesthetic meaning or truth in terms of valuable insights that play a role in our understanding of life and emotions. This book is useful for scholars, researchers and students of philosophy and literature interested in aesthetics.

Author : Peter Kivy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444397659

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Once-Told Tales by Peter Kivy Pdf

Drawing comparisons with other art forms, this book examines the role of aesthetic features in silent reading, such as narrative structure, and the core experience of reading a novel as a story rather than a scholarly exercise. Focuses on the experience of the art form known as the novel Uses the more common perspective of a reader who reads to be told a story, rather than for scholarly or critical analysis Draws comparisons with experience of the other arts, music in particular Explores the different effects of a range of narrative approaches

Author : Carla Carmona,Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788869772498

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Aesthetics Literature and Life by Carla Carmona,Jerrold Levinson Pdf

The complex relationship between life and the arts has always been a crucial topic in philosophical discourse. The essays in this book discuss fundamental issues of modern and contemporary aesthetics, drawing upon the work of the French philosopher Jean- Pierre Cometti, a key figure in the studies of aesthetics, pragmatism, and Austrian philosophy. The volume covers a wide-range of topics, from the examination of fundamental principles of art and literary criticism to a new understanding of the Modernist notion of art. It proposes an anthropological aesthetics using Musil’s The Man Without Qualities or the analysis of literary characters such as Tolstoj’s Hadji Murat and Cervantes’ Don Quixote as a tool to cast light on themes in Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Editors Carla Carmona and Jerrold Levinson have brought together renowned voices in the field of philosophy to offer a window onto Cometti’s philosophical work, as well as an in-depth analysis of contemporary artistic and aesthetic practices, in an effort to overcome what can sometimes appear as a gulf between art and life.

Author : Lesley Sharpe
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571130586

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Schiller's Aesthetic Essays by Lesley Sharpe Pdf

Friedrich Schiller, the dramatist and poet, greatly influenced the development of aesthetics through his essays. He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on aesthetic speculation. Dr Sharpe's book is the first study devoted to tracing the attempts of successive generations of philosophers and literary critics to expound the works and deal with the problems they present. Surveying Anglo-American as well as German-language criticism, she illuminates the impact of critical and political change on their evaluation.

Author : François Jost,Melvin J. Friedman
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874133637

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Aesthetics and the Literature of Ideas by François Jost,Melvin J. Friedman Pdf

This collection explores the aesthetic principles that pervade all sectors of human activities involving intellectual perceptiveness. The three areas of investigation are aesthetics and rationality in the realm of literary history and criticism; the genres and meanings in the metamorphosis of the arts: and aesthetics in literature, society, and politics.

Author : Jüri Talvet
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527540132

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Critical Essays on World Literature, Comparative Literature and the “Other” by Jüri Talvet Pdf

The book offers coherent theoretical treatment of the conceptions of “World Literature” and “Comparative Literature”, in parallel with their practical application to the research of different literary phenomena (Renaissance and Baroque creativity, literary canons, philosophy of translation, etc.), especially, as viewed from the point of view of the “other”—“peripheral” (minor, minority) national(-linguistic) cultures. Envisaging womankind’s historical liberation and a budding “comparative world sensibility” has been seen as one of the greatest merits of European “creative humanists”. To explain the deep sources of creativity and image authenticity, the notions of the (aesthetic) “infra-other” and (philosophical) “transgeniality” have been introduced. The proposed aim would be to transcend monologues of ideological-cultural “centres”, as well as formalistic and sociological trends in cultural and literary research and teaching. The book advocates a plurality of creative dialogues and a mutually enriching symbiotic relationship between “centres” and “peripheries”.

Author : Ralph W Church Dec'd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032201150

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An Essay on Critical Appreciation by Ralph W Church Dec'd Pdf

First published in 1938, An Essay on Critical Appreciation aims to provide a language suited for the explication on beauty. This explication is not based merely on emotion but is motivated by contemplation and discrimination. By virtue of being rendered in a discourse, an appreciation can claim to be critical or discriminating and 'beauty' can be said to have characteristics. The search of such a language takes the author through the contemplation on the meaning of 'beauty', entertaining contrary views, and reaching at an understanding of the aesthetic situation. This book will be of interest to students of English literature, philosophy and art.

