Essays On Fiction 1971 82 Routledge Revivals

Author : Sir Frank Kermode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317510307

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Essays on Fiction 1971-82 (Routledge Revivals) by Sir Frank Kermode Pdf

In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of literary theory that flourished in the years immediately following the Revolution, and at the work of Roman Jakobson, one of its most distinguished exponents. He discusses its modern ‘structuralist’ descendants, recalling the importance of Roland Barthes and the invigorating effect of his fertile and surprising mind. He considers also the work of Foucault, Laca and Levi-Strauss, as well as that of Jacques Derrida, which uses a novel and de(con)structive method of analysis to question to tacit assumptions on which structuralism is based. In an opening chapter, Professor Kermode surveys his relationship with the new theory, explaining that it is a relation from which he has benefited without ever feeling disposed to join a movement. These essays will be of interest to students of literature.

Author : Frank Kermode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1317510291

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Essays on Fiction 1971-82 by Frank Kermode Pdf

Author : Frank Kermode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0710094426

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Essays on Fiction, 1971-82 by Frank Kermode Pdf

Author : Jean Radford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315447704

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Routledge Revivals: The Progress of Romance (1986) by Jean Radford Pdf

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance. The essays collected here reflect diverse positions and methods in the current debate: sociological, psychoanalytic and literary. Some focus more on texts or readers, others concentrate on theoretical questions about narrative or ideology. All of the essays, however, view popular forms and their uses historical in historical context — rejecting the notion they are a contaminated by-product of industrialism.

Author : William Schultz,Lewis L.B. Fried
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315470245

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Jacques Derrida (Routledge Revivals) by William Schultz,Lewis L.B. Fried Pdf

First published in 1992, this book represents the first major attempt to compile a bibliography of Derrida’s work and scholarship about his work. It attempts to be comprehensive rather than selective, listing primary and secondary works from the year of Derrida’s Master’s thesis in 1954 up until 1991, and is extensively annotated. It arranges under article type a huge number of works from scholars across numerous fields — reflecting the interdisciplinary and controversial nature of Deconstruction. The substantial introduction and annotations also make this bibliography, in part, a critical guide and as such will make a highly useful reference tool for those studying his philosophy.

Author : Timothy Gao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108837163

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Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel by Timothy Gao Pdf

Virtual, paracosmic, fictional -- Authorship, omnipotence, and Charlotte Bronte -- Plotting, improvisation, and Anthony Trollope -- Continuation, attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray -- Description, projection, and Charles.

Author : Frank Kermode
Publisher : London : Routledge & Kegan Paul
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0710094434

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Essays on Fiction, 1971-82 by Frank Kermode Pdf

Author : Martyn Sampson
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823294688

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Between Form and Faith by Martyn Sampson Pdf

What is a “Catholic” novel? This book analyzes the fiction of Graham Greene in a radically new manner, considering in depth its form and content, which rest on the oppositions between secularism and religion. Sampson challenges these distinctions, arguing that Greene has a dramatic contribution to add to their methodological premises. Chapters on Greene’s four “Catholic” novels and two of his “post-Catholic” novels are complemented by fresh insight into the critical importance of his nonfiction. The study paints an image of an inviting yet beguilingly complex literary figure.

Author : Kathryn Hume
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317638537

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Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals) by Kathryn Hume Pdf

Since Plato and Aristotle’s declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Marginalized fantasy- the deliberate from reality – has become the hidden face of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor genre. First published in 1984, this book rejects generic definitions of fantasy, arguing that it is not a separate or even separable strain in literary practice, but rather an impulse as significant as that of mimesis. Together, fantasy and mimesis are the twin impulses behind literary creation. In an analysis that ranges from the Icelandic sagas to science fiction, from Malory to pulp romance, Kathryn Hume systematically examines the various ways in which fantasy and mimesis contribute to literary representations of reality. A detailed and comprehensive title, this reissue will be of particular value to undergraduate literature students with an interest in literary genres and the centrality of literature to the creative imagination.

Author : Lennard J. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317672227

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Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals) by Lennard J. Davis Pdf

"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at work: the novel is also a defensive structure positioning us against alienation and loneliness: the dehumanising symptoms of modern life. While discussions surrounding ideology in novels traditionally concentrate on thematics, in this study – first published in 1987 - Davis approaches the subject through such structural features as location, character, dialogue and plot. Drawing on a wide range of novels from the seventeenth century to the present day, and on psychoanalysis as well as philosophy, Resisting Novels explores how fiction works subliminally to resist change and to detach the reader from the world of lived experience. This controversial critique will engage students and academics with a particular interest in literary theory.

Author : Rachel Bowlby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136999574

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Just Looking (Routledge Revivals) by Rachel Bowlby Pdf

The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, Just Looking, first published in 1985, addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms "commerce" and "culture" which emerged at a time which saw the actual drawing together of commercial and cultural practices. Drawing on structural, psychoanalytic and Marxist-feminist theory, Rachel Bowlby retrieves a relatively neglected literary area for contemporary political and theoretical concerns, re-establishing the naturalist novel as a rich source for feminists, literary theorists and cultural historians.

Author : John Rignall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317626282

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Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals) by John Rignall Pdf

The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study, first published in 1992, John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott, Balzac, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, James, Ford and Conrad, Rignall argues for an understanding of realism through the recurrent figure of the flâneur. The flâneur is the strolling spectator whose problematic vision both of and in the novel makes him the representative figure of the realist text. A significant contribution to the field, this title will be of particular view to students of realism, literary theory, and comparative literature.

Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791417476

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The Gothic Sublime by Vijay Mishra Pdf

This book reads the Gothic corpus with a thoroughly postmodern critical apparatus, pointing out that the Gothic Sublime anticipates our own doomed desire to pass beyond the hyperreal. A highly sophisticated theoretical reading of key texts of the Gothic, this book allows the reader to re-live the Gothic, not simply as a nostalgic relic or a pre-romantic aberration, but as a living presence that has strong resonances with the postmodern condition.

Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136971013

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Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals) by Christopher Norris Pdf

Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that offers a much-needed corrective to the pattern of extreme antithetical response which marked the initial reception to de Man's writings. Norris addresses de Man's relationship to philosophical thinking in the post-Kantian tradition, his concern with "aesthetic ideology" as a potent force of mystification within and beyond that tradition, and the vexed issue of de Man's politics. Norris brings out the marked shift of allegiance in de Man's thinking, from the thinly veiled conservative implications of the early essays to the engagement with Marx and Foucault on matters of language and politics in the late, posthumous writing. At each stage, Norris raises these questions through a detailed close reading of individual texts which will be welcomed by those who lack any specialised knowledge of de Man's work.

Author : Max Byrd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317678564

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Tristram Shandy (Routledge Revivals) by Max Byrd Pdf

Max Byrd’s lucidly written and compelling volume aims to provide a scholarly introduction to one of the most puzzling pieces of eighteenth-century literature, and a stimulus to critical thought and discussion. Laurence Sterne – an eccentric and largely unsuccessful clergyman - was forty-six when he sat down in January of 1759 to being his literary masterpiece. Aside from his sermons, only two of which had ever been published, Sterne had little more to do with the literary life than any other respectable provincial clergyman. His explosion into the history of English literature occurred not only without preparation, but also without apparent aptitude. Tristram Shandy, first published in 1985, sketches Sterne’s life and literary antecedents, closely analysing key passages of his great satire and concluding with the critical history and bibliography. It will thus be of use to all students of eighteenth-century English literature.