Issues In Literary Theory History And Criticism

Author : M. A. R. Habib
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405148849

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A History of Literary Criticism by M. A. R. Habib Pdf

This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud’s views on civilization Can be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction

Author : Anne H. Stevens
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781770485617

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Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction by Anne H. Stevens Pdf

Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches. The final chapter applies a variety of theoretical concepts and approaches to two famous works of literature: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Author : Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko,Galin Tihanov
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822977445

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A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism by Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko,Galin Tihanov Pdf

This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age. By examining the dynamics of literary criticism and theory in three arenas—political, intellectual, and institutional—the authors capture the progression and structure of Russian literary criticism and its changing function and discourse. For the first time anywhere, this collection analyzes all of the important theorists and major critical movements during a tumultuous ideological period in Russian history, including developments in émigré literary theory and criticism. Winner of the 2012 Efim Etkind Prize for the best book on Russian culture, awarded by the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780192853189

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Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton Pdf

Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521300126

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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism by George Alexander Kennedy Pdf

The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.

Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135053017

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Literary Criticism and Theory by Pelagia Goulimari Pdf

This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler; key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory; genres and movements in literary history: epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Historical connections between theorists and theories are traced and the book is generously cross-referenced. With useful features such as key-point conclusions, further reading sections, descriptive text boxes, detailed headings, and with a comprehensive index, this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching literary theory for the first time or unfamiliar with the scope of its history.

Author : Chinyere Nwahunanya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015050136780

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Issues in Literary Theory, History and Criticism by Chinyere Nwahunanya Pdf

Author : J. R. de J. Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134835478

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Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts by J. R. de J. Jackson Pdf

In this original and significant contribution to literary controversy, first published in 1989, Professor Jackson argues on semantic grounds that historical criticism, which he defines as the attempt to read works of literature and criticism as they were read when they were new, is a necessary preliminary to other ways of approaching the literature of the past. He distinguishes between the difficulties inherent in the practice of historical critics and the problems encountered by historians. Historical criticism as he describes it is an ideal that has yet to be attained and he explores strategies for coming closer to it. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

Author : Paul H. Fry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300183368

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Theory of Literature by Paul H. Fry Pdf

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them the hermeneutic circle, New Criticism, structuralism, linguistics and literature, Freud and fiction, Jacques Lacan's theories, the postmodern psyche, the political unconscious, New Historicism, the classical feminist tradition, African American criticism, queer theory, and gender performativity. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature.

Author : Philip Smallwood
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 083875595X

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Critical Pasts by Philip Smallwood Pdf

This volume assembles new thinking on the theory, practice, and cultural value of the history of literary criticism. Focusing on a theme that has attracted relatively little developed theoretical commentary hitherto, the authors of these essays draw on specialist areas of critical history - and different kinds of problems - to illustrate the paradoxes that attend any attempt to write the history of critical writing. dimension of restoration criticism, the relations between poetry and criticism, and a test case in eighteenth-century criticism's reception aesthetics. Other essays consider relations between eighteenth-century critical and literary history, between romanticism and New Historicism, and the various ways in which present and past criticism is interrelated. In an introduction to the volume, the editor calls for a clearer confrontation with the representational issues of critical history by those who write about the critical past.

Author : Arshad Ahammad A.,Nada Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781527570412

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Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas by Arshad Ahammad A.,Nada Rajan Pdf

The papers in this book, covering a wide range of themes such as history, globalisation, colonialism, trauma, ecology, cinema, science, post-humanism, feminisms, and alternative sexualities, explore the structures of power that bring about and contour the prevailing, stereotypical and hegemonic notions of identity, gender and culture. The focal point of these interactions is the perpetual dissemination of ideas which stimulate the knowledge system with its roots spread across diverse scholarly disciplines. This collection will be of great interest to academicians, scholars, researchers, and students, as it explores various discourses in literature, cultural studies, literary theory and film studies.

Author : David Perkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674879139

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Theoretical Issues in Literary History by David Perkins Pdf

Literary history, the dominant form of literary scholarship throughout the nineteenth century, is currently recapturing the imaginations of a new generation of scholars eager to focus on the context of literature after a half-century or more of "close" readings of isolated texts. This book represents current thinking on some of the theoretical issues and dilemmas in the conception and writing of literary history, expressed by a group of scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia. They consider afresh a broad range of topics: the role of literary history in "new" societies, the problem of finding a starting point for literary history, the problem of literary classification, problems of ideology, of institutional mediation, periodization, and the attack on literary history.

Author : Jerome J. McGann,California Institute of Technology,Weingart Foundation
Publisher : Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106007045690

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Historical Studies and Literary Criticism by Jerome J. McGann,California Institute of Technology,Weingart Foundation Pdf

For the past fifty years literary studies and criticism have been dominated by formalist, structural and text-centered approaches. The editor of this volume, Jerome J. McGann, has been arguing in recent years for more expansive and contextual procedures. In this collection of essays he has brought together a group of distinguished collaborators--including Terry Eagleton, Marilyn Butler, Cecil Lang, and Sandra Gilbert--whose work emphasizes the importance of social and historical methodologies for the study of literary texts. Representing a variety of viewpoints and critical strategies, these critics together demonstrate the sociohistorical dimensions of literary works, provide examples of how studies of such literary works might be pursued, and suggest some central areas of investigation. The resulting effort to reconstitute some vital and neglected critical approaches will engage students and scholars of literature, and move them to reassess current critical assumptions. Fundamental to this collection is the sense that literary texts are more than self-enclosed verbal constructs. In his introduction to the essays, editor McGann examines how and why the concept of referentiality fell into disfavor with modern literary schools. The antihistorical bias of the New Critics, Structuralists, and Deconstructionists, he argues, ultimately limit their critical vision. For literature, McGann stresses, has various points of reference to a larger world of social interactions and historical influence; only by recognizing and reconstructing that world can we mine the full meaning, and communicative potential, of a fictional work.

Author : Arun Gupto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000453195

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Literary Theory and Criticism by Arun Gupto Pdf

The book explores key South Asian writings on cultural theory and literary criticism. It discusses the dynamics of textual contents, rhetorical styles, and socio-political issues through an exploration of seminal South Asian scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The volume examines concepts and methods of critical studies. It also discusses colonial and postcolonial discourses on art, religion, nationalism, identity, representation, resistance, and gender in the South Asian context. The essays are accompanied by textual questions and intertextual discussions on rhetorical, creative, and critical aspects of the selected texts. The exercise questions invite the reader to explore the mechanics of reading about and writing on discursive pieces in South Asian studies. Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this textbook will be indispensable for students and researchers of South Asian studies, cultural theory, literary criticism, postcolonial studies, literary and language studies, women and gender studies, rhetoric and composition, political sociology, and cultural studies.

Author : George Alexander Kennedy,Glyn P. Norton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521300088

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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance by George Alexander Kennedy,Glyn P. Norton Pdf

This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.