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444359633

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Uses of Literature by Rita Felski Pdf

Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock Argues for a new “phenomenology” in literary studies that incorporates the historical and social dimensions of reading Includes examples of literature from a wide range of national literary traditions

Author : Tim Lawrence
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319753997

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Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics by Tim Lawrence Pdf

This book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett’s writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett’s late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett’s work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky’s theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.

Author : Ulrich Plass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135866204

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Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature by Ulrich Plass Pdf

Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno's Notes to Literature explores Adorno’s essays on literature as an independent contribution to his aesthetics with an emphasis on his theory and practice of literary interpretation. Essential to Adorno’s essays is his unorthodox treatment of language and history and his elaboration of the links between the two. One of Adorno’s major but often-neglected claims is that truth is relative to its historical medium, language. Adorno persistently and creatively tries to narrow the gulf between truth and expression, philosophy and rhetoric, and his essays on literature are practical examples of his effort to critically rescue the rhetorical dimension of philosophy. Rather than relying exclusively on aesthetic concepts inherited from his predecessors in the Western tradition (Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard), Adorno’s essays seek to transgress and transcend the conceptual limitations of aesthetic discourse by appropriating a non-conceptual, metaphorical vocabulary borrowed from the literary texts he investigates. Thus, Adorno’s interpretations of literature mobilize an alternative subterranean, primarily essayistic and fragmentary discourse on language and history that eludes the categories that tend to predominate his thinking in his major work, Aesthetic Theory. This book puts forth the claim that Adorno’s essays on literature are of central relevance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptual limitations of philosophical discourse.

Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191525634

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Contemplating Art by Jerrold Levinson Pdf

Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The book contains twenty-four essays and is divided into seven parts. The first is about issues relating to art in general, not specific to one art form. The second and longest part of the book is about philosophical problems specific to music. The third part focuses on pictorial art, and the fourth on interpretation, in particular the interpretation of literature and literary language. In the remaining parts of the book Levinson discusses aesthetic properties, issues in historical aesthetics, humour, and intrinsic value. These lively essays, rigorous but accessible, will appeal not only to philosophers but also to musicologists, literary theorists, art critics, and reflective lovers of the arts.

Author : Tracey Lorraine Walters
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820488062

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Zadie Smith by Tracey Lorraine Walters Pdf

"Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith's novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various ways Smith approaches issues of race, either by deconstructing notions of race or interrogating the complexity of biracial identity; and how Smith takes on contemporary debates concerning notions of Britishness, Englishness, and Black Britishness. Some essays also consider the shifting identities adopted by those who identify with both British and West Indian, South Asian, or East Asian ancestry. Other essays explore Smith's contemporary postcolonial approach to Britain's colonial legacy, and the difference between how immigrants and first-generation British-born children deal with cultural alienation and displacement. This thought-provoking collection is a much-needed critical tool for students and researchers in both contemporary British literature and Diasporic literature and culture."--Back cover.

Author : Roger Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0710068700

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Essays on Style and Language by Roger Fowler Pdf

Author : Janet Holmes,Nick Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000533996

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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Janet Holmes,Nick Wilson Pdf

Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts, considering both how language works and how it can be used to signal and interpret various aspects of social identity. Divided into three parts, this book explains basic sociolinguistic concepts in the light of classic approaches, as well as introducing more recent research. This sixth edition has been revised and updated throughout, using key concepts and examples to guide the reader through this fascinating area, including: • New material on gender, social media and online use of language, codeswitching, and language policy • An updated companion website that is fully cross- referenced within this book and features video and audio materials and links to useful websites • Revised examples and exercises that include new material from Asia and South America • Fully updated further reading and references sections An Introduction to Sociolinguistics is an essential introductory text for all students of sociolinguistics and a splendid point of reference for students of English language studies, linguistics, and applied linguistics.