Literary Criticism Idea And Act

Author : W. K. Wimsatt
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520329430

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Criticism, Addresses, essays, lectures
ISBN : 0520025857

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Author : W. K. Wimsatt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520329447

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Literary Criticism by W. K. Wimsatt Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Author : Michael Ryan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444357059

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An Introduction to Criticism by Michael Ryan Pdf

An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism such as evolutionary theory, cognitive studies, ethical criticism, and ecocriticism Offers explanations of key works and major ideas in literary criticism and suggests key elements to look for in a literary text Also applies critical approaches to various examples from film studies Helps students to build a critical framework and write analytically

Author : Raman Selden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317902300

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The Theory of Criticism by Raman Selden Pdf

This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and periods are juxtaposed. The study of literary theory has tended to concentrate on very recent developments. This volume, however, establishes both a sense of the continuities from Plato to the present day as well as the discontinuities. These are presented through comparisons and contrasts across the entire field of critical history.

Author : Roger D. Sell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1556198396

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Literature as Communication by Roger D. Sell Pdf

This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it, among other things, a timely intervention in the postmodern "culture wars," though the theory put forward will be of interest not only to students of literature and culture, but also to linguists. Sell describes communication in general as strongly interactive, as very much affected by the disparate situationalities of "sending" and "receiving," yet as by no means completely determined by them. Seen this way, men and women are both social beings and individuals, capable of empathizing with sociohistorical formations which are alien to them, sometimes even to the extent of changing their own life-world. By treating literary activity as communicational in this same dynamic sense, Sell radically modifies the main paradigms of twentieth-century literary theory, casting much new light on questions of genre, interpretation, affect and ethics.

Author : Clarence Gohdes,Sanford E. Marovitz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822305925

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Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A. by Clarence Gohdes,Sanford E. Marovitz Pdf

This fifth revised edition features approximately 1,900 items, most of which are annotated. It addresses several interdisciplinary studies that have become prominent in the last decade, especially on popular culture, racial and other minorities, Native Americans and Chicanos, and literary regionalism. It allots more space to computer aids, science fiction, children's literature, literature of the sea, film and literature, and linguistic studies of American English and includes a new section on psychology. The appendix lists the biography of each of 135 deceased American authors. ISBN 0-8223-0592-5 : $22.50 (For use only in the library).

Author : Rory Ryan,Susan Van Zyl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Communism in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039449017

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An Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory by Rory Ryan,Susan Van Zyl Pdf

Author : Averroës
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015053143585

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Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics by Averroës Pdf

Aristotle's Poetics has held the attention of scholars and authors through the ages, and Averroes has long been known as "the commentator" on Aristotle. His Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics is important because of its striking content. Here, an author steeped in Aristotle's thought and highly familiar with an entirely different poetical tradition shows in careful detail what is commendable about Greek poetics and commendable as well as blameworthy about Arabic poetics.

Author : Louis J. Budd,Edwin Harrison Cady
Publisher : Best from American Literature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015029470799

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On Poe by Louis J. Budd,Edwin Harrison Cady Pdf

From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. The journal has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of the discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.

Author : Stephen L. Tanner
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0887065600

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Paul Elmer More by Stephen L. Tanner Pdf

Paul Elmer More was one of the leaders of the New Humanism, the most important critical movement in the United States during the first decades of this century. It was a wide-ranging moral approach to literary and cultural criticism that laid the intellectual foundation for American conservatism. Though eclipsed in the realm of critical fashions by more exclusively aesthetic approaches, the moral approach retains its appeal among general readers, and More has remained known and respected among those concerned with literature as an expression of ideas and values, as a criticism of life. Seriously considered for the Nobel Prize on two occasions, More wrote over a dozen volumes of literary criticism, which Robert Spiller, in the Literary History of the United States, calls "the utmost ambitious and often the most penetrating body of judicial literary criticism in our literature." Among those who have praised More's brilliant and comprehensive mind is T. S. Eliot, who in acknowledging his indebtedness to More referred to him as "one of the two wisest men I have known." Focusing on the continuity of More's literary criticism, Stephen L. Tanner has performed the useful service of distilling from More's diverse and prolific literary essays the characteristic principles that determined his literary judgments. Chief among these principles is a concept of dualism that views each individual as being subject to the opposing forces of "passion of the moment and the eternal law above and within." This concept is the anchor point of More's probing critique of the excessive and dehumanizing forms of romanticism, naturalism, humanitarianism, scientism, and rationalism. And it accounts for his forceful advocacy of the "inner check" and the "law of measure."

Author : Sandy Petrey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134983735

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Speech Acts and Literary Theory by Sandy Petrey Pdf

This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with a survey of critical essays that have adapted Austin's thought for literary analysis. Speech-act theory emphasizes the social reality created when speakers agree that their language is performative - Austin's term for utterances like: "we hereby declare" or "I promise" that produce rather than describe what they name. In contrast to formal linguistics, speech-act theory insists on language's active prominence in the organization of collective life. The first section of the text concentrates on Austin's determination to situate language in society by demonstrating the social conventions manifest in language. The second and third parts of the book discuss literary critics' responses to speech-act theory's socialisation of language, which have both opened new understandings of textuality in general and stimulated new interpretations of individual works. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics and literary theory.

Author : George Alexander Kennedy,Raman Selden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521300134

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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 8, From Formalism to Poststructuralism by George Alexander Kennedy,Raman Selden Pdf

Volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism deals with the most influential and hotly debated areas of literary theory: those developing in Europe but having their main impact in the Anglo-American world of academic literary studies, whose course they have fundamentally redirected. The structuralism, poststructuralism, Russian formalism, semiotics, narratology, hermeneutics, phenomenology, reception theory, and speech act theory associated with European writers including Barthes, Todorov, Derrida, and Iser, are here described in the context of their original development, but with an eye also to their eventual influence; and the volume includes a reflective chapter by Richard Rorty on deconstruction. Incorporating full bibliographies, this volume engages systematically with the history of the twentieth century's most profound and extensive set of cross-cultural intellectual movements.

Author : Arshad Ahammad A.,Nada Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226480817

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What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez? by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Pdf

Some fifty years ago, a Cuban teenager landed penniless and without papers on the Florida shore. Soon he had earned his GED and found his way to a community college, a literature class, and an encounter with a Shakespeare sonnet. An instructor asked him, "Mr. Ramirez, what do you think?" It was a question that changed his life. By the time Geoffrey Harpham met him, Mr. Ramirez had become a distinguished professor at an American university. "What do YOU think?" This question and the fact that it was asked in a community college humanities classroom tell us much about the postwar ideals that made American higher education so revolutionary. What were Americans thinking when we created the educational system that could work such wonders? What conditions made it possible? And why is it today so embattled? Reaching back to the era of the Founders, Harpham traces the deep historical roots of our interest in the citizen's opinion, and the corresponding prominence of textual interpretation in American education. He explores America's path toward general, liberal education, focusing on its Golden Age immediately following WWII. And he puzzles out why the country turned to English teachers as the people best positioned to train students to thrive as interpreters, which is to say as citizens of a democracy. Harpham shows that the American system of general, liberal education formalized in the middle of the twentieth century can still inspire us in the early twenty-first. Public education in the US is everywhere under assault, and so too is the ideal of education that cultivates individuals and citizens rather than merely trains employees. Harpham recovers the core elements of liberal education in order that we might give them new form in the contemporary world. "What Do YOU Think?" teaches us that the American revolution in education, like the pursuit of happiness, is not yet finished.