Literature And Its Interpretation

Author : Ashima Shrawan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527533561

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The Language of Literature and its Meaning by Ashima Shrawan Pdf

There is a marked awareness about the language of literature and its meaning both in Indian and Western aesthetic thinking. The aestheticians of both schools hold that the language of literature embodies a significant aspect of human experience, and represents a creative pattern of verbal structure to impart meaning effectively. Modern Western aesthetic thinking, which includes theories like formalism, new criticism, stylistics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, discourse analysis, semiotics and dialogic criticism, in one way or another emphasizes the study of the language of literature in order to understand its meaning. Similarly, there is a distinct focus on the language of literature and its meaning in Indian literary theories which include the theory of rasa (aesthetic experience), alaṁkāra (the poetic figure), rīti (diction), dhvani (suggestion), vakrokti (oblique expression) and aucitya (propriety). This book explores how the language of literature and its meaning have been dealt with in both Indian and Western aesthetic thinking. In doing so, the study concentrates on Kuntaka’s theory of vakrokti and Ānandavardhana’s theory of dhvani in Indian aesthetic thinking and Russian formalism and deconstruction in Western thinking. The book categorically focuses on the intersection between the theory of vakrokti and Russian formalism and the meeting-point between the theory of dhvani and deconstruction.

Author : Nancy Easterlin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421405049

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A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation by Nancy Easterlin Pdf

Combining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theory and criticism opens up new possibilities for literary interpretation. Easterlin maintains that the practice of literary interpretation is still of central intellectual and social value. Taking an open yet judicious approach, she argues, however, that literary interpretation stands to gain dramatically from a fair-minded and creative application of cognitive and evolutionary research. This work does just that, expounding a biocultural method that charts a middle course between overly reductive approaches to literature and traditionalists who see the sciences as a threat to the humanities. Easterlin develops her biocultural method by comparing it to four major subfields within literary studies: new historicism, ecocriticism, cognitive approaches, and evolutionary approaches. After a thorough review of each subfield, she reconsiders them in light of relevant research in cognitive and evolutionary psychology and provides a textual analysis of literary works from the romantic era to the present, including William Wordsworth’s “Simon Lee” and the Lucy poems, Mary Robinson’s “Old Barnard,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode,” D. H. Lawrence’s The Fox, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, and Raymond Carver’s “I Could See the Smallest Things.” A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation offers a fresh and reasoned approach to literary studies that at once preserves the central importance that interpretation plays in the humanities and embraces the exciting developments of the cognitive sciences.

Author : Averroës
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Michael O'Toole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351382403

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The Hermeneutic Spiral and Interpretation in Literature and the Visual Arts by Michael O'Toole Pdf

This collection brings together eighteen of the author’s original papers, previously published in a variety of academic journals and edited collections over the last three decades, on the process of interpretation in literature and the visual arts in one comprehensive volume. The volume highlights the centrality of artistic texts to the study of multimodality, organized into six sections each representing a different modality or semiotic system, including literature, television, film, painting, sculpture, and architecture. A new introduction lays the foundation for the theoretically based method of analysis running through each of the chapters, one that emphasizes the interplay of textual details and larger thematic purposes to create an open-ended and continuous approach to the interpretation of artistic texts, otherwise known as the "hermeneutic spiral". Showcasing Michael O’Toole’s extensive contributions to the field of multimodality and in his research on interpretation in literature and the visual arts, this book is essential reading for students and scholars in multimodality, visual arts, art history, film studies, and comparative literature.

Author : William Henry Crawshaw
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022852590

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The Interpretation of Literature by William Henry Crawshaw Pdf

This book explores the art of literary interpretation, providing readers with a guide to understanding and analyzing literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Peter D. Juhl
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0691072426

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Interpretation, an Essay in the Philosophy of Literary Criticism by Peter D. Juhl Pdf

This book provides and defends an analysis of our concept of the meaning of a literary work. P. D. Juhl challenges a number of widely held views concerning the role of an author's intention: the distinction between the real and the implied" author; and the question of whether a work has not one correct, but many acceptable interpretations. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Dennis J. Sumara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135634643

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Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters by Dennis J. Sumara Pdf

Elaborates a theory of reading developed in an earlier book, by offering a larger discussion of what constitatutes the act of literacy engagement and the ways these acts contribute to the ongoing invention of the "reading subject."

