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Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1711
Category : Criticism
ISBN : OXFORD:504107796
Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky,Joseph F. Hill
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015004751270
Verzameling eerder gepubliceerde analyses van het werk van de Zweedse cineast (geb. 1918), zowel door filmdeskundigen als door critici met een andere benadering
Author : Anthony Hecht
Publisher : New York : Atheneum
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029927525
"The proper role of criticism [is] as a musical obbligato; that is, a counterpart that must constantly strive to move in strict harmony with and intellectual counterpoint to its subject, and remain always subordinate to the text upon which it presumes to comment." With this declaration, Hecht sets forth the manifesto of this graceful group of essays, implicitly chiding today's academic critics who apply theories to texts. Hecht is particularly elegant and eloquent on contemporary American poetry, from the tension between truth and fiction in Robert Lowell's autobiographical lyrics to the "musicianship" of Richard Wilbur. Hecht's best essay evokes the unique poetic voice of Elizabeth Bishop, and he is equally perspicacious on Frost, Auden, and Dickinson. An extended essay on Marvell's "The Garden" and Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" offers an unusual comparative reading that captures the energies and langours of both poems. This book offers literary essays of rare quality. The writing throughout is a model of form suiting function--the lucid exposition of well-chosen ideas.
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780679645856
To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom.” In this, his largest collection of assorted prose, he brings generosity and insight to the works and lives of William Dean Howells, George Bernard Shaw, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and dozens more. Novels from outposts of postmodernism like Turkey, Albania, Israel, and Nigeria are reviewed, as are biographies of Cleopatra and Dorothy Parker. The more than a hundred considerations of books are flanked, on one side, by short stories, a playlet, and personal essays, and, on the other, by essays on his own oeuvre. Updike’s odd jobs would be any other writer’s chief work.
Author : Peter Bondanella,Peter E. Bondanella
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015003764076
Author : Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0415054613
Writing by and about black women - an activity once regarded as marginal - has become essential to any consideration of the role of literature in society. Black women's writing raises issues of race, class, and gender, and questions the formation of the literary canon, the creation and maintenance of tradition, and the role of the media in controlling perceptions of what matters.
Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1711
Category : Criticism
ISBN : CHI:56787625
Author : Roy Foster
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691211473
A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. In On Seamus Heaney, leading Irish historian and literary critic R. F. Foster gives an incisive and eloquent account of the poet and his work against the background of a changing Ireland. Drawing on unpublished drafts and correspondence, Foster provides illuminating and personal interpretations of Heaney’s work. Though a deeply charismatic figure, Heaney refused to don the mantle of public spokesperson, and Foster identifies a deliberate evasiveness and creative ambiguity in his poetry. In this, and in Heaney’s evocation of a disappearing rural Ireland haunted by political violence, Foster finds parallels with the other towering figure of Irish poetry, W. B. Yeats. Foster also discusses Heaney’s cosmopolitanism, his support for dissident poets abroad, and his increasing focus in his later work on death and spiritual transcendence. Above all, Foster examines how Heaney created an extraordinary connection with an exceptionally wide readership, giving him an authority and power unique among contemporary writers. Combining a vivid account of Heaney’s life and a compelling reading of his entire oeuvre, On Seamus Heaney extends our understanding of the man as it enriches our appreciation of his poetry.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0141187093
Author : Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0299152642
This collection of essays by Rudolph Arnheim (film criticism, U. of Michigan) explores film theory, criticism, and many classic films from the silent and early sound period (the 1920s and early 1930s). The majority of essays included in this collection were written and published in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, and have been translated into English for the first time. Arnheim argues that up until 1930, film artists created pure forms of cinema crafted with a narrative economy which could unify the most varied of effects. As movies became more realistic looking due to technical advances, cinema began to lose its integrity and viability. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780358212102
A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction--and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us. In "Freedom," Le Guin notes: "Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now ... to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom--poets, visionaries--realists of a larger reality." Le Guin was one of those authors and inWords Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.
Author : Wendy Kaminer
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UVA:X002754758
This is no accidental collection but a cohesive set of reflections on fundamental themes - self-reliance, justice, sex, and civil liberty.
Author : Anne Toner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108424158
A new exploration of the innovative features of Jane Austen's style.
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307488398
In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs on New York, religion, and lust—here is “more matter” commissioned by an age that, as the author remarks in his Preface, calls for “real stuff . . . not for the obliquities and tenuosities of fiction.” Still, the novelist’s shaping hand, his gift for telling detail, can be detected in many of these literary considerations. Books by Edith Wharton, Dawn Powell, John Cheever, and Vladimir Nabokov are incisively treated, as are biographies of Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth II, and Helen Keller. As George Steiner observed, Updike writes with a “solicitous, almost tender intelligence. The critic and the poet in him . . . are at no odds with the novelist; the same sharpness of apprehension bears on the object in each of Updike’s modes.”
Author : James Ogden,Arthur Hawley Scouten
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 083863690X
The late William Ringler, Jr. and James Ogden examine the theatrical tradition from Shakespeare's time to the nineteenth century. The history of literary criticism to Bradley and beyond is sketched in the introduction, and recent criticism is described in more detail by Richard Levin. Carol Rutter's essay on the women characters in the play is inspired partly by feminist criticism and partly by recent productions. The productions of the last thirty years are covered by theater critic Benedict Nightingale, and the major film versions by Anthony Davies and Stephen Phillips. Finally, Stuart Sillars presents a "visual history," an account of artistic responses that suggests further possibilities for both research and teaching.
