In The Age Of Prose

Author : Erich Heller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521254930

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In the Age of Prose by Erich Heller Pdf

The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological self-questioning and compromised by political disaster. Erich Heller traces this predicament with subtlety and profundity, from Hegel's and Nietzsche's diagnoses to the various truces and manoeuvres through which remarkable victories have nonetheless been achieved - such as the comic triumphs of Wilhelm Busch. As elsewhere in Professor Heller's work, Thomas Mann's attempt to outwit and redeem his circumstances through art - 'despite' them, as he said himself - occupies a central place. Three of the present essays are devoted to him. Others consider Kleist, Fontane, Hamsun, Karl Kraus and the crucial figures of Hölderlin (who plays such a central role in Heidegger's later philosophical writings) and Rilke. Written with feeling, and the distinctive elegance and wit that have characterized all of Professor Heller's work, the essays here reaffirm the vital interdependence of literature and human values.

Author : Alan W. Bellringer,C. B. Jones
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9051830505

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The Victorian Age in Prose by Alan W. Bellringer,C. B. Jones Pdf

Author : Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038499161

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In an Age of Prose by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi Pdf

Author : Alan W. Bellringer,C. B. Jones
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : English prose literature
ISBN : 9062039812

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The Romantic Age in Prose by Alan W. Bellringer,C. B. Jones Pdf

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062397881

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What to Read and Why by Francine Prose Pdf

In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan and Roberto Bolaño. In an age defined by hyper-connectivity and constant stimulation, Francine Prose makes a compelling case for the solitary act of reading and the great enjoyment it brings. Inspiring and illuminating, What to Read and Why includes selections culled from Prose’s previous essays, reviews, and introductions, combined with new, never-before-published pieces that focus on her favorite works of fiction and nonfiction, on works by masters of the short story, and even on books by photographers like Diane Arbus. Prose considers why the works of literary masters such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Jane Austen have endured, and shares intriguing insights about modern authors whose words stimulate our minds and enlarge our lives, including Roberto Bolaño, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jennifer Egan, and Mohsin Hamid. Prose implores us to read Mavis Gallant for her marvelously rich and compact sentences, and her meticulously rendered characters who reveal our flawed and complex human nature; Edward St. Aubyn for his elegance and sophisticated humor; and Mark Strand for his gift for depicting unlikely transformations. Here, too, are original pieces in which Prose explores the craft of writing: "On Clarity" and "What Makes a Short Story." Written with her sharp critical analysis, wit, and enthusiasm, What to Read and Why is a celebration of literature that will give readers a new appreciation for the power and beauty of the written word.

Author : Mary Kinzie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226437353

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The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose by Mary Kinzie Pdf

The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs. How this mutual purpose is served, ideally and practically, is the subject of this bracingly polemical collection of essays. A distinguished poet and critic, Kinzie assesses poetry's situation during the past twenty-five years. Ours, she contends, is literally a prosaic age, not only in the popularity of prose genres but in the resultant compromises with truth and elegance in literature. In essays on "the rhapsodic fallacy," confessionalism, and the romance of perceptual response, Kinzie diagnoses some of the trends that diminish the poet's flexibility. Conversely, she also considers individual poets—Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Seamus Heaney, and John Ashbery—who have found ingenious ways of averting the risks of prosaism and preserving the special character of poetry. Focusing on poet Louise Bogan and novelist J. M. Coetzee, Kinzie identifies a crucial and curative overlap between the practices of great prose-writing and great poetry. In conclusion, she suggests a new approach for teaching writers of poetry and fiction. Forcefully argued, these essays will be widely read and debated among critics and poets alike.

Author : John Wilson Bowyer,John Lee Brooks
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : English literature
ISBN : OSU:32435007375645

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The Victorian Age by John Wilson Bowyer,John Lee Brooks Pdf

Author : John Wilson Bowyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:733856916

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The Victorian Age by John Wilson Bowyer Pdf

Author : Louis Ignatius Bredvold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4379958

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Eighteenth Century Poetry & Prose by Louis Ignatius Bredvold Pdf

The purpose os this volume is to provide representative selections from English prose and poetry of the eighteenth century for undergraduate courses in that period. In this second edition of the anthology the editors have expanded the contents considerably. Additions have been made from Addison, Pope, Swift, Young, Smart, Burke, and Reynolds, with Blake's comments. The extensive notes and introductions should assist the beginning student to understand the texts, but it is hoped that they will also lead him to explore further in the works listed in the bibliographies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11874557

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The Nineteenth Century and After by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781685693

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The Age of the Poets by Alain Badiou Pdf

The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the “age of the poets,” which stretches from Hölderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, “The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process,” Badiou offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology.

Author : R. Garnett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752386608

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The Age of Dryden by R. Garnett Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Age of Dryden by R. Garnett

Author : Liddell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1806 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00093560

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A Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell Pdf

Author : Annette Wheeler Cafarelli
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512801262

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Prose in the Age of Poets by Annette Wheeler Cafarelli Pdf

In Prose in the Age of Poets, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli demonstrates that nonfictional narrative of the time was a central expression of British Romanticism. The rise of interest in the individual traditionally associated with Romantic autobiography was actually part of a wider cultural interest in biography—especially literary biography. Following Johnson's lead in the Lives of the Poets, virtually every major writer of the period experimented with sequences of short, anecdotal lives that became a characteristic Romantic vehicle for discussing theories of creativity, canon, and the place of the poet in society. The Romantics took in new directions the examination of the relation of artists' lives and works, biographers and their subjects, and texts and their readers. Romantic biography, Cafarelli contends, offers a perspective from which to reconsider conventional boundaries of genre, periodization, and the movement from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In examining the Romantics as prose writers and biographers, Cafarelli explores the affiliations between Romantic theories of reading and writing and twentieth-century critical methodologies. She situates the biographical writings of the major poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron, in the context of detailed analyses of biographies by Johnson, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Scott, Southey, and other lesser-known contemporaries. Prose in the Age of Poets will interest scholars and students of Romanticism, Johnson, biography and autobiography, and narrative theory.

Author : Edmund Kemper Broadus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0483262145

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English Prose From Bacon to Hardy (Classic Reprint) by Edmund Kemper Broadus Pdf

Excerpt from English Prose From Bacon to Hardy The choice of passages has often been guided by what is characteristic of an author or period rather than by what is intrinsically best. In the case of Dickens, fer instance, the chapter on the death of Little Nell has been included because it represents an important side of the novelist's work better than some passages less open to criticism. In most cases, fortunately, it has been possible to reconcile the two principles of selection. An attempt has been made, in a way not usually done in books of selections, to present the various aspects of an author's work. Thus Bacon is represented not only by some of his essays, but also by passages from The Advancement of Learning and The Life of Henry VII. Other examples which illustrate the same purpose are Swift, Johnson, Scott, Coleridge, and Stevenson. One feature of the book which may be mentioned is the selection from the essayists and letter-writers of the eighteenth century. The main purpose in this case is to throw some light on the social background of literature at the time, and to represent fairly liberally two types of literature peculiarly characteristic of the period. No similar selections from the nineteenth century have been given because the compact literary society of the previous age had disappeared and the more complex conditions which replaced it could not be illustrated in the same simple way. There is also the reason that many of the greatest nineteenth-century letter-writers are known chiefly as poets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.