How Literature Works

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199794263

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How Literature Works by John Sutherland Pdf

How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. It offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland--widely admired for his wit and clear reasoning--strips away the obscurity and pretension of literary study. His book offers concise definitions and clear examples of the fifty concepts that all book lovers should know. It includes basic descriptive terms (ambiguity, epic), the core vocabulary of literary culture (genre, style), and devices employed by authors (irony, defamiliarization). More broadly, How Literature Works explores the animating concepts behind literary theory (textuality, sexual politics), traces the forces that impact literature's role in the real world (obscenity, plagiarism), and grapples with the future of reading (fanfic, e-book). For any reader who wants to get the most out of the literature they read, Sutherland's short sharp book will both inform and delight.

Author : Kenneth Quinn
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780333568347

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How Literature Works by Kenneth Quinn Pdf

In How Literature Works important issues of literary theory are vividly illustrated by application to a wide variety of texts, many quoted and discussed at length. The theoretical aspects covered include the structural characteristics of literary texts, the psychology of the reading process and the social function of literature. The book also deals with such general questions as the relationship between literary texts and `objective' prose and the relationship between poems written to work as songs and those in which the lyric form is used to develop an argument: the singing and the speaking voice.

Author : David Owen,Cristina Pividori
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527578067

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Theoretically Speaking about Literature by David Owen,Cristina Pividori Pdf

Literary theory has become such a central part of the study of literature, particularly at university level, that a solid familiarity with its basic ideas is now essential. This book will appeal to students who may find the many theoretical approaches that they encounter to be complex, highly demanding, and difficult to incorporate into their own work, and will also be of interest to teachers who are trying to guide their students towards a clear and constructive understanding of this ambit. Through focus on a single study text, discussed from the perspective of eighteen distinct theories that are presented and explained in a consistent manner throughout, readers are given a practical and comprehensible insight into the ideas and beliefs that underpin critical interpretation.

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191047589

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The Work of Literature by Derek Attridge Pdf

What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible criticism? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which develops the arguments put forward in Derek Attridge's influential study The Singularity of Literature (2004). Beginning with an extended cross-examination in the form of an interview addressing a range of topics relating to the work of literature (understood both as the activity of the writer and as the text itself) and the practices of literary reading and literary criticism, it asks what it means to 'do justice to' a work of literature, provides a full account of the concept of singularity, considers the problematic power of criticism, and advances an account of the role of context in the writing and reading of literary works. In other chapters it explores the issue of cultural difference in responses to literature, discusses the working of metaphor, questions the attribution of knowledge to literary works, and addresses the topics of affect and hospitality. The book follows through the consequences of regarding the singular and inventive work of literature as an event that takes place anew each time it is read, providing an opening to an otherness excluded by prevailing cultural norms and habits of thought and feeling. Although the focus of the book is on literature, the arguments are relevant to all the arts, and engage with the thought of major aesthetic theorists in a number of traditions.

Author : Michael Mack
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441119148

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How Literature Changes the Way We Think by Michael Mack Pdf

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Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674950844

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"What is Literature?" and Other Essays by Jean-Paul Sartre Pdf

What is Literature? challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account.

Author : Alex Palmer
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781616080952

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Literary Miscellany by Alex Palmer Pdf

Behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing, and everything..

Author : John Carey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199735976

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What Good Are the Arts? by John Carey Pdf

A lively and stimulating invitation to debate the value of art offers a provocative study that will pique the interest of and inspire any reader who loves painting, music, or literature.

Author : Kay Dick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946022288

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They by Kay Dick Pdf

A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression—“queer, English, a masterpiece.” (Hilton Als) Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the purge. As the menacing “They” creep ever closer, a loosely connected band of dissidents attempt to evade the chilling mobs, but it’s only a matter of time until their luck runs out. Winner of the 1977 South-East Arts Literature Prize, Kay Dick’s They is an uncanny and prescient vision of a world hostile to beauty, emotion, and the individual.

Author : Franco Moretti
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781680841

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Distant Reading by Franco Moretti Pdf

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have often developed around his positions. From the evolutionary model of “Modern European Literature,” through the geo-cultural insights of “Conjectures of World Literature” and “Planet Hollywood,” to the quantitative findings of “Style, inc.” and the abstract patterns of “Network Theory, Plot Analysis,” the book follows two decades of conceptual development, organizing them around the metaphor of “distant reading,” that has come to define—well beyond the wildest expectations of its author—a growing field of unorthodox literary studies.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Education
ISBN : 0811201511

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ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound Pdf

Ezra Pound's classic book about the meaning of literature.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780684859071

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How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom Pdf

Bloom, the best-known literary critic of our time, shares his extensive knowledge of and profound joy in the works of a constellation of major writers, including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Austen, Dickinson, Melville, Wilde, and O'Connor in this eloquent invitation to readers to read and read well.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486144672

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Literary Theory and Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Essential anthology of Poe's critical works reviews works by Dickens, Hawthorne, many others. Includes Theory of Poetry ("The Philosophy of Composition," "The Rationale of Verse," "The Poetic Principle"). Introduction.

Author : Paul B. Armstrong
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421410036

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How Literature Plays with the Brain by Paul B. Armstrong Pdf

For the neuroscientific community, the study suggests that different areas of research—the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions—may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. For critics and students of literature, the study engages fundamental questions within the humanities: What is aesthetic experience? What happens when we read a literary work? How does the interpretation of literature relate to other ways of knowing?