Author : William Henry Crawshaw
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230388532

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The Interpretation of Literature by William Henry Crawshaw Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... divisions will usually correspond with the parts of the description, and not necessarily with divisions of the thought. OUTLINE FOR THE STUDY OF DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE. I. -- The Study Of The Form. A. -- Structure. 1. Paragraphs or stanzas. 2. Structure of description as a part of gen eral literary structure. B. -- Metre.1 C. -- Style? II. -- The Study Of The Substance. A. -- Beauty. 1. Beauty in the main conception of the ob ject described. 2. Beauty in parts and details of the object. 3. The kind of beauty.1 4. The unbeautiful element.2 B. -- Ideality. 1. The internal structure of the description. (a) Statement of the general idea of the described object. (6) The descriptive process. (1) The point of view. (2) The structural outline. (!5) The arrangement of the details. 1 See General Outline, pp. 80-81. 2 See Outline for the Study of Epic Poetry, pp. 108-109. 2. The real element. (a) Thought and emotion. (6) Reality in the object described. C. -- Emotion.1 V. --Thought.1 1 See General Outline, pp. 80-81. APPENDIX COLLATERAL READING I. -- General Corson, Hiram. A Primer of English Verse. Corson, Hiram. The Aims of Literary Study. Crawford, F. M. The Novel: What It Is. Freytag, Gustav. Technique of the Drama. Gummere, F. B. A Handbook of Poetics. Hales, J. W. Longer English Poems (Introduction). Howells, W. D. Criticism and Fiction. Hunt, J. H. Leigh. What is Poetry? (from "Imagina- tion and Fancy"). Lanier, Sidney. The English Novel. Lanier, Sidney. The Science of English Verse. Lessing, G. E. Laocoon. Lewes, G. H. The Principles of Success in Literature. Minto, William. A Manual of English Prose Literature (Introduction). Moulton, R. G. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. Posnett, H. M. Comparative Literature. Ruskin, John. Modern...

Author : T. S. McMillin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587299780

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The Meaning of Rivers by T. S. McMillin Pdf

In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about the nature of literature, The Meaning of Rivers introduces readers to the rich world of flowing water and some of the different ways in which American writers have used rivers to understand the world through which these waters flow. Embracing a hybrid, essayistic form—part literary theory, part cultural history, and part fieldwork—The Meaning of Rivers connects the humanities to other disciplines and scholarly work to the land. Whether developing a theory of palindromes or reading works of American literature as varied as Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and James Dickey’s Deliverance, McMillin urges readers toward a transcendental retracing of their own interpretive encounters. The nature of texts and the nature of “nature” require diverse and versatile interpretation; interpretation requires not only depth and concentration but also imaginative thinking, broad-mindedness, and engaged connection-making. By taking us upstream as well as down, McMillin draws attention to the potential of rivers for improving our sense of place and time.

Author : Janka Kaščáková,Janka Kaščăkovă
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781443827492

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Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous by Janka Kaščáková,Janka Kaščăkovă Pdf

However disconnected the essays in the volume might appear to be at first glance, the unifying factor is the very notion of ambiguity—which is one of the essential features of the postmodern age: how it can be defined as opposed to what it means or is, where it can be found, to what purposes it can be put, including questions of whether it is a positive or negative factor. But this, of course, is not a new phenomenon. Writers have always depended on equivocation, multiplicity of meaning, uncertainty of meaning—deliberate mystification one might say. Language itself is the base of ambiguity not only in literature but in everyday public discourse. Thus the papers in the volume should appeal not only to scholars working in the fields of modern or postmodern literature, but those who see the importance of ambiguity in the earlier texts, and perhaps their influences in later writing. Finally the essays included here not only provide specific analyses and proposed solutions for specific works or authors they also open the reader to other appearances of ambiguity, often not simply in literature or critical theory, but in the kinds of social issues the literary works deals with.

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253208696

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The Limits of Interpretation by Umberto Eco Pdf

Presents four theories describing the limits of literary interpretation, challenging "the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation" that diminishes the meaning and the basis of communication. -- Back cover.

Author : Wendell V. Harris
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814735008

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Literary Meaning by Wendell V. Harris Pdf

"In this clearly written and accessible book, (Wendell) Harris sets out to expose the inadequacies of current methods and trends in literary criticism. . . . The book's greatest strength is its lucid presentation of critical works, which are then shown to be compromised by fallacies and flaws".-- CHOICE.

Author : J. N. Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1310133956

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Asyndeton and Its Interpretation in Latin Literature by J. N. Adams Pdf

Author : Jan Van Coillie,Jack McMartin
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789462702226

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Children’s Literature in Translation by Jan Van Coillie,Jack McMartin Pdf

For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated: what contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the disciplines of Children’s Literature Studies and Translation Studies, this book brings together established and emerging voices to provide an overview of the analytical, empirical and geographic richness of current research in this field and to identify and reflect on common insights, analytical perspectives and trajectories for future interdisciplinary research. This volume will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students in Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies and related disciplines. It has a broad geographic and cultural scope, with contributions dealing with translated children’s literature in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Spain, France, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, China, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